skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using a large amount of memory is totally fine for an enterprise SaaS app that a user is going to spend multiple hours a day in. There isn’t a one-size-fits-all web. Not every app is a blog or serving text content.
What's wrong with that? As long as they weren't intentionally causing workers to get infected, the only objection one can mount is that it is a bit callous.
Will the creators make money even if they don’t want it?
I use Apple's parental features to block news websites, because I constantly find myself spending too much time reading junk news on my phone. The AMP feature allowed me to get around this, so instead of going to politico.com (which I blocked), I would instead, go to Google, type Politico, then read the stories via AMP.

So what I ended up doing, was to switch to DuckDuckGo as my phone's primary search engine, and then I blocked google.com from my phone. It seems drastic, but I am a big advocate of taking control of how you use your phone with the parental features, pointed at yourself.

I constantly notice that reading news on my phone makes me feel bad, but I have a hard time stopping. This addiction to the news, is very correlated with times where I am tired or depressed. It reminds me of drinking or smoking cigarettes in that respect.

I keep the PIN in 1Password, but I try to use it rarely and try to "forget" it. So there's an extra step to seeing the sites, looking up the PIN. It's helpful for me, perhaps it seems elaborate.

Because of all this, however, I am glad to see the AMP pages will be going away from Google's search results, although I have found in the interim, that DuckDuckGo actually works pretty well for me.
Capped at $1.5 M/yr. :-/
I agree with you.

My daughter spent 100% of her allowance on Robux. Now she doesn’t have an allowance.
I have huge respect for open source developers

They have made significant contributions
I always believed tools and games like these had great potential, and always wanted to make something like Roblox, but it's too capital intensive for my situation. I learned the basics of computing and programming by modding games in the early 2000s, with custom Starcraft maps being the most instructive. The web offers the possibility of authorship and distribution that simply don't exist in any other platform.
Yeah, I'm gonna call that nitpicking. Also wrong. But it all depends when it was in your view.
Well, in all seriousness that’s basically what dependent types are.
20 November 2020: Benoit Mandelbrot's 96th birthday
https://cretz.github.io/doogie/ - I don't publish prebuilt releases anymore because I don't really work on it anymore, but I build it for myself with the latest CEF every update. There's a bug here and there, but it is by far more productive for me than other browsers.

But user beware, you can't login to any Google account using it since they disallowed it.
Earning, I’m assuming paid by either the game itself or the virtual “owners” of the restaurant, ads are there, but “paid” for by USERS, for their in game services.

What do you mean by time-limiting mechanism? Parental controls?
Thanks, but as I said, it was not in widespread use in the 90s... at least not in an internet context.
> 2,000 Americans dying every day is an emergency

Isn't every day of existence an emergency then?

There's something like 8,000 deaths a day in US under normal conditions.

And I'm sure you could trace a very large portion of those to either smoking, chronic disease that reflects voluntary lifestyle decisions, etc.
What happened? Well, it was taught to the kids by all those Old Math teachers, using all of their perfectly-honed and time-proven Old Math techniques, of course.

Naturally this was a disaster for both sides, so as soon the correct scapegoats were identified and dispatched, they could safely return to their Old, safe, familiar system which is a disaster for only one.

https://fs.blog/2016/07/richard-feynman-teaching-math-kids/

Adding together all the temperatures of red, yellow, green, and blue suns? Kill me now.
I never went into game dev. I started off as a junior in web development, worked my way up to contracting for some UK financial services companies working on some large projects. More recently I’ve spent the better part of a year on my own startup in proptech.

Game dev was something that appealed to me when I was younger (mainly because of Roblox) but I never really considered a career in it.
I mean the question isn’t if they’ve made money, but can they make money in the future.

Every investor is looking for a diamond in the rough.
https://restofworld.org/ initially loads <1M. But when you scroll down, it balloons to 3M as it loads more images. Should that count?
Come on, that's two years old and those vulnerabilities (which involved having an insider load custom software on the devices) have long since been patched. Halderman himself confirmed it. You're not arguing in good faith. Where's the evidence that the machines used in, wherever is en vogue -- MI/WI/GA/PA are actually vulnerable. That's what you need if you want to justifiably run a headline that the election was stolen.

> To me if you can affect the initial count then I don't see why its hard to believe that you can affect the recount, especially if it was affected by adding ballots.

You think a software vulnerability can conjure pieces of paper out of thin air? Now you've lost me entirely.

Seems like Occam is rolling in his grave here. Isn't the more obvious interpretation just that your candidate... lost the election?
> As of September 30, 2020, we had over $4.2 billion in funding capacity from a diverse set of capital partners, and we have funded approximately $10.7 billion of purchases since July 1, 2016.

"diverse set of capital partners"
iFixit's Teardown of MacBook Air M1 and MacBook Pro M1
They certainly don't. They are a private company and can do whatever they want. But, Google was much better before content farms. You could find unique, original content by actual people. Google could easily fix this by devaluing sites that mass produce content. But they don't and we are left with the mess we have today.
Actual title of the article is "With new ‘elegant chemo,’ Israeli scientists edit genome to destroy cancer DNA".
Buildkite is BYO infrastructure. It's worked really well for us, as we have a fairly idiosyncratic build process/test suite that out of the box solutions like GH Actions or CircleCI don't really cater to.
consolidation of fake news media

they've simply lied so much that even democrat readers couldn't take it
I think tech-oriented schools, e.g., Caltech, MIT, Georgia Tech, etc., are exceptions rather than the rule. Most large state universities in the US are likely to have different physics / chemistry / math courses for students heading in different directons. Not all intro physics courses will be calculus-based, yet some of the students in those courses will still have to take calculus.

Many US medical schools, for example, silll require 1 semester calculus and some physics, but I don't think the physics course needs to be calculus-based. Many used to require a second calculus, but I think that has largely shifted to biostatistics instead.
Having worked at Google until 2019, I do not recall their stock being available in the 401k, nor any direct stocks there. All things available were the boring broad Vanguard funds.
Open source has become yet another way for big tech companies to exploit laborers. If you are an independent developer working on an open source project without a copy-left license, you are a fool.
How much of a carpenter’s day is spent assembling wooden structures vs. measuring and cutting?
What is proptech?
Just having your CI steps run scripts that install/build/deploy/??? already goes a long way to decoupling from your CI solution, and can be a lot faster than spinning up a custom image for your CI build. Custom images don't necessairly do much for fixing the last 10% either - I'll typically want CI-specific:

1. Build matricies. I was running windows builds on appveyor and linux builds on travis for a long time (faster builds / iteration / feedback.) Regression testing against multiple rustc versions can be done from within a script, but doing so via CI-configuration makes for easier to read CI results that flag individual builds as failed instead of an entire script that you have to go log diving into.

2. Custom runners. Be it custom hardware or licensing-burdened custom software, I frequently need to own the actual CI hardware, and using the native solutions for CI runners is typically easier than merely configuring whatever custom infrastructure I might come up with.

3. Images. Using prewarmed cloud-ci-specific images is often faster to spin up.
Currently recursively downloading from [1]. Afterwards I’ll start testing and uploading them.

Edit: Most of the SWF files are showing a black screen on the demo website, even though I do not have time to individually debug all files, I might be able to automate the testing part

I just remembered that I have tons of SWFs on my hard-drive too. If someone else has a data-dump, do share!
The legality of streaming games hasn't been robustly tested. It's too bad the victims of the C&D can't afford to risk a lawsuit.
But can one compare them? Isn’t it true that RISC-V is merely an instruction set, whereas ARM is much, much more than that - it’s a whole universe of high-quality hardware designs sold (licensed) by a private company right now. And if some other company starts selling/licensing similarly high-quality designs that use the RISC-V instructions, why would that be exciting?
Regarding arrogant teachers, I’ve heard an anecdote about Dirac: if anyone ever asked a question, he would pause for a moment thinking, find the relevant part of the lecture, and the repeat it word-for-word. I guess he didn’t get many questions.

I’m often a bit surprised by the handwriting problems but here are some tips:

1. Just write things bigger. Paper is cheap. Ink is cheap. I never liked the lines getting in the way so I just wrote on printer paper.

2. People often talk about superscripts and subscripts but outside of random calculus exercises, superscripts are either only 2 or sometimes 3 (so make them look different), a few letters like a, b, ab, 2a, a + b, etc (not hard to differentiate), or can be inferred from position (eg they go a_0 + a_1x + a_2x^2 + ...). Subscripts are usually either positional, something simple like n, n+1, n+2 (easy to differentiate), or some subset of the letters i,j,k,l (give j a decent descender to differentiate it from i; make sure the dot and curve on the i are obvious, write an l like a \ell). Mostly, you get to choose the letters so you don’t need to worry about differentiating \xi^{x^t} from \zeta^{\chi^\tau} (a close case is a pair of substitutions x -> f(\xi), t -> g(\tau), but this isn’t so hard when you realise that the Greeks go together and the Latins go together so you don’t need to differentiate t from tau)

3. A few simple handwriting modifications can help a lot (See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22989703). I found larger ascenders and descenders helped (but make sure you know what they are in Latin and Greek), especially for i vs j, g vs p vs q, a vs d, u vs y, f vs s, z vs 7. I also modify a rho to sit on the baseline and slant more than a p. Curves and bowls help eg to differentiate a gamma from a y, or a k from a K from a kappa (write k with a bowl, kappa a bit like an x a la \varkappa), an l from a i, or a nu/u/v. I found italics unhelpful. My normal handwriting is italic but I write mathematics with an upright italic.

4. It doesn’t really matter if your xi and zeta are ugly so long as they don’t look like eachother or anything else. I had a lecturer who didn’t like to draw or say xi, he called it squiggle and would read aloud “so d squiggle d t is ...” (also twiddle is a much better name for \sim than tilde)
What you write helps people in the world, but not open source. Blender gets significant amount of money from corporations in return of giving some control over the development process.
Fuck Facebook. What a joke, arguing for less transparency for the very users they exploit for dollars. Yuck.
How many times do we need to start this talk... just to end it soon?

What's the most pathetic thing is that there are many republicans who are into Bitcoin not realizing that it's mostly controlled by China, Chinese miners, and Chinese exchanges!
If it's a webview based browser, I think it shouldn't be added. Sorry, that's just the price they pay for using a webview as a shortcut to providing a full browser.

> It seems to me that allowing even a single webview-based browser would go against what Google is trying to do.

I agree. Other than it being weird to ask/need the system to use a different browser than you are using, and possibly a different browser than what you've set as default if you've set it to one Google doesn't trust for auth, nothing prevents any webview browser from acting like any other webview, and outsourcing to Chrome or Firefox for the authentication to get a good token, as long as you can use a token for full Google account login (which I don't know if you can).
> "The free market shall decide" and "let the buyer beware" are great until you eat a sandwich and find out the ground beef was cut with sawdust, or buy a house with a deck, have a party, and the deck collapses because the previous owner built it wrong.

Or have pay for expensive destructive inspections of every house you intend to buy (as part of your due diligence), because you can assume literally nothing about it. The current regime of building codes and inspections is far more efficient than that (e.g. make sure the inspection happens before covering stuff up).

"Let the buyer beware" doesn't necessary cut down on hassle, it just moves it around and in many cases makes it more onerous.
Yes.

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=465
No, he said it would happen or else he would...
This is almost another dimension of biology and very interesting indeed.
Probably to a dev on the team that implemented this, which might be harder to find, but is also likely to be a more fruitful conversation than some front-line support rep, as technical cases and reasons can be explained dev-to-dev.
> In a hypothetically free market world, they would be dumping their disposable income in stocks sold over the counter in convenience stores,

I would not be so sure about that. The poor (who buy lottery tickets) have a lot less ability to delay gratification.
And if you compare the chance to double your $10 in the next year (e.g. invest in $QQQ) to having the chance of being a millionaire next week, the bet to gain $10 is not an appealing option. Firstly it takes a year and secondly it's not enough to escape their current life.
Cool videos. Insane how much all plants move even cacti!
I always love PCalc on my iPhone, just bought it for the macOS and I was totally blown away by the "About PCalc" "app"....
> Would a ducted fan work better?

This comment is ironic because it initially sounds naive, but is probably the most insightful comment.

You could make a supersonic propeller-driven airplane by mounting the propeller(s) in a shroud, using a powerful engine (possibly geared), and slowing down the airstream to subsonic speed in the shroud (the same way a jet engine is designed.)

The result would be a propeller system that outwardly looks like a jet engine, but internally still has propeller(s) on a shaft(s).

The advantage would be better efficiency at low altitudes if a piston engine was used, since piston engines burn about half as much fuel as jet engines.

Nobody will build this unless high-altitude flight is banned, and thus need the efficiency of piston engines.

Rotax uses essentially a geared lawnmower engine in aviation piston applications that is half the weight of a Lycoming or Continental (because of the gearing.) So hey ... there is room for innovation.

You're not going to get a supersonic helicopter (that looks like a conventional helicopter) without retracting the blades for several reasons, starting with the advancing blade being higher speed than the retreating blade, which makes transsonic and supersonic flight with horizontal blades impractical and risky.

Current fast helicopters have stubby wings, so behave like an airplane, which is kind of cheating. To create a supersonic helicopter would mean either ducted fans instead of blades, or an entirely new technology.

Source: I study aerodynamics.
Honestly, it's not all that different from something like the Play Store. There's a LOT of games that are trying to get people (who don't know any better) to spend money. But there's also a lot of real quality games, too. Many of the best games have the option to spend money, but don't shove it down your throat.

As an example, I played Bee Swarm Simulator with my daughter and I really enjoyed it. I decided to buy some robux and spend it on the game.I did this not because it gave me something I needed to enjoy the game, but because I felt the developer deserved it for creating something that entertained me.
Twitch does it. I can't block their ads even with any ad blocker or no script.
Cygwin was always a lot more cumbersome. Building programs for it is a pain and doesn't always work. It's better than nothing, but WSL1 (and SFU/Interix before it) is a lot better.
> Growing and raising food requires a huge amount more water than it's literal weight once it sits on your dinner plate.

... which is why the growing is done near the water source and fertile soil.

If the soil and water aren't in the same place you move the water, because the soil is even more massive and volumous.

I think you've missed the point of this thread. It isn't about what we do or don't do, but about where we do it.
At some point it would be better to just ditch Javascript, which was a mistake anyway, for Typescript or a (non Google controlled) language as default browser language.
I've had surprisingly good results running that sort of thing under WSL2. Pure CPU workloads actually work pretty well, and in my experience valgrind has mostly been CPU intensive?
Yeah, I agree this space is crowded. But we’ve found so few ML researchers/engineers are actually using these tools. This could either be that people aren’t aware of them yet, or that they’re not good enough.

I think it’s a mix of both, honestly, but we’re betting that there’s more of the latter in the mix. :)

I could do comparisons of each of these tools, and some of them are solving quite different problems, but the overarching difference is we’re just trying to do less. These systems might make sense if you’re setting up a company’s ML pipeline, but we found lots of individuals struggling to keep track of their work and store their models. They balked at the idea of setting up things like Kubeflow or MLflow.
The problem with Sandi’s catchy phrase, is that it’s a claim with absolutely no backing. What is the cost model for software? How do you
measure the cost of an abstraction vs. duplication?

It’s really silly to argue about this stuff. This claim has no evidence. For example, I feel the exact opposite, that abstracting early always makes it easier to refactor, and does not prevent ending up at better abstractions later on in any way.

I _feel_ like that’s true. And you can’t prove or disprove either side without agreeing on a cost model.
How does one do this? I've tried but eventually just gave up and currently I'm not in a situation where a PiHole would be viable.
DRY is absolutely essential. You can defer abstractions, sure, but ideal software is DRY.
Reminds me of this graph[1] years ago that, iirc, i saw in inconvenient truth.

There are a large number of existing, deployable technologies that have a positive ROI, but we just dont use them. (Everything on the left side of the graph)

> The first curve from ten years ago wasn’t perfect. It vastly underestimated how quickly technology costs would fall for renewable-energy sources like batteries, LED lighting, wind turbines, and solar photovoltaic panels

[1]: https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/McKinsey/About%20Us/McKinse...

on https://www.mckinsey.com/about-us/new-at-mckinsey-blog/a-rev...
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There is the main course meal in life. But I still enjoy the side dishes.
Heavy handed moderators are obviously to blame.
> This is insane

No, Typescript is very much just a static code analysis tool for JavaScript, there is no runtime at all, and there should not be one. It confuses a lot of people because they expect type guards at runtime, but it was never in the scope of the language to provide something like that.
Hah, that's true about Bornholm. Now that you mention it, I feel like I've read about it recently, somewhere. Thanks for reminding me.
Brings me back to the days of gmod and TTT
I found the article pretty straightforward. Biases are amplified by social networks. The article attempts to simulate some aspects of social networks and explain some biases.

I'm not sure how you mean fact checkers are leaning one way or another. Sure, there are different ways to interpret things, but I don't believe it's enough to bias towards either end of the spectrum.

To your last point, you are already looking critically at the studies they mention, so why wouldn't everyone?
The problem is it is not "smart but lazy" it is a value proposition and some kids don't see the value, even if they are smart enough. The reality is many smart kids today know that even higher education, unless specifically focused is a waste of resources. The smart ones generally leave the uni for a business venture before they even complete postsecondary.

Further grade inflation and the continuing of lowering standards means that the ones that know how to game the system, can skate in general ed, pull out 2, 4.0 GPA years at community, where they get some choice in their direction, save money and then usually gain admittance into a decent school. As I said, it's not lazy it's a value proposition and in many ways the ones that don't totally wash out, don't see the value in applying their faculties to the endeavor of educating themselves the way the State proscribes.

Boot camp is for discipline and grit, compulsory education is well compulsory and you don't get a choice in how you learn, not everyone learns the same, and not everyone is lazy for seeing the emperor has no clothes. Many successful tech Founders/CEO's would meet your definition of "Smart but Lazy" but some smart people do just wash out. Maybe it's just like burnout that is so prevalent in the tech industry, yet they hit it early.

For example my youngest son can look at a fairly complex algebraic equation, and within a few seconds he can tell you the answer by calculating it in his head. It's some nearly savant level stuff, one time I asked him how does he do that and he said the equations are a painters pallet, each part has a color, he takes the color and paints a picture in his mind and that picture is the answer. I think you can imagine sitting him down to force him to learn algebra the way most of us do it, is painful to say the least. Not only can he arrive at the answer faster than us, he has to actively suppress the way he learns to learn a process he will never use in reality. He does not see the point, he already has the answer. He is not being lazy, his mind just uses the creative half to solve logic, its pretty messed up, but it works for him, so you can imagine his frustration when he has to show his work because we "The Education System" want him to think and solve the problem the same way we do. The value proposition for him is not there. My older son is the exact opposite, once he learned the mechanics of solving equations and how to apply them to real world problems like fabrication, fuel maps, etc. etc. he was hooked but he is the one that struggles in other areas, because he sees the value proposition of focusing on what he is interested in and sees subjects such as English and Literature as a complete waste of his time. I sympathize with him, because I hated those two subject as well.
https://archive.is/QRasx