skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree about the social aspects, but smart kids emphatically do not do well when mixed with academically average social peers. They get bored with the material, develop disdain for those who can't keep up with them (including teachers), and overall develop an unhealthy relationship with society and schooling itself.

Better is to get said kids into programs with other smart kids their age, where they can be intellectually stimulated, but continue to develop normally socially. The younger the better; suddenly being tossed into such a program after being the smartest (and possibly most isolated) kid in the room for a decade doesn't bode well for one's psyche either.

Wealthy families effectively have access to such programs via private schools, whose curriculum is often a year or two ahead of public schools. Good luck finding such a setup in a public school system, or even finding public school teachers who can provide adequate individual instruction of advanced students: the pay to retain such teachers isn't there.

I don't know what the solution is, but I think it at least involves funding public school better.
The documentation still talks about buying an enterprise edition: https://docs.timescale.com/latest/getting-started/exploring-...
Eh, I get his coming down on criticisms this time. It doesn't make sense to criticize the hardware for software issues. I'm not going copy a binary compiled for x86 over to a RPi and complain about ARM chips being inadequate.

If there are software issues, address them as such.
He is assumed to have mined many coins back in the beginning and he can verify himself by spending them.
> Venntel told me in a subject access request that my data was shared, but they did not provide to whom. When contacted later - they told me in a short statement that the data was not shared with ICE or CBP.

I think this is an extremely clever technique for generating mainstream interest in a topic that would probably otherwise be considered boring for the typical person: associate it with something that people have very strong emotional feelings about. 10/10
Wait for an 8-core (or the rumored 12 core) variants. Those will embarrass your threadripper.
Ask HN: Why didn't Microsoft truly compete when it comes to phones?
My hypothesis is that they were afraid of an antitrust lawsuit. If they had chosen to compete, Microsoft would have been broken up. I really liked the idea of Continuum[0] and I know that Microsoft makes $5-$15 per Android phone[1] but I think they still should have competed.

[0]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/continuum
[1]: https://www.howtogeek.com/183766/why-microsoft-makes-5-to-15-from-every-android-device-sold/
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Sometimes it matters other times not. If you want absolute performance then it doesn't matter, if you want efficiency then it does.
> Apple bought up TSMC’s entire 5nm manufacturing capacity

... until the end of 2020.
Do we have enough earthworms in concentrated enough areas in order to eat all of this packaging were generating?
I got a 5800X this week from my local MicroCenter to build a new system for Flight Simulator (they are sold out 5800X and 5900X or and 5000 series at all currently). Getting a new video card is also a problem.
The Ryzen 5000 is basically across the board superior to the nearest Intel competitor.

That is, 5600X > 10600k, 5700X > 10700k, etc... This is, however, assuming MSRP pricing for both. If the Ryzen is being marked up due to shortage while the Intel is being discounted a significant enough price gap could warrant still going with Intel.
I'd argue that UX and Architecture ought to be done in parallel with a decent amount of cross-feedback. I've seen this done with a big 1-2 day kick-off meeting with everything present at the start of the project. But I think the key thing is that design, development, and product don't work in isolation.
You as a user can choose to uninstall it immediately and try alternatives until successful.

Most people of course, akin to how paying with card makes you overspend because you don't see the money, agree to anything because it's just a button on the screen not a potentially predatory human person.
for URIs, would use base64url.

Replaces '+' with '-' and '/' with '_' while omitting the '=' padding.
What do you mean with many people? A large part of aristocracy/bourgeoisie or most mundane people? What are good sources on that topic?
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And it's not particularly relevant, but the Newton was an ARM device, so Apple's head start is even longer than that.
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Noted A.I. Ethicist Timnit Gebru Let Go from Google Following Email Exchange
+OMSA (Analytics)
+OMSCY (Cybersecurity)

These are fantastic programs that cost only $7-10k. https://omscentral.com has reviews of the classes, for the curious. My personal favorites are:

- Reverse Engineering and Binary Exploitation

- Reinforcement Learning and Decision-Making

- Bayesian Statistics
This is fun! But, the first few told me "this is the optimal solution", then I hit the xor gate, and I can get either "this uses the fewest nand gates but it can be done with fewer components" or "this uses the fewest components, but it can be done with fewer nand gates".. Does this imply that there is no optimal solution, or just that I've not yet found it?
He's talking about the vast majority of PC chips sold today, who's power consumption / performance / thermal ratios just got marmalised.

You're quite right, your machine and in fact everyone else's are still just as good as they were a few weeks ago. I got an Intel 5K iMac in the summer and I'm still very happy with it. I need to be able to run windows and Linux in VMs so M1 isn't for me right now. It's no for you either.

Having said that, your manufacturer of your Threadripper is now on notice. Apple isn't done with the M1, more powerful desktop chips are on their way over the next few years and there's a very good chance they'll do exactly what they just did to Intel and AMDs mobile chipsets to the high end stuff. Apple are coming for them, and not being impressed now isn't going to serve them well down the line.
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I think AWS is early to offer a not-yet-matured product just to get it in front of customers and start gathering real usage feedback. I’d consider dynamo a fantastic tier 1 service, but it wasn’t always that way. This is inline with the Amazon philosophy in general.

As for “making something for the sake of having it”, I believe the key reason for building their own applications is that they can build it on the same multi-az incremental ledger/block store that underlies most services (first built for aurora), or a variant thereof. They have some pretty stellar underlying tech built to be reliable at cloud scale, something you won’t get from running a service on your own EC2 fleet. The new stuff built on top of it just isn’t all that mature though. That’s just my take though. If interested, the deep dive talk from reinvent last year on aurora is pretty cool.

Disclaimer: I work at Amazon, nothing to do with AWS or timestream. In fact, I’ve been excited for time stream for a while but found its initial performance lackluster for what I needed.
Weapons are definitely not the best solution for mentally unstable people.
>How much of the M1's advantage is due to a trillion dollar company buying up every last bit of TSMC's 5nm production capacity?

Yes, it's very hard to separate process from architectural (and implementation) design. And, as an industry, we're probably sticking our fingers in our ears more than we should about what happens when process shrinks really truly stop happening. And they will. There are still a variety of options but there's very little evidence they have anything like the legs of CMOS process scaling even if we do dump a big part of the problem on developers who don't get to develop for a largely unified architecture any longer or lean as heavily on high-level abstractions.
I half agree with you, that's why I always hesitated before upgrading to a new phone. A good approach is to explicitly encourage testing and require good performance on average hardware. There are many possible policies that help to achieve this goal, but forcing devs to develop on average hardware is too extreme.
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We were apparently allowed to ask for log tables in our A-level physics exams, even if we already had a calculator with us (which of course we all did). Our teacher took the step of proactively putting them on our desks before the start of the exam because that seemed to be consistent with the rules and didn't hurt.

Oh and by the way the log tables supplied by the exam board also had some useful formulae printed in them we'd otherwise have to memorise. Not that that had anything to do with it...
ARM phones tend to have specialized cores. You have big.LITTLE, added DSP, ML chips, modem DSP and cpu, hardware media decoders and encoders. And of course GPU w/ GPGPU capability. Maybe tensor cores next.

Why would you need a lot of actual CPU power after all that?

Of course it is easier to program for a homogenous architecture, be it CPU or GPGPU.
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I can't tell but I think you're making my point. As a Windows user, I can absolutely be unhappy if software I prefer does not run. If someone comes around and says "but that software was originally for Mac... you aren't allowed to expect it to run well on Windows! A real Windows user wouldn't complain about that software."

And if the software I prefer runs better on macOS, I have a good reason to switch away from Windows. Just as if software you prefer runs better on Windows, you can complain about macOS (or in this case, incompatibility due to the ISA switch.)

My issue was with the comment using "mac user" as an excuse for software that isn't what the "true" mac user considers essential not working well.
The writer doesn't mention which apps he installed, nor which phone. I'd be interested in the details, does anyone know this underlying data?
I have a hard time believing that most purchasers of high-end consumer CPUs wouldn't use a discrete GPU. What's the use-case you're envisioning where an integrated GPU is a good use of die space?
I believe that Tesla could hook my power wall into such a system if my local utilities offered it. Hopefully they do soon, because there's going to be major offshore windmills near my house soon.
Ask HN: Advice on starting a Makerspace?
I'm pondering using a small sum of inheritance to start a makerspace (after the pandemic).

Does anyone have advice on things to be aware of? Have you ever started one or been a member of one, and what have you seen?

My thoughts: (1) start by sending a survey to a few thousand tech workers we have in the area, (2) draft a business plan that balances (membership fees) with expenses (rent, equipment, insurance, ...)
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I don't get why AMD refused to sell the Ryzen 4000 APUs directly. They would make a great CPU for some small builds that aren't going to game...
Interesting how many corporate security policies act like they don't even know NIST exists. Password rotations for users are audit crown jewels but recommended against by NIST
Well, as far as I know, cosinus and sinus have relatively little to do with exponential and imaginary numbers, just like imaginary numbers have intrinsically little to do with the 2D plane. I just think of it as a convenient notation since those obey similar composition rules (that probably stem from their odd and even-ness, and taylor series decomposition from there).

So you need at least that one, since it is by convention, and not really derivable[1]:

exp(ix) = cos(x) + i*sin(x)

I personally just use Euler's notation (using exp) as a tool to derive trig formulas, since I know power composition rules quite well already, and those tend to be more useful in general.

[cos(x)]^2 + [sin(x)]^2 = 1

Is just the Pythagorean theorem on a unit circle, which also defines sin and cos :)

[1] OK, you can look at the taylor series expansion, but you need to remember the derivatives for this.
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What I've seen work very well is raising your hand.
No cypress?
You can create a hypertable with a UNIQUE composite key on (row_id, time).

Otherwise, you are correct in that we require your partitioning keys to be at least _part_ of unique constraints; otherwise, we'd need to build global indexes across all your chunks (which would inhibit scalability)...this would only be worse with multi-node =)
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Tesla loses protections in latest Michigan bill to ban direct sales
I have started to look at a model where the device itself is the password. How often do we realistically need to concern ourselves with the scenario where multiple users are utilizing the same physical device in 2020?

Imagine every device has a cookie/token with 256-512 CSPRNG bytes which uniquely identify it. The server uses this as the exclusive means of authentication. For sensitive application scenarios, an in-app PIN mechanism can be used as a soft protective measure (e.g. Robinhood mobile apps use this). The device you initially sign up on can be used to activate additional devices by way of scanning a QR code, offline recovery codes, SMS, etc.

This model makes it so that a user has no username or password to remember. They just need to make sure they have a backup device and/or offline recovery options available. I find that side-stepping the problem altogether might be the best solution for all involved. Users loathe remembering passwords. Developers screw up password hashing constantly. Malicious actors should grow to strongly dislike this approach.

This also provides a much stricter chain of custody over how additional devices are added to an account. You have to already have a trusted device to bring another. Making the "What you have" (device) the first factor, and the "What you know" (i.e. pin code) the second factor seems to work out a lot better looking forward.
It's not just "ARM is fast," though—Apple's ARM chips in particular beat the pants off their ARM competitors. (See benchmarks of any iPhone compared to flagship Android devices.) I don't think you should expect similar levels of performance from a run-of-the-mill ARM chip on the desktop (though I'm happy to be shown benchmarks to the contrary).
The Imprudent Promise of Plastics
The header logo seems to redirect to https://www.abyteofcoding.com/abyteofcoding.com instead of simply to /.
I don't think your point really applies to my question, which was more about what exactly was doing the heavy lifting of the video exporting.

As a point of reference, just this week I saw someone on Observable experiment with WASM-compiled encoder packages for that exact reason[0][1].

Svelte seems really nice and lean though, I do agree with that

[0] https://www.npmjs.com/package/h264-mp4-encoder

[1] https://observablehq.com/@rreusser/h264-mp4-encoder
Japan plans to ban sales of new gasoline cars in mid-2030s
The joke is that you can’t so the same to the Bitcoin network. It is much more decentralized than a bank. And doesn’t listen to you.
As barry-cotter said, no.

From 1961 to 2015 (http://www.worldeconomics.com/papers/Global%20Growth%20Monit...), real GDP per capita in Africa grew by 1.1% annually (!), compared to 3.9% for Asia, 1.7% for the Americas, and 2.2% for Europe. Growth from 2001 to 2010 of 2.9% is included in that figure; it was the first decade in that period in which Africa outgrew any other continent.

GDP per capita in US 1990 dollars (http://www.worldeconomics.com/Data/MadisonHistoricalGDP/Madi...) for several African countries:

Country | 1980 | 2008
-------------|------|------
Algeria | 3152 | 3520
Botswana | 1765 | 4769
Cameroon | 1192 | 1212
Gabon | 6777 | 3811
Ivory Coast | 2041 | 1095
Kenya | 1051 | 1098
Liberia | 1162 | 802
Madagacar | 1054 | 730
Malawi | 630 | 744
Mauritius | 4367 | 14529
Niger | 810 | 514
Nigeria | 1305 | 1524
Seychelles | 4444 | 6109
South Africa | 4390 | 4793
Zimbabwe | 1295 | 779

For every Mauritius, Botswana, and Seychelles there is a Zimbabwe, Niger, and Ivory Coast.
Is Argon2 as tried and tested as bcrypt?
Cars, Heating, and cooking can be replaced with electricity just fine even if their not currently part of that 30%.

Also, solar power overwhelmingly our largest energy source. It’s generally ignored in these calculations but farms for example are very dependent on sunlight.
Author here - I'd be keen to go into further detail in a follow-up article if people are interested. Out of curiosity, what details would be most interesting for you about system and browser config?
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In a secure system there is always going to be an airgap with a need for human to check what went over the gap before committing the transaction. Nonrandom strings of bytes, such as names, are also spoofable, so not much better in this regard.
What if your company is a B2C? There is no enterprise selling, what then?
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Exactly. So you either go back to using macOS, or you complain that Windows doesn't run the software you like. It's OK to do that for any OS you run. It's a valid reason to not like an OS, or in this case, an OS that is going through a transition to a new ISA. Until it runs the software you prefer, it isn't ideal.
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but my threadripper's are not impressed with some 4 core M1

The M1 has 8 CPU cores, 8 GPU cores and 16 Neural Engine cores. It also runs at 10 watts and maxes out at 24 watts. A Threadripper starts at over 100 watts…
I have no horse in this race, but it seems to me the solar panels on single family dwellings do benefit everyone. Presumably there are times when the house in question is producing more than it uses, at which point electricity is being pumped back into the grid (I dunno about aus but in the US they're compensated far below market rates for this generation). So it sounds to me as if home owners are selling off space that they own (at great expense!) to contribute to the grid. Apartment dwellers (or condo owners) as you have noted don't usually have the same kind of space to sell off.

And of course apartment dwellers benefit from the reduction in externalities.
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> A good king is one who lets their kingdom unravel to be replaced by something a bit more democratic in a more-peaceful-than-the-French-Revolution style.

That's a rather shocking statement. Letting a kingdom unravel is a recipe for chaos and therefore intrinsically opposed to the peace and the common good of the society governed. A king who would do that would ipso facto be a bad king. A transition to a more republican style of government is so a plausible consideration, but this would not be the unraveling of the kingdom, but a reform. (Of course, sometimes tyrannical forces within a kingdom may gather enough strength to force armed resistance against them, but then it is not the king who causes violence, but rather those tyrannical forces, and the king is right to defend his people against them in proportion to the threat they pose. On other occasions, that tyrant is the king himself and thus one who must be opposed in proportional manner.)

I also wish to note that whatever the flaws of the ancien regime, the French Revolution was a despicable orgy of violence and that our Jacobin school textbooks ought to edited to reflect this fact.
I bought a pack of Elixir guitar strings the other day and noticed on the back it said they're made by W.L. Gore as in the people who make Gore-Tex. Turns out the strings are all coated in PFAS to keep them from corroding. I guess I knew they were coated but I just never really thought with what...
Both are pretty much fine. Just choose one. With certainty approaching 1, you will not run into a situation where this is a meaningful decision for you. There are a lot of security decisions that really require more thought, this is not one of them.

bcrypt, scrypt, Argon2: it doesn't practically matter. Actual cryptographers don't stop recommending safe and well-tested algorithms just because newer ones have been published. There has been no cryptanalytic break in bcrypt or scrypt. The benefits of Argon2 are largely academic for common workloads.
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JavaScript was first introduced to the public 25 years ago, on December 4, 1995.
(One of the) speaker(s) here. Since the proton radius was discussed in several postings here, I figure some of you might be interested. This will happen live 12/16 at 9am EST.
If you mean that compiling gets faster.. then yes, with 'make -j' it will. But that you're compiling C++ has nothing to do with it, except that (as with most other modern languages) you have individual components which can be compiled in parallel. But this is hardly what the grandparent meant by automatically getting a speed boost just by executing existing software on a newer system.
Yeah this has been a huge problem for me too. I'm about to just go Intel instead. I hope they ramp up production and don't miss out because I think a strong AMD would be a good thing. I can't wait forever to build my new rig though and I've been using Intel for decades so I have confidence in it. Excited to go AMD but I am building a new rig for a reason (my old one is in its death throes and I use this thing all day almost every day for work).
Do you have any links to targeting of self-hosted crypto wallets? I haven't seen anything concrete or public mentions yet, but I may be out of the loop.
For me it's the sheer volume of the stuff and how casual people are about buying it. My kids have more toys than they know what to do with and they're all plastic. Every week I buy produce wrapped in plastic. All of our dental care products: plastic. My tools: have plastic in them!

That lego set my kid builds for Xmas? It'll be here for thousands of years and Lego is manufacturing billions of bricks each year.

Fungi are great and all but we have a destructive behavior we need to fix. We can't rely on a quick fix or a miracle cure.
In Poland it became harder to export trash to other countries, so instead landfill owners started burning all their trash to make space for new. Commentators refer to it jokingly as "storing trash in the cloud".
But when you purchase an Apple product you're not buying one or the other: You're buying the complete package. They are one.
Indeed, this is why Apple is able to take this leap and the PC platform hasn't so far. They don't have to wait for as many partners to get along for the ride.