skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Metal and paper recycling is very environmentally sound though.

Glass too.
This may actually be the perfect time to get a first-version Apple notebook, because it looks like the big design refresh will be staggered one release cycle. Buying one right now gets you the powerful new architecture inside the tried-and-true industrial design.

While the risks are probably less than they were earlier in Apple's history, I'd much rather take a chance on a first-generation Apple Silicon SoC than on a first-generation MacBook Pro redesign.
What's the spread tho?
Docker and a few language servers can seriously drag your MacBook with 8GB RAM. Throw in another Android emulator...
When we built a real estate search site that worked on a more "lifestyle search" we had to do something similar. We could return results in about 250ms, but a large portion of beta testers gave feedback that it felt "shallow". Added a 4-5 second animation and loading bar, and people gave better feedback on the actual results, etc. Small sample bias? Maybe. But no one ever complained about the speed in the two years we ran it.
YouTube suspends OANN for a week after it posted fake Covid-19 cure
My error. I'd still be watching, though.
I wish they had included a video where they knock on it with a knuckle so we can hear the reverberations.
Thanks! This is very informative. The disqualification from holding future public office is the most effective remedy here.
Oakland is one thing, but unscheduled doesn't mean much. That's the point of the federal analogue act and I remember exactly when it started being applied to tryptamine-based research chemicals around 2010. There are too many subtle chemical variations to take the time to put them all on the books directly, they are covered with the act.

We can talk theory and everything, but I've seen people get arrested and charged for both possession and procurement, so.
I agree with this post, specifically the part about uniformity. People will say various news outlets differ from eachother in ideology, but really, you will not find a major news agency that is truly at odds with the establishment.

The only news reporting agencies which are actually in opposition to the current are the so called "alternate news sites", those which are also branded as fake news factories or hate centrals by the mainstream media.

The classical liberalism which arguably founded the western societies has been completely overthrown and subjugated by neoliberal leftism of various degrees, multicultural mania etc.
You don't have to do this. Instead of memorizing fallicies, you can approximate the quality of nearly all arguments to two theory-of-truth claims:

1. The premises are themselves valid: you buy that they are truthful.
2. The argument's logic coheres: when added to your existing beliefs there is no contradiction.

Fallicies manifest through violations of these claims. But you don't have to know the name of that violation to raise a complaint: you can derive it on the spot. Discussing these fallicies mostly acts as a practice tool, and provides a useful bit of jargon if you are writing philosophy and need to convey the idea quickly. But most arguments in online spaces are dismissed with: "the premise is invalid" or "the reasoning is incoherent."
The culture is supporting that at the moment. Zoom back to the 1960's free love culture and the 'alpha' males are washed out or replaced by hippies.

The Pareto principle pops up in so many places, I don't think you can justify an arbitrary interpretation about harems and alphas on top of the principle. We don't know why the power law keeps popping up in earthquakes, mass of stars, size of trees in a forest and a whole slew of natural phenomena. When we finally understand what natural force is shaping these distributions, it'll stop being a nice fairy story which contributes to other stories.
Random thought

What population size and density do you need to keep a language alive?

Are languages slowly over generations going away in small european countries?
Here is a universal progress bar in pure CSS (no need for any annoying JS code that needs to know what is actually going on), similar to the old lying IE bar:

.progress {
height: 100px;
background-color: red;
animation-name: example;
animation-duration: 10000s;
}

@keyframes example {
0% {width: 0%;}
0.1% {width: 50%;}
2% {width: 90%;}
100% {width: 99%;}
}
An Overview of Leaderless/P2P Systems
It's a fun mystery that gives the mind something to chew on apart from pandemic, elections, murder hornets, etc.
Clicking feedback is very bad, sometimes it's instantaneous, other times it takes a couple of seconds that makes me unsure whether I actually clicked. Product pages loads fast but any other page is a lottery if it's going to load fast or take 2 seconds. Maybe this is a Commerce.js issue.

Is there a way to test the administration pages?
How so? What's the difference between FTTH throttled to 100mbps (for product segmentation reasons) and 100mbps DOCSIS?
I think it's assuming that the dataset is i.i.d. distributed and sufficiently large.
This looks really cool -- I would love to have one (shame I don't have the funds right now)
Your experiences are your own and nobody is asking you to prove yourself. You are valid as is.

However, one should not be saying someone IS a vile thing when they've only been ACCUSED (and not convicted) of being a vile thing.
In a trading competition, the best strategy is the riskiest strategy. This maximizes likelihood of making a lot of money ... and losing a lot of money. But in a competition, the left tail doesn't matter. Second place and last place are identical.

Ideally, a trading competition should penalize risky investments. But this is hard to do retrospectively, especially when evaluating algorithms.
Yes indeed.

I was quite startled when I saw that article published as I had been using this very method for years. Once you make the connection that quantiles (and not just a median) are the minimum of a suitably chosen loss function the rest is very straightforward.

Then there is expectiles too.
You can get Win 10 Pro. I don’t remember my system having any of that junk preinstalled
Do you interpret both as

> addition operations of numbers with an arbitrary number of bits deemed to take O(1) time

?

I was picturing a more restrictive model of computation in which your claim is along the lines of

> There's an O(n)-time algorithm, which, given two numbers with n digits and a magic black box that can add log(n)-digit numbers together in O(1) time, will output the product of those two numbers.
Thank you for that insight. Your product looks interesting. Still doing early access?
I don't think the 10x engineer idea was targeted at the coding skills itself. Given that, the engineer you mentioned is definitely a 10x
Attacking the Defi Ecosystem with Flash Loans for Fun and Profit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EA2FQXs4dw
Does anyone know what those wire grids are in East Palo Alto, just west of the landfill? I can't tell if they're art or synthetic aperture radar. https://www.google.com/maps/@37.4464497,-122.1130144,156m/da...
How much do you think this display would need? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EA2FQXs4dw, also assuming HDR and 60fps+
I wouldn’t move right now. There’s a pushback against tech workers invading the sticks and you might get beaten up.
The only thing I can think of that would actually reduce memory usage on M1 vs the same version of MacOS on x86 would be if they were able to tune their compressed memory feature to run faster (with higher compression ratio) on the M1. That would serve to reduce effective memory usage or need to fall back to swap. I would not expect something like that to be responsible for more than, say, a 5-10% RAM usage decrease though.
Let's make a new computing law: The likelihood of an opinion on UI changes to be an overreaction is inversely proportional to the length of time that has passed since their release.
Are you going to move back after the pandemic?
Another example of technology encouraging rampant consumption. Netflix, YouTube, HBO, etc. all wait less than 10 seconds to begin playing the next content.

I'm of the mind that this conditions society to constantly consume, and lowers the collective attention span.
FWIW, throwaway account, running an agency writing resumes & linkedin profiles, and interview coaching. Now pivoting to serving SMBs and startups with hiring as I am burned out on helping retail...

For some reason, folks (individual job seekers) think they can do it on their own and there is an incredible amount of price sensitivity there. In my own career spanning 25 years and then running this business for 5 years, I remain shocked at how little calculation people do on the ROI of doing it themselves vs. re: hiring a specialist and the doors it could open. I venture at least a 10x return on the latter based on experience.

The only pleasure I have found is working with senior people who understand the value of the service and will pay whatever it takes (~500-1000 USD), to be maximally competitive. It's like the old story, you would not do brain surgery on yourself. I am not saying resumes, etc. are extraordinarily difficult. But most people don't know the best practices, can't write well in English, and don't have the proper time to create. Hence, they fail.

Lastly, it is really hard getting public testimonials even when clients succeed since there is this ridiculous falsehood that everyone carries around. Job seekers must appear to have done it all themselves or the employer will pull offers. Silly but true.
The article mentions that multicellular life is something that's known to have separately evolved at least 40 times, so it's probably not a useful evolutionary step to compare to ones that only happened once.
Even if it weren't satire, investigating someone for inconsistencies like that... well, it just kinda sucks, doesn't it? I don't think we should expect people to have a consistent viewpoint across everything they've ever posted online.
Yes.

Now, to be clear, I am not one myself, but the answer is still yes.
I too am curious how 64 GB unified memory performs for training deep learning models. Even if speed isn't amazing, 64 GB is much greater than the 24 GB available in Nvidia's flagship consumer cards, which would allow for inputting larger images, bigger batch sizes, deeper networks etc. Also, will be interesting to see how all of the different cores are used.
The problem with progress bars is us. We expect different behavior and the most population has wrong idea about how systems work. While an average Joe likes pulsing bars that advance regardless, other people hate it, because with time (years of experience) it obviously feels bogus.

Best (honest) progress bars are still those of software package managers, because they simply update on a percentage, have no step/idle animations and always show where you are exactly.

Surprisingly, MS has recently done a great job with explorer's copy progress by showing a graph. Filesystems and disks have nonlinear performance and rather than trying to extrapolate, they allow you to see when caches exhaust and the speed falls to its final value. When it stops or starts to degrade, you see that too and may try to pause a competing/interfering process.
And that's totally within reason :) Just wanted to point out that they may choose something outside that. I know, personally, I was in a similar position, where my folks were willing/able to help, but I also chose a university that required that I take out an (imho, reasonable) amount of student loans to cover the difference. I remember the initial look of surprise on my parents face when I told them my decision, but even with the loan payments, I've yet to regret that choice.
hmmm, this actually sounds good: got the same gaming experience and can same some battery when browsing web pages. Wondering how to configure my Intel laptop to do it.
My perception is that wokeness is something like a sine wave, and that we haven't hit the function maximum yet, but we're past the midpoint and it's already starting to decelerate (and will eventually reverse). And I think the woke can kind of feel that, too, which is why the screaming is so intense. They know they're losing momentum, and they're desperate to keep it.

Just my perception. I could be wrong, but I hope I'm not.
These agreements sound curious as they're tantamount to foregoing fuel sales income to the counterparty. Are you really free favours that the governments are getting?

Re bank accounts and embezzling, these are no worse problems, subsidized fuel is also vulnerable to smuggling abroad and other kinds of corruption and systems of exchange other than gasoline are well known technology in history of human societies, however attractive the mad max model is...
Tbf, WoW will run on just about anything... I remember playing it on an Acer (or maybe Lenovo?) netbook back in 2009/10. Checked it out from school right before Christmas break so I would have a computer at home for a month.

In the article here they show Minecraft running at native res and 60 fps. No small feat nowadays considering draw distances that are popular now.
Punctuated equilibrium doesn't really change the calculations involved in the article. Either mutations happen randomly on their own, or random events cause bursts of mutations to happen. The burstiness doesn't matter much when you zoom out enough.
This is not true. The Red Cross in my country, which is an ICRC affiliate, does provide disaster relief. As far as I can tell, this is true across the board.

Eg:

https://www.redcross.org.au/news-and-media/news/australian-b...

https://reliefweb.int/report/viet-nam/thai-red-cross-society...
Seeing as the bigger problem is regulatory capture, I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for the FAA to fix that incentive structure.
This reminded me of the hitchhiker scene in There’s Something About Mary:

Hitchhiker: Think about it. You walk into a video store, you see 8-Minute Abs sittin’ there, there’s 7-Minute Abs right beside it. Which one are you gonna pick, man?

Ted: I would go for the 7.

Hitchhiker: Bingo, man, bingo. 7-Minute Abs. And we guarantee just as good a workout as the 8-minute folk.

...

Ted: That’s right. That’s – that’s good. That’s good. Unless, of course, somebody comes up with 6-Minute Abs. Then you’re in trouble, huh?

[Hitchhiker convulses]

Hitchhiker: No! No, no, not 6! I said 7. Nobody’s comin’ up with 6. Who works out in 6 minutes? You won’t even get your heart goin, not even a mouse on a wheel.

Ted: That – good point.

Hitchhiker: 7’s the key number here. Think about it. 7-Elevens. 7 dwarves. 7, man, that’s the number. 7 little chipmunks twirlin’ on a branch, eatin’ lots of sunflowers on my uncle’s ranch. You know that old children’s tale from the sea.

So, I think that clears up why they went with 7 screens.
Because the physics actually works.
you only need the Cue binary, Go binary is not required. You need Go to compile the Cue binary.
Apparently the pay is also different if you're within the 30-mile zone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_zone

[Also, my original comment should have said "southeast" not "southwest", d'oh]
Overengineering. Predicting the future does not work
Hell, the standard everybody seems to have converged upon is a mendacious progress bar where the user is not told what the percentage refers to (e.g., total install time? Number of files processed? Data left to be copied?). The frontend developer could show changing Matrix glyphs instead and the widget would be functionally equivalent but without giving the user false impressions.[1]

Given that as a standard, it's difficult for me to find more outrage for Turbotax misusing this already mendacious widget.

1: Some smarty pants is going to say that at least the percentage is directional and shifting Matrix glyphs are not. Unfortunately, even that isn't true-- UIs have a long history of multiple sequential progress bars with no indication how many there are in total-- see Office Space. So progress widgets have burned through user trust long ago-- even if I've experienced Windows 10 having a single percentage counter that persists across restarts, perhaps the next update will be the time they break that pattern.
That's a very male way of looking at it; the proportion of women who would think like that is vanishingly small.
Total capacity is clearly extremely important. Were it not the case nobody would be running new undersea cables to places that already have undersea cable connections.
Ah, good catch! I was rusty on my numbers from a year and a half ago when I wrote a paper on this for school. Back in the 80's they were nearly 100% hydro.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Icelan...

When I visited in 2018, we came across a 5 kW turbine installed in 1927 near a famous waterfall. It's no longer online, but was neat to see.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/pLuSyKnStd4smgCCA
I've heard it both ways from both VS and VSCode users, both claiming their Intellisense works better. Most likely, they just implement a different set of features, and the best outcome would be one IDE that is a superset of both.
SpaceX has landed the same first stage booster for a record 7th time
Seattle doesn't have competition, unfortunately. It's only in the very core of the city that has access to Centurylink fiber, mostly everywhere else is stuck with Comcast cable or laughably slow DSL.
EDIT: I did some research that contradicted my original view.
On my almost-stock (primarily used for iOS deployment) MBP, Catalina uses 3GB RAM (active+wired) memory on boot. It's much more than my Linux laptop (~400MB). I haven't booted Win10 recently but I'd assume it'd be close to macOS.

The transfer speeds of the M1 SSDs have been benched at 2.7GB/s - about the same speed as mid-range NVMe SSDs (my ADATA SX8200 Pro and Sabrent Rocket are both faster and go for about $120/TB).
I don't think that he was just lumping parameters together to get an "effective" 10% for ground mount PV. He allows a full 20% for rooftop PV. He just didn't realize that both would converge toward similar technology and efficiency.

Nuclear is fine as far as the physics goes. It's the inability to hold to projected budgets and schedules that has sidelined it. Betting big on nuclear was much more reasonable in 2007 when the book came out. At the time I certainly thought that the UK would add more TWh from nuclear than from renewables by 2020.
If an argument is bad faith but right, doesn't that still make it right?

Perhaps what you object to is being dragged into some messy going-in-circles argument. Those are frustrating but they happen because the good-faith participant tolerates some of the logical fallacies and false information presented by the bad-faith one.

People have a powerful force driving them to argue for the thing they believe in so it makes sense to tap into that force to generate high quality arguments. If everyone was kind of passive and willing to accept whatever seems obviously right, we wouldn't push any boundaries. Being kind of passive can happen if you're not emotionally invested in your argument.
With or without m4?
I suspect you're talking about individuals while the TS is talking about the press. Press outlets will certainly make bad faith arguments to get ratings. For example by twisting someone's words into the most outrage-provoking interpretation possible. Even if they personally feel that the politician probably just misspoke or meant something benign or whatever.

As for private individuals, like posters arguing on the internet, yes they probably tend to believe what they say in the moment. A big problem there, perhaps ironically, is people assuming bad faith about each other.
You can just google it yourself, I'm not interested in listing evidence, because the proper way of looking at questions like this requires operating with a model of reality, not just listing a bunch of facts.
I’d rather see them launch junk toward the sun with it.
" failed to manage expectations"

This is my point. If you think hitting some metrics on a annual review is hard because it's BS, managing the expectations of 4 different stakeholders is a whole different league of dealing with "BS".

Or to put it a different way, if you're entering consulting to escape politics you are in for a world of hurt.

*this mostly apply to the finding your own clients and running whole project version of consulting. The just showing up as an embedded 1099 worker by applying to or getting recommended to a job does involve a lot less politics.
For day to day driving, that's a useful thing to think about.

When someone is saying that they drive far less than before, but traffic is roundly awful when they do have to drive, that saying isn't insightful. There's a specific group you can focus on as causing the problem, not merely a tragedy of the commons.
it's pretty awful. they should be looking at dividend and split adjusted returns
Only in the super rural areas that either aren't wanted as serious competition areas anyway or smart enough to run their own local infra properly and lease out the video over IP stuff to a cable company to not deal with the licensing BS for content.
This is the one place where dark patterns would come in handy.

During the task, hook me up in another thread with a ML chat buddy that baits me with political statements chosen to maximize my outrage. Since my attention has been fully captured for the duration-- regardless of the length-- the programmer doesn't have to waste any time trying to measure how long the task takes to complete.
> The disappearance of this "surplus" (and if you follow history, you know where such surplus typically went – not the common people) was a blessing for all but the palatial elite.

Really? You have the peasants producing a surplus that goes to fund the palace elite and the military. Then the surplus disappears. And what happens next? The peasants plus the military kill all the palace elite, and live happily ever after? Or the military takes everything that's not nailed down from the peasants, and the peasants starve? I'd say human nature (of the military) favors the second, and that sure isn't "a blessing for all but the palatial elite".

> You underestimate human intelligence if you believe "the Sea Peoples came and made a boo boo and everyone had no choice but to go dark for 400 years".

Yeah... um... I'd like to see your actual archaeological evidence for your claim here. All you've said so far is wishful thinking.
Pretty fascinating story. Dave is one of my favorite YouTube channels (albeit pretty niche).

From his video description:

"Retired Microsoft developer 'davepl' reveals little-known secrets about Microsoft Bob, a Microsoft replacement desktop shell that shipped in 1995, including the legend that that a copy of Bob was secretly included within every copy of Windows: was secret software hidden on the Windows CD?

2020 is the 25th Anniversary of Microsoft Bob and this is the first I’ve ever spoken of this, inside or outside the Company, with the exception of letting one other Windows developer in on it way back. I’m the former ‘davepl’ at Microsoft and you might know me from such software applications as “Windows Task Manager” and “Windows ZIP Folders” and the WindowsNT port of “Space Cadet Pinball”, “Windows Product Activation”, the NT “Media Center”, and misc stuff as far back as MS-DOS.

---

TLDR: Microsoft Bob was used to seed the pseudorandom encrypted digital ballast used to fill some of the unused space on the CDs for copy protection purposes. Credit due to Microsoft employee Raymond Chen for discussing this publicly on his blog and in a Scott Hanselman podcast as far back as 2007!"
Thank you very much from an epiphany, eww, links and palemoon user.