skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's called cheating, fake news, and whatever else you want to deem it as. That's why the Postal service got a 10 billion stimulus package. Just like COVID is so dangerous that it jumps 26 ft in cold air, punches your plexiglass cause it wants to attack you, and put that mask on, it can't go through that either. Even though it's air borne and been air borne since it was released. Just look up and see what's being sprayed in the atmosphere to rain down COVID 21 on you. When will people stop being idiots to the bullshit lies that they feed you.
> Gore spends 30 days pursuing recounts in 2000 before conceding but Trump is supposedly a dangerous dictator for not conceding.

Are you comparing pursuing recounts in a single state when the vote difference there is around 500 votes out of nearly 6 million (an amount that is well within the range that recounts frequently reverse) to pursuing recounts in several states where the differences are far larger than any recount has ever overcome?
Or they may be throttled lower all the time, so that using the four performance cores still stays within its cooling budget. Either way, it's not going to run as fast as the MBP without having a fan.

I'm very curious to see benchmarks on these things. Also wondering if processors are performance binned from one SKU to another, or if it's really just the amount of RAM and storage.

Apple's been known to have secret hardware differences like that, the 2018 iPad Pro had 4GB of RAM unless you specced it up to 1TB storage, which included a secret upgrade to 6GB RAM. You wouldn't know from the specs, since Apple doesn't talk about how much RAM their iPads have.

Now here we are with the M1 and Apple doesn't talk about the clock speed. All MacBook Pros have an M1, but do they all have the same clock speed? Maybe.
>You have constructed a series of strawmen.

I was responding to a post that said "It’s conventional wisdom now that failure to condemn violent protests earlier cost Democrats votes, including among minority groups." So if Shor's point was not about such topics, it has been subverted to be used about such topics.

I'll admit, he does not seem to have belittled the protests directly though. I may have went to far with that one.
Just the mental image with AOL people digging for gold earned from spam just cracks me up.
Vox euphemized Schor’s departure in a way that was highly relevant to the subject of the article. The issue isn’t that pollsters couldn’t quantify the problem, it’s that they didn’t even realize the problem existed: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/11/02/shy-trump-...

> Trump voters are not liars. As a Democratic pollster and campaign strategist, I feel strange typing these words. But it is required to debunk the “shy Trump voter” myth.

This was written days before the election.

My post isn’t about “Shor’s personal HR problem.” It’s about a culture that caused very smart people to misperceive the facts on the ground, and misallocate funding as a result, in the middle of a high stakes situation.

People in Silicon Valley should understand better than anyone that culture matters and bears on organizational and institutional effectiveness. Often these are pretty theoretical and abstract debates. But here is a case study that elucidates culture that works versus culture that doesn’t work.

I’m not weighing in on the larger cultural issue. As I caveated, this is context sensitive. Political polling, news, academia, and the like are areas where free discourse with respect to sensitive issues is particularly important for the effectiveness of the institution. This is less true if you’re running a food delivery business.
Wrong Magic Keyboard. Look at the one for iPad Pro 12.9”.
One of the most important features here for work is actually explicitly not doing always-on camera/mic. We have a setting that makes it so that when you're not looking at the tab, no one can see/hear you, but other people can come up to you and "tap on your shoulder". If you do decide to engage with them, it's super frictionless.
Agreed. Why would you need to run a daemon for the latter two points? These requirements can just as easily be handled by storing files in a fixed location in the user’s home directory.
You're getting downvoted because "hyper-optimizing" isn't going to let me run another VM or launch another instance of Xcode.
What software are you using to pull it off?

I want to do it too, but don’t want to choose between 3rd-party apps. I wish it were built-in to the OS, like AirPlay and Sidecar are...
Great outcome for both sides.

Josh gets the exit he really seems to need for his personal and financial well-being.

Xenon gets one heck of a product for honestly quite cheap. Better marketing will actually go a long way here.
This is exactly what you get when you give your work away for free: your work will have zero value. Why are open source developers surprised by this simple fact? If somebody started giving away toilet paper for free then the value of toilet paper would go to zero. When you copy a commercial application and give it away for free (what most successful open source software does) then the value of those types of applications will go to zero. Which means that the value of the work (your work) goes to zero. Surprise surprise.
Without any regulation how do you know how effective your particular multivitamin is at making bioavailable any given vitamin or mineral, re: the study I posted showing a range of 19% to over 90% for magnesium? It's pretty much impossible to know if they do anything at all. Which brings me back to my point: if you have a specific issue, a specific supplement whose effectiveness if validated is likely way cheaper and much more effective -- otherwise, the advice I would give anyone is to eat their greens and stop fretting.
> Slack

You're lucky any of those other applications opened at all!
There's a market for aftermarket coolers on laptops universally - I sometimes see laptops on those fan pads?
Never rely on first party claims. Always wait for 3rd party benchmarks.
Please do explain what your workflow is that requires to you have so much RAM in such a small form factor with a severely limiting CPU and almost non existent GPU?
I found this to be the case in my own life. Once I hit burnout (which I can easily pinpoint in retrospect but couldn't see in the moment), work stress started accelerating.

Tangentially related, I can't believe how much a role can contribute to burnout. When I was going through my own journey of burnout, I thought it was all a "me" problem (I often quoted the saying: "wherever I go, there I'll be" as an excuse to stay and "work" on myself).

I wish I could go back in time and slap myself. Once I left the role that was killing me (long hour, no appreciation, shit product -- the usual), I was at least 80% happier and was able to recover from my battle with burnout.

tl;dr: burnout sucks. If you're in a shit job, leave. It might help you heal (maybe rapidly).
I can't think of anything other than Java that's as tedious to write as C#/ASP.Net. With Java and C# code you spend a siginifcant amount of your time messing with the complexities of the language itself instead of dealing with your business problem. The mixture of generics and static typing is particularly pernicious. I really hope Go 2.0 doesn't end-up going down the generics rabbit hole.
https://www.essence.com/news/politics/55-percent-white-women...
Only if they kept finding caches of buried floppies and CDs.
I realised that, but I was side-tracked by the novelty of the payment ring.

That 'daring route' looks like an ideal project for our maker-space -thanks!
This is ridiculous!

Here I am telling people that Republicans are distrustful of mainstream media, science, colleges etc. and that pollsters must know what they're doing, getting representative samples is the best we can do etc.

And then I found out what I suspected is true. The most trivial thing of some people being overrepresented in a poll by the mere fact that they agree to take one, apparently, was somehow TOO MUCH FOR THE POLLSTERS TO HANDLE. Are you kidding me?

The methodology should involve getting truly REPRESENTATIVE and RANDOM samples. While each one is going to be biased in some way, the bias should be independent of political affiliation.

For example, stopping people on a street. Yes it excludes people who don't go out on the street, or people who won't stop.

Then you are supposed to note how many people refused to take the poll. And then you are supposed to measure the correlation between that and their beliefs.

If you really can't do this, then have a sign outside the voting areas, as people exit, with Donald Trump or Biden or JoJo etc. and have them sign up for polling in the next four years. This way at least you can make sure going in that your population is balanced as of four years ago.
I'm also disappointed by 16g when my current laptop has 64g. However, Apple mobile devices have a history of being way underpowered on RAM specs and outperforming in real usage.
I best summarized my claim when I said the following. Whether or not it's an ‘AI field’ is not very interesting to me, as long as the following holds.

---

Like, my point is not about whether you can find the odd person trying to solve intelligence with grammars, or what were GOFAI conferences still harbour GOFAI research in the corners, my point is that a) these approaches don't work as a way to actually tackle AI, the problem, b) the vast majority of the field does not take them as seriously as a method of doing so, regardless of other uses, and c) therefore it's natural, not ‘impossible’, to gain AI expertise without having much care for those parts of the field.
More Farsi words:

Father - Pider

Mother - Maader

Daughter - Dukhter

Dozen - Dawazda

God - Khoda

One - Yek

Two - Do

Three - Se

Four - Chehar

Five (Penta)- Punj

Six - Shush

Seven (Sept) - Heft

Eight (Oct) - Hesht

Nine - Neh

Ten - Deh

No - Neh

Tree - Drekht

Moon - Mah

Foot - Paa

Orange - Naranji
News has changed a lot since the internet broke newspapers revenue model. The trend began before the internet, with television.

Marshall McLuhan anticipated the change when he said the medium is the message. What he meant is that the UI and dynamics of each media format determines what kind of dialogs are possible.

Typographical media encouraged history, background, and timeless reflection. Television changed that by chopping news into 30 second pieces, with no background understanding required, infrequent depth, and a change of topic after every 3 stories for a message from our sponsor, after which you'd return to something completely different.

Neil Postman explains it in his classic 1985 book, Amusing Ourselves to Death. News has become entertainment. Entertainment has become trivia and indulgences.

https://www.vox.com/conversations/2017/5/8/15440292/donald-t...
>Violence was instigated on both sides, but regardless of what the underlying reality was, the perception was that leftists were responsible for much of the violence, and that is problematic electorally.

Literally "it doesn't matter who was responsible for the violence, the left get blamed for it so it's their fault." Fuck that. The police are very often responsible for the violence, and you should not stop protesting because they can attack you and make you look bad. Suggesting they should stop is belittling their protest.

>You may not like the fact that you have to think about the median Oklahoman voter, but the reality is that that voter is much more important than the median say, NYC voter

You completely missed the point of what was said. Maybe in Oklahoma this was a net negative, but countrywide including many swing states it was essential.
You can write a book on an iPad. You can make a movie on an iPad. You can draw, sketch and make art on an iPad.

I think it's a bit narrow to call label them content-consuming devices. Of course, they have limitations for activities like programming.
Apple's not going to ship drivers for Linux, and it's a SoC. So someone needs to somehow write an open source driver for Apple's proprietary black box of a GPU.

I suspect very little will work at all if someone can get Linux to boot on one, and it will be a very lengthy endeavor to get things up to being usable.
Toronto is a grind. The work culture is punishing and affordability sucks. Not all cities are like that. Montreal and Vancouver are both better in some ways. Vancouver is still wildly unaffordable (especially if buying a house is important to you) but the lifestyle is much nicer and more conducive to mental health than Toronto's.
They aren't doing it to save 20$ per machine, they are doing it to make the higher price of a 16GB machine seem more reasonable than if it was the base model.
Maybe I'm looking at the downloads page [1] linked in the blog post too soon, but all I see is an v2.0.0. RC release (rc-4 docker image), which has been there for weeks now, and not a GA release.

There is a docker image on quay.io [2] tagged v2.0.0 though.

[1] https://portal.influxdata.com/downloads/

[2] https://quay.io/repository/influxdb/influxdb?tag=latest&tab=...
Another note on the Mini and MacBook Pro (in higher end SKUs) - these both used to have four USB-C ports, and now only have two. The Mini at least keeps its a pair of USB-A ports, but on the MBP you're back on the road to dongle-hub-land.

I'm betting this is due to Thunderbolt controller and PCIe lane capacity. They couldn't do four Thunderbolt ports with the M1 SoC, so they dropped the ports. Having four USB-C ports but only two supporting Thunderbolt would be a more obvious step back from the previous MacBook Pro. This way people can just blame it on Apple doing Apple things, instead of seeing a technical limitation.
Ring recalls 350k smart doorbells after some of them caught fire
Why not legislate companies to not do this crap?
This is kind of missing the point. The issue is the bias in the state-level polls. 538's model is to predict the winner of the election based on state polling data from other sources. The state level predictions are just averages of polls presumably weighted by quality. But this averaging cannot remove bias in the polls if that same bias is in many polls.
It's fine for who love, but the problem is there's no alternative choice with macOS.
This has to be the funniest take on the release of a whole new CPU architecture.
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Isn’t Farsi a daughter language descended from the Proto-Indo-Iranian language family?

A little off topic: I remember reading this interesting oddity connecting the Avesta and Vedic religions. Quoting from source [0]

> Pandemonium is Jaan Puhvel’s word for the mutual demonization that occurred when Zarathustra demonized the Gods of the Sanskrit speakers, and the Sanskrit speakers (Rig Vedic priesthood) demonized the Gods of the Zoroastrians (Avestan speakers) in turn. Conspicuous examples are the Devas and the Ashuras. Sanskrit speakers referred to the Devas as good Gods and the word devi, deva is a word for ‘a god, any god,’ whereas the Ashuras are demons in later Sanskrit literature. The Zoroastrians used the word ahura (cognate with Sanskrit ashura) as a word for ‘a god, any god,’ and Ahura Mazda is their highest God, whereas the daevas (cognate with Sanskrit devas) were demonized.

[0] http://piereligion.org/pandemonium.html
From the article,

> In 2018, a group of data scientists at the Times unveiled Project Feels, a set of algorithms that could determine what emotions a given article might induce. ... “Hate drives readership more than any of us care to admit,” one employee on the business side told me.

Sounds like the exact same feedback-optimized gradient-descent optimization for engagement that is biting social media in the ass is affecting them, too.
Never knew it was built in. I do the same as other people: I type it into the text box, walk away, come back to my computer later and if I still think it’s worth posting, do so. Probably abandon 75% of my “contributions” that way.

It also helps that you can only post like 5 times per 24 hour period. Helps me to not waste my quota on low value replies. It doesn’t look like everyone on the site is subject to that limit though—still trying to figure that one out... are there commenters with super powers that can ignore the 5/day limit?
The title and opening paragraph is a bit deceptive.

It's been my rule for a long time to never put any weird Easter eggs, inside jokes or profanities in software (even variable names, comments, etc.) because you never know whether it'll get lost, misplaced, or wind up in a stack trace displayed to someone who doesn't get the joke.
I was hoping they'd bring this form factor back with the ARM chips, it was one of my favorite machines.
BuildBackBetter: A Scream
You are talking about high-assurance code, which is roughly a statistical classification regarding failure rate. Pron is talking about formal verification, which proves something to be correct according to a mathematical model.

Formal verification is not required to produce code with a very low failure rate. I have personally known about unpatched vulnerabilities worth a small fortune which were not exploited because most people who chose to become programmers aren't assholes, or at least not criminally so.

Formal verification is not a magical certification that software is bug free, as there will inevitably be an error in the specification itself or how the specification relates to the hardware. This is astonishingly rare, however, I think Coq has had a single major error in the TCB.

The space shuttle, various nuclear accidents, and plain old manufacturing are example on the limits to which engineering can prevent failure: we just can't shove the real world into statistical models.

You two are in agreement, but seem to be talking past each other :(
So the author doesn’t have the biz skills necessary to turn his open source project into a commercial product, instead relying on the kindness of faceless corporations or strangers to recognise his value and reward him. Yeah good luck with that.
Death is "Merg" in Farsi, which sounds similar to "morgue". You're correct about "ast".
Same. Specs are underwhelming, but performance may be better than expected.
If it helps, the machines described in OP sound similar to what we used here four years ago. I haven't voted in between though so I'm not sure when the switchover actually took place here.
Democracy’s Afterlife
Absolutely not. I don't even have time to be bored, as I am constantly learning things. I take all opportunity in downtime to read up on new things and explore new territory of knowledge. However small it is.

Am I getting fed up that it's an uphill battle supposedly with no end in sight? Slowly. But bored? Nope.
oh god. commence operation “spam the random name generator”!

Taking a closer look at the original xwm, this project has long since been dead. i wonder if it would be fair to say the acronym itself could be used, as tribute to the original? or is that too confusing?
We needed to support arbitrary index access into the sorted set - which is why stdlib btree map doesn't work.
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Social media is making a bad political situation worse
It's still not correct to call someone Jewish who doesn't have a Jewish mother and hasn't affirmed his Judaism, like the subject of this news item.
I am mainly Java developer but used Go for some tools. I can't use Go for official applications because Go's XML library is little funky and my work is quite a bit XML dependent. It also lacks pure Go drivers for major commercial databases. If these 2 things were there I would have written lot more Go.
Good point. But as we know multi-tasking is really not truly parallelism, it just means interleaving and keeping the state of multiple sequential lines of thought in our "head-stack".

Async is difficult I believe because "thinking" in inherently sequential because it is based on mentally reciting some (serial linear single-dimensional) language in our head.

An alternative could be some visual language where parallel and even 3D lines can be drawn. A mental image of it can be in our head. So I think async inherently needs some kind of visual language to make it easier to grok.
I agree with you on your latter two points, but I have found that interestingly the italics (or "handwriting") variants of lowercase Cyrillic letters appear to be much better designed/less ambiguous than the "printed" variants.
Celsius Doubled Its Crypto Holding Within 6 Months
Ex-Microsoft engineer gets 9 years in prison for fraud
Good find! For some reason buried two levels deep from the Previews page. I believe you're right that it's silently building a PreviewDevice from the string. You can make the PreviewDevice explicit (as shown in the Hacking with Swift code sample), but nice tidbit that you don't have to.
I just checked on https://www.uhaul.com/Reservations/RatesTrucks/ for a few weekends in November, pick up in San Francisco, drop off in Sacramento. Rates vary from $300 for a 10' truck to $395 for a 26' truck.
That's certainly true, but it's not right to speculate that the subject of this story is "Jewish" when he lacks a Jewish mother (according to Wikipedia at least) and he hasn't affirmed his Judaism.