skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do I understand your benchmark plots correctly?

Using the single precision at 1k FFT size as my example.

~165,000 kB/ms performance

Converts to 165,000 MB/s performance

Divide by 8 to convert to complex samples, so 20,625 M complex samples per second.

Divide by 1k to get FFT count of ~20.14M FFT/IFFTs per second?

These benchmarks also include transfer time to and from the GPU?
I think this is more a case of only noticing them as housewives when it gets called to your attention. Neutral/warm depictions of housewives are incredibly common but don't grab your attention because of how ordinary they are. It doesn't exactly stand out in most people's minds when they see a caring mother figure or a loving spouse.

If you want a return to the sanitary, saccharine dom coms of the sort the Simpsons was originally a parody of, I have to vehemently disagree that there is any real desire for that.
I wouldn't be surprised if after migrating everything to M1 we'll end up with 12" & 14" Airs and 14" & 16" Pros.
It's not about accusing companies of "virtue signalling". It's about marketing and hypocrisy. All companies exist to make money, everyone is all about "making the world a better place" until they need to make money on their own. I worked in a lot of companies where all of us were family, all of us had to give that extra mile, all of us are inclusive, up until that big client from a big country comes and then you need to make sure you delete all references to things that the big country doesn't agree with or thinks should not exist.

Funny story also when someone told me to turn off my monitor because it's bad for the environment and we are a green company, then we take money and support as a client a company that literally cuts down rainforests, but hey...
Very very simplified: Basically, you have a blob of fat that the mRNA sits in. The fat sticks to the cell, merges with the cell membrane and the mRNA pokes into the cell. It's not a modified virus, it's a much simpler structure but it has a similar mechanism. It's much simpler in that it can't replicate itself or do much else. It's literally just the code for a protein that's found on the surface of the covid virus, in a blob of fat.

That's for the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine. Other vaccines, such as the Oxford/AstraZeneca one do use a modified virus.
The sad part is the page is perfectly readable if you remove the CSS. They took something that was easy to read by default, and made it less readable in an attempt to make it more readable.

https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
Gave SwiftWasm a try yet?
So it's naked mRNA wrapped in oil, basically?
Well, I don't know. Families can be quite toxic, too.
Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG): https://medlineplus.gov/druginfo/meds/a682809.html
Creepy corporate newspeak.
> FBI documents accessed by journalists via a freedom of information request revealed that HubSpot attempted "multiple failed attempts to manipulate and extort people” with the intention of stopping the book's publication.

Ouch.
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Well, unless you're over 75, you probably won't be offered it for quite a long time. For that age group, the chances of dying of covid are far higher than the risks from the vaccine, to the degree of precision we know from the phase 3 trial. By the time they've been vaccinated, we'll have a lot more data, and those error bounds will be quantified so you can make a better informed decision.
> The Centuries Old Science They Don’t Tell You About

Conspiracy? Well it must be true.
One way I've successfully used Anki is learning new technology. It can't directly teach you the concepts, but it's much easier to learn and and retain the concepts when you're drilling the building blocks.
Sorry, I searched first but to no avail, so I'll try my luck here:

Does it do automatic navigation?
They look like anchor points for small vertical cables running to the dish. I would guess to keep the dish from moving around when it's windy?
What language are you using such that inter-line relative column spacing doesn't affect your code comprehension?

> I don't see the point in a monospace font outside of the terminal

Why not use Verdana in the terminal?
Both of my kids, on their own initiative, have made their own roblox games (it even uses Lua!). The incentive is that if other people play them, they can get Robux and use that in yet other games to buy cosmetics and so forth.

I have been blown away by Roblox. I thought this kind of tinkering no longer existed, but it's still there.
This isn't about turning up the honesty level on TARS, it's more like giving the neural network a third option or additional dimension with which to respond.

No doubt it will be abused in press releases and P-hacking by humans, but at least it allows developers to handle the "That doesn't seem to be a pedestrian but I really can't state anything confidently right now" case instead of just getting "is_pedestrian=false"
This is probably a path dependent outcome from the process that brought us the the "personal computing" era. It really kicked into gear and achieved ubiquity with Microsoft selling both the main operating system AND the "standard" productivity software suite that was the primary reason people owned computers. MS made their money back then selling upgrades to Microsoft Office that broke backwards compatibility. Part of the strategy was owning the environment so they could work in some amount of engineered obsolescence into the software lifecycle.

Of course, because Microsoft was a multi-headed chimera, Windows itself bent over backwards to keep everything not Office chugging along forever.
Maybe this is a good place to tag on a question that someone reading this might be able to answer - while I know it hasn't bee tried yet so we don't 'know' yet, are there any theories on what would happen if you take multiple vaccines? Would that provide extra protection, could they react to each other negatively, or would it have (theoretically) no effect?
Cities are not all living entities, but given the right conditions they can be born. There are also however inter-dimensional predators that seek them out to consume while they are new and vulnerable, so the cities choose people who embody them to raise up as avatars and protect them.

At least, that’s the premise in N.K. Jemisin’s _The City We Became_, which I tore through quickly and am eagerly awaiting the rest of the trilogy.
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We now know that Covid is not nearly as deadly as was first perceived

That seems to depend on where you live. The 250k deaths from 11M infections number in the US is putting it within the original estimates. If you assume the actual case count is 2x or 3x the tested positive number, then its still roughly 1%, which will result in a lot of early deaths. If your over 50 then you should be taking it very seriously.

If the vaccine numbers are right, it could literally save over a million peoples lives just in the US.
When I looked up the example for D, it looks like something that could be named with e.g. Rust's impl feature. In Rust you can return an "impl" of an interface, which is an object with concrete but unnamed type that implements a known interface. It similarly avoids the heap and avoids virtual function calls, without exposing the concrete type.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/edition-guide/rust-2018/trait-syst...
> Correct... I'm a Pascal programmer. I create objects when a program starts, delete them at the end.

Then I guess you should instead say you’re a ‘single-shot, compiler-like batch job executable’ programmer. I imagine that colours your perception more than the choice of programming language itself. If you were to write a program that has to manipulate deeply nested data structures, or a long-running service that has to acquire and dispose of an unbounded number of various kinds of resources over the course of its runtime in a deterministic manner, you’d start longing for an ownership system very quickly.
I think it should be relative to content. As in versus actual text on the screen. This metric can also be applied "per-page" and "per-site", with less ambiguity for SPAs; every new load brings in more bytes, but also more text, thereby contributing to the ratio.

Even better - fixed site-wide assets (i.e css, js) to features; hence loading an entire framework only to use a small % of it's features is penalised.
"Then why didn't they say so instead of lying to the public?"

? They quite clearly told us that they were prioritizing medical workers.

Read the WHO's guidelines yourself.

Here's the WHO guidance as of April [1] June [2], which is pretty early. You can see the guidance evolve during that time and it was still early.

Here is the CBC's public notice on March 25, a couple weeks before the epidemic hit hard in Canada [3]

"The advice on whether or not to wear masks to reduce the spread of COVID-19 has shifted since the start of the pandemic. Public health officials now say that wearing masks can prevent some potentially infectious respiratory droplets from spreading to others, but most still recommend that N95 masks, above, be reserved for health care settings."

Frankly, the only thing I remember about masks early on was 'get them to the front line workers' to the point where in my family we were going to donate our own N95s to the hospital, but they were already used.

[1] https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/331693/WHO-...

[2] https://www.who.int/dg/speeches/detail/who-director-general-...

[3] https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/masks-coronavirus-1.5507186
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> If you chose a license you regret, its kind of just your fault

Agree. The only possible exception I can think of it if you make major contributions to an existing project, and of course use the licence they chose. Even then though, you've voluntarily agreed to those licence terms.
That was a sarcastic remark.
I think you are right. These are marketing pieces, not journals. I do not think that's not bad at all. I am certain the journal article for this story satisfies demands of rigor.

But I like being able to take this piece to my 10 year-old who may focus her 5th grade science project on yogurt and getting her inspired to be curious about the fluids she plays with every day.
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Congress, signing off on "covid relief bill" still hasn't happened
the list goes on and on..Time to wake my friend, or keep swalling the blue pills, it's far easier
I consider editor not showing or changing what you exactly type as rude (I can accept autocompletion because it at least prompts).

It also introduce a ton of (unnecessary) complexity on top of the text formatting system, which in most cases are already a mess.
It was the wise thing to do for the polio vaccine.
Dan Lyons roasted them in his LinuxCon 2017 talk [1].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gn5kwQaMFQ
"Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained." https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...
Yes, sorry, kB. If I recall correctly our argument was that because after the initial load we only needed to poll occasionally for small data updates users would probably save time/ bandwidth overall (a familiar argument for the present day SPA advocates)
He got some press for that vaporware electric car.
I'm a big fan of Ubuntu Mono, I haven't encountered a better looking font for programming
That’s the joke. Platitudes like “harmonize work and life” just puts the responsibility on the employee to repair their personal life after its damaged by corporate mismanagement.
From all the data data we have it looks like the vaccine is orders of magnitude safer than the virus.

Yes vaccines can sometimes do weird things to the immune system, but viruses are far more likely to jack up the immune system than most vaccines.
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Good point, a lot of cynicism is earned. I think that it is absolutely vital for culture to be modeled from the top.

Also, owners and corporate stakeholders are often so married to their work, that they have a difficult time understanding folks that aren't (like most of their employees). That means you can hear things like "I sleep in my office every weeknight, so I expect you to, as well."

Part of modeling culture is to understand others, and that's where most people fall down.

But I also think that cynical employees often grow into cynical, toxic managers, and that's where a lot of damage is done.

For myself, I have followed a path of personal growth, for my entire adult life, and I brought that with me to work. It helps me to feel decent about myself, my peers, and the world, in general (and I can still be a cynic, but one with a significant vein of love and tolerance).
Criminal prosecution is a ruinously expensive machine, and can't even scale down to car theft without the "efficiency" of plea-bargaining, much less $10k private investments with complicated legal agreements.
Is it not? I'd be interested to see statistics on this, because I was coughing for weeks after 2 of the 3 times I can remember catching the flu.
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Any suggestions for what to use Anki to remember in everyday life as a software engineer?
My question was more 'what are you doing that need complex calculations?'

I don't know what RPN is btw.
John Campbell talks about that here in a digestible way: https://youtu.be/smm_ZvJqJk4?t=438
HubSpot? The company described as Office Space meets Scientology? The company that is famous for churning through new grads, the one with the fucked up culture an entire book was written about (Disrupted [1])? The one that FBI investigated because they manipulated and extorted people [2]? That HubSpot? Okay.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/10/books/review/disrupted-by...

[2] https://www.samueljscott.com/2018/12/19/hubspot-fbi-report
For all the hate it gets, this is exactly why I'm glad Electron exists: tooling that empowers people to create things that would otherwise be entirely out of reach for them.

Congrats on the app, it looks great :)
That is where I also disagree. Giving a higher rank to a AMP page that people like vs an page the is more accurate information seems like an issue to me. People are larger not smart enough to discern an accurate answer (look at how bad society wants to regulate FB, Twitter, etc for posting information that does not pass 'fact checks'). At the end of the day it doesnt matter, these decisions are made by what drives advertising dollars not relevancy or accuracy. Today faster browsing and crawling equates to faster advertisement display.
Couldn't have said it better - your worlds are exactly what I was thinking.
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Oh, but that would EN-GB, which has nearly no similarities to EN-US. No way Apple can sell you a HomePod that would tell you to bring an "umbrella" because it is going to rain today. Though I imagine Apple is more worried about localizing the electrical plug than they are about what to call the large, wheeled vehicles used to haul cargo.
_Wintermute says>"Yes, low quality papers indicating that existing drug X may be effective in disease Y get published all the time, probably several a day. Fortunately most of these are left to pad academic's CVs and don't really influence the pharmaceutical industry."<

And some of them are correct.
Why did you remove that call-out?
The market for programming languages has been saturated at least since I got into programming. Which was not all that recently.

The market for music has been saturated for even longer. But nobody really complains when someone wants to start a band, because we recognize that creative work has intrinsic value, even when it produces little economic return, even if only by enriching the life of its producer. Experimenting with programming languages is only very superficially different from that.
There does seem to be a person behind it, as their comments are not entirely automated, just mostly.

But yes, it seems to be a bot account as of the last few months.
This might make you even more surprised about my existence, but I'm not entirely unsympathetic to the "ideological" types.

Let me put it another way: why weren't you wearing a mask during flu season every year? Or, given that Covid will probably exist in some form for many years to come (even with a vaccine), when will you stop wearing one?

Because you could make a case for mandatory mask wearing at all times, forever, using the same logic that's currently being employed: "it's only a minor inconvenience and if it saves even one life, it's worth it".

Presumably you won't wear a mask forever: you'll make a personal decision, based on data or gut feeling, that the "effect size" of mask wearing is no longer worth the inconvenience. You were already making that calculation, implicitly, when you chose not to wear a mask during flu season last year.

That calculation will be different for every individual. Which is why I don't think any of us is really in a position to judge another person when the parameters of the calculation are different for them. Ultimately, the differing parameters of that calculation are what we call "ideology".

To return to my original point, it's also why we vitally need an open discussion on the "effect size" of wearing a mask. If it's large (I suspect it is not), then it gives more weight to the idea that all the Karens should just shut up and wear one. If it's small, there's a lot more room for personal choice.
https://www.acsh.org/news/2020/10/21/how-pfizers-rna-vaccine...

Essentially the mRNA is packaged into a lipid, which the body's cells can uptake thru its phospholipid bilayer
Old World--------------------| New World--------------------| Me-------------------------------

-----------------------------|-------------------------------|----------------------------------

Work to make a living | Work to make a difference | Nope [1]

Follow explicit instructions | Chart the course | Depends on the role [2]

Juggle work and life | Harmonize work and life | Sounds like: never stop working

Commute into work | Connect to work from anywhere | Sounds like: never stop working

Value amazing perks | Value amazing people | I like people, even unamazing ones

I think only someone who has lost their sense of distinction between their work and their life can write these out as ideals. I.e. A startup founder.

[1] I am not knocking making a difference, but that isn't the organizational imperative of any business. And it is a dangerous delusion to say it is.

[2] I learnt a lot following orders at different times

Edits: not sure I'm going to figure this tabulation out
How successful do you think someone could be by picking up the ashes of the great-idea flareouts, and re-executing them with competent scientific and business practices?
Yep, seriously, I was shocked too when buying my first (and last) Sonos, there was a list of apps, and a list of FM stations that worked with the Sonos app, and some had arbitrary restrictions like Spotify needing premium account.

I don't own an Apple HomePod, but I'm assuming the situation is similar because I read Spotify is not supported yet.
If that's the case "The speakers of the house."[1] slogan might be miss-leading for many customer that expect bluetooth speaker behaviour or a jack input to play whatever you want in "your" speakers.

[1] https://www.apple.com/homepod/
To your point we can’t know for absolutely certain until the lawsuit resolves but studies do point in this direction.

“By mapping the blockchains of Bitcoin and Tether, we are able to establish that one large player on Bitfinex uses Tether to purchase large amounts of Bitcoin when prices are falling and following the printing of Tether. Such price supporting activities are successful as Bitcoin prices rise following the periods of intervention. Indeed, even 1% of the times with extreme exchange of Tether for Bitcoin have substantial aggregate price effects. The buying of Bitcoin with Tether also occurs more aggressively right below salient round‐number price thresholds where the price support might be most effective. Negative EOM price pressure on Bitcoin in months with large Tether issuance points to a month‐end need for dollar reserves for Tether, consistent with partial reserve backing. Our results are most consistent with the supply‐driven hypothesis.”

“Overall, our findings provide support for the view that price manipulation can have substantial distortive effects in cryptocurrencies. Prices in this market reflect much more than standard supply/demand and fundamental news. These distortive effects, when unwound, could have a considerable negative impact on cryptocurrency prices.”

They print tether, backed by nothing, which increases its market cap, and use it to buy Bitcoin which increases its price, which increases its market cap. Win-win! Haha. It’s like the accounting on arrested development — take a banana, take a buck.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jofi.12903
Haskell has a language extension that does the same thing [1]. Now all you need is a keyboard with good unicode coverage [2].

[1] https://wiki.haskell.org/Unicode-symbols
[2] https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EKfCI8QuAaM/S7L-baZ-ZVI/AAAAAAAAD...
You’re suggesting that people prioritize decisions based on individual uncertainty over decisions based on public good. That the logistics of distribution will result in the same outcome as your suggestion does not mitigate the perceived selfishness of your suggestion.
Isn't this the same language heavily used by ElementaryOS devs?
BTW, Second Life recently moved their servers to AWS.
> People seem to really like Rust but it's important to keep experimenting and see if we can get the same benefits but with better ergonomics.

Is my intuition correct that one could implement this type of memory handling in Rust as well?
I saw this deck on ZFS and btrfs while researching them some years ago [1]. It led me to think ZFS would be fine for me to run in my closet/personal cloud, but I’d probably want to avoid it at work.

I know it’s an old deck... has anything substantial changed since it was put together?

Specifically around the licensing [2], inclusion in the kernel, etc.

It looks like FB in particular had invested a lot in btrfs [3] over ZFS.

[1]: http://marc.merlins.org/linux/talks/Btrfs-LCA2015/Btrfs.pdf

[2]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2009/10/apple-abandons-zfs-o...

[3]: https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Contributors
It's so that you need to pay an expensive consultant with the right certifications to explain you all of that ;)

I'm half kidding here, especially when you know that there is a certification about MS certifications (and it's not a joke, the thing is quite complex to the point we don't do this in house).
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