skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In most of the talk he’s using Ω to mean the program doesn’t halt, i.e. does not produce an answer. He also mentions when explaining Ω that it is often used as a stand-in for a run-time error. An uncaught exception can do the same job, for example.

(The reason for this that if you are describing the semantics of a language using a collection of reduction rules, and evaluation gets to a point where no reduction rule applies, then the program gets “stuck”. You would normally implement this as a runtime error but semantically it has the same effect as an infinite loop.)
There are literally dozens of places around the world trying to be the next Silicon Valley, and they have been trying for years.

Silicon Bayou (Louisiana)
Silicon prairie (Des Moines)
Silicon Slopes (Salt Lake)
Silicon Alley (New York)
Silicon Beach (LA)
Silicon Forest (Portland)

It takes much more than some tax breaks and a $10,000 moving credit.

I hope Oklahoma figures something out, but this is hardly a differentiator.
I don’t have a startup. Still, for the last 7 years I’m an independent contractor, which is probably close to being an indie hacker.

Wasn’t the first try. Two times before that I only had a single client, one time they cancelled the project, second time I delivered the software and the client didn’t have other work for me to do. I lived in a big city then, both times I just searched and found another full-time office position.

When I think I have an interesting idea, I sometimes pursue on my free time. So far, the only outcome I got is couple dozen stars on github, and in one case a hundred thousand of free downloads of my app. Pretty close to nothing. https://github.com/Const-me/SkyFM https://github.com/Const-me/vis_avs_dx https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac
Or have a conventional printed globe but that has a clear "shell" with an engraved map that can be freely positioned to overlay any part of the "shell map" atop any part of the conventional globe surface.

I have no idea how the mechanism allowing this globe within a globe would work.

As flexible screens get better maybe a globe whose entire surface is a touch-sensitive display that allows gesture control of the map content?
Just look for licensing requirements in your state online. There are plenty of courses, study guides, etc.

It took about a month of studying part time. I took a proctored test, passed a background check, and I’m all set.

I haven’t used it yet. Planning to sometime in the next few years.
Apples and oranges here, the US is not a developing nation. The single largest contributor to the decrease in global poverty you cite is a communist country.
Good point. A language could even mandate such a style, making the ambiguity issue go away entirely.
I think I can admit that there are moral frameworks that don't care if I live or die and don't, therefore, take active action to prevent the death of this person, and therefore that are comfortable with killing me through inaction should a situation arise where I will die without aid. It would be foolish to believe otherwise. Most people actively take this position. If I were to post that I'm dying, not one on this site would save my life.

I don't subscribe to an absolutist view of the veil of ignorance. My life is, to me, of higher utility than yours or the random children who I actively choose to let die daily.

So I'm going to act in a manner that preserves my life. That seems natural, after all. The other day I bought a new phone instead of saving a child's life. I don't even like this Pixel 5 that much. I like my life very much. Think about how many kids I'd kill for that.
Proton makes almost everything playable on linux. Sometimes with worse performance, sometimes with a lot better performance so it balances out.
I never learned much about mapping or map projections until university, I still think it's one of the most valuable things I learned there and one of the things I learned actually worth the money.

We had a couple courses on manual mapping, surveying, geography, compass reading triangulation, all that stuff. How to draw a map by hand based on compass and survey data.

By far some of the most awesome stuff i've learned. I agree, more stuff like this should be touched on in high school. Mapping is such a large yet underappreciated part of society.
Sounds pretty awesome! Anyone know how much performance might be expected to degrade as the number of users increases? Most of these people probably have the entire Starlink RF spectrum to themselves in whatever location they’re testing in.
An oblate spheroid shaped globe for that extra degree of accuracy.
I'm contending that the US is losing its preeminent place as we speak and we can see it making a lot of people nervous.
Also, the numbers for Greenpeace are wrong, according to their annual reports.

https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/about/annual-reports-and-fina...

Their expenditures for all their "program services" (their various activism campaigns) was $27.4M in 2019 and $26.3M in 2018. If the Koch Bros. spend about $200M a year on activism, they're actually substantially outspending Greenpeace. Which, well, is to be expected: Greenpeace is a non-profit that's very often taking positions opposing major corporations.

(Greenpeace is actually a collection of quasi-independent groups around the world, but since the Koch's activism is primarily focused in the US, it makes sense to compare them to Greenpeace USA.)
I'm guessing there's a term for products that get worse by virtue of being "enhanced".

They really should reintroduce the old model, just with updated political geography.
How much of that was spin and framing against the Democrats or did anyone seriously believe that they were in favour of mob violence?

New rule: if you don't condemn child rape every Monday morning then until you do it is assumed that you are in favour.

Tiny furors like the "who's wearing an American flag lapel pin" are is too often motivated by political opportunity rather than any real question of where the parties stand on topics. And yes, Democrats do it to Republicans as well, just generally not as frequently. Republicans seem to love their mostly meaningless and unsurprising performative doxologies.
if you're the right color. That's another important consideration for potential applicants

God, yes. I have colleagues who will not leave the interstate when driving through certain states.
If I said "all the audience of Fox is confused - Fox is actually left-wing, it's just a bunch of confused right-wingers who used it as their primary source of news", would you believe me?

The audience tells you the message. There's a reason no one calls Fox left-wing, or NYT right-wing.
You’re thinking of the Abu Simbel temples, perhaps? Those weren’t pyramids.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Simbel_temples#Relocation
Quite a straw man you’ve got there.
Someone needs to rewrite the old “SOAP is simple” article to be about “serverless.”
The presentation video was released after the update was submitted to the store with the contents hidden and activated later.

As for whether the update was malicious for the end user, we could say we trust epic to operate a payment method, and therefore the update was not malicious.

But there are many actors who would use this exact same methodology, and the update is malicious.
Such Trojans exist on Android.

Security policies always prevent behaviors that could be used for non-malicious purposes.

If the argument is that the end users should be the ones to decide, it’s really just another way of saying that Apple shouldn’t be allowed to enforce any security policy.

Of course there are those who believe that Apple shouldn’t be able to enforce security policies, but there is no overreach here.
You can't buy/use an OEM license for windows on a box you build yourself can you? The last windows machine I put together, I paid > $100 for Windows itself.
That's what they're hoping for at Joby Aviation: https://www.jobyaviation.com/
Killing animals off after a sufficient time period is common in lab testing (and even enforced). They probably had to get approval for the 100 days and most likely wouldn’t be allowed to make any decisions regarding the matter themselves. That being said, most labs in the US have to abide by the same guidelines and if this does happen again in a setting where the scientists can choose an arbitrary age to let the fetus live it probably won’t be in the US

I have no idea what the process is for other countries like Germany in Japan but I’d like to think they’re similar.
How can Chicago be below Austin? Chicago has Groupon, 1871, and Lightbank. Austin's downtown doesn't even compare to Chicago's downtown. It's horrible.
You don’t get it.

The WTO was the landmark achievement in US foreign and economic policy of the 1990’s and until recently was emblematic of US engagement with the rest of the world. US foreign and economic policy have actually been exceptionally consistent up until very recently. Every one of the issues you brought up - NAFTA, TPP, the Paris agreement - these were all ripped up during Trump’s term. But remember that it was Lighthizer and co who gave Trump the scissors.

Other nations can think whatever they want about “US [...] foreign policy continuity” and can find whatever role models they like. The US just isn’t playing anymore - they neither aspire to nor are interested in being such a role model and the truth is that the rest of the world needs them a great deal more than they need it.

Multilateralism is dead in Washington and the US will continue to engage with the world, but piecemeal and one country at a time. Anyone can opt out, but it means foregoing the biggest consumer market in the world and the largest and most efficient finance markets in the world.
Everyone here seems to be making this solely about the processor, which it is partially, but the other story is that Rosetta 2 is looking really good. Obviously there’s plenty more to test beyond a GeekBench benchmark, but hitting nearly 80% of native performance shows both the benefits of ahead-of-time transpiling and the sophistication of Apple's implementation.

I’ll still be waiting to see what latency-sensitive performance is like (specifically audio plugins) but this is halfway to addressing my biggest concern about buying an M-series Mac while the software market is still finding its footing.
If only it had a brain.
A village sharing a Starlink dish could be quite affordable.
This is what I’ve been doing with Go on Netlify (which is a wrapper around AWS Lambda). https://blog.carlmjohnson.net/post/2020/how-to-host-golang-o...
I didn’t know that Brazil had two presidents with Romani origin. According to Wikipedia they are Juscelino Kubitscheck and Washington Luís.
> can use udp

What are you even talking about? Any unprivileged process can open a udp socket.
Or buy a radar detector. I actually got a warning instead of a ticket from a cop in Texas while I was going through a construction zone. Great times.
People actually pay for Windows on desktops? That still surprises me. I know of course you do pay when buying a laptop, but Windows is basically free, there's a trial and you can just use an activator, or buy an OEM key for 10 bucks as the parent states.
The current Starlink launch is limited to the US and parts of Canada. What would happen if I sign up there and then physically ship my dish to Saudi Arabia/China/North Korea? Would the service keep working (subject to satellite availability, which will obviously not be great), or are there geoblocks in place?
I wonder, is there a good even-handed critique out there of the dependency-injection pattern and related philosophies?

For me and probably a lot of people here, the pattern fundamentally offends my sensibilities; mainly, but not exclusively, because it forces you to put everything into classes. I'd much rather pass plain functions when I need inversion of control, and use closures if I really need to "configure" some piece of code. I'd also prefer to import and pass down those functions explicitly, instead of having values magically resolve in some runtime context that lives outside of the "real language". I do acknowledge that languages like Java don't, or at least didn't for a long time, support these other language features and so may have had no choice but to use DI as a crutch. But I've also seen it used in languages that do have those features, like JavaScript.

On the other hand, I'm not sure I've used the pattern enough to critique it fairly. And obviously it's been used for decades at many very large and successful companies. So what I'd really like is to hear from someone who's experienced with both worlds about the advantages and disadvantages, assuming that both exist.
Rockets or jets would limit your candidates for a sponsoring contract to Red Bull and Red Bull. If you are making a bit of a career out of BASE and/or wingsuit you are probably tired of them by now, or they are tired of you or both. It's a very small market and surely weird given that the buyer has a monopoly, whatever that means.

With electric, apparently BMW becomes another candidate (who seem to be desperately looking for ways to get their name visible in a context that somehow combines "electric" and "exciting").
Maybe it's just TDS and they're still. worried Trump might win.

As far as I can tell more young Americans support lockdowns than not, so they. have only themselves to blame. And one might add if you didn't like lockdowns so far, wait until Sleepy Joe & Co move in to the White House.
You didn't mention where you are.

In any case, regardless of geographical location, voltage doesn't kill you -- current does.

In Australia most household circuits are ~230V AC at 50Hz at 10 Amp, though 15 Amp circuits are not uncommon (the earth pin - we have three pins in a frowny-face configuration, earth being the lower / vertical one) on those are much larger, so you can't accidentally put that into a standard 10A (female) socket.

We have three-phase options too, which is ~ 415V AC - not something that's commonly used in residential environments.

In any case, 230V @ 10A is less dangerous than 110V at 15A.
What aspect of Nazism do you suspect is "proven correct" here? Certainly no position that aims to increase the number of sapient lives is consistent with a systematic eradication of sapient lives.

The Nazis killed at least 12 million human beings. Did they save 12 million humans through that process? Certainly the anatomy books they produced in their horrific experiments led to an improved understanding of humans and perhaps some better treatment but I think it will take a lot of evidence to convince me that this method is differentially superior to approaches that are more palatable to me. I don't think they saved a net 12 million lives in the process, and after all, if you kill one man you kill all his descendants. So currently I think I have a high prior probability of Nazi Germany harming humanity far more than they have benefited it.

It's going to take some convincing, I'm afraid.
> the message has to be pretty large, or the schemas have to be negotiated at the start of a session that lasts a while

Those are the two main use cases for a binary serialization format, though. Either you tend to have a very large row-oriented file with lots of homogenous records, say a SSTable or BigTable or Hadoop SequenceFile or Postgres binary column. Or you have a long-lasting RPC connection that serves one particular service interface, where you'd want to negotiate the protocol used by the service at the beginning and keep it up for hours.

I can think of a couple exceptions, like end-user HTTP connections to a public API. But for those, you usually need a complicated capability-based protocol negotiation anyway, because you need to handle hostile (hacked) clients or old versions that are stuck on something from 5 years ago. Google's habit of sticking a custom message type in a MessageSet and sending it along for a feature that triggers on 0.1% of traffic isn't really a thing outside of Google (and possibly other FANGs), not least because most companies can't afford to staff a team to maintain a feature used by 0.1% of traffic.

The solution for complexity is pretty routine: hide it behind a library. I'm not terribly fond of the particular API that Avro provides, but the wire format is sound & simple and there's nothing preventing someone from writing alternative library implementations.
Oh great, the Gall-Peters projection.

The Gall-Peters projection is just as problematic as the Mercator projection. Actually, it is arguably more problematic because it doesn't have any compelling features that it does better than other world-scale maps.

The best world-scale maps are going to be along the lines of the Robinson projection, where you give up on trying to pretend that the world atlas is a rectangle. You're going to be screwed any way you go about it. Cylindrical map projections suck at large scales, because one of the directions is being stretched way too much. Conic map projections are good at intermediate scales (state-to-continent size), but when you expand the map to large sizes, the distortions at the edges become too great to bear.

The Gall-Peters projection is an equal-area map, but it goes about this in an especially annoying way. The areas near the equator are made excessively tall and skinny, and near the poles, they are excessively short and wide. And it turns out that human beings are really not good at comparing sizes of rectangles that have drastic aspect ratios in different orientations. The spaghettification of countries doesn't lend itself to a visually pleasing map, and it really obfuscates useful tidbits such as "Maine is closer to Africa than any other US state", which is pretty clear in virtually every other world map. To top it off, it was presented to a cartographic conference as the map that's better than Mercator at a time when all cartographers were already using non-Mercator maps and complaining about lay people relying on Mercator maps for world projections.
Had a mid-sized globe at home growing up. It wasn't attached to anything so you could pick it up and rotate it any direction. This gave me a pretty could sense of how big any o the continents and countries were, more than anything.
Minority in the Senate means something completely different from reality. Count how many people voted for D senators and how many people voted for R senators. Then count how many judicial appointments D presidents have made and how many R presidents have made (in the last 20 years).

The math is transparent.

The filibuster is just something the senate made up. It does not exist in the constitution, so it is not a true obstacle. The R senators would have gotten rid of it anyway. It doesn't even protect the Senate "minority".

And the Senate's job is to prevent people from determining their own future. It was championed by anti-democracy activists like Alexander Hamilton. I hope it no longer exists by the time I perish.
Why post articles behind a paywall?
I think you will like this essay:

https://jamesallworth.medium.com/intels-disruption-is-now-co...

discussed recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25092721
The terms of service you agree to at signup dictate you’ll use the equipment at the service location you provided with your order, and the constellation is able to determine ground station positions (StarLink can, theoretically, replace the functionality of the GPS constellation using ~0.8% of total downlink capacity). SpaceX would likely comply with their FCC fixed station license and US gov sanctions requirements through technical mechanisms.
You assume the Chinese have not already done something like this. The CCP would like nothing more than a population of semi-intelligent monkeys.
This is a naive assumption. There's a few aspects that have to be considered that make it not trivially parallel.

The first is that there are a lot of reduction steps where we're doing many to one communication. The more nodes you have the more communication there has to be and this is an issue.

The second issue is that if we (naively) assume that there's a consistent error at each step, that the error will grow in each gather step. So if each worker has a 0.5% error rate, each gather has a 0.5% error rate, then our error rate depends on the number of workers and gather steps.

For what it is worth there is at least a gather step at each poll station, then each precinct, then the state, and then the country. It is also likely that these all get worse as the election is closer and there's more pressure on.
Refer my comment elsewhere in this thread, but I suspect your belief that '120 is safer than 230 or 240' is misplaced.

F.e. standard USA circuits are 15A, IIRC. In Australia, in contrast, it's typically 10A.

Hence, Australia's safer than USA - though realistically any amount of current is fairly unpleasant.
Many PC builders just don't activate Windows at all—other than a few occasional nags, Microsoft doesn't really enforce Windows activation anymore. It's just like how Apple doesn't crack down on Hackintoshing. Both the build-your-own PC market and the Hackintosh market are small enough that it's not worth the time.
> Are you comparing the cost to manufacture M1 to what costs Intel to make chips

Me personally? I have no way of knowing or estimating those costs either way. But that was how I interpreted the parent comment.

If you allow that R&D costs for the M1 are largely aligned with the A* series for iPad that they would have already been paying (from your comment), then you're left with the manufacturing costs.

For Intel, they have: 1) chip design R&D, 2) fab method R&D, 3) fab costs, 4) sales/marketing/profit margin

By switching to their own chips, Apple has absorbed #1 and #4, and left #2 and #3 to be outsourced to TSMC. If the main costs for #1 are duplicated from the iPad chip, then you're left with fab costs (and fab R&D).

But, again, even with the likely cost benefits of making your own chips (and avoiding the Intel profit margin), I doubt that was the deciding factor in switching. The costs probably made the switch possible, but wouldn't have been the primary factor. Apple would gladly pay more per chip if it was more efficient (heat and power) and if they could control the release schedule. Even if their total costs for a single M1 chip are more than for an Intel chip, they probably still would have made the switch.
ARM devices being closed is a self-fulfilling prophecy. The SystemReady program is working towards an open PC-like ecosystem.
I think you're being overly harsh on the Wall Street Journal. The headline is "Charles Koch _Says_ His Partisanship Was a Mistake".

There's a valid discussion to be had about whether Charles Koch is full of crap, but I don't think it's wrong for newspapers to report on what people with power say.
The article is titled “Bay Area applicants flood program that pays them $10,000 to leave California”
Yes and no. We do hallucinate both temporal and spatial content from any scene we perceive but there's also a big part of the brain which causes you to ignore missing information. For example during a saccade (rapid eye movement) you're basically blind, the brain just edits out of your perceptual stream the part where the world is an incomprehensible blur.
all that "javascript" instruction does is emulate the x86 behaviour, which formed the basis of the javascript spec
Hey Chris, thanks for the support! =)
> You follow humans. Whole humans.

You follow Twitter accounts. Those can be thematic slices of humans, whole humans, aggregates of humans, or lots of different things.
Your standard can never be met. Even if no changes were made after the sale, no human can fully predict the behavior of even an open source modern operating system, let alone a closed source one.

But I disagree that people weren’t informed. It is common knowledge and widely advertised that Apple issues software updates, and it is widely known that Apple enforces its store rules.

The information about what changes could be made and by whom was readily available to purchasers.