skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There certainly can be short difficult puzzles, but as I mentioned elsewhere, I think the current 4000-rated puzzles look like outliers and may be removed.

+----------------+---------+-------------------+
| ratings_band | count | avg_move_count |
|----------------+---------+-------------------|
| ... | | |
| 3000-3099 | 917 | 3.9400 |
| 3100-3199 | 434 | 4.1244 |
| 3200-3299 | 282 | 4.2766 |
| 3300-3399 | 144 | 4.7500 |
| 3400-3499 | 206 | 4.9515 |
| 3500-3599 | 131 | 4.9237 |
| 3600-3699 | 104 | 5.0481 |
| 3700-3799 | 86 | 5.3256 |
| 3800-3899 | 114 | 6.4035 |
| 3900-3999 | 43 | 5.9302 |
| 4000+ | 5 | 1.6000 |
+----------------+---------+-------------------+
I think the options on this are either a lot of hand waving that basically says "it's been done better this time because they didn't need to do it the old way" with more fancy sounding words or you could have some expert conversation that goes deep into the reasoning but doesn't really translate usefully for a layman. A bit like looking to understand an upper level math theory by looking for a video breaking down what the symbols are named - sure you know more about it now but you're not really any closer to understanding the theory than before.

For the "what the symbols are named" level explanation https://www.anandtech.com/show/16226/apple-silicon-m1-a14-de... talks about the functional units and what's changed though.
Can you please explain how the barrier failed in a bit more detail?
Asset purchases are not inflation related. If Apple goes up because their business is doing well, that’s not inflation, that’s a good investment. You need to tease apart the performance of the underlying to even get a sense of how the money supply is impacting prices. I’d love to see a study. However simply seeing stonks go up doesn’t mean inflation.

If I had to speculate the current market froth has more to do with individuals access to leveraged investments via smartphone apps like Robinhood. The pandemic has turned them into a generation of gamblers. When you buy options from a market maker they hedge by purchasing the underlying. This has a positive feedback cycle effect causing them to purchase more and more to hedge. Look up a gamma squeeze.

https://realmoney.thestreet.com/investing/stocks/is-the-gamm...
Not sure if this is satire, but if not, how do you manage code reviews when pulling the all-nighter in order to merge features?
Because of the 12MB L2 cache as the point of unification. 865 snapdragon has a 4mb L3. Same as my recent intel MacBook.

Apple can use at least as much more die as amd/qcom/intel’s profit margin.
Even if I assume you have stats to back that up, don't you think there's an itsy bitsy chance you're operating with a huge correlation / causation fallacy here? Does getting married automatically make you more wealthy, or are people who are already wealthy more likely to get married? It seems almost obvious that if there is any causation, it's in the latter direction.
Technically they get a warning label that they use computer assistance (dunno if they themselves can see this or not). Players can still play them if they choose. They just open new accounts though.
Collating a list of mysteriously murdered CEOs and high ranking engineers since 1998.

The death of this engineer for EarthLink at 18 (while he also studied at MIT) and which allegedly involved a religious cult based in Oregon, is a good place to start.

Only about 2.5% of suicides are jumping to ones death also (although the percentage is double for women, and this number is US suicides in 2018 keep in mind).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Gale
Sounds like apple made multiple specialized processors for specific tasks, built a motherboard around that, and cooked all that into the OS. It's a bit of a cheat since they aren't building a generic computer architecture, but a very very specialized one.

This is different with say Windows architecture. In windows vendors work on generic cpus/gpus/motherboards. Some hardware isn't exactly available or uniformally accessible due to drivers and such. This is kind of the huge benefit Apple has by creating the hardware, OS, drivers, languages and libraries.
Hey, guys! Unfortunately, PG would like me to take it down. So it will no longer be available, but you can use https://audiblogs.com to listen to web articles privately.
> Not just to engineering, but also the training and performance of all the track stewards - first person to put a fire extinguisher on the wreck was 7 (!) seconds after the crash. That's unbelievably fast.

The crash was at an access road for one, but the bigger part of being there so fast is thanks in part to the medical car that stages on the track and starts with the cars, but behind the field. They follow the racers around for the first lap so that they’re almost immediately at the scene of any crash.
> It's pretty helpful for the average human. Most people can't blast out 15 moves of theory correctly for every possible opening, so you'd avoid a lot of bad middle games or losses to traps.

Yeah, although at that level lots of people are also getting into good positions, having no idea why it is good, and losing it.
Did the content of this article change since you posted? Because I'm not seeing anything referring to 100% of anything.
See also: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/wa-notify-s...

https://www.doh.wa.gov/Emergencies/COVID19/WANotify
R Guidotti et. al[0] wrote a good literature survey on black-box explainers, and contains a summary table on page 20 of the current state of the art.

In terms of designing NN-based ML, the above paper has some info and this paper by S Teso[1] is a good place to start looking further (though it is focused on XAL). SENNs are cool, but ultimately most inherenly interpretable models come down to classic ML (decision trees, linear/logreg, etc.) which is limiting compared to the power of NNs. Post-hoc explanations are basically the only option (esp. for DNNs).

[0] http://arxiv.org/abs/1802.01933

[1] https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Toward-Faithful-Explan...
Yup, last I checked there is so much resistance to increasing the block size that there was multiple forks about it.

The hope for scaling bitcoin is on stuff like the lightning network and other more esoteric stuff like coinjoin. That being said lighting network could scale arbitrarily in theory, but the security properties depend on being able to tx on the main chain in a timely manner. In the case that there is a wide spread theft attempt on the lighting network we could see many LN channels trying to be closed at the same time and shooting the fees up beyond the attack value.
Median Home Price Sets New Record in California
Well. They were at least keeping track of it to be able to show it to youngsters :)

I’m happy I didn’t bite though. Friends of me did and I don’t envy the 80 hour weeks they worked.
So much for the alleged Exodus from California!
I'm a little more open to taking a break from work to deal with household chores. On the other hand, I'm also a little more open to randomly taking a call outside of when I'd normally be in the office.

Right now working from home is a bit different. For example, almost everyone I work with could also be working from home, so all of our meetings are online. That's a bit of a benefit. On the other hand, it's not possible to do most forms of in-real-life recreation right now (gyms/food/movies/social gatherings) because it's not safe. So stuff gets more stressful and boring than it would normally be.
You can’t spend Bitcoin anywhere which means you need to rely on these exchanges to get something you can exchange for goods and services. This makes them a mandatory part of the exchange transaction and ecosystem as such their risk must be factored in. You can’t pretend the platonic ideal exists for crypto when comparing it to real world pricing and risk for existing solutions. That’s disingenuous at best.
Show HN: Forrest – Running/cycling app that gives you someone to race against
The Wikipedia page highlights that there's certainly discussion, doubt and controversy surrounding those technologies.

The decisive factor of change I can see here is the unproven commercial viability of alternatives at the moment as Uranium is still cheap. Whether or not those alternatives become viable once Uranium prices increase isn't easily predicted.

So, I remain highly skeptical towars claims that dismiss the issue as merely a problem of "politics and lack of funding".
Seeing is believing: a client-centric specification of database isolation [pdf]
I have no idea what tax breaks I'm supposed to have gotten from being married. Our collective taxes went up after being married. Is the tax thing folklore from the era when only one partner worked? And mortgage interest being deductible has nothing to do with marriage.
Wow this really explains why it seemed like people who were at a company for ~7 years seemed like such trash.

The 30 year seniors were pretty good despite their ignorance of the world outside their company.

The newbies have something to prove.

And it takes about 10 years to have a recession... To cut the fat.

Is there any disadvantage to being a "forever newbie" at companies? I learn sooo much when I change jobs. I can't imagine 7 years in 1 position is good for your career outside a chance at management.
Poeple's beef with Apple are rarely unrooted. Just read the links in this thread alone and my experience with iPhone 6 and macbook's keyboard.

Travelling far to a "genius store" to show a stuttering iPhone only to be told that the battery is still not broken enough for warranty despite the phone having to slow down to protect the underprovisioned underplaned battery is like being called a clown and a liar.

And diminishing tax evasion denounced by multiple unbiased entities to "people can't reason with Large numbers" is a disservice to those who could use those billions in health care.
Did the breakfast come with pancakes or waffles? Maybe the sugar was intended for those but some missed. I don't doubt there are people who enjoy sugared sausages, but for a restaurant to sugar their sausages unasked is something I'd expect most Americans to find odd as well.
Interesting - starts at 0:55 if you want to skip classification etc.

Very appropriate given this para in the story: “There’s a British obsession with the more baroque elements of American pop culture, something like the weird cowboys-and-Indians fetish of the West Germans or the aberrant French hunger for old Jerry Lewis films. In Dialta Downes this manifested itself in a mania for a uniquely American form of architecture that most Americans are scarcely aware of. At first I wasn’t sure what she was talking about, but gradually it began to dawn on me. I found myself remembering Sunday morning television in the Fifties.”
I've just re-read Jurassic Park and I'm reminded of Crichton's portrayal of Japanese characters as well. The rise of Japan in the 80s was certainly on a lot of people's minds.
Comparison of Strategy Management Methodologies
Watching the race live was a terrifying experience. You just saw an exploding fireball at the back of the field, and your blood just ran cold. F1 cars don't explode that way, it's just not something that happens anymore. And you can't imagine anyone walking away alive from it. The couple of minutes between seeing the crash and getting the reports that Grosjean had walked out of the car alive was just awful.

Seeing the replays afterwards, it reminded me of the footage of Niki Lauda's crash at the 1976 German Grand Prix. He was caught in a fiery inferno for something like 40-50 seconds, which severely damaged his lungs and face and disfigured him for life. Six weeks later, with bandages still covering his head, he was back on track, racing again. He would go on to win several championships. Luckily, it seems like Romain got away with much lighter wounds.

I was thinking to myself during the race about the 19 other drives, thinking "how do you go sit in a car and race for 90 minutes after seeing that happen?", but these guys are made of sterner stuff than me.

Thank god for the halo, and the hardened monocoque (which basically stayed intact after a 200 kph crash!), and the improved firesuits, and the medical car following at the start, and the marshals at the side of the track with fire extinguishers, and a thousand other small safety measures. Romain Grosjean is alive today because of decades of tireless work making the sport safer. Thank god for Jackie Stewart, Niki Lauda, Sid Watkins, Charlie Whiting and everyone else who has worked tirelessly to this end.
I downloaded and went through the first session. A few UX feedback:

1. During the training part, I didn’t realize that touching the left side went back while the right side is to go next. Some visual cues may help.

2. Sharing my profile - this part seemed strange as I don’t have others at work on this app yet. The app brought up my personal contacts, which I absolutely don’t care to share this info with. I think making this app somehow get traction at a business will work, but as a consumer app, this sharing is awkward. <— this implies using some way to integrate w/Gsuite or ldap and being able to share w/co-workers, not personal contacts.

Hope that helps!
This is what they do with everything. It is the reason for vertical integration.

Calling it ‘a cheat’ is somewhat weird.

The point is that a general purpose CPU is a bad solution for a personal computer.

The neural engine is about processing the ambiguous world that humans occupy so that the human doesn’t have to translate so much for the computer.

The GPU is about communicating visually with humans.
Just to clarify, 185 got symptomatic covid. The 185 doesn't include the unknown number of asymptomatic people.
I know it sounds silly, but I've started setting timers for 2 hour blocks in the day, and I try to just hit 4-ish of them per day. If I hit 3, that's ok. if I hit 3 3 or 4 days in a row, I need to look into it!
Definitely, got to make sure I actually come out with something that looks good even if it doesn't take off.
Ah, this explains a lot, sorry for the confusion. It's an uphill battle to make folks drop their ingrained Excel habits, though.
An American Tragedy: The Colorful Life and Shocking Death of Ovid Neal III
Both SQLite and DuckDB are available as JARs containing native libraries for the database, for some range of platforms, and Java code which unpacks the library at runtime and uses it.

org.duckdb:duckdb_jdbc:0.2.2 contains:

libduckdb_java.so_linux_amd64
libduckdb_java.so_osx_amd64
libduckdb_java.so_windows_amd64

org.xerial:sqlite-jdbc:3.32.3.2 contains:

org/sqlite/native/DragonFlyBSD/x86_64/libsqlitejdbc.so
org/sqlite/native/FreeBSD/x86_64/libsqlitejdbc.so
org/sqlite/native/Linux/aarch64/libsqlitejdbc.so
org/sqlite/native/Linux-Alpine/x86_64/libsqlitejdbc.so
org/sqlite/native/Linux/android-arm/libsqlitejdbc.so
org/sqlite/native/Linux/arm/libsqlitejdbc.so
org/sqlite/native/Linux/armv6/libsqlitejdbc.so
org/sqlite/native/Linux/armv7/libsqlitejdbc.so
org/sqlite/native/Linux/ppc64/libsqlitejdbc.so
org/sqlite/native/Linux/x86_64/libsqlitejdbc.so
org/sqlite/native/Linux/x86/libsqlitejdbc.so
org/sqlite/native/Mac/x86_64/libsqlitejdbc.jnilib
org/sqlite/native/Windows/x86_64/sqlitejdbc.dll
org/sqlite/native/Windows/x86/sqlitejdbc.dll

So that SQLite JAR is smaller, but covers a much wider range of platforms!
The $2B Mall Rats: Hedge Fund Betting That Malls Will Fail
And it would be something more lightweight then a process/thread/green thread I presume?
I have to agree here, having family on welfare in the U.S. Try living like that sometime, its terrible. You will have to live in a terrible neighborhood, with not enough money to survive on without resorting to taking handouts from charities like foodbanks. If someone wants to scam the system and live like that their entire lives let them, if that means that people using it to get back on their feet have a safety net.
I understand, but cating the saved file or printing from pipe to the terminal directly has identical issues. Terminal ANSI escape sequences are interpreted either way.
Forget About the Money
Today all of this is exciting, but I have a bad feeling this is going to slide Apple towards a low performance future.

They Apple'd themselves and locked themselves in.

In 2 years, secrets aside, Apple would need to beat all 3 big dogs to be the top. How long can they sustain that?
What would have happened if Iran had succeeded in acquiring nuclear weapons?

And what effect will this have on Iran's political leadership?
A production-target guide to build a Web AR application with WebXR device API
Multiple sources, several submitted to HN:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/11/say-goodbye-to-a...

https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/fcc-ajit-pai-leave-jan...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-30/u-s-fcc-c...

https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/30/21726572/ajit-pai-fcc-st...

https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/30/fcc-chairman-ajit-pai-will...

The Ars, Variety, Bloomberg and TechCrunch stories have more meat, especially regards Net Neutrality repeal and Section 230 attempts.
Literate Engines in Lisp
I was trying to read this story with https://fullhn.com, but something was wrong with narratively.com (or fullhn) and it took me to this harrowing story instead, which I think is well worth reading - it's at the intersection of homeless issues and juvenile justice: "An American Tragedy: The Colorful Life and Shocking Death of Ovid Neal III" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25258116)
Sounds like someone just got a copy of the movie, 'The Jackal.' (1997) Fiction or not, I'm surprised it took this long to be utilized.
Is there a blanket-frequency jammer in existence that would have worked at a 150m radius? seems like a tall order
A DP "brush" made for a character would have many fewer colors since most of the scarce color palette would be reserved for the scene art (the Amiga modes were also paletted). The character art would have been started at an early stage.
Multigenerational housing is really a very sensible option: your parents probably have a house large enough for them and several other people, they have items like kitchenware and furniture for those people, plus various tools that have been picked up over the years to deal with problems you don't yet realize you'll one day encounter. It makes little sense to duplicate all this every generation while the previous iteration sits idle. It might hurt consumer spending if young adults can spend the first few years of their career saving instead of buying out the wazoo, but it is certainly a more efficient use of resources.

Parents can provide both knowledge and material support for various tasks related to home making and child rearing. It's nice to have someone who's done it before right there to answer any question and give you a hand rather than reinventing the wheel every generation. Splitting up chores more ways leaves everyone less exhausted, and allows for more specialization. You may not like your parents' style, but it's better than doing everything yourself.

The benefits go both ways. As your parents age, they become more feeble. Live in children can take care of their parents without spending a fortune on professional care services. Further many risks of old age like falls are greatly mitigated the more frequent there is human contact. Money that would have been spent on young laborers can instead be put towards retirement savings, again perhaps a macroeconomic loss but great for the individual.

Multi-generational housing is common in many societies. That it is uncommon in modern western culture is really an anomaly: the industrial revolution and subsequent scientific advances meant a sudden boom in the population and rapid changes in lifestyle, you couldn't simply have everyone stay on the farm their whole life, most people had to move to a city and start a new household. Now that populations are stabilizing, it makes sense that we would revert to the system we had before.
No way, you were on the team? Congrats.
In my opinion, some things to consider are the possibility that the government runs wikileaks, so they have some control over how data is leaked or what is allowed to leak. Another more likely possibility is that they prefer to allow it to run so they know where to watch for leaks and may react to them. If hundreds of different leak sites popped up, it would be harder to monitor. Trying to shut them down would be a never-ending game of whack-a-mole. (no pun intended)
Exactly what I was thinking. In a very small way many of us tried to help with this problem back in the day. Makes it feel even more important.

Now I'm waiting for the equivalent news about SETI@Home ;-)
Not if you used the old version of pip. That is hopefully fixed now with the new resolver.
Ugh. Any way around the requirement to sign in with Google? Very frustrating that this is required to read a damn blog post.
Proof our work-life balance is in danger (but there’s still hope)
This scenario doesn't make any sense. So the guy being guarded was simply allowed to step into the open outside the car, without cover, in already suspicious circumstances? Shouldn't a bodyguard do these things for him? How could the assassins have known that he'd do that, and not say turn back?

I suspect they don't really know what happened, and right now we're getting various wild rumours.
My recollection is that when P. A. Semi was acquired by Apple, a major part of their "secret sauce" was a custom cell library. And then Intrinsity, a few years later, also seemed to be using custom cells on Samsung's process. Is this recollection / understanding correct? Is Apple still using custom cell libraries rather than TSMC's standard library?
AR Monolith
Intel Looks Ahead to Stacked Nano-Ribbon Transistors, Anti-Ferroelectric eDRAM
Just like regular GNU/Linux, when one supports companies like System76, if you want to be sure it works across normal hardware, buy it pre-installed Chromebook.

Everything else is just a pain I have grew too old to even care about.
Great explanation and also a good read on challenges Intel and AMD will face going forward. I am wondering if any of the windows / linux laptop makers will follow suit? Or will it be too hard to use the generic windows / linux and optimize it for custom built hardware?
If you owe money to the IRS, you need to file a tax return whether you're a US citizen or not.

Now you might say, well what is the US gonna do if you don't?

Well, the people mentioned in the article receive Social Security (so "no ties to the US at all" is false), and you can 100% expect their SS checks to be garnished to cover debt to the IRS, as this happens all the time with unpaid back taxes.

So it's not going to be any free money at the end of the day.

The whole process would obviously take a few years, but literally all the systems are already in place for it. Nothing special even needs to be done. It'll just happen.
Symfony 5.2.0 Released
I don’t think software would be so fad-oriented if there wasn’t a culture of infinite growth and expansion.
That's the cost of running DeepMind as a whole, right? Which includes all the other stuff they've worked on, like games.
Couldn't they could just switch back then?
It caught his nose between one of the ribbons of rail. That caused his car to pierce the barrier instead of having its energy dissipated.

Also there is a theory that the pole holding up the rails didnt shear off at all and thats why the car got snapped in half.
Apple has always attracted spirited conversation. I remember Apple computers being referred to as “toys” back in the 80’s because of the GUI and mouse. The discussions of Apple on HN have long and old roots. It’d be interesting to have a look at the old flame wars on usenet.