skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sometimes wonder about the odds of the most chilling questions. What are the chances we're the only intelligent life currently in existence? ("We" including other primates, dolphins, etc.) The only intelligent life to have ever existed? The only intelligent life to have ever existed and that will ever exist? Even the first and last instance of any kind of life at all?

For a long time, I thought surely these probabilities must basically be zero, due to the sheer amount of dice that can be rolled (tons of space + tons of time), but after hearing a lot of smart people talk about it, I think all of these things do carry a non-zero possibility.

Of course, we'll probably never know, though. There could be some galaxy clusters teeming with life and visible structures but they could be so incredibly far away from us that they basically don't exist from our perspective, and vice versa.
Hence I consider anything that’s not symmetric fiber to not be worthy of mentioning, because I know you’re getting on upload (and probably latency and packet loss too).
ThinkPad X1 Fold: The world's first foldable PC
I've tried Linux on the desktop and know that I'm significantly more productive on a Mac (and also more productive on a Mac vs Windows).

It's partly a personal thing but I think that you have to look at the evidence in the marketplace - people switch to Linux for philosophical or technical reasons but not generally due to the user experience. Denying that evidence and pretending that it's otherwise isn't going to change that situation especially now Apple has an imminent hardware advantage.
I would argue that ticket sales are different to electronics and other goods. It's a one-off event which fans go to rather than electronics that may potentially be limited however can be manufactured no matter what.
Best explanation about popularity of communism among American elites that I have come across read is extremely banal, under communism everything is about status and nothing is about value. People who create no value are naturally going after status.
I think the argument they were trying to get to but totally failed to make is possibly along these lines

huge memory bandwidth relative to ram size + os level memory compression => massive reduction in memory pressure for many many many workloads.

macos has supported memory compression for awhile now -- i would hypothesize that M1 may have massively improved that subsystem in ways that actually do translate into needing less memory on average for a lot of common real-world workloads that amount to "human timescale multitasking" between large working sets -- eg i click this app and it has a huge working set and then click into another that has a large working set and then click back -- with those clicks that represent application context switches occurring very very rarely in machine time scale.

If memory compression subsystem can swap working sets into and out of compressed memory space insanely quickly with low power usage then the os might've gotten very aggressive about using that feature to put not recently accessed memory into compressed memory space.
Show HN: Use your Mac as a keyboard and mouse for the iPad
Meth is such a gross dirty drug, I often wonder if Cocaine were legally available to drug users if Meth ever would have gotten a foot hold. Same goes with Fentynol's rise due to the criminalization of Heroine and Opium.

I also find it interesting to contemplate how many people accept the criminalizing and imprisonment of drug addicts, but who are also currently steadfastly against any sort of mask wearing laws.
"Tech Darling" is a huge stretch. He's far from famous and hasn't founded a tech company. His relationship with tech seems to be: 1) majoring in CS, 2) having tech companies as clients.

This article seems like a way to sensationalize the (self-)destructive behavior of someone with declining mental health.
Yeah, the main thing I want to know is that the process is still working as expected and not crashed or interrupted. In many cases that's more important than the time value.
And by cancelled you mean people who previously couldn't/didn't critcize you now criticize you?

Like they start questioning your place in society after they questioned your beliefs/values and you re-affirmed them?

Sounds terrible, sounds like the dominant narrative is going to change during a time of economic uncertainty, massive structural failures and the exposure of that same dominant narrative to actual investigation and critique.

Can't have dominant narratives getting disrupted. Scary.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atefeh_Sahaaleh

An example of an Iranian denied education.
Have a look at solubility trapping: https://www.co2captureproject.org/co2_trapping.html The others apply as well.
Its not just with evidence its more broadly that many people think the majority has to be right. Which gets worse when the majority actually assumes that. Its then enough to just assume that a majority opinion exists to actually create one. That leads to the "first" or the "loudest" opinion to become the majority opinion without even consider any evidences.
You realize that the majority is often wrong every time you really really know stuff about something.
Typically speaking waiting periods are about reducing the risk of someone in a crisis purchasing a firearm and immediately using it for harm, usually either suicide or domestic violence. From a public health perspective there is very little increase in danger for someone buying a second gun, especially of the same type. All of the risk is for their first firearm.

IIRC licensing programs for handguns typically have shown promising results in reducing firearm suicide in particular, but they're also unpopular for predictable political reasons. If you're pro-firearm, there is very little difference between "you have to register your gun" and "you have to register to buy a gun".
Good point. Intel earned this, hard.
From SQLite's autoconf/configure.ac:

AC_CHECK_FUNCS([fdatasync usleep fullfsync localtime_r gmtime_r])

In other words, it automatically uses fdatasync if that's available on any target OS.

SQLite's os_unix.c actually confirms my suspicions about fdatasync:

/* fdatasync() on HFS+ doesn't yet flush the file size if it changed correctly

Given its portability, and the folklore around fdatasync not flushing the file size on other OSes at some time (and the current FreeBSD man page), I'm still surprised the code as written assumes the size issue only exists on OSX.
from their website

Prerequisites
Go 1.12 or higher

We cant assume Go to be already installed
> Our p95 DOM render was 400ms so it wasn't "slow" to begin with.

Not sure why exactly you put quotation marks there, but 400ms is incredibly slow, at least relative to human perception and what computers should be able to do. Consider what AAA games can render in 16ms.
Here's MKBHD's review, looks like a really well thought out piece of kit.

https://youtu.be/noKpc8fo-R0
NextSpace is an attempt to build a full OS around GNUstep: https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace

The person behind it seems to still be plugging away. I’d love to see some real inertia behind this kind of effort.
DoorDash will pay $2.5M to settle Washington DC suit over driver tips
I'm not so sure. I recall seeing calculations that show that, unless an intelligent species was deliberately sending out very high energy, very well targeted signals, it's really unlikely we'd detect them.
I agree that may be the purpose that it was designed. And I also see value in removing useless meetings for employees and giving them extra focus time.

The problem is how individual managers might use these analytics for nefarious purposes.
Ahh sorry I forgot I'm using the Twilio ekata_reverse_phone addon that you can get in twilio marketplace so I have carrier info in the lookup response.

I guess then whether it is 100% on Twilio being the carrier is a little less likely but I tested a few more twilio numbers I know and they all returned with Twilio as carrier.
>This seems a little funny to me, since the purpose of the spinner is so that you know the computer isn't caught in a loop — it's "busy". It's true, though, that the computer could still be stuck even though it updates the spinner. This is a hard problem to solve.

The problem that people might assume the computer is stuck in a loop or at any rate that the animation is not going to stop is related to spinner animations on websites. Since the spinner is not a function of the browser, but is instead something implemented in the individual site's code, then stopping the spinner needs to be also coded for and many sites neglect to write the code for "when error happens stop spinner and tell them that things went wrong".

So over time people exposed to negligent website spinners start to suspect any spinner that takes too long.
Bulma's what I used for a recent project of mine¹, and while it did take some tinkering² to get it looking decent with minimal HTML pollution, I've been happy enough with it that I'll probably keep using it for new projects (and possibly redo some existing websites with it).

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¹: https://base32h.github.io/

²: https://github.com/Base32H/base32h.github.io/blob/master/ass...
I actually don't mind the occasional lying progress bar. I think TurboTax is famous for this, where they just toss in fake progress bars to indicate that they are crunching some numbers, which really just take milliseconds, if that. The goal is just to convey that "heavy work is happening".

I ended up using this strategy recently because I wanted to convey that my app was "doing work on your behalf", so I tossed in a super quick progress bar like TurboTax does and then did a slick transition animation to show the results. It's "unnecessary" in that I could've just showed you the results, but I really wanted to convey that there was a sort of cause-and-effect in the system. Without that little bit of animation, it felt like that would've been lost.
IP addresses linked to North Korea and Crimea are also blocked or at least were several years ago. I believe the issue is certain advanced technical courses being subject to sanctions -- at least that's what I heard secondhand.
Maybe or maybe not. You may need to build up your trading infrastructure first, which entails among other things low-latency connectivity to different venues, negotiate good deals with brokers to get low trading fees etc. If it were that simple, all the quants would be working for themselves. Trading is not just about having good prediction. Also if you publish/share your algorithm, people will copy it and it will lose its edge.

If you are really good so that whereas others can only predict the future 0.1s but you can predict the future 5s with the same accuracy, then sure, you could trade from home over the Internet, and if you are much more accurate than others, especially when the market moves a lot, you don't need low fees to be competitive.
Science is about testable, falsifiable hypotheses. It's important to question what we think we know, and how we know it.

"Argument from authority" isn't scientific. We can simultaneously believe (a) that well-respected researchers from a well-respected institution are capable of carrying out well-grounded research and (b) that research is in principle understandable with sufficient interrogation. Authority supports (a) but does not render (b) unnecessary.
That's a reasonable policy position to take. "You shouldn't live anywhere where you think CCW is a good idea" is not a policy position; you're just attacking someone else for either where they live or how they feel about their personal safety. Neither of those are terribly polite, and both are counterproductive towards your stated policy preferences. Nobody likes being looked down on.
And every company that works in tech, develops software or performs automation that I can think of in Australia and New Zealand.

I can't imagine working somewhere without git, I think the last time I worked somewhere that used something else was a mix of git and cvs back in maybe 2010ish?
On a frozen feature set and evaluation dataset, sure. 3000+ competitors vs a few employees at JS who prepped this data. In light of very noisy data, the chances are not really on JS side here. But would the best model still be as useful on novel out of sample data is very questionable

Market prediction is low signal-to-noise problem, what's much more likely the contest will be an exercise in overfitting and the final shake up will be yuuuge.
> D.C.’s attorney general ... suit alleged DoorDash misled consumers and used tips made through the delivery app to boost the company’s bottom line — specifically, that the tips were used to subsidize DoorDash’s payments to workers, and weren’t dispersed to them on top of their regular delivery wage.

> The settlement includes $1.5 million in payments directly to DoorDash drivers in the District....
There is plenty of permissionless leverage onchain in defi platforms and insurance coverages
I don't find this argument terribly convincing, especially since it (and apparently all of the author's reasoning[1]) rest upon the unstated assumption that we are randomly distributed over possible observers of the universe. The endpoint of that whole (bs) line of reasoning is that we are all Boltzmann brains[2].

In the end I am only convinced that the authors' main specialty is grabbing headlines.

[1] from browsing a paper he co-authored with Nick Bostrom, offender #1 of bad probabilistic thinking

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain
Welp... We'll never see him again.
CMake has a progress indicator.
> I believe OP is saying when they can't cover orders, they pull the plug on the market rather than be overexposed.

I still have trouble picturing how this conspiracy would work. I assume it involves coinbase pumping bitcoin prices with money that they don't have. They pump it all the way up, realize "oh shit we don't have enough real money to cover the fake money", and then pull the plug to stop the bleed? Can't they decide ahead of time how much money they can safely spend and stop accordingly? Why do they need to halt trading? If they stop pumping, and the price continues to rise, that doesn't cause them to lose any more money, because it's just other people trading with other people.

>As far as server load goes up, by how much does it need to increase to cause a problem? Are the numbers feasable, eg 100x volumes?

It's kind of hard to tell just by looking at the charts. Just because trade volume is low doesn't mean load on the order matching engine is low. If you spam the trading engine with tons of non-marketable orders, nothing will get executed (no volume), but the order matching engine will still have to wade through those orders.
It just depends how much capacity they provision. You could overprovision by 10000% like you suggest, or 50%. You can scale based on demand but it’s normal to have a lag.
This product segment is called "Cable management desks." [1] There are lots of them.

[1] https://www.wayfair.com/furniture/sb1/cable-management-desks...
I guess it all depends on how you balance occam's razor against abusing the anthropic principle.
Don't get me started on the progress bar of Apple's Time-machine ...
Anecdotally my ophthalmologist has told me that they would actually prefer single payer, as it would make their finances more predictable for investing in new equipment. My personal bias is wanting to fix healthcare by fixing its price signals, so this surprised me.
But how? It has an Arm CPU - how does it differ from any other machine with a 64 bit Arm CPU?
Straight dating apps suffer from a relative lack of women to men. On net, women dislike being subject to weight filters more than they like the ability to apply them. Not having weight filters results in attracting and retaining more women to your platform, which means more male users and more revenue.
I asked GPT-3 for the question to “42”
fractional reserve rumors are pervasive and nonstop for custodial exchanges

there isnt really a source necessary

nobody has any insight until they do
Tragic - and far deeper than a denied education. This is a deeply flawed society.
That's apparently changing in January. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/11/comca...
The M1 is much more than a CPU, and a CPU is much more than an instruction set
Virtually nothing's changed, save PV is now at or below fossil-fueled or nuclear thermal generation costs, and will continue to fall at a predictable rate for the foreseeable future, likely several decades.

MacCay's principle unit of analysis is energy per unit area, available or used. This is fundamentally insensitive to cost (which annoys economists) and only moderately responsive to technology --- efficiency limits are real (which annoys technologists), meaning the real questions become what new sources can be deployed (as they become economical --- economists are not entirely useless), and how much can demand-side be reduced (ditto technologists).

The sources are solar and wind (MacCay is addressing the UK). There is little untapped or available hydro or geothermal potential (exceptions exist elsewhere), tide and wave are effectively negligible and extraordinarily capital intensive, and biofuels are impractical (the UK cannot even feed itself, as it shall soon rediscover post-Brexit, let alone its automobiles, furnaces, and ovens).

Nuclear is the wildcard, but is as much a problem child as ever. (MacCay was a quiet proponent.)
Same, give me an example, and if I don't get it I'll dig in.
42 is the ASCII code for asterisk

>>> chr(42)
'*'
Why isn't there a more political movement around "lookism?"

Seems equivalent to the body positivity movement and the anti fat-shaming movement. Incels and other types who find little success with women have a certain right to be frustrated that we just accept other forms of social justice while leaving them out.

Consider that some european states already believe that sex is a transcendental enough experience to call for or implement policies like this:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/germany-sexu...

https://www.mic.com/articles/85201/the-surprising-way-the-ne...

Incels and other folks who are truly marginalized from the dating and/or casual sex market should have have a good reason to long for state assistance. This would be very good for society as a strong reason for radicalization of the youth is shame over being marganalized from the sexual marketplace...
This is actually hilarious. Their keys all just hanging out in a php file. Also, who thinks building a social network on WordPress is a good idea.
Totalism, a nomadic hackbase you can join right now in Fuerteventura
This is basically why I’ve never seriously considered doing it myself. I had a neat idea in about 2005 which I tested on historical data, and it beat buy-and-forget on every share I tried except for Google, and it only had one free parameter.

But, even if I’d implemented it perfectly, and even if the algorithm has survived the financial crash, it would’ve only worked if I could trade for free, and other people copying the algorithm would probably have made it stop working.
This is the way that I wish more teachers taught. I love finding analogies or visual diagrams for CS concepts to share with my students.

Request: can others share links to books, courses, videos, articles or other resources that employ incredibly thoughtful pedagogy in explaining, rather than diving into the nitty-gritty details immediately? I'd love to start a collection of examples to share with others.
There's also the fact that users tend to adapt their desk to their needs. Some of them have USB DACs and wired headphones, mechanical keyboards, special mice or trackballs, charger cords for their phone, laptop docking stations, smart card readers, mouse pads, network cables, etc.

I can kind of see the point for locations where aesthetics are more important than usability (eg. receptionists) but otherwise for most people it wouldn't add that much, since they'd lose the aesthetic by plugging in whatever cord they need to charge their phone, USB coffee mug heater or whatever.

A more useful thing in my option would be a build your own option that allows placing items where you'd want them and have it route and build the thing automatically, but I'm not sure part of that target market, so take that with an appropriate amount of salt. :-)
Having some kind of transition to visually indicate a change of state is fine. But that's not what TurboTax does; they have a progress bar that is insultingly superfluous, because there's already a "next" button.
Same here. Curl works wonderfully. Takes time to build your scripts but they pay off in spades. We dump all this in a git repo. Much easier to diff and reason about than postman environment.json and collection.json files (and maintaining a compatibility matrix).
Sure.

1. Robotics will make the world rich enough.

2. Synthetic food (bioreactors) will make it cheap enough.

3. DT fusion + solar will power it.

The technology part is less than 100 years away at scale. Probably less.
Tesla FSD still works with multiple blocked sensors
A youtuber tests Tesla FSD by obscuring more and more cameras. FSD works surprisingly well even with several cameras blocked at the same time.
I wonder if "Electron runs fine on my machine" can be banned under hate speech rules instead of being allowed under free speech.
> relative valuation of different assets, rather than prediction of the market

But isn't prediction an inherent part of valuation?
How do you differentiate an event that is very improbable and so takes a billion years from an event that is inevitable, but requires many prerequisites, and so takes a billion years?

I suspect that' gnawing for any research like this. But I could suggest that if we can show that a lot of fundamental changes have come from external shock rather than internal processes, then we might be closer. Further, if the theory of "puncture equilibrium" is true[1], that this would tend to be the case. If we can show that many evolutionary steps involved such external shocks, then we might be closer to this also.

The question would be whether external shocks inevitably produce advances or whether such advances are indeed lucky.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuated_equilibrium
That’s not a matter for the CFTC in the spot market or care that an idiot has to pay debt collectors all because they wanted to earn a few pips intraday.

CFTC doesnt regulate spot assets. So it really depends on how Coinbase classifies what people are actually trading.
Maybe consider this as well:

>It's just not a concern I have. Perhaps with enough time and coercion I'll find a reason to use it.

Or just don't? Its like the validity of Rust is dependent on wether you use it or not. Try a different tone, and change a mindset from where yourself have to acknowledge/use/like something for it to be valid. If a fact based discussion about this is to be had you need to stop shoving your anecdotes and personal likings in the way. Its impossible for people to know whether Rust is right for you, and thats a pretty boring discussion by itself.

I've never moved past reading the rust docs, but I understand why people react on your comments.
can you share an example of what this looks like ? I can imagine bash scripts to work just great for this.
I have an iPad Pro with keyboard and a 15-inch MacBook Pro I got when my previous MacBook Air couldn’t handle the video editing I was dabbling in.

I desperately want one machine (and probably in the iPad form factor) but I don’t know if Apple is ever going to get me there.

What say you HN? Is there a future where I can have a single machine? Any other suggestions for what I can do about it today? I’ve test driven Surface computers in various flavors from friends of mine and I really can’t get down with Windows. Am I doomed to carry two machines with me all the time?