skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a diehard Firefox user, it has never been competitive with safari when it comes to performance. JavaScriptCore and WebKit are kind of ridiculously fast. If only they were put in a browser that was at all usable.
Vanquishing ‘Monsters’ in Foundations of Computer Science
> The Pentagon’s top policy official, James Anderson, resigned in anticipation of being fired by Trump.

What is the reasoning behind resigning when (presumably) disagreeing with being fired? Is it all optics?
I’m not familiar with that. What bills are those?
Yep. The data will be allowed to become inconsistent garbage but the DB engine will still be running in a 100% CPU utilisation loop - just like a headless cockroach running in circles on the floor.
You are making a strawman argument. "All possible origins", in that particular phrase, obviously means "with reasonable probability". If you have an actual BSL-3 lab, specializing particularly in SARS-like coronaviruses in the city of origin of the pandemic (there is such a lab, three labs actually), if the country has a bad track of lab leaks (it does, SARS leaked twice from Chinese labs), history of cover-ups of such leaks (again, SARS leak of 2004), generally bad track with information suppression - it makes the hypothesis actually worth verifying. And that would be domain of criminal justice and forensics, not only of life science.
> I never claimed those languages don't exist

Yes you did. Let me quote:

Me:
> Even for that there is no need for dynamic typing anymore. This problem has been solves with type parameters (aka generics) and type-classes.

This is obviously a general statement. I means "there can be a programming language where there is no need for dynamic typing to solve this kind of problem". And then I continue, that this problem has been solved. That means there is at least one such a language already existing which solves this problem with certain techniques.

Then you:
> Not true.

And once I offer you a concrete implementation as an example, you suddenly change the topic to "but... no mainstream language". And if I would present you a language that could be considered as mainstream, I'm sure you would find another restriction such as "but this language does not have enough... libraries".

There certainly is no true Scotsman for you.
That's not the obtuse part. The obtuse part is ignoring all the other multicore tests in the same uArch and then saying that the 5950X is comparing unfavorably and ignoring the fact that single core perf on Geekbench for the 5950X doesn't scale like any of the other tests and is much lower relatively to the other tests, then taking this one test were a 105W TDP is actually used as significant to all the other comparisons, then saying that their are comparing it to a chip with a 105W TDP, when in all multicore tests except two it gets compared to the 4800S (which beats it with half the power consumption).

It's not getting compared, at the scale of the article, to the 5950X in anything but single core performance except for one expection, and the claim that it's being compared generally to a 105W TDP part is also false because in multicore comparisons, where the total TDP makes sense, it's getting compared to parts with half or 150% the TDP and losing.

In reality, it's getting compared to a 6-7w core, and to 15-45w chips.
> The app highlights lengthy, complex sentences and common errors; if you see a yellow sentence, shorten or split it.

This was highlighted in yellow. I don’t see anything wrong with this sentence. Replacing the semicolon with a period makes the editor happy, but does not seem like a positive change.

> If you see a red highlight, your sentence is so dense and complicated that your readers will get lost trying to follow its meandering, splitting logic — try editing this sentence to remove the red.

This sentence is highlighted in red, and yet it does not seem dense or complex. Even removing the suffix doesn’t fix the red.

This really feels like it’s literally just penalizing you from writing anything other than short sentences. Deleting characters from the end of this makes it turn yellow once i get it to

> … follow its meandering, splitting log

“logi” is red, “log” is yellow.

Who is this editor even intended for? What sort of writing would be improved with these automated restrictions?
This is a substantially more capable browser than links?
Indeed, crazy. Some people think having a child rewrites of a lot of core routines - apparently also those involved into self-preservation.

I'm sorry if that comes out as offensive, but this strikes me as something a virus or a parasite would also do, hijacking the host brain.

How exposure to parasites encourages promiscuity has been studied: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4013694/

Obviously, children may not be parasites, but the "It came out of nowhere and it was a chilling and somewhat unnerving feeling" part is troubling.
> Sorry, no; racism is just about biology, by definition. Culture is not race.

Unfortunately, some people have redefined "racism" to mean dislike of anything related to another ethnic group. Biology, culture, religion, whatever.

I agree with you here. Blaming the culture is the opposite of blaming the biology. But the meaning of "racism" has expanded from "blaming biology" to, well, "noticing anything negative about anything". The only non-racist behavior is to say the differences don't exist at all, or blaming them 100% on oppression.
For me, it looks like use a program in C to generate a C code, and then prove that a C program can generate an invalid C code, so the C compiler must be invalid. Compilation step is missed. Compiler will refuse to compile the invalid code.

IMHO, the same situation is for Godel numbers. We can use math to generate numbers, which are equivalent to formulas, BUT why these formulas must be accepted? Initial set of axioms was carefully chosen by human, so it not an open set, where anybody can add anything.
Hayward and San Leandro have home prices 2/5 of SF and Mountain View. It's within a 45 min. drive to many jobs and a 30 min. BART (public transit) into SF.
It's discipline and systems. The fewer systems you have in place to enforce correct behavior, the more you have to rely on discipline. And discipline is a tough nut crack consistently.

Some of my favorite systems include:

* Social accountability. The human desire to appear reliable and consistent is a power to be taken advantage of. Get a partner, a co-founder, a mentor, an investor -- someone that you have to answer to occasionally. Tell them your plans, and check in with them to review your progress regularly. In other words, set yourself up to suffer a bit of embarrassment if you don't live up to your word.

* Batching. It's been said that you ship your calendar. If you think 40% of your time should be spent talking to customers, block off 40% of your calendar for that task. Don't allow yourself to write any code during that time. This is easier if you batch your work together. For example, I do this for my podcast. No coding allowed on Mon, Tue, and Wed, only podcast work.

* Front-loading. I have very little willpower to make the right decision in the moment. When I'm hungry, I'll turn to junk food. So I try to pick a singular time when I'm in the right headspace to make the right decision for my future self. I grocery shop when I'm full, fill my fridge and pantry with healthy food, and rob myself of the ability to make bad choices later. You can do this with customer conversations, too. For example, on Monday schedule calls for the next two weeks. You'll be more-or-less obligated to have those calls when the date arrives no matter how you feel at the time.

* Time boxing. Most of us are procrastinators. Procrastinators get the bulk of their work done just before a deadline. Use this to your advantage by setting lots of deadlines, which should ensure you have lots of productive periods. Make sure they're deadlines you can't break. I like to combine this with social accountability, meaning my deadlines are scheduled meetings or outings with other people.
Whooooooa that is the coolest thing I've ever seen!
> Within the case of galaxies, the remaining 70 % of mass is darkish vitality. The equal within the human mind, the duo mentioned: water.

This article is just cherry-picking a few similar numbers that are only coincidence and pretending that there is a relation.

Somewhat related: https://xkcd.com/1047/ If you have enough numbers and you compare all of them, by chance you get some similar results.
Indeed, we worked together in China, and have been friends since :)
I agree that it’s risk sharing, but my point is that it’s more akin to a tax and it’s useful to view them as a tax because it’s specifically structured via the maximum age rating factors and max out of pocket to give older and sicker people a proportionally higher benefit than younger and healthier people.

While my auto insurance premiums will probably go up if the insurance company experiences losses much higher than expected, the insurance company will raise premiums on the people causing accidents more than myself (and maybe even drop them if they deem them uninsurable). If health insurance claims come in higher, the younger people will pay proportionally more even though they’re mostly going to just be getting a physical and flu shot.
There was a recent article about this latest purge in the nytimes[1]. Apparently, it has more to do with "score settling" and replacing officials with loyalists and "yes" men/women.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/11/us/politics/trump-pentago...
Do you think that because your first thought of "cockroach" is "doesn't die," or because you've researched about this DB in particular?
Before the election, I applied the theory of “shy Trump voter”. Found the research that about 5% of dem leaning and 10% of gop leaning poll respondents basically lie that they are undecided. I took the average of polls from 538 and allocated undecided voters in accordance with numbers above.

The result was very well aligned with actual results and prediction markets. Adjusted numbers predicted that FL, NC, GA, AZ would go to Trump and Biden margins in WI, MI, and PA would be much thinner than predicted by 538.

Outside of GA and AZ that turned out to be on point and even in GA and AZ Biden margins were razor thin. Personally I think that Biden has to thank Stacey Abrams for Georgia, and I am not sure what happened in AZ, maybe people are more outspoken there than elsewhere.

Now, there are also opinions that there is no such thing as shy Trump voter and my calculation could be just dumb luck.
Heh, I suppose that’ll be a two month vacation then? It’s a strange thing to feel sorry for the DHS though, which I wouldn’t mind seeing shuttered entirely. Petty alternative for a lack of evidence by someone with access to all intel.
I fear that the measures needed to see power properly transferred will soon require remedies that the judiciary is unequipped for.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/482569-senate-gop-blocks-...
I live in the sorta midwest (Rochester NY). Today is was basically pitch black outside at 5. I enjoy our winters for now, but I totally understand why people snowbird.
Covid is about as bad as the flu for kids. Certainly wouldn't want it, but its not the end of the world.

The worst consequences of climate change won't fall on Middle Class Americans, it'll fall on people who cannot afford to move, rely on subsistence farming, etc. Maybe Miami and New Orleans don't exist in 2100. But cities like Chicago were founded and became large cities in under 80 years.

And I'm pretty sure cities like Miami will just slowly recede inward rather than pack it all up.
Sucks that this wants to nuke your existing config, when you could just include the blacklist.
Thank you for the kind message : )
heat pumps generally deliver three joules of heat per joule of electricity used to run them.
Is speed a specific goal of Cranelift? That is, can we expext that it will aim for fast compiles for ever, and not slowly accrue features and optimizations? From what I can tell, Cranelift was originally designed for Wasm, and that's still its primary purpose. That means that its goals might not be permanently aligned with that of Rust developers who desire a fast, non-optimizing backend.
This isn't true. There are some very liquid markets that still have Biden at ~85%

Can easily get 5-6 figures down on Polymarket (been adding to my position all week)

https://polymarket.com/market/will-donald-trump-be-inaugurat...
Some folks feel strongly about serving "at the pleasure of the President" and resign if they feel the President would prefer they do so.

Some folks don't like the idea of news articles about them saying "fired."

Some folks believe inaction cannot be the solution to a problem, even if it's the right choice.
Modules are where the python lives. Really well written, idempotent, and battle tested python.

But "writing" Ansible playbooks is definitely not python. It's its own dsl bastardized between yaml, jinja2 and reserved/special keywords. This is the worst thing I can say about the whole toolkit.

Unfortunately, I'm really productive with it and when I return to work I've written 3+ years ago:

A) It still runs

2) I can read and understand the intent of my playbooks
A tweet from Chris Krebs responding to the news: https://twitter.com/c_c_krebs/status/1328859222071783424?s=2...
I'm not a lawyer either. That's why I'm asking for an explanation on HN.
Doesn't this actually mean "Krebs on vacation until Jan 21st."
Perhaps the method of leaving could have an impact on benefits or the ability to get future high level positions in the government?
> Police officer isn’t even top 10 dangerous job in this country.

Overall, no. But the overall averages conceal a huge variation in risk by locality. I agree that "it's a dangerous job" doesn't excuse shooting innocent people or their pets. But the danger of the job in particular localities should not be underestimated.

> Changing their mentality from a warrior to a guardian also does wonders in lowering use of force.

Can you give specific examples? I agree with the general idea but I have not seen much actual data on specific localities where this is done or what effect it has.

> almost half the country think those who got shot by police probably deserved it

Citation needed.

> Almost the same crowd protests wearing masks as stepping on their liberties.

The protest is not against wearing masks where it makes sense to do so; it's against being ordered to wear masks whether it makes sense or not, and subjecting people to criminal penalties for non-compliance. For example, according to some orders (fortunately for me, not the one currently in effect where I live), you are subject to arrest for simply walking out your front door without a mask on, even if you remain on your own property and nobody else comes anywhere near you.

And don't forget that the same cops whose corruption and lack of judgment you and I both deplore will be the ones to enforce these orders. Frankly, it strikes me as illogical for people to be talking about defunding the police on the grounds of corruption on the one hand, and talking about issuing draconian orders that would have to be enforced by those same police on the other.
Why sit around waiting and wondering if you can just pack your bag and go home?
Well no, but then again there is the 4800S at half the TDP that gets close in single core performance and wins in multicore performance, so there pretty much no way they could've beaten it at another power budget.

Indeed, it they were to add a few more cores to their M1, then AMD could have also thrown a few more cores in their 4800, and it would have been a wash.
You're correct; there are often fees to deposit or withdrawal, as well as fees on profits. Additionally, consistent winners may face other fees (e.g. Betfair's "premium charge", which will hit long-term consistent winners with a 20% fee on overall profits)

Combine those fees with the need to tie up the money until a decision is made, and it makes it hard to make profit from high probability bets. (or from any bet where the line is reasonably near the true odds).
Have you tried Safari 14? I recently upgraded and they’ve finally fixed the address bar race conditions and swipe back/forward lag which drove me away in previous versions.
Oh yeah it’s a very weird feeling when you finally get home from the hospital. It takes a moment, then you realize that nobody else is there to help. The baby is there, hugely needy, completely dependent, and it’s just up to you guys to handle it. Gulp.
Reality is whatever Conservatives tell each other it is.
GNU poke – new interactive editor for binary data
What does this mean? M1 isn't an ARM64? Is it saying there's extra opcodes and this takes advantage of them?
Browsh does some js, and felinks is an actively maintained fork of elinks with some js support as well.
The tweets said Krebs called it the most secure election in history.

I like Krebs, but how can an election with anyone on the voter rolls getting a ballot mailed to them possibly be the most secure ever? We are 100% certain our voter rolls are not entirely clean. I’m not saying there was voter fraud, but Kreb’s statement just seems odd. Best possible case, there was no chain of custody for ballots, so even if there were no issues or reasons to be suspicious, it just isn’t a great claim.

If you look at the Trump tweets (ugh), it says dead people voting, software glitches switching voters, and observers being unequally treated. I’m sure in tiny tiny doses thats all possible.

Should Krebs be fired just for saying the election was the most secure ever? Obviously not! ... but devil’s advocate, I don’t see how it could have been. We relaxed integrity requirements because of Covid, not increased them.

Edit: look how little room there is to step out of line, hmm
It's sitting at 15Y/86N right now. So I decided to buy a bunch of "NO" shares, deposited money, and was met with this message:

We have reached the maximum number of traders on this contract.

Well so much for price discovery, huh?
For me, one of the weakest parts of ddg/google is finding niche content. Getting any results to a non-mainstream blog from anything but a direct quote is extremely hard. I always have to type HN/reddit to get authentic recommendations or opinions from people who have actual experience with the subject matter. Otherwise 90% of the results are from SEO-optmisezd sites that barely introduces the subject matter.
Applied Pokology – GNU poke development news
In theory, yes. This is the case when you have small cores, which is why a lot of GPUs used VLIW.

But in practice the whole decoder stage is basically a rounding error because cores got so big.
Make people pay $50 before you build it.

Even if they don’t pay, you’ve tested the conversation and grounded it in an exchange of economic value.
Totally unrelated, but I’ve been wondering, is he related to Brian Krebs?
I believe the open systems db2 team was mainly based out of Canada, but I don't think you were really honestly asking that question.

However, in case I can share a bit that I may know some small amount about is that the area that the author worked on is quite well-known to IBMs db2 customers. The ability for db2 to self-tune has put it ahead of sql server, oracle and others in some ways, for decades. While the author clearly got hired and found himself in a good niche at IBM and grew there, IBMs database teams have definitely hired and sustained people from various backgrounds because the work can be challenging and rewarding.

I'm saying this because one of my uncles maintained the lock manager in the mainframe db2 codebase for most of a couple of decades including being there at the time the author mentioned, working on sysplex and parallel sysplex, and he entered that gig without a particular interest in databases as he told it. But he really did take to assembly and production code maintenance
You're right. I see the problem :) It is subtle, but nice catch.
Visual Signals Infrastructure: Evolution from Lambda to Kappa Architecture
Felinks is an actively maintained fork.
links, on the other hand, is current. (Works on Windows, too.)
Perhaps this counts as optics, but I see it as a way of offering evidence to the outside world that the feeling is mutual. If you were satisfied with the job/conditions/policies, then you might choose to continue to try to stay employed there.

Of course, it's not strong evidence because nobody knows how much choice you had in the matter. If you quit when you have a 75% chance of being fired, that means something different than quitting when you have 100% chance of being fired in the next 30 seconds, and the outside world doesn't know which is the case.
Pretty sure his position was senate confirmed, so he can’t just be instantly brought back.
He didn't say it was the most secure election possible. He said it was the most secure election in USA history. There's a difference.
In 10yr Wikipedia will say "resigned" instead of "fired" and that's as deep as anyone will care to dig.
> For example this is the #2 result for "python f strings" on DDG[1]. It's total garbage, and, quoting the blog, "we can do better". (This result is also on page 1 for the same query on Google.)

There are other options that may be better, but in general, very few people are looking for them.

Here's your "python f strings" query on Runnaroo:

https://www.runnaroo.com/search?term=python+f+strings

I'm the creator of Runnaroo.
> I fear

The election isn't even over yet, and you fear a transfer of power hasn't been done?

That's not how democracy works, but then the left has endorsed violence, Marxism, deplatforming and rigged voting to subvert democracy at every turn in 2020.

Democrats, look in the mirror when you talk about divisiveness.

> will soon require remedies

Yes, the National Guard is the remedy for your suggestion to undermine democracy with more riots.
I have never used or researched CockroachDB, my only exposure to it is when every few months a story about it comes to the front page of HN and the top thread is inevitably about people being upset at the name.

I remember reading the first thread and being confused why so many people were missing the "obvious" meaning behind the name. Clearly it's not as obvious as I had initially thought, but it's the first thing that came to my mind.

I know that's not the answer you want to hear, and I apologize for that.
Odd, but I am more familiar with Brian Krebs than Christopher Krebs, in the security space.

I like Krebs, but I think Schneier would be my pick for the job if I were allowed to make decisions like this.
This is a disease that will likely kill ~10 million people directly (0.5% IFR, 25% spread), a few more million due to lockdown (economic downturns lead to starvation for starters), and cost tens of trillions of dollars (world expenditure on just masks is looking to cost something like $200 billion this year).

We can prevent lab mistakes. If there's _any_ reasonable chance it was a lab mistake, that absolutely should be investigated thoroughly, so it doesn't happen again. And the fact is, gain of function research is already controversial, because of the obvious potential safety risks.

Second, most of us live in democracies. Even if it can't be proven, voters should absolutely know if a lab mistake is plausible, so we can make good decisions on what types of risks we're willing to take for scientific research, and what kinds of oversight are appropriate.
I won't miss the majority of travel for work. Since I've worked remote for my entire three years at my current employer, it is nice once in a while to meet up with my co-workers in person but that's about it.