skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to do down Octave, but if you want a free alternative to MATLAB, Scilab might be worth checking out too, particularly for an alternative to Simulink, as I understand it. It has a different emphasis, like not aiming at compatibility the way Octave does.

It grieves me to see how much money squander on MATLAB (and they're apparently not allowed to compare notes, which says something). The ones I'm familiar with pay around (or more than) enough to fund a full-time support post, so there could instead be a significantly-sized sustainable research support team working in that area, just in the UK.
You can already do that with btrfs.
I think it's "faith".
I think the problem is losing access to a phone. For example because it gets dropped or stolen.

The lack of good message backups on iOS makes me hesitant to recommend Signal more.
And almost 140,000 people got COVID in the US yesterday.
The 5nm process is a large factor as well.
what kind of life did they lead? is it comprable to life as we know it now?
What I learned not too long ago is that Morse code requires pretty darn long spaces between characters (to add insult to the inefficient encoding). The familiar SOS sequence ...---... is actually one of a class of special-case sequences ("prosigns"); the word SOSTENUTO could not start with that sequence.

Wikipedia: "[t]he letters of a word are separated by a space of duration equal to three dots, and the words are separated by a space equal to seven dots." Ouch!

> but this really turns me off of the idea

According to the Wikipedia page, the international version has been around since 1865. So this is probably a forgone concern.

"After some minor changes, International Morse Code was standardized at the International Telegraphy Congress in 1865 in Paris and was later made the standard by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)."

Probably, just implement/learn the ITU one and forget the century-and-half-old historic precursors.
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Don't disagree with anything you said, but do take issue with the stat equating 1 mile of bike distance with 1 mile of automobile distance. Surely the stat should be normalized on a "per commute" basis. At the very least throw out long-haul car trips.

At least for the purposes of comparing relative safety of commuting by bike vs. car.
Well zpool is for the pool which consist of filesystems/datasets or zfs's. So i have a clear distinction of the whole pool (pools or logical groups) or filesystems/datasets (zfs or logical volumes).

It has nothing todo with /usr/sbin/x
The Intel Mac Mini and iMac both use Intel's desktop chip line, with 65 watt TDP.
No its politics. NYC if anyone sets up a tent you can report and it'll get dumped the same day. https://portal.311.nyc.gov/article/?kanumber=KA-02253
To mirror other comments, btrfs is pretty stable now and I run it on my server. The main problems now are with RAID5/6 profiles, the implementation has lots of issues still that can cause data loss[1]. Seems most of the core developers don't use those profiles so it hasn't been getting better. If you want to use RAID it would be safer to stick to RAID1/10[2]

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/20200627032414.GX10769@h...

[2] https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/mkfs.btrfs.8.html#...
Granted, even though Go shoves its errors in your face, it's still common to just punt the error up the stack (if err != nil { return err }), leading to ahem "context-free" error messages like "Failed to initialize Foo: EOF".

You can improve on this a little by using something like https://github.com/pkg/errors, which gives your errors a stack trace by default. But now your errors are hideous and unlikely to be fixable by the average user.

Ultimately the only way to get clean, informative, and debuggable error messages is for the programmer to attend to each and every one. And no one wants to do that, because it's a pain, it slows you down, it gets in the way of solving The Problem At Hand. So unless the language itself somehow forces you to wrap all your errors in nice context strings, it ain't gonna happen.
But then that seems a bit strange doesn't it? Triage just means "sorting" in French, to this day as far as I know it doesn't have the specific meaning it has in English (or if it does, it's more to do with trains that sick people).

Does it mean that it was borrowed into English during the Napoleonic wars? I'd think that those perfidious Englishfolks would have been loathe to borrow French terms specifically during that period...
> When Apple says the future is ARM, everyone knows the hardware will be coming and they'd better fire up their IDEs. There's no such confidence in ARM Windows.

Pretty critically, Apple was able to modify their chips so that they can efficiently emulate x86 code. Microsoft will not be able to do the same.
Ah ok you are married. Do you have long term friends locally ? Is your wife your anchor to a local community ?
> its occupants aren't exactly the most empathetic towards the homeless either.

It's .. interesting, since i generally have no clue what to do here. I'm a super .. socialist _(or w/e)_ in that i believe in tons of government programs, but homelessness is something i almost don't believe in. It feels either a problem of:

1. Social safety nets to support working individuals experiencing tough times (i support tons of safety programs).

2. Or.. more controversially, mental health issues that shouldn't be allowed to exist in this state. Ie, if we had #1 then "no one" would be homeless - and those that are despite that, are too mentally unwell to be allowed the freedom to make such a decision.

Though, i know nothing on the subject - and advertise as much. Nevertheless, i feel far less supportive of the homeless as a result - i split it mentally as either people i want to support via social nets - or mentally unwell people needing of hospitalization. A bit off topic perhaps, but i'm always interested in peoples opinion on the subject.
(2014)!

previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8383158

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18746225
If you're in a room by yourself or a family group? Obviously not, that's a silly idea and I've never heard it suggested in good faith.
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Next step will be to train the computer to detect who is acting suspiciously in the game, and then make the computer play the game for you so you don’t have to use any controls at all to play the game :p
I have seen the future of housing, and it is Queen Anne, Seattle
Be aware of possible incompatibilities with the regular Arch kernel. I switched my NAS to linux-lts when a kernel point-release proved incompatible with openzfs.
Maybe this presentation by Mark will help?

dRAID, Finally![0]

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdXOtEF6Fh0
Marketing.

Sometimes it matters. Also, it doesn't always have to be some malicious thing. Could just be that there's a visionary executive with altruistic intents who convinced a higher-up that it's the right move.

But in the case of Signal, remember that it's a nonprofit. And in the case of whatsapp, it's looking more and more like the case above.
I wonder if it's good enough to run a paint app for note taking like experience.
> What Apple is doing once again is ratcheting up the bar for the PC to make sure it’s the top choice for creative professionals.

This just isn't true, unless one means laptops.

Creative professionals, as I understand the term, generally need all the power they can get (video, audio etc.)

The Apple machines are nowhere near the top of the line from this perspective. If you care about CPU/watt then the M1 looks pretty awesome. If you care maxCPU, the M1 is currently not particularly interesting.
I wouldn't say impossible.

I would go so far as to say that pumping up lithium enriched brine from underneath it is unlikely to despoil the natural beauty of the entire salt flat. One corner of it, perhaps.

Once that resource is exhausted, the choice could be made to strip-mine the surface. But that would be a choice, the slippery slope argument strikes me as tenuous here.
All good points. If these types of monitors are being used, then clearly the tests are flawed.

The hardest test I ever took was the AI final at CMU. Open book. Books didn't help :(
The word I learned in years past because of Apple that applies to it in several ways is "monopsony": the ability to control the market for a product by being the dominant buyer of same.
Scilab: Open-source software for numerical computation
And the opposite is strange and alien to me. I wish I knew a way to bridge the conceptual gap here, because it's been coming up a lot and I've never seen anyone successfully forge a common understanding.
I think this is one of those things that's more likely to be found in cheap devices, or devices intended for poorer markets - similar to dual sims in phones. It's something that's more useful in areas with poor internet connectivity.
He has some, ah, unique takes scattered throughout:

> American forces – well, the French and Spanish forces, along with the sputtering Americans – managed to win the American Revolution in 1783.

Make no mistake, the French forces were key, but to lay the victory at the feet of the Spanish ahead of the Americans throws the whole piece into question.
Maybe, or just move the memory chips from the CPU package to the motherboard.
I think it's harder to grasp the negative counts, because this is essentially the population of the city almost every day. The statistical change from day to day would be less than 1% so it's hard for humans to grasp a significant increase in cases. If the daily cases were to go up by 10x (2000 daily cases), it would still show 881,000 negative cases. If it went from 881,000 negative to 879,000 negative, should we panic?

On your site, El Paso is still at around 98% negative tests, which makes it appear like everything is under control when in reality the hospitals were mostly overrun and had to send patients outside of the county.
Yep, the intention is to change the design by getting rid of it. HN used to just render entire threads in one go, and once we release some performance improvements we hope to do that again.
Clearly, this discussion has proven that I'm a bit out of my area here.

But my understanding is that LPDDR4 have multiplie dies of RAM stacked on top of a chip. There's only two RAM chips on the Apple M1.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/Apple_M1...

You can clearly see the two LPDDR4x chips packaged with the Apple M1. There's no question that the M1 package contains two DRAM chips. The only question is the configuration of the "insides" of these DRAM chips.

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Anandtech's interviews give us a preview: 128-bit wide bus (8 x 16-bit it seems), two chips, LPDDR4x protocol. The details beyond that are pure speculation on my part.
The write-up was great, actually. The whole point of sharing the article is to read about the process and the technical details, I don't know why people insist on these cheap TL;DRs.
Then use the Intel card and you'll have full acceleration + wayland. Or don't buy the laptop. I was simply answering the question.

You're being unnecessarily antagonistic here. I have a modern 2020 laptop, it works for all of my needs with an nvidia GPU.
> As is still so often the case when white, powerful men felt threatened, they banded together to create, and separate, the ‘other’.

This was gratuitous too. Out-group formation happens across all cultures regardless of ethnicity or sex.
> As is still so often the case when white, powerful men felt threatened, they banded together to create, and separate, the other.

What, this is a behavior specific to white, powerful men?

What went down in and around Lexington and Concord was a more serious crime than murder, it was an act of rebellion.

The author appears committed to a particular affect which seems out of context with the history he presents.
I assume so, but haven't looked recently. I'll try to do that and report back here later. Feel free to ping me at hn@ycombinator.com if I forget.

Edit: ok, for this thread so far, 95% of views are page 1, 4% are page 2, 1% are page 3.

For https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25065026, which had a "more pages" comment at the top: 93% of views were page 1, 5% page 2, 2% viewed page 3.

For https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23155647, which did not have a "more pages" comment at the top: 96% of views were page 1, 3% page 2, 0.5% page 3.

Radically overgeneralizing from that, it seems likely that the pinned comment at the top helps a bit in terms of directing people to later pages. How that compares to the mammoth-single-page scenario is hard to say because we don't know how many readers would be scrolling down that far to see those comments. There's likely a power-law dropoff no matter what we do.
I currently use btrfs with RAID1 at home, and it works great. But btrfs also does not have the track record for being the most stable filesystem as compared to ZFS.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/20200627032414.GX10769@h...
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/20200627030614.GW10769@h...
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/20200520013255.GD10769@h...
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Bonneville is nice, but it's just not remote or untouched.

Obviously my opinion is subjective, but it's a bit like comparing the mountains and wilderness of central Alaska to that of California. They're not on the same scale.
AMD until very recently (and Intel almost 25 years ago) used to mark instructions boundaries in the L1 I$ to speed up decode. They stopped recently for some reason though.
I never had a BBC Micro having grown in up the US. I was happy to discover that the BASIC on it is close to the Microsoft implementations that I am familiar with.
SF is the greatest city in the world in the same way that the USA is the greatest country of the world. Both of them have insanely wealthy people in extremely nice enclaves, surrounded by plenty of sub-3rd-world filth. When you put together a glossy spread of greatest places to live, you can cherrypick the wealthy parts and gloss over the folks barely eking out a subsistence living. In the meantime tons of people will be attracted to the idea of "making it" into the upper 0.1%, thus fueling the economic strength that builds those fortunes.

Selection bias is the greatest force known to man. Things get publicized by their best case, not by their average case.
I have found relationships in the most unexpected of places and circumstances, and I wish you the same. There are good, decent folks out there waiting to be found.
> What's the issue with simply reversing that metric to show many people are COVID negative?

There are three groups. Positive, negative, and untested. The untested group is the biggest, and you can't call them COVID negative, because there's really no reason. They're not (yet) either positive or negative.
>> we still do not learn much about long-term consequences of COVID infection among less vulnerable population

> Then we need to first learn about it before implementing measure that is harmful such as lockdown.

So, first let the harm happen, then when we're sure there's harm, then restrict? That can make sense, depending on your perception of the degree of harm and the probability of harm. Still, for at least some degrees and probabilities of harm, that's a spectacularly wrong-headed approach.

[Edit: And let me note that I agree with you on one thing: The lockdown is harmful. That doesn't mean I agree with your larger perspective.]
> fire bullets in public

You can fire bullets, provided you can guarantee you wouldn't hit anyone or destroy any property. Usually this is achieved by either doing it on a range or in an open space far from other people and their property. Same for driving - if you're driving in a desert where you can't hit anyone, you can drive as fast as you'd like. If you're on a road surrounded by other people who you could maim or kill, and/or destroy their property - that's another business. It's not because I feel "offended" by you driving too fast - it's because you literally could kill me if you drive too fast. I haven't heard of anybody killed by a facebook post that expressed opinion they didn't agree with. That's why this is not your right to not see such opinions.

> but it would be improved if my ideological opponents could make arguments with substance.

Maybe it would, but nobody owes you to improve your existence. The system where certain people were forced to improve other people's existence, whether they liked it or not, existed once in the US. It was called "slavery". After a while, people wised up and realized this system sucks. At least most of the people did. Since then, you owe everybody not to make their existence worse by violating their rights, but they do not owe you to make your existence better - not until you convince them to do it by offering them something in exchange, like money or hugs or whatever you agree upon. It sucks, I know, but better than the alternative.
Care to be more specific?
I never understand this logic. You want end-to-end encryption, which entails building a complex, clever mousetrap so that only the device in your hands is capable of viewing the messages you receive, AND you want to back them up so that they can be retrieved later on a different device that was not part of the trusted setup?? If the backup is a priority, perhaps end-to-end encryption is not suited to your use case.

And no, it's not simple at all to provide this technology in a meaningful way that is both as secure as you need and as convenient as you want. Nor should it be free if it ever exists.
I don't think I said that at all in that comment? I certainly didn't talk about types of people or use a war metaphor.

Anti-maskers are silly, but also a tiny minority. Lockdown protests have a very valid point about their livelihood and have my sympathy up until the point they start making nonsensical claims or teaming up with the usual professional controversists and far right stirrers.
Software people in general like "hacks". We game hiring process by reading books like "Cracking the coding interview". However, the hiring process is broken but that is a different story.

I worked super hard in school, did well and pulled several all nighters. I work at an enterprise now and my algorithm knowledge is useless. I just build enterprise web applications, which is fine.

In software any job you take you will be learning new stuff and new way of doing things. I gained much more from classes that focused on building actual working projects instead of strict algorithms and testing. In our AI class we had to pick an AI algo and implement it in a popular game, one of the best experiences in school.
The first part certainly is why they cheat; higher grades allow easier admissions to jobs and better schools.

> As with any kind of lie, you will have to cheat more and more to compensate for previous cheating, and eventually your little web of lies will come back and bite you in the ass.

Completely disagree. People cheat to climb the ladder of life without having to put in the work or having the resources required to do bypass that ladder. However, once you climb the ladder high enough, it is much harder to fall back down.

Sure you're not going to be a good doctor if you cheat your way through med school but if you cheat your way through undergrad and get into a better program with better resources, more driven peers and better professors, you are better off regardless.
Check the parent article that explains it well. Apple didn’t defy common comp arch wisdom... they applied it.

The reason why is hard for Intel/AMD to do the same is not the lack of engineering geniuses (I’m sure they have plenty), but the support for a legacy ISA, and a particular business model.

What Apple defies is common business survival instincts: why spent so much in RD of a chip if there are market leaders that are impossible to beat? The answer seems to be obvious now... but probably it wasn’t obvious when Apple acquired PA Semi in 2008.
The Apple machines are nowhere near the top of the line from this perspective.

All of the benchmarks and testimonials are showing a $699 Mac mini running on a M1 beats a $4000 iMac Pro and pretty much all Intel desktops.

Apparently Hollywood doesn't agree with you; a new Mac mini is faster than the Mac Pros they've had for years: "Hollywood thinks new Mac mini 'could be huge' for video editors"—https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/11/12/hollywood-thinks-...
where did you read this, I wonder
But you have used it though.

> What's the issue with simply reversing that metric to show many people are COVID negative?
Thank you for the data point, but I do not think the issue is with rendering of the dots on screen (although I am not sure). In fact, I have done some real-time, frame-by-frame video processing using OpenCV and had no issue processing 1920x1080 images in real-time at 25fps (40ms per frame), including some simple edge detection, segmentation and rendering on screen using my office workstation. Modern hardware is certainly fast enough to render dots on the screen as fast as interactive processing needs.

What I suspect is taking place with Octave/Python/Julia-based tools is the additional information that needs to be handled for each plot. You need to draw axes and ticks, keep tracks of which points are displayed and obscured at at the current axes limits and update all that information every time any of those things change (reset/move/zoom, etc.). It is certainly possible to make abstraction layers that are convenient for software engineers but would not scale well with respect to the number of points that need to be plotted. Or, instead of carefully tracking each state change one could regenerate a large portion of it to make it simpler (and slower). Just a guess though.
Yeah this is a post written by someone who hasn't touched a non-Apple PC in years.
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Crazy idea in this space. Eye-tracking will eventually be standard on consumer VR headsets that can be had for $300. As someone following the industry closely, I believe that the Oculus Quest 4 or a device like it will certainly have eye-tracking support. Obviously if one were to take their test in a VR environment with their eye-movements tracked it would be almost impossible to cheat. Eyes also provide a good biometric identifier. Mirrors, screens, exploits, etc can be foiled using software locks, HMDs cameras and imu data. Of course I'm not advocating a testing system like this, but it would put a hard stop to cheating on synchronous exams, enforce some level of standardization, and should be accessible to every student in the 1st world. Understandable privacy and ethics issues with something like this. It is probably better to address why people cheat in the first place and make education less reliant on exams. (continuous low-impact variable feedback vs discrete high-impact fixed feedback)
> The internet wasn't the harbinger of a new Enlightenment, but often does the opposite: it proliferates ignorance.

And yet we have the highest rates of literacy ever, and Wikipedia is one the most visited sites ever: Amusing how someone can make blanket claims without checking the data.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/literate-and-illiterate-w...

Let's not proliferate ignorance further.
At least the online class cheating increases fairness. Now you can cheat without having the money to purchase a bogus disability claim. For many years now, all the well-off schemers have been taking tests with twice as much time as normal. Nobody in academia dares to push back at this fraud, out of fear that they might be pilloried for failure to accommodate. Honest students usually aren't even aware of just how unfair the system is. It affects high school, college admissions tests, and college.

The whole system is put at risk by the fraud. Grades become less meaningful because we've added a randomish negative signal. That devalues everything.