skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it would have happened without the helicopter flight path....utah is a big place, even with a lot of geological clues.
They did. And they did again.

And the public had literally millions of people on the streets shouting about it.

And we still went to war anyway.
> Desktop OSes had been feature-complete for quite some time

It's less that desktop OSes are feature complete, and more that vendors want recurring cloud subscription fees from users for new features these days.
Online school has sent F’s spiking by 83 percent in Virginia’s largest district
Let me know when the US has comparable square mileage and population density to South Korea :P
Why do you care? And why is that any business of yours?
No, many garbage collection approaches WILL require more RAM, some need twice as much RAM to run efficiently. Then there is the case that with garbage collection can have a delay which lets garbage pile up thus using more memory than necessary. Retain-release used by Apple is not as efficient, but you reclaim memory faster. https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Garbage-Collection-take-a-lot...
Electric cars will certainly be adopted eventually, because electric cars have an order of magnitude fewer parts , but in the short term ICE cars have a far more mature production line (a century of mass production) whereas EVs have been in proper mass production for maybe a decade, and their manufacturing processes are rather immature and changing/improving quickly as a result, but we need to deal with climate change now not once EV chains stabilize.
Spoiler: They didn't find any signal to support axion dark matter.
The hardware makes uncontended atomics very fast, and Objective-C is a heavy user of those. But it would really help any application that could use them, too.
Hey OP? Judging by your submission history, you really really really have an axe to grind, which consists of you posting endless unscientific bullshit.

It’s getting tiresome.
Sounds kind of like a network designed and configured for selling cable television rather than internet access, right? ;-/

I believe most cable channels are reserved for broadcast TV, with just a few for internet data, and most of those for downstream rather than upstream, since DOCSIS 3.1 is half duplex.

Things will hopefully get much better with DOCSIS 4 though which supports full duplex! Comcast claims that they are going to roll it out DOCSIS 4 and FDX (as it is apparently called) next year, so who knows? You might have 1 Gb/s upload or better.

And it will make it a lot easier to quickly reach your monthly data cap.
I doubt the team designing the chips has much overlap with the OS team.
That is a good point and rather unfortunate...
Impressive back-patting skills, man!
Ask HN: What is a true contrarian position that you hold?
" it basically sends a hash of that to the cloud to prove to the cloud what software is currently running."

oh dear
2FA bypass discovered in web hosting software cPanel
Put this on the moon and we are talking. I'm not sure I see this being too useful otherwise, considering how much extra fairing mass those gforces are going to require
What about other women?
I pretty much daily have to do a closing round to not run out of my 24GiB. That’s all web browsers
(Usually 100-200 tabs), vs code with some extensions and 2x4k display.
Wow, I didn’t know about that either. And yet Windows 95 had this solved: just show the shortcut letter underlined and/or bolder.
Guns are easy to get for criminals, in SF they are hard to get for law abiding citizens.

So yes, if people who follow the law can equalize force with criminals, the criminals would consider more careful applying their force indiscriminately.
The increased padding, spread out buttons, big icons. Do you see the pattern?

They're gonna make a touch screen Mac, whether it be in the form of a laptop, iMac, or an iPad running macOS.
My dad had a really cool "universal laptop charger". It had a dial on the brick that set the voltage from like 3 to 30 volts, and then it had about 20 different tips, so it could power just about anything.
> Now, arbitrage bots will look at this in crease in btc-usdt, and be mandated to buy btc with USD so that BTC-USDT and BTC-USD are in parity.

This is the bit that doesn't make sense.

Arbitrage bots trying to push BTC-USD up to match BTC-USDT will end up holding a lot of USDT. So what do they do with it? You can't just magically make USD markets go up; that needs actual USD to enter the system (as part of the arbitrage process, if nothing else).
Not only do they lie, but they are often poorly implemented. I was pairing with a coworker, and a download was taking forever despite his fast speed tests. (I think this was chocolatey) and we tried again after 15 minutes of waiting with `--no-progress` and the download finished in seconds.

We joked that it must take a lot of work computing those VT-100 characters and went back about our business, and I swear to god, an hour later the exact same thing happened in a completely different piece of software.

I can't believe the art of software development has regressed so much in my lifetime.
To be more explicit... Next.js is made by Vercel!

That being said, maybe it's because Vercel already made a Next.js Commerce product: https://nextjs.org/commerce
https://www.diyphotography.net/this-700-computer-can-edit-8k...
The incentives for running an exit node keep getting better: https://medium.com/@nusenu/how-malicious-tor-relays-are-expl...
History repeating/rhyming as farce/tragedy etc. etc.
If developers are forced to use slow machines to develop, then they’re less likely to build bloaty slow software that depends on fast machines
I would love to see a 16 inch iPad running macOS with the keyboard case. It looks like it would be the best of both worlds.
You can see its shadow clear as day right next to the pin
Look it’s not aliens but there is nothing clearly making this art. It’s far more likely a memorial for someone or something. It’s hidden. It’s expensive. And quite frankly, would be a shitty rip off if it was art.
Sorry, my original post was confusing. I did not meant to imply that I based my work on the Massalin paper, just that I liked it. As I said, my work is SMT-based and more closely related to Regehr's 'souper' or the one described in Gulwani's "Synthesis of Loop Free Programs" in PLDI '11 (I think).

While STOKE is interesting, I have trouble understanding why they even call it a "superoptimizer". The point of appending "super-" to optimizer was to get away from the (strictly speaking incorrect) practice of referring to compiler improvements as "optimizations" (when they don't achieve optimal outcomes).

STOKE is "stochastic", so it cannot realistically claim to always find optimal sequences. So it's just another "improver", or if you will, an "optimizer".
These are interesting points. I'd like to hazard a guess that the leading contributor is cache-related. Just looking at the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_counting suggests as much: "Not only do the operations take time, but they damage cache performance and can lead to pipeline bubbles."

I roughly understand how refcounting causes extra damage to cache coherency: anywhere that a refcount increment is required, you mutate the count on an object before you use it, and then decrement it later. Often times, those counting operations are temporally distant from the time that you access the object contents.

I do not really understand the "pipeline bubbles" part, and am curious if someone can elaborate.

Reading on in the wiki page, they talk about weak references (completely different than weak memory ordering referenced above). This reminds me that Cocoa has been making ever more liberal use of weak references over the years, and a lot of iOS code I see overuses them, particularly in blocks. I last looked at the objc implementation years ago, but it was some thread safe LLVM hash map split 8 or 16 ways to reduce lock contention. My takeaway was roughly, "wow that looks expensive". So while weak refs are supposed to be used judiciously, and might only represent 1% or less of all refs, they might each cost over 100x, and then I could imagine all of your points could be significant contributors.

In other words, weak references widen the scope of this guessing game from just "what chip changes improve refcounting" to "what chip changes improve parallelized, thread safe hash maps."
Is it really free or is there a bid-ask spread?

For example, if you buy 1 BTC and then immediately sell it, will you get the same number of dollars back?
I have 100mbps, and I sometimes wish it were faster. Mostly for downloading video games, honestly. Non-indie games these days are often in the tens of gigabytes, so, even on 100mbps they can take a while to download. And patches can be big, too. And then if it's both me and my son downloading a game to play together...

I suppose work video calls with a dozen+ people in them probably take up a decent chunk of bandwidth as well, but I haven't checked closely.
I think someone just did this to a monkey.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/06/200618150301.h...
> " Is it really possible that the sound quality of bit-identical audio ﬁles' is influenced by their storage medium before being delivered to the hi-ﬁ system's DAC?"

No.

If you think it does, someone will sell you a magic rock that will fix it.

> "the Hitachi sounded very ethereal, almost out of phase, and rated it lowest; the Seagate was sharper with a more thumpy bass, slightly brighter with a slight tendency to sibilance. "

what epic horse shit
The key thing for me was the deployment-per-branch feature, makes testing with internal stakeholders so much easier.
Oh wow I didn't know about that. That's neat. I wonder if it's like a NYC CCW in that in theory you can get one but you cant really. I should try to get one. In theory I tick all the boxes (a bit of a stretch).

To be eligible for the Security Research Device Program, you must:

Be a membership Account Holder in the Apple Developer Program. I used to be, I could be again.

Have a proven track record of success in finding security issues on Apple platforms, or other modern operating systems and platforms.
I have a CVE in Signal for IOS, and some embedded device shit.

Be based in an eligible country or region.*
I am that.

Participation is not available if you are:

In any U.S. embargoed countries, on the U.S. Treasury Department’s list of Specially Designated Nationals, on the U.S. Department of Commerce Denied Persons List or Entity List, or on any other restricted party lists.
I am not that.

Under the legal age of majority in the jurisdiction in which you reside (18 years of age in many countries).
I am not that.

Employed by Apple currently or in the last 12 months.}
I am not that.
Am I the only one who thinks "$100k-$150k guaranteed performance bonus" is a weird concept?

I get how maybe "bonus" can count as "not salary" by being paid as lump sum. But "guaranteed" and "performance" going together? What's the deal here, even?!
I think emoji would make it challenging for students. Students already struggle to decipher the handwriting and foreign notation of their professors. Adding emoji to that mix would make it even harder to keep up, and many emoji (and mathematical symbols, to be fair) are difficult to write down.

I would have struggled during my math and stats degrees if I had to distinguish between emoji and mathematical notation.
You should boot up the slab and put it on /r/battlestations
I guess I just very rarely download anything and if I do it's rare that it's over a few MB.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25196521
Maybe I misread, but I understood that more as Apple using ARC and that gives them a memory advantage. M1 is simply making that more efficient by doing retain-release faster. But I agree that should not change total memory usage.

But I think in general you could say that Apple has focused more on optimizing their OS for memory usage than the competition may have done. Android uses Java which eats memory like crazy and I suspect C# is not that much better being a managed and garbage collected language. Not sure how much .NET stuff is used on Windows, but I suspect a lot.

macOS in contrast is really dominated by Objective-C and Swift which does not use these memory hungry garbage collection schemes, nor require JIT compilation which also eats memory.
Wow - I hadn't seen this product before! Thanks for sharing.

I'm currently running a cobbled together "stack" on my solar site https://sunboxlabs.com (Hugo, Paypal, NetlifyCMS, custom JS for coupon and affiliate codes) and have been refusing to move to Shopify.

Maybe I'll give one of these two a shot. 3% on top of the CC processing fees is not too bad. But not great either for a $599 product...
Very very sorry to hear this. I spoke to him twice and exchanged a few WhatsApp messages with him in August. I was in the S20 batch and he was interested in angel investing in my startup.

He told me about how his life had changed with his recent baby. We discovered that my brother and his wife had worked at the same law firm. He was a genuinely nice guy.

Very sad to see this news.
By swap speed I think he meant that the bottle neck is the time that it takes to move data from the SSD to the RAM, not how fast can the RAM be read from the processor.
You’re welcome, feel free to hit me up with more questions at stephen@ the website in my profile and I can shoot more detailed desk photos if you’re interested.
All good, but they have the most expensive Kubernetes service for small projects!
Free and Open Source Communities Comes Through on 19th Century Newspapers
Carbon offsets have been repeatedly shot down in the past - both as an accounting sleight of hand (for instance, what if it bankrolls a solar plant that was going to be built anyway?), and as a decadent excuse to not actually change anything, equivalent to medieval christians buying Indulgences.
I don't quite see that either. But I suspect that it is just macOS itself which uses less memory than Windows in general.

But the much faster SSD to RAM transfer for the M1 means that shuffling stuff in and out of RAM is much faster meaning RAM matters less.
Was thinking the same exact thing while reading this. We’ll have a good chunk of lead time on that.
The Origin of the Name Posix
You can pick between a “swipe” animation and a “fade” animation.
Hey letting you both know that Sweden has the same population density as the US with better broadband.
I think democracy isn’t so great, at least not under its current form.

Voters judge candidates’ charisma a lot more than their ideas.

And many people simply don’t care so much and will vote for stupid reasons, yet have the same impact that people who put a lot of effort and thinking into their decision.

I think we should come with a way to vote for ideas more than persons. And that we should have some form of weighted voting.
Pretty slim, ARM SoCs require a lot of work on the vendor's part to support Linux[1], and Apple has said that they won't support running other operating systems outside of virtualization.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25180129
Looking at this video, it seems to be sheet metal https://www.instagram.com/p/CH_iU8JgeIr/
I worked on an SMT-based superoptimizer research project[1] as an undergrad. We were targeting a weird stack-based chip so the details were pretty different, but it worked surprisingly well. Really fun project for sure!

SMT solvers are an incredible general-purpose tool for theses things, and we got quite far through various encoding tricks like synthesizing with much smaller bit-widths and then verifying with full widths. However, my impression is that while SMT solvers are great starting out, at some point the overhead and complexity of relying on encoding tricks starts to outweigh the advantages, to the point where either an entirely custom algorithm or some mix of existing solvers with a custom algorithm are the way to go. I don't know if that's fundamental, or it's just a function of people being able to understand their own algorithms better than SMT solvers—most people I talked to saw SMT solver performance as a black box.

I remember reading about the Sketch synthesizer, which used a custom solver as its backend. It comes to mind because the first example of using Sketch[2] that our professor showed us involved SIMD shuffling instructions. It's probably worth checking out on its own—I remember its input language being pretty easy to use—but I can't find the project itself anywhere any more, probably because it used to be hosted on BitBucket :/.

[1]: https://jelv.is/chlorophyll.pdf

[2]: https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~bodik/ucb/cs294/fa12/Lectur...
Wait, are you saying you don’t want this??
Do you think that SpaceX would be considered competition by the carriers?
Letters from Alaska
I suspect that Apple didn't anything special to improve performance of reference counting apart from not using x86. Simply put x86 ISA and memory model is built on assumption that atomic operations are mostly used as part of some kind of higher-level synchronization primitive and not for their direct result.
Jane Street is not a hedge fund and they're pretty well-known for having a huge emphasis on high quality/maintainable code: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUqvXHEjmus
> If they accepted slightly below market rent, they could have the pick of NYU's writing instructors,

It doesn't even have to be below market rate: They could pair it up with a grant program where someone else is picking up the market rate rent (or the difference between market rate and what would make it attractive for scholars) for the "in residence" person.
That book has both Strossen and Stallman in the list of authors: https://www.wetheweb.org/post/about-the-book

The article in question: https://www.wetheweb.org/post/cancel-we-the-web
What might stabilize is it legalized sex work.
Judging from HN posts that's what a lot of people are doing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ00x2zzXys

not connected to the internet, but same general idea
The Lofstrom Launch Loop[0] is less fanciful than a 5000 mph centrifuge slinging payloads into LEO.

0: http://launchloop.com/
High(er) resolution video, VR feeds, games (last COD was 250GB) plus all the unknown future applications
Rust is new.. the os software is older than the language itself and eol. Not surprised it wouldn't be tested or supported

Because of that I have less confidence rust will work better or improve my experience. So rewriting everything in rust worries me. It is an anti-selling point.

If a language is living in the now and targeting the future it might not be the best for those living in the past.
We need to impeach a number of our governors; it's pretty sad how quick they were to make unconstitutional rules.
SEO Can Grow Your Home Remodeling Business
> Staff designers have to justify their existence by making changes to established design patterns.

Yet another example of the bullshit jobs David Graeber warned us about.
Old school Perl coder here - rolling my eyes... ;-)
"Social implications" angle is quite straightforward,

- to the informed, a device like this should not be necessary. It did not exist because it was never required, and where a desire for mobile screenspace is required, better solutions have existed for a long time. I define "better" as "less hinges", "more optional", "cheaper", and ideas along this dimension. A skilled engineer carrying this without an extraordinary reason would automatically strike me as a deeply impractical person, thus limiting the trust I would be willing to place in them. I appreciate trying to push boundaries, but the instant interpretation is that it could only be intended as something like a souped up Mini Cooper covered in blinking LEDs and under-the-hood neon lighting.

- to the uninformed, a laptop like this basically scares normal people away. One of the greatest accomplishments of the technology industry in the past 10 years is that regular people now carry laptops. There is no longer any reason to stand out, so it is even more noteworthy than ever before when one explicitly chooses to stand out (we lost our "special case" rights no later than 2010). You can pack an 8-core workstation with 16TB of NVMe in a perfectly useful and unobtrusive device the average person might only suspect were slightly outdated. The tone set by this device would be the same as wheeling a minicomputer into a coffee shop in the mid 1980s -- outlandish, curious, unaware of social norms. It would be as if you'd willingly dress in a neon pink 80s shell suit out of a desire to avoid being hit by passing cars, when the alternative is simply to stay on the sidewalk.

Social norms matter. They open doors just as easily as they slam doors shut. And this laptop most certainly would have people saying "no" more often in relative terms than they might say "yes" to you, much as turning up to a business meeting wearing that neon shell suit rather than a formal jacket would in most scenarios.

I hope this helps
The actual complaint here appears to be that a iPhone sync can't be interrupted. Is that true? The reboot complaint appears to be a complete misdirect and a non-issue.
IE6 also did this back in the day, it was infuriating.
Numerai’s intro video[1] makes pretty wild claims and seems to target a pretty specific group of people.

Personally I’m put off by the language used in the video.

Also

> Stake on your model to earn cryptocurrency

No thanks. I prefer dollars in my bank account.

1. https://youtu.be/GWeC2PK4yXQ
Why do you think a narrow search is any more likely to result in a match? The other party does not know who else you swipe right on. Narrowing a search does not yield an increase in match rates.

Bob is interested in goth women. There's 5 of them in his area. Plus another 95 non-goth women. If he accepts only the 5 goth women, he might get lucky and get a match but at 1-3% change of matching he's still likely to have zero matches. But if he swipes right on all 100 women his chances of having at lease a couple matches goes up drastically, and the 5 goth women he's especially interested are no less likely to match with him.

Sure, taking better pictures and working out to become more attractive increases the likelihood of matching. If Bob hits the gym, gets some professional photos taken, and crafts a better profile his match rate with those 5 goth women will increase. But his chances also increase for the other 95 women, and he has no reason to refrain from swiping right on them.

> Swiping everyone is just like emailing every company your resume. Spend sometime craft your profile and target who you want.

Yes! When you're job searching there's no reason to limit your job search. Yes, you should craft your resume and cover letter to emphasize the skills the company is looking for. But you're still strictly better off applying to 100 companies as compared to 10 companies. Online dating is no different.

In fact I was job searching not long ago and I applied to ~50 companies a day. Why not apply to a company I'm only lukewarm about? If it turns out I don't like the company I can just not schedule an interview. Or do the interview anyway, and use a potential offer as leverage in negotiating.
They can't remove real liquidity because then the individual posting an order will realize. They can't add fake liquidity because then the individual who attempts to lift the ghost order will realize.

So how can they do this without getting caught (and they haven't been caught - firms like Alameda are watching closely)?

This sounds like one of those things that's easy to just exclaim but is lacking a mapping to anything specific
Can you disable wifi/bluetooth/network on the computer and then reboot?
Leaving on a Jet Plane – John Denver (Cover)
Subway Maps for Security