skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you, and that's why i made effort to differentiate between margins vs winning. In my opinion, 2020's polls were a lot worse than 2016's, but because of Biden's much bigger lead (in the polls and in key states), the polling errors did not cross the threshold to be "wrong" in the winner take all system. Finally, there is an argument that even a Biden 75-25 call gives the correct outcome because each state is a winner take all system (with the exception of NE and ME, iirc). From a stats standpoint, the delta in that example make it very inaccurate, but from a model/communication standpoint, getting each state "right" (in binary terms) is very valuable.

Trafalgar had completely different results than the rest of the consensus, and once counts are more finalized in non swing states (places like CA and NY take forever, but we don't pay attention because they are always blue), we can accurately compare the polling and real results between different pollsters and polling methodologies. Some experts have cautioned against using exit polls for this purpose (what is usually done for a quick read of polling accuracy), because exit polls are only measuring election day in person votes, and thus trend really red this year. Trafalgar had unconventional methodologies like a "shy trump voter" bias where they arbitrarily shifted their numbers to the right, with weirdly consistent results of Trump +3 in a bunch of close/blue states. Perhaps there is more complicated justification of these numbers in the background, but I'm concerned that even if their deltas end up better than the "normal" pollsters, they are generating an inferior product with overbaked data.
While I agree dependence on Chinese semiconductors/electronics is probably a bigger security risk overall, what other choice do we have in that industry?

Banning TikTok was only a "heavily political play" because there are strong political forces in place preventing any action from being taken against China. Anything which is able to overcome those forces is bound to be "heavily political". That doesn't necessarily mean the action was the wrong thing to do.
Maybe it would be easier to use a spacex starship for this purpose. Although it would be a waste of the engines, the ease of bot having to retrofit something in orbit would make up for it.
> Put another way, not knowing how things work didn't make their jobs any easier.

It really really did. You could make major scientific discoveries by walking in a forest for a couple of hours.
I stopped reading at "3000 cores"; there is a lot of money to be made mopping up disasters like that, it's clearly even something of a growth industry. We had one machine push 2,400 requests/sec average over election night, without even touching 30% capacity, costing around $600/mo including bandwidth. Its mirror in another region costs slightly more at $800/mo. As a side note, it's always the case with those folk that they invent new employees to top up their estimates, that wouldn't be required in the serverless world, yet in every serverless project I've ever seen, they absolutely still existed because they had to.

Price-perf ratio between Lambda and EC2 is obscene, even before accounting for Lambda's 100ms billing granularity, per-request fees, provisioned capacity or API Gateway. Assuming one request to a 1 vCPU, 1,792MB worker that lasted all month (impossible, I know), this comes to around $76, compared to (for example) a 1.7GB 1 vCPU m1.small at $32/mo or $17.50/mo partial upfront reserved.

Let's say we have a "50% partial-reserved" autoscaling group that never scales down, this gives us a $24.75/mo blended equivalent VM cost for a single $76 Lambda worker, or around 3x markup, rising to 6x if the ASG did scale down to 50% its size the entire month. That's totally fine if you're running an idle Lambda load where no billing occurs, but we're talking about the BBC, one of the largest sites in the world...

The BBC actually publish some stats for 2020, their peak month was 1.5e9 page views. Counting just the News home page, this translates to what looks like 4 dynamic requests, or 2,280 requests/sec.

Assuming those 4 dynamic requests took 250ms each and were pegging 100% VM CPU, that still only works out to 570 VMs, or $14,107/mo. Let's assume the app is not insane, and on average we expect 30 requests/sec per VM (probably switching out the m1.medium for a larger size taking proportionally increased load), now we're looking at something much more representative of a typical app deployment on EC2, $1,881/mo. on VM time. Multiply by 1.5x to account for a 100% idle backup ASG in another region and we have a final sane figure: $2,821/mo.

As an aside, I don't know anyone using 128mb workers for anything interactive not because of memory requirements, but because CPU timeslice scales with memory. For almost every load I've worked with, we ended up using 1,536mb slices as a good latency/cost tradeoff.
You are entitled to your opinion but everyone has one life and are free to live it how they choose in the pursuit of happiness.
One obvious drawback is the amount of boilerplate code and multiple files. Although the essence may be no more complex, the amount of "noise" and fragmentation across files can increase the mental load.
Thanks for the video reference - I'll check that out.

> No, actually it's not.

Sorry, not sure I follow - which part of my comment were you responding to here?

> To me, Professor MV Ramana in the article raises far more valuable concerns/questions

Yep - there are some fairly blunt conclusions in a recently co-authored publication[1] of theirs regarding SMR prospects for the UK and elsewhere:

"There is every likelihood that, as with the previous nuclear renaissance, SMRs will be still born with few reactors built. This will mean that public money will again have been wasted on nuclear technology, but, as previously, the main cost will be the opportunity costs of the options not pursued and properly funded because resources have been pre-empted by the nuclear sector."

One perspective of many, but worth considering.

[1] - https://sppga.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2018/09/sub2...
I mean it could also have taken a really long time, right? like the correct conditions could have existed for tens of thousands of years or more before the chance collisions occurred which resulted in self-replicating life.
I gave up Facebook, and that's been wonderful!
Do you mean we should be 'more critical' of the reports that China is operating genocidal concentration camps aimed at exterminating the Uyghur culture?
I don't know... I'm afraid if I install this I'm going to get "Don't check the news today" and fail a dozen times over, and then I'm the guy who couldn't even manage to complete the least dangerous to-do list.
The internet didn’t collapse your opinion of it did. As long as the internet is growing then it’s fine.
Why without any help from Neural Engines and etc.? They, the workload specific processors, are included in M1.
I concur. Plus you hear about anything that affects you eventually anyway.
I like the concept, I'd like to try this, but I don't have an iPhone. Do you plan on creating a web/Android version?
In the US, to be a computer science professor you generally only need a PhD in CS, which you're getting as a PhD grad student. It helps to also have some good publications under your belt and a good thesis and a good advisor. But these are all things a PhD student can achieve. No fees, no field experience, none of that stuff. No special requirements for obtaining grant funding. This is the case for a great many academic fields.
The proposal does not attempt to force private network resources to use TLS. That would be an excellent outcome, but it's difficult to do in the status quo, and is a separate problem to address separately.

The proposal _does_ require pages that wish to request resources across a network boundary to be delivered securely, which therefore requires resources that wish to be accessible across network boundaries to be served securely (as they'd otherwise be blocked as mixed content). This places the burden upon those resources which wish to be included externally, which seems like the right place for it to land.
There were two things worth pointing out - the acquisition price was lower b/c the founder wanted to walk away and

>>>As part of the structure of the deal, Xenon guaranteed I’d take home $3.7m, regardless of what came up during due diligence. This was important because many times, after months of due diligence, things invariably come up that reduce the purchase price: working capital requirements, unpaid PTO, unrecognized revenue, and a thousand other things. And I wasn’t interested in dealing with that.

I wanted stability and I wanted that $3.7m outcome to hit our family’s financial goals.

Given those terms, I believe the author when he says that this was the best offer he could get that met his terms. If that is true, had the investors insisted on their cut, he founder wouldn't have hit his family financial goal, and would not have sold.
Disaster prepping is mainstream again
Passenger cars all moved from a body-on-frame structure to a more integrated unibody construction where a lot of the rigidity is provided by other parts that happen to be located on the underside of the car. In an electric car that has a battery on the underside, delegating some of that structural integrity to the fairly rigid battery pack seems like an obvious extension of that trend. I'm pretty sure that's what Musk means when he talks about structural batteries. That will probably mean some changes to the battery packs to make them more fit for that purpose (that could mean changes to the cells, but doesn't have to)

Integrating battery packs anywhere else in the body of the car seems much less practical. These car batteries aren't like notebook batteries: they have dedicated heating and cooling systems in addition to high current connectors, fire proof casings, emergency shutoffs etc. You can't just pepper those around the car.
I don't understand why someone has more financial assets than their partner would marry. It basically means if something goes wrong, you loose half your life savings, and potentially half your earning potential forever (until the other partner re-marries). It's a pretty nasty trap for the higher earner. Grandma taught me two things "No such thing as a promise" and "Nothing lasts forever". 40+ years after that and she's right on.
> globalisation of US manufacturing was a political choice

Not really. Fundamental economic costs are fundamental. Protectionism would have delayed the inevitable. Instead of a snap, we would have had a slow decline through loss of exports, fall in economies of scale and finally starvation of R&D funds.

What was a political choice was abandoning those workers and communities. And pissing away trillions and a decade of political capital on a war.
LOL, I assume they are paid = a high degree of mutuality.
2 years ago, I got a sim-only plan for unlimited minutes, unlimited sms and 10GB data for £15/month.

1 year ago, I renewed with the same provider, who offered me the same plan for £10/month.

1 month ago, same provider offered me 12GB data for £10/month. Shopping around indicated I could get 15-20GB for below £15/month if I jumped networks, and stuck on a sim-only plan.

Instead, I got an iPhone SE 2020 128GB (RRP £449) and 40GB monthly data for £70 up front and £26/month.

Total cost of ownership over the two years is £694.

Cost of the iPhone if I purchased it from Apple is £449.

That remains the remaining spend is £10.21/month for 40GB data.

I definitely got something discounted.
Thanks, memory stats sure look different than with linux. Switched a short while back & was surprised, but that would explain it.
>Tit-for-tat protectionism is also known as a trade war, which is also generally considered to be negative for both parties.

It is, but if you fail to retaliate you're basically advertising to other countries that they can impose protectionist measures, which benefit them and harm you. Did EU/Canada get flak for imposing retaliatory tariffs in response to trump's tarrifs?
Does that second setting imply that those NaNs need to be propagated? If not, then those settings aren't great. Sure, there are lots of chips where denormal behavior and NaN preservation are the same setting, but those could and probably should be split up in the future.
I agree with you, they're orthogonal. Looks like you were downvoted because people mixed up his character from the way he presents. I quite like his presentation style, it is genuine and unscripted.
Why is it so impossible for such people to imagine that Whites may vote in our collective interests also? They search for obscure answers, assume we must have all been misled somehow, or that we're all secretly hate-filled tyrants.

Are we not like the >>90% of Obama's racial kin who voted for him? Is it not the same phenomenon that has seen Khan elected in Muslim-populous London?

I saw Mindy Kaling tweet in tears of joy that she would have a VP who "looks like us".

Am I not free to pursue that same goal? Should I not celebrate when our leaders promise a brighter future for my family?

We are not terrible. We are not stupid, as much as you want to believe that because it's so convenient. We want the same things you do - and the unfortunate reality of a multiracial society and a deeply tribal species is that you can't please everyone at once.

I don't condemn others for voting for people who "look like them". Don't do it to us.
So why are you blaming the end user for needing more hardware specs than you'd prefer because some 3rd party software vendor they are beholden to makes inefficient software?

Also, your "could be stored in a compact way" is meaningless. Unless your name is Richard and you've designed middle out compression, we are where we are as end users. I'd be happy if someone with your genius insights into editing of photo/video data would go to work for Adobe and revolutionize the way computers handle all of that data. Clearly, they have been at this too long and cannot learn a new trick. Better yet, form your own startup and compete directly with the behemoth that Adobe is and unburden all of us that are suffering life with monthly rental software with underspec'd hardware. Please, we're begging.
I think the issue really is that when people talk about CQRS they are almost always talking about event sourcing + CQRS, and that's where the complexity lies.

I mean, look at GraphQL, which essentially makes it trivial to implement "plain" CQRS because there are always explicitly separate operations for mutations and queries, and it's easy to have separate object definitions for these operations (this is in direct contrast to many REST architectures, where your verbs - GET, PUT, POST, DELETE, etc. - are fundamentally operating on the same objects). However, underlying in the actual DB there is just a single representation.

But I think when people talk about CQRS these days they are really talking about the underlying data being different (e.g. a log of write operations vs a repository of queryable objects), and that usually implies something like event sourcing, and with that model you have a ton of complexity involved in keeping the different "sides" in sync, and since many update operations also involve queries (i.e. only do this update if something else is true about another object) you get into transactional difficulties as well.
They aren't independent. There are important long term changes that lower the marriage rate that also tend to lower the divorce rate.

One is that it has become much more acceptable for couples to live together before getting married. 50 years ago, doing so was seen as somewhat scandalous by a large fraction of the population. In many circles, even sex before marriage was still frowned upon.

That would lead to couple getting married, then moving in together for the first time and perhaps even having sex together for the first time. Those are huge changes in the nature of the relationship.

It is not too hard to find that you get alone great with someone when you do not live with them and/or do not have sex with them but that you do not when living with them and/or having sex with them.

Thus, I'd expect with living together and premarital sex much more accepted for many couples that in the past would have found out they should not be married until after they got married to find that out nowadays during the "living together" stage.

That couple nowadays becomes a "never married" couple rather than a "divorced after a short marriage" couple. This contributes to lowering both the marriage rate and the divorce rate.

I'd expect a similar effect from the growing acceptance of having amd raising a child as a single parent. Many couples that never wanted to get married in the first place used to do so if they had a birth control failure while dating. I'd expect that too led to eventually divorces that would not happen in similar circumstances today.
Nowhere does this mention virtualizing x86 VMs.

In fact, the virtualization framework does not seem to have anything to do with rosetta at all. Note that those are two different sentences, and they appear to be not related.
We should probably be more critical of attempts to use the Chinese atrocities against the Uyghur as a method to deflect attention from other actors' bad deeds.
From GP's link:

> Procedure call-related attributes describe compatibility with the ABI. They summarize the features and facilities that must be agreed in an interface contract between functions defined in this relocatable file and elsewhere.

Seems like it might be reasonable to reject mismatched combinations.
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It may look like CGI but the amount of effort it takes to do good CGI vs just setting up some computers and tables is a few orders of magnitude off.

You can't just do CGI and call it a day at 90% close-enough levels. You gotta do it well or not do it at all.
There are Tax benefits in some countries.
Unskilled Americans had such high quality of life and economic opportunity because for 20 years after ww2 literally every manufactured good in the world was produced in America since every other country had their factories destroyed. Now that other countries produce their own goods unskilled Americans are not worth as much. It's no ones fault, certainly not the "coastal elites" who have continued to make unskilled Americans the wealthiest group of unskilled workers in the world.
I think if this becomes a reality, the standard advice will be: "Do not drill holes through your car frame"
From a secular perspective, prayer is a way to align our conscious with our subconscious. The higher and lower order desires. The logical with the emotional. Prayer changes the world by changing the prayer.
Depends very, very much on what kind of software you are building and what kind of local test/debug rig you need.
Depending on your use-case there are a lot of options to consider before investing in a professional solution like Ableton Live.

- LMMS[1]: The go-to cross-platform FOSS DAW solution, with VST support and a healthy community.

- Ardour[2]: Much like LLMS, it's a classic Open Source project that runs cross-platform and is quite fully-featured.

- VCVRack[3]: A brilliant FOSS EuroRack Simulator. It has a built-in package manager with an enormous selection of officially supported and community submitted plugins, complete with VST and Linux support.

- Waveform Free[4]: By Tracktion, Waveform is a robust DAW with VST sandboxing and great built-in FX.

- Audio Tool[5]: A great web-based DAW, featuring online collaboration. Last I checked, there was no VST support.

- Bandlab[6]: Another web-based DAW by the folks behind Cakewalk. While it lacks VST support, it offers online collaboration and straight-forward defaults.

If you like scripting, Reaper[7] offers a personal license for $60 and supports Lua, Python, EEL2/JSFX, and it's own ReaScript[8]. Reaper offers a highly customizable, robust solution for power-users. While the above projects are some of the more complete projects, there are many more scattered around Github. If you're interested in the more niche/experimental ones, let me know and I'll reply with my more comprehensive list.

That being said, I've been an Ableton Live user for over a decade and I recommend it for anyone who wants to invest into a more serious music project. These days, I tend to reach for Studio One[9] by Presonus for more involved projects. While it lacks the focus on live performance, it is more feature-complete DAW than Ableton. Studio One doesn't have the same friction-less workflow that Ableton is famous for, but it's an absolute powerhouse when mastered. It's very well funded and one of the youngest, so Presonus had the opportunity to adopt the best features of more dated solutions like Cubase, Logic, Pro-Tools, and Ableton, while stripping away a lot of the bloat.

[1] https://lmms.io/
[2] https://ardour.org/
[3] https://vcvrack.com/
[4] https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform-free
[5] https://www.audiotool.com
[6] https://www.bandlab.com/
[7] https://www.reaper.fm
[8] https://www.reaper.fm/sdk/reascript/reascript.php
[9] https://www.presonus.com/products/studio-one/
I'll take a stab.

> https://i.imgur.com/b07CQKU.png

Higher age at marriage means that people are more sure of what they want by the time they settle down, so are less likely to regret their choice of partner.

> https://i.imgur.com/0rWEnNh.png

More premarital sex also means more are sure of sexual compatibility before marriage. That's a massive component of a healthy relationship that the no-sex-before-marriage crowd gets no data on before committing.

> https://i.imgur.com/l9E3rVY.jpg

More women entering the workforce means that there's more equality on many parts of the relationship. Speaking anecdotally, my parents (dad was in tech working long hours, mom raised us and did housework) always accused the other of not doing enough, and a big factor of that is that the type of work they did was more or less incomparable. How do you measure the effort and stress of corporate life vs that of raising kids?

There's also the resentment a non-working partner can have of being completely financially reliant on the other. In the other direction, resentment for being seen as only good for being a source of money.

Both parents having roughly equivalent types of work, financial power, and relationship responsibilities probably facilitates better communication and empathy.
I've found that I spend more time debugging arcane horrible things that go wrong as downstream consequences of recovery paths than I do debugging straightforward and obvious problem reports that come from hard assertion failures and failing fast.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding the parent, but I interpreted as the same kind of "logging" as the standard output of a CLI application. You expect a grep tool to output result to standard output for the user to use. Or you would expect user-facing errors to occur if an sql client fails to connect to a server.
What do they mean by Musk is incorporating the batteries into the frame? They just introduced a larger cylindrical cell. Cylindrical cells don’t get embedded, unless you mean as in a flashlight.

In some other generation of battery tech, there’s plenty of gray area here that still provides benefit. A stiffer battery requires less housing. A stiff enough battery only requires shielding against punctures. Stronger still, and you can bolt it between two frame elements and have it function like a cross brace, while still being able to remove it for servicing.