skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Octopus have a pop culture reputation for being intelligent owing to lab maze experiments, but their intelligence isn't well known or defined. They have an average lifespan between 3-6 months to a few years depending on the species.

"Until the 1970s, researchers tried to classify the intellectual abilities of different animals and rank them within a universal intelligence scale with humans at the top. That view crumbled as it became obvious that the abilities of different animals were tuned to the circumstances in which they live.
Rats learn some things slowly and others very rapidly. Just one experience with a novel food that makes them ill will put them off that food for life, even if they only become sick many hours after eating it. It's a useful memory feat for an animal that survives by scavenging. Honey bees remember the location of a flower that is producing nectar after a single visit and with just a few trips will learn at what time of day the nectar flow is at its peak.
Octopuses are not very social so we should not expect their intelligence to show itself in observational learning. [...] True, octopus have huge brains. But they look nothing like the brains of the vertebrates that are so adept at learning. [...] some critics suspect that their intelligence has been grossly exaggerated by anthropomorphising observers-"they watch my every move, therefore they must be curious". On the other hand, because cephalopod behaviour and brain structure are so foreign, others argue that their greatest cognitive feats are probably still being overlooked. " -- https://web.archive.org/web/20120407062518/http://www.fortun...
I found this article frustrating to read because of the lack of details, explanation, or attempts to educate the reader. Overall, it is just the reporting of speculation and nothing more.

That said, I wonder if this is the type of news source we need. Anyone who wants further details can and should research the topic before drawing conclusions like the pre-baked ones we usually receive from our news sources.
Their example is showing what the library can do, not trying to determine which strings are URLs.
The linked Quillette article series is pretty dang good, and offers convincing refutations of things I believed before reading it (most of which are described in porpoise's comment).
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A big part of saving Apple was Jobs killing the clone program. That lesson probably still resonates in the halls of Apple even if allowing hackintoshes is a different thing without the same risks.
Also this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25209508
This is good advise. As an aside, I run an ESP and we've seen a marked increase in the number of domains using a DMARC policy. Our users have to set up soms DNS records to add our service as an approved sender.
You seen to have forgotten to finish your third paragraph.
Tesla FSD Beta V5 is coming and it’s much better, says Musk
Same issue with AWS lambdas
I got a:
Received malformed response from transform AWS::Serverless-2016-10-31.

It is reported now in their service health dashboard.
Always seems to be the case -- this happened before where the status pages updates were stored in ... S3. It goes beyond coincidence when this happens several times in a row.

I think the other explainations sound plausible. There is no technical difficulty here that AWS can't solve -- it's political. Having an outage with a status page makes you liable for your SLAs.
You claim to agree that accessibility is important in the first sentence, but after that you say everything against that. Accessibility is not just about screenreaders. It is allowing ACCESS to anyone, whether they are vision impaired, hearing impaired, have a slow or older device, slow Internet connection, unable to process long chunks of text, or even unable to read very well.

Before I address the rest of your argument, please explain what makes it so difficult to make an app work in IE4.

You are the one who added the word "complex", I never claimed such a thing. I claimed a reasonably functional website, and I stand by my claim that making it work in IE4 is not that difficult.

IE3 is a different beast, but it's still possible. I find it worth supporting for its beautiful toolbar.

You're right, golf carts are not supported on highways, but I sometimes see them on major roads, and they do just fine as long as they stay out of the way. Also I see tractors and excavators occasionally scurry across short distances.

A Model T is grandfathered in and allowed, and so is a 1940s Buick. There is no reason to disallow them, and there is no reason to disallow IE6, for example, which still has a small install base, except developer incompetence, in my opinion.

I did not claim something like Figma should work in all browsers, but I do claim that something like a forum for basic chat should. You are moving the goal posts, and I don't appreciate it.

Nor do I recall rejecting web apps altogether, where did I ever say that? A web app is just a website with additional functionality, and can work well across many different browsers with progressive enhancement.
VCs should focus less on empirical data
Beautiful though a little verbose!
The civil rights movement was motivated by people wanting civil rights. People on both sides claimed religious support.

Rural white Christians greatly outnumber urban Jewish Christians. Most major denominations discriminate against LGBT people. People who are super damn interested in worker rights and housing access aren't disproportionately Christians in my experience. Some are and some aren't.
> And they are not all that fat as office worker would.

Should check out the machine operators. Overweight (yet strong/having lots of endurance) construction workers aren't all that rare.
Get rich quick schemes are often scams, this smells like that, but for knowledge instead of money. If it does work, it seems like it would only build what Richard Feynman called “Chauffeur Knowledge”, i.e. a knowledge of words but without the fundamental meaning.
> you don't appear to have read what they wrote.

I don't see how you could surmise that.
Well, as far as I know, we don't know why he didn't share it. Maybe it's because it wasn't that damning after all. Or maybe because he realized the fix was in for Biden and any amount of hooting and hollering wasn't going to make a difference. Or maybe he realized the information wasn't credible, but from what I remember, it was.

Again, who knows. Would it have made a difference if other news channels had picked up the story? Probably. Did it make a difference? Doesn't look like it.

Look, I voted for Obama 2008, voted Libertarian in 2012, and Trump 2016/2020 (for his America first policies, not his personality, which why this election was so mind blowing). My background is in Finance, specifically Hedge Funds, and I'm relatively a newcomer to watching how Politics all works. The idea that you have to stir your constituents into a craze for 4 years and feed them lies, so you don't lose power is really sad. Both sides are guilty of it.
I can provide links with information about what is illegal, how frequently it occurs, and some information on why it occurs. I'm not going to dig specifically for case law sources, though.

https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/your-right...

https://www.epi.org/publication/unlawful-employer-opposition...
It works both ways: if you get something in Apple hardware, you will get the nice version of it. If can't get something there, you will have to be without.

Example: I've been looking at X1 Nano. It is improvement compared to other lines (it has 16:10 display finally!), but it is still somewhere in the middle of the road.

The competitor from Apple has slightly better display, much better wifi and no option for LTE/5G.

Nano has 2160x1350 450 nits display with Dolby Vision. Apple has 2560x1600 400 (Air)/500 (MBP) nits display with P3. The slightly higher resolution means that Apple would display 9 logical bits using 8 physical when using the 1440x900@2X resolution (177% scale), but to get similar scale on Nano that would mean displaying 8 logical pixels using 6 physical (150% scale). Similarly, the Dolby Vision is an uknown (how it could get used?), the P3 from Apple is a known.

X1 Nano has 2x2 MIMO wifi - Intel AX 200 - with no option for anything better. There are only two antennas in the display frame, you cannot add more (ok, 3, but the third one is for cellular, and cannot be used for wifi if you forego cellular). Apple ships with 4x4 MIMO. If you have decent AP at office or home, it is a huge difference, yet no PC vendors are willing to improve here.

The cellular situation is the exact opposite. You can get cellular module for Thinkpads, and you cannot for Apple, at all, so if you go this route, you have to live with workarounds.
You can put a lot of satellites into the sky, but spectrum puts an upper limit onto bandwidth. Eventually you'll probably adapt directed motorized antennae, but those are way more complicated. Internet traffic is increasing dramatically around the globe, sooner or later we'll hit the limit. In the long term, only fiber can serve the bandwidth needs.
At one role, I was interviewed and vetted by my predecessor. I came to understand he hated the role and was looking to fill the gap he had left that no one wanted to fill. Coincidentally, he was the last person I spoke with before leaving on my last day and he apologized to me for having put me in that position.
> Is there an example of a story on mainstream news sites that was covered without new info?

In this thread, you and I have brought up a couple of points. I highlighted the tendency of prominent news orgs to choose their headline articles from one small stack of stories. That should be self-evident unless you rarely see different news sites with related headlines - which would be really odd.

You asked about news stories that don't add any content, which is a somewhat different issue. For that I offer news orgs parroting biz/gov/LEO press releases - without vetting for accuracy or without supplying relevant historical context. Though that's a particularly pervasive problem in local & state news, major news orgs tend to do it whenever they get in front of federal LEO/IC officials (eg: James Comey + "Going Dark").

One final example that fits both points is news sites republishing Reuters/AP/UPI articles verbatim.
Funny enough, Pencil Project in itself is a testament to how badly open source software needs better/more designers who know good UX/UI. Try putting a modern designers coming from Figma/Sketch in front of Pencil Project and watch them puke colorless rainbows while trying to figure out how to do the most basic of operations.

Figma, because of the cost (or lack off) and availability, seems to be the only tool realistically available for doing open source design today. Unfortunately neither the format nor the editor is open source itself, but sometimes the means justify the end I guess.
The evidence is that immigrants generate positive net tax benefits. The amount of immigrants who are founders of successful business would reflect that the impact is net positive.

AFAIK the idea of immigrants impact being a net negative isn't supported by the studies I have read.

I understand this isn't necessarily in line with the rhetoric du jour.
> everything becomes political, even if it really is a technical issue

I'm being reminded of an old song by Tom Lehrer [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJ9HrZq7Ro]
>Do you think her remarks are more damaging to the election than Trump's claims that "millions" of votes in 2016 were illegitimate?

100% unequivocally yes.

You probably don't see it because you like Democrats, but Democrats claiming stolen elections is par for course. EVERY election Democrats lose ALWAYS results in casting dispersions on the outcome and claiming fraud. It's probably so normal to you that you don't even notice, right?

2016 was the culmination of this and particularly egregious considering the unprecedented way intelligence agencies were weaponized first against the campaign by the outgoing administration and then against the sitting president ... because the assumption that Russia stole the election and Trump colluded with the Russians, was so ingrained.

>Also, both of your links appear to be from 2019: You may want to strike "last month" from your claims.

I put a link from last month - they aren't hard to find. Hillary has been doing this for years now. To be clear, this isn't just Hillary, this is normal for Democrats, and allies in media.
Poor title. It's a broader discussion around censorship with Greenwald.
If the web is to be rebuilt from scratch, let's choose something that is not Javascript as the basis.

Gary Bernhardt's WAT talk shows just how non-sensical Javascript can be:

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

If we are going to start over, let's design something that is better rather than choose the accidental winner that was hacked together in 11 days. (I love you, Javascript, but it's Stockholm syndrome.)
Censorship has become a partisan issue.

Liberals of several years ago were pro free speech, anti censorship, and pro privacy.

Now liberals view censorship as a good thing, because it’s used predominantly against conservatives.

They are forgetting that these censorship tools can also be leveraged against them in the wrong hands.

Censorship should not be a partisan issue, all sides should be against censorship.
Single tenancy systems are simpler and avoid neighbourhood noise and safety limits.
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True, but he states in the paper:

> In this paper it is analysed which of the thousands of stars in the WOW! Signal region could have the highest chance of being the real source of the signal, providing that it came from a star system similar to ours.

And that hypothesis he answers. So maybe not the best science the hypothesis is stated and a possible answer is given with many 'but if's' attached to it.

pdf: https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.06090
Yea, this is a BS theory. I have a 16Gb M1 MacBook Air and the real answer is that it has super fast SSD access, so you don’t notice the first few gigabytes of swap.

But when swap hits 8-9 Gb, it’s effects start to get very noticeable.
It says on this outage page (as of 11:11 ET) that the problem with Kinesis is also causing problems updating this outage dashboard which may explain the delay?
Chances are you interacted with companies where singapore's GIC or Temasek has shares. If not them perhaps something by the norwegian wealth fund.
I think the combined funds of singapore are about similar to to the China Investment Corporation and norway outstrips both but also has a bit more domestic focus.
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The argument isn’t that they’re easy to use, it’s that they’re widely used and widely available in virtually all languages. You’ll encounter them.

The time it takes to learn regular expressions will pay off because you’ll be reading them and writing them for your whole career.
You must be new yourself not to have seen how quickly those claims are debunked or shown to be far less exciting than claimed. For example, you’re repeating Greenwald’s misunderstanding of the PRISM report seemingly unaware of the last decade of discussion.
I love that 8:56 AM PST is a future timestamp. Yes, things are somewhat sub-optimal at AWS at the moment... but is this isolated to us-east-1 or are other regions affected as well?
> On recent Apple Silicon CPUs uncontended most atomic operations are essentially free - almost identical in speed to the non-atomic version of the same operation.

They are fast for atomics but still far, far slower than the equivalent non-atomic operation. An add operation takes around half a cycle (upper bound here - with how wide the firestorm core is an add operation is almost certainly less than half a cycle). At 1ghz a cycle is 1 nanosecond. The M1 runs at around 3ghz. So you're still talking the atomic operation being >10x slower than non-atomics.

Which should not be surprising at all. Apple didn't somehow invent literal magic here. They still need coherency across 8 cores, which means at a minimum L1 is bypassed for the atomic operation. The L2 latency is very impressive, contributing substantially to that atomic operation performance. But it's still coming at a very significant cost. It's very, very far from free. There's also no ARM vs. x86 difference here, since the atomic necessarily forces a specific memory ordering guarantee that's stricter than x86's default. Both ISAs are forced to do the same thing and pay the same costs.
When all the errors go in one direction, it "smells a lot like smoke", as you put it.

And nobody has even mentioned the, as the New York Times referred to him, "senior administration official" Anonymous who described themselves as a member of the "Resistance". Turns out he was, hardly, an actual senior administration official.
Indeed, we had the first AWS Kinesis issues already at 13:50 (UTC). Now it's still ongoing after two hours. The status page didn't even update in the first 45 min or so...
Figure out how to make quantum mechanics make sense to people. That’s my challenge for physicists. Find an interpretation that’s intuitive or comprehensible or something.
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> or 1 channel (128 bits wide)

The DDR4 bus is 64-bit, how can you have a 128-bit channel??

Single channel DDR4 is still 64-bit, it's only using half of the bandwidth the CPU supports. This is why everyone is perpetually angry at laptop makers that leave an unfilled SODIMM slot or (much worse) use soldered RAM in single-channel.

> The big win is you can have 8 cache misses in flight instead of 2

Only if your cache line is that small (16 bit) I think? Which might have downsides of its own.
Even as a developer you may have to assemble a regular expression at runtime, at which point a library that can do it for you may be much more handy than having to assemble the string yourself.

And even if you know regex by heart - assembling it with function calls can still be better / safer just like you shouldn't insert SQL parameters by hand into your SQL query strings.
Apparently most people think stuff just happens on the first run. I write code for a living and in most cases it doesn’t run as intended on the first run, I can’t imagine making a fucking fusion reactor “just work” by assembling it and pressing “start”.
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> Now liberals view censorship as a good thing, because it’s used predominantly against conservatives.

This is such a misleading statement that it needs a disclaimer.
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Am I wrong in thinking that the energy quantities here are shockingly small?

The 1.8 MJ laser array that's being used to trigger these reactions, that's like 400 calories, less energy than you'd get from a ham and cheese sandwich with mayo, and the output they're hoping to achieve, 100kJ, that's 2mL of gasoline.
OCSP doesn’t send app signatures.
As far as I know laser fusion is not a practical technology for energy production due to the plasma instability effects, high pellets cost (several orders of magnitude more than necessary for economic viability), huge reliance on a very precise calibration, and low power capacity even in optimistic scenarios. Most of the funding this field receives is motivated by checking models and constants for thermonuclear weapons. Since nuclear tests are banned, it's the easiest way to study plasma in conditions similar to those of a detonated thermonuclear bomb.
You're almost right. The IPFS gateway nodes also cache the content. IE, they are both storing, hosting, and sharing to other IPFS nodes.
“ this is also a move to protect certain streams of Apple services revenue”

Citation needed please, Mr. Giuliani.
I'd argue against that. I was in the solar industry (as an intern) 2008-2009. The amazing decline of the cost of crystalline silicon shortly thereafter was overwhelmingly the driver of panel cost reductions. The basic recipe of tempered glass, encapsulant, cells, soldered stringing, encapsulant, backsheet for the panels has been mildly optimized but has not seen major revolution in quite some time.

The cells themselves also very much are up against physical limits. Last I checked, the theoretical maximum efficiency of a silicon cell in sunlight at the surface of the Earth was something like 29%. The best cells made aren't far from that, and the cells you can actually buy and put into panels en masse are 20-24%. We can talk about multijunction III-V cells, but those are exotic and are unlikely to ever become cheap.

Given the upper bound of efficiency with commodity materials and construction, the only "squishy" places for further cost reductions are improvements in manufacturing efficiency, installation efficiency, and regulatory overhead. On my own home - where I'm installing a 14 kilowatt array - the regulatory overhead is close to 30% of the total cost. That's large, yes, but even if we snapped our fingers and zeroed it, we're still not talking anything close to the gains we've had in the past.

I completely agree that further improvements are going to be "a couple percent here and there" but I don't think that there's a whole lot of total room to cut. We're just not going to see another 10x reduction like we've seen a couple of times since PV became a thing.
Ah, fair enough.

> At last but not at least (this arguably is the most valuable part actually) it is THE SBC.

I'm not sure a significantly more expensive, but more powerful, Raspberry Pi would have the same market appeal. Then again, what do I know :)
The current CAP proposal for the 2020-2027 period basically, thanks to intense lobbying by the agribusiness sector, more or less the same as the current scheme.

If adopted, it will more or less put a stake through the EU Green New Deal that they're supposedly also implementing. :(
> this is also a move to protect certain streams of Apple services revenue

That's a theory, not a fact, nor is it widely recognized.

By any reasonable accounting of costs, the $99 Apple Developer Program fee isn't meant to be a profit center that Apple is trying to "protect". It mainly helps prevent spam accounts and helps offset the cost of reviewing and distributing free apps in the Mac and iOS app stores.
You should probably look for yourself rather than rely on Wikipedia to make your assessment. Newsmax is the other one I have been hearing about lately. They both do appear to be buying into the president’s election fraud story, if that’s what you are looking for.
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Yeah. A single big client or even a viral video on a single page will knock out their systems. 10k requests/sec when there's 3 billion people surfing the web isn't enough. I would hate to be in their position right now. It's gonna be tough to engineer this with a 2 man team
> Vegans don't face any such dilemma.

This is such hand-wavy bullshit. It's such a lazy response to OPs point...

Are humans animals? If so, should we not consume the products that humans create, in order to achieve perfect veganism? And if people are not animals, and I'm feeling a bit hungry........?

The computer or phone you used to post your comment is an animal product. Unless, yet again, we consider humans to be above animals, and therefore exempt from all the rules, and veganism is cannibalizing itself, philosophically.

Absolutist veganism (which is a beautiful idealism) exists heavily in a state of cognitive dissonance.
I think most companies, especially now, want a turn-key solution with support in case of an issue. The fact that Zoom, Teams, GoToMeeting, WebEx and Google Meet are closed sourced is a non issue for most organizations. They want something that works right now.
Yeah, I'm no kernel developer, but I've been replying to anyone saying 'just stick n * M1 in it' that even AMD has been trying to move back to more predictable memory access latency, less NUMA woes.
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