skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s important to note that most of the things mentioned here are just “tricks”: they’re fun to discover and talk about, but they really only end up being minor wins in practice. TSO is great…if you are trying to make a simpler Rosetta (it’s not even necessary on the M1, although I think Apple is still using it for convenience; I’m still trying to find out where). The JavaScript instruction speeds up…one specific rounding in JavaScript. Fast atomics help…if you’re that one specific part of Apple’s runtime that has taken advantage of it yet. They are all cool, important little optimizations, and I’m sure that few other companies could do what Apple is doing in this space.

However, it’s very much not true that Apple is “cheating” their way to performance with a bunch of these tricks for their own software (as much as you can call this cheating). Their processors are optimized for general-purpose workloads, and blow everything else out of the water even if you’re doing something profoundly “un-specialized” like run Photoshop or a Linux VM.

It’s easy to come up with takes like these that point at buzzwords that you’ve seen being thrown around in the last couple weeks in an attempt to explain this chips. The reality is that the reasons these chips are fast are either unknown or boring. I suspect that these will one out as we play around with them more, but we don’t have the details right now.
> GUIs have always been a shitshow w.r.t. compatibility.

I completely agree with your assessment that vendors will never agree on a common GUI toolkit.

However, if one were to think about it, anything shown on the screen is a gui of sorts. It's just that text mode was long ago standardised with the use of ascii and the corresponding cga/ega/vga drivers.

> Before 1963, computer manufacturers had over sixty different ways of representing characters in computers. Machines could not communicate with one another [0]

There were some wild inconsistencies with the different display drivers back in early days. It's just that no one seemed to want to standardise on renderable gui elements afaik. Every platform has redesigned the wheel, so to speak, giving us the mess we've always had.

It'd be interesting to see hardware level support for UI elements, but as you suggest, we're probably too far down the road for anyone to give up their niche GUI library.

[0] https://ethw.org/ASCII
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> I don't see anything bad happening to me, so everyone shouldn't care either!

What about:

> people's rights to have consensual interactions and relationships with each other are more important than their right to be treated "fairly" whatever that actually means.

The important point here is that we don't have a good working definition of "fair" that is universally agreed upon. The only ethical way to live in a society of people who fundamentally disagree is by optimising for consent.
I nearly got whiplash when the author moved the threshold from "giving a shit" to "deeply obsessed".
While I agree that there are professions where thinking unconventional thoughts is especially important, there's a flipside to this which is missed in this essay: they're professions where being wrong is not catastrophic. VC's can invest in many startups, and a few successes can make up for a lot of failures. It's ok to be wrong a lot, if a few big successes (i.e you were right when everyone else was wrong) can make up for that.

But, most professions are not like that. I don't want my surgeon, car mechanic, plumber, or accountant to be the sort who is rarely in agreement with their peers. If they are wrong half the time about things which everyone else knew the right answer to, but also half of the time they are right when everyone else is wrong, I'm still much worse off. Being unconventional is only a good thing if the consequences of being wrong are much less bad, than the benefits of being correct when others are all wrong.
heroin can be of greatly varying strength, especially nowadays when you sometimes/often get fentanyl. I used to be addicted to opiates for a period of 2 years (with maybe 3 years of recreational use before things got bad), ending in 2017.

I have had a very close friend die from a heroin/fentanyl overdose, getting a PhD at the time. I say this to emphasize that even very smart, careful, and reasonable people can overdose and die. I've come close myself a couple times.

I would imagine accidental death from pharmaceuticals is much rarer, as the potency is consistent.

I'm convinced if we just completely legalized all of this stuff a better outcome would ensue. After all, there are two primary negative effects of illicit opiates in our current system: high stdev of potency, and high cost. Under legalization, the stdev could be reduced to 0 and the cost could be brought down 10 or 100 fold.
Problem solved if they used a static page here?

Guess the 'hug of death' has exhausted available memory for PHP to display the page.
I think the problem is that the friction of getting data from mind to pc is too high. I'm not convinced the search needs to be that clever, but getting stuff to search isn't easy: A simple example would be working out a maths problems, I can basically type in LaTeX at the same rate I can think but nothing will ever beat some nice paper and fountain pen (for me at least) for actually iterating through my thoughts as they arrive.
Well to be fair, this author was only 2 years old when this disaster happened, posting it here for anyone not familiar:

https://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/05/business/stinging-office-...
I'm surprised there are no pictures of Maradona in a white 3XL wedding dress.
Is Biden in fact the “Presidenr Elect” or does he have to wait for the vote to be certified for it to be official?

A lot of people have been telling him he is. Is this elder abuse?
The reason for Racket and its large library to embrace a large standard is the amount of things that Racket doesn't have to implement itself because it's in the standard already.
> I just found out a few weeks ago that wind turbine blades are toxic trash when they age out.

Do you have any information on that, I'd never heard of that being the case?
In a perfect world, not only would the software be open source, but the anonymous votes should be digitized and made available so anybody can audit them who wants to.
They're making sound (short term) decisions, it just doesn't look that way on the outside.
> How to think for yourself... let me teach you!

I actually find this advice (taken literally) to be the best advice for thinking for yourself. Teach others and you’ll find yourself opening up to new viewpoints on topics versus “learning” the same topic.
I’m sorry you’re being downvoted just because you have a wrong impression of how scientific publishing works.

Nobody is looking for wrong answers, there are simply many uninteresting ways to screw things up. If you are able to publish a wrong result in a worthwhile journal, a lot of right results have to be in it, which I guess makes your work “right”.
Multi-ISA chips have been announced from a couple of vendors (Loongson and Tachyum). The Loongson one does a MIPSish native ISA, MIPS, ARM, x86 and RISC-V, with the last three being slower.

https://www.zhihu.com/question/414069789 (needs Google Translate)
Congratulations! I've been using Intercooler for a while now and haven't tried htmx yet, but am looking forward to switching over. I really appreciate that you're continuing to work on tools that make this approach to webdev easier.

I know the post says not to do it, but I'm planning to convert an existing project from Intercooler. Anything specific that I should watch out for while doing it, or recommendations for new capabilities that I could take advantage of as part of the switch?
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I give up. Clearly there is no point to this discussion anymore if you are going to dismiss any possible reporting as hearsay if it isn't argued in court. So I will simply leave this from the American Bar Association.[1]

> In contrast, a disparate-impact claim does not require proof of an intention to discriminate. Instead, showing that a facially neutral employment practice has a disproportionately adverse impact on a protected group states a prima facie case of unlawful disparate-impact discrimination.

What do you know, intent isn't needed for a valid case of discrimination.

[1] - https://www.americanbar.org/groups/gpsolo/publications/gp_so...
Would you please stop spreading misinformation?
We are not on Facebook or whatever place you get this kind of stuff.
Quick note: the magic "help JS function" is literally just a double->int conversion that uses the x86 sentinel values and rounding modes. The effect on JS is that it removes a set of branches following ((int)someDouble) that are needed to match the x86 semantics that JS mandates. The instruction is not magically faster than x86. In fact more or less by definition it's just doing what x86 does.

I am tired of people bringing up that instruction as though it's magically making JS faster compared to intel. At best it's a leveling the playing field instruction.

Implementing TSO isn't "cheating", it's hard work that other companies aren't willing to do.

Ref counting isn't magically faster than other GC methods - there's arguments that it is slower - it does however use much less memory than pretty much any other GC scheme, hence the lower memory needs on iOS vs Android.
Several centuries worth of deeply ingrained racism?
That's not unrealistic though, I don't envy anyone in the world having to balance the economy and their excess deaths - in the US especially economic downturns can directly translate to deaths and suffering of their own.
Recipe for disaster in Northern Ireland.
> Companies publish investigator reports of bias and discrimination somewhat regularly.

Are you thinking of a specific example? I don't recall ever seeing this apart from sometimes a short statement on an outcomes (which Coinbase has given us - they found the complaints baseless [0]).

> ...but they can certainly commission a new one that they can disclose.

I did mention law but this isn't fundamentally a legal argument. I was just saying I'd expect there to be a law, given what releasing a detailed report would entail about employee privacy. I'd be ropeable if someone did that to me after I complained to HR and the story got international attention.

Companies have no role at all in airing internal dirty laundry of employees to Hacker News. Coinbase's position is an employee made a baseless claim - in my book it would probably be a very poor precedent for them to start broadcasting details globally. Best case, utterly unfair because of the power imbalance between a company and an individual employee. Worst case, a smear campaign. All cases, unhelpful except for the enjoyment of pundits Hacker News comment threads.

[0] EDIT Rather than replying - "all of whom found no evidence of wrongdoing and concluded the claims were unsubstantiated" https://blog.coinbase.com/upcoming-story-about-coinbase-2012...
Right if which is almost certainly not possible for a human to do
Haha wasn't aware of this, but making note now.
That's fantastic, I only read bad news. Thanks!
I get your point and I get the reason people like to find correlations. I just think reducing dimensionality of really complex stuff is a waste of our time unless your purely talking about investing/gambling and increasing your odds on many bets. It just doesn’t help the “single path” people out there (maybe it wasn’t intended to). We aren’t an average of a simulation, we are just one scenario.

Analogy (because I love analogies): “Seems like people over 7 feet tall make great basketball players.” This is great but it’s much more interesting that a guy named Muggsy Bogues made it to the NBA at 5 foot 3 inches.
In space you have a reverse problem: it's difficult to dissipate heat. It's a bit easier to do on moon surface than on an orbital station, but regolith has a limited thermal conductivity, which could be insufficient for an industrial process releasing a lot of waste heat. For obvious reasons we can't simply build wet cooling towers as we usually do on Earth.
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Telling people to not point out that the world is broken is not how you fix the world. Accepting there is a problem is the first step to a solution.
Today you’ll probably see the most obfuscation in DRM software.
Well I guess some witnesses lied over three centuries ago so we can't trust any group of people anymore for the rest of history. It is a bummer how that worked out.
Happy to help. PV solar panels are almost fully recyclable too (94% of the way there, the remainder currently can be land filled).

https://blog.ucsusa.org/james-gignac/solar-panel-recycling

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-solar-recycling-idUSKBN1J...

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2020/08/26/recycling-pv-panels-w...
But no one is being forcibly shut down here.

The debate is happening. It occurs. But then someone makes a comment like above: “is all this debate really necessary?” and the response is “this is censorship”.

I would agree that some viewpoints are silenced in public contexts. But insofar as this conversation, I don’t see anyone being cancelled or shut down for an opinion. That just seems like a defensive reaction to me.
Energy-dense storage is always inherently energetic, that's the definition of what energy storage is!

Flywheels explode.

Dams burst.

Fuels burst into flame.

Batteries catch fire.

Hydrogen explodes.

The difference is the relative rate. Batteries are very safe! You probably have one in your pocket on a daily basis and you don't stress about it.

Hydrogen needs special handling by professionals using constantly monitored specialised containment vessels or it explodes.

Those "well publicised scandals" you reference? Something like 90% of them are being promulgated by traders with a short position in TSLA. As you can imagine, they're not exactly unbiased.

To quote an actual analysis, not frothing-at-the-mouth ranting from day-traders losing their shirt because Tesla is doing well:

"Regarding the risk of electrochemical failure, [this] report concludes that the propensity and severity of fires and explosions from the accidental ignition of flammable electrolytic solvents used in Li-ion battery systems are anticipated to be somewhat comparable to or perhaps slightly less than those for gasoline or diesel vehicular fuels. The overall consequences for Li-ion batteries are expected to be less because of the much smaller amounts of flammable solvent released and burning in a catastrophic failure situation."

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_electric_vehicle_fire_...

I'm not saying batteries are safer than liquid fuels, by the way, because both are much safer than hydrogen.
Here's one of the things I read:

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/10/759376113/unfurling-the-waste...

Another comment on this thread says it's all fine and I'm wrong, which is good news.
> These simplistic social network designs are failing humanity.

At the same time mainstream media has become pure propaganda. Interesting times.
That was a snarky response to your and other comments about the author’s self-aggrandizement etc., that maybe his importance is inflated and limited to this community.
Do you think there are zero differences in races and that one race wouldn't naturally drift towards particular roles or industries more than another race? Because this point of view isn't supported by data.

Asians, a minority by every measurement, are over-represented in STEM classes to the point that Harvard and others actively discriminate against them.

Studies have shown, repeatedly, that blind hiring (stripping names from resumes, showing only experience) actually worsens diversity. This means companies generally give more opportunity to black, Asian and other minority groups.
World's Fashion Brands Leave Workers and Factories Unpaid, Amid Covid-19 [video]
Faster performance for twice the battery time seems to be.
“The meaning of life is that it ends.”

What a well-written piece on an important topic that we'll all be facing. I had never heard of Alice James, thanks for posting this.

These HN gems, esp. when encountered in a quiet evening with a receptive mind, are worth the whole droll tintinabula of Twitter, FB, and such.
I'm supposed to comment here and leave this link below as a clue. Two thumbs up.

http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/Category:File_format...
They probably don't want no-deal, but it's not in their interest to bother to try particularly hard to avoid it.

Regardless the country is not in a good place. I look forward to Kent being flattened and concreted over to form a giant truck stop.

Thank god we're having a government funded festival of Brexit. £120E6 fuck you to everyone who'll actually have to live in the country they've shat on in the coming decades
Sure, an example would be the Uber Covington & Burling report.

I don't know where this "baseless claim" thing comes from; the only foundation you have for that belief is that Coinbase said so. The point of an external report is not having to take Coinbase's word for it. What's funny is paying for an external report, then not showing it to anybody, or even disclosing who did it, and relying on that external report as evidence.

Here's a reasonable question: is the reason Coinbase won't disclose the external reports they commissioned because they can't, because their investigators won't allow them to, because neither are willing to stake their reputations on the interpretation Coinbase drew from them? If not, how do you know that?
Absolutely false. I got a test in May as part of a statistical study in UK. I was randomly selected as you would expect in this kind of studies.
> blood glucose levels increase when participants believe the beverage has high sugar content

Then where does this actual glucose come from?
Are all tests reliable? (rhetorical question)
I think it's helpful here to examine the conception of a racist. Most racists don't identify as such and have a racist agenda they consciously act on. In these cases, it's baked in through various experiences into the subconscious, and rationalized away in many ways. Maybe it's eugenics, maybe it's media bias, maybe it's simply a personal preference, and they think they don't let it affect their decisions.

> it's the most multicultural tech scene I ever witnessed

Coinbase's own (unrefuted) numbers show they are far worse than other tech companies. Where is your conception based off of?

> one of the core tenets of crypto is precisely eliminating discrimination

As this thread as made clear if you go to the bottom of the comments, stated principles and actual beliefs/actions often don't match in tech. Closeted republicans in tech compared to the leaning of corporate action is a great example of that. In some ways, Coinbase said the quiet part out loud with their apolitical stance. When that happened, tons of people flocked to applaud them, both on HN and in the VC industry. All of this perfectly aligns with finding racism within said company, and the tech industry as a whole.
I'm sorry. HN attracts a certain audience, and so do cryptocurrency companies, and some people from this audience tend to immediately pivot to "culture war" issues whenever allegations of racism arise. The priorities of some commenters on this submission are very misplaced.

For example, people can disagree on the merits of e.g. affirmative action, but if former CoinBase employees are alleging that lower-qualified white employees are being promoted in favor of higher-qualified black employees, then that's a serious matter that you ought to address before pivoting the conversation to other topics. Hiring bias is institutional racism, and allegations of such bias should be thoroughly investigated. But, it's probably easier for some people to talk about affirmative action, but harder for the same people to discuss promotion practices that are biased against black employees. I hope that people who feel eager to talk about the former are also prepared to address the latter.

Also seeing some of the comments, I would like to remind some people not to make racial equality issues into black versus Asian. Both groups experience racism (often different kinds of racism), racial equality is not a zero-sum game, and surely we can find good-faith solutions that help one group without pushing down another.
The best cherrypicking you could do still showed AMD losing. Why bother?
Somewhat confusing is that cataloguing here has markdown and org-mode in separate sections, the former in "markup" and the later in "text-based data".
Fair point, but this isn't a cheap bike, so maybe at least make the option available?

I also am not certain on the exact reasons why internal gear hubs and belt drives are more expensive. I imagine manufacturing those hubs are more costly just by the nature of their design. It also used to be the case that you needed a specific frame built for a belt drive to run one, but they make breakable belts now so that's no longer a huge restriction.

I have heard in Europe where bike commuting is far more common in the US where I'm living that belt drive and internal gearing are more common, but this was hearsay.
Most dark matter is expected to reside in a halo, much larger than the visible part of the galaxy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter_halo

So it's more weakly bound than most of the stars. Technically, it's outside the tidal radius:

https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/366/2/429/1213793
Interest rate payments are lower now than they were pre-pandemic, even though total debt has spiraled. CoE is not signaling for a return to austerity, and hopefully nobody will in future. WW2 debt was paid off even while creating the NHS, etc.
But amazingly YouTube's entire existence is based on (mostly) free to them user generated content.

Imagine running a company where almost the entire product line is given to the company free.
Except when you want to type something - which is pretty much every 30 seconds or so; you have to put the iPad down on a surface, then type it with your fingers and off you go. If I am using a pencil, it is annoying as hell to type with one hand.

iPad is only great for taking notes + consuming long form content. Browsing the internet requires keyboard input.
Yeah. "How do we make the Wii run Game Cube games? We cheat by putting a Game Cube in the Wii!"

It's a playful use of the term.
You mentioned you are interested in this space, and there’s no company in this space bigger than Coinbase.

I wouldn’t turn down an opportunity just because of a (probably biased) article. Get Coinbase’s side of the story during your interview and decide for yourself.
The lack of thought people put into Northern Ireland during the referendum was outrageous. The Good Friday Agreement was nearly written in blood, and we're pissing on it because the Tories couldn't put out their own fire.

The worst part is that the people who actually voted for all this will be long dead before the impact becomes apparent.
I recall a story from a 1970's anthology where the victim was injected with a harmless clear liquid. Of course he was checked out by doctors - who found no negative affects. He then went home and the family Alsatian (German Shepherd) killed him because his body scent had been changed.
I agree. However, in the case of the opioid epidemic I think we're way past the stage of identifying that there is a problem.

The next step with any issue (black lives matter, big bank bailout) is to take a complex systemic issue and find specific, realistic changes that can help with the problem, before people get apathetic/resign.