skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
COVID means spiked demand (people are bored) while reducing the supply cap (lockdown, broadened sick leaves, etc). Combine that with the separate spike caused by a solid HW generation all-around and the result shouldn't be too surprising.
Mostly this: https://www.coindesk.com/coinbase-ceo-trump-administration-m...
and anything around this.
Damn, guess the grass isn’t greener.
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I went to college at 12. I enjoyed it, it wasn't abuse.

This kid will be fine.
>I hope they ramp up production

Every high-performance CPU released lately uses TSMC for manufacturing, which can't keep up with demand.

See Playstation 5/Xbox shortages, Ryzen and Radeon shortages. I think only Apple was able to secure enough manufacturing.
The Lisp Curse.

(for the lucky 10,000: http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Lisp_Curse.html)
Customers should have the legal footing to negotiate every line in every contract with someone holding the status to negotiate on behalf of the company. If I can't negotiate my cell phone contact I'm placed in an impossible scenario where I either agree under duress or endure the impossible life of someone that refuses to sign contracts. Essentially, there are 4-6 contracts I'm capable of negotiating in my life out of tens of thousands I've agreed to under duress. Those 4-6 are: apartment lease (keep the Wi-Fi take off $50), groundskeeping (days, times, work to be done, breachs), trash (when, where). These negotiations are only possible because these companies have sole proprietors who will get on the phone to keep a customer. Let's move every company closer to this model by requiring every contract to be negotiable or, if online, optout no guarantees, no warranty, no liability, no tracking except for carefully and explicitly outlined exceptions.
No - indices are basically a (possibly weighted) average of prices. They're informational, not an investment product.

That said, investment companies will frequently launch funds that track some index. So the investment products like what you're describing may follower.
Yea technically there is a potential benefit but the point is that it’s so marginal that the majority of users won’t ever notice it. You’re saving 1-5ms off of a page load.
Posts like these always seem buried in deep marketing lingo. Can anyone "in the know" ELI5 how this is different than Google Anthos? [1]

If they are in fact similar, I can't help but be left wondering why ACG didn't devote at least a sentence or two to comparisons that already exist in the industry.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/anthos
But Happy Thanksgiving everybody!
That's kind of the thing though.

> Signer agrees to become contract murderer unless pre-empted by local laws and regulations.

I'm over-exaggerating, and I get the value when it's prohibitively expensive to write a TOS when it's essentially impossible to pre-emptively vet the legality of all possible clauses internationally as laws constantly change. But if the clause I wrote is technically valid, then what's the point? Just write a short phrase saying "We're going to do whatever we like, unless it's prohibited by law. Accept? Y/N"
Her tweet suggests she submitted a resignation letter, and offered to "take her name off of it" if they met her terms. Means that's not a threat, they got a signed letter for her resignation.
Lenovo is selling several of the new T series Thinkpads with Ryzen chips. IHMO something like the T14s is pretty comparable to an XPS, but I don't know what your evaluation criteria are, and I have a personal preference for Thinkpads, so I'm biased.
Probably the best strategy tbh, you only have to go to a few spots down to find some bad coins and the edge of the top 10 to find some outright scams
This is a rational economic response to outrage culture.

Anti-white speech elicits minimal economic damage (ie no backlash).

Anti-black speech elicits enormous consequences.

So Facebook is simply calibrating their model to accurately reflect the real world cost for the company of different types of speech.
4K is 4x the pixels of standard HD. You can fit 4 HD windows next to each other. That's a huge difference! Any work with spreadsheets or multiple window code comparison benefits tremendously.
When can we expect vaccination to combat these numbers
I don't see why your preferences should have an impact on my needs for 4k screens or vice-versa.
A lot of what I see on hackerne.ws gives me the emotional feeling of the industrial revolution.

Looking at a thi.ng project is closer to the feeling of the renaissance, a period of experimentation and discovery in the arts. Learning, and mastering, a medium through projects over time.
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But is it fair to pass the externalities onto someone else - you get your prosciutto and someone else gets the mess? That's doesn't seem right to me.

As opposed to an arbitrary tax discourage something I would whole-heartedly support that the cost of all products includes the cost of all externalities.

Maybe people on a budget should wait in the deli line for their prosciutto, or buy something cheaper.
Same. And PG isn't the only one. Plus, there are a plethora of books being published on CL, and enough libraries I'm running into paradox of choice in some domains.
So I've been wondering about these positions like those mentioned in the article, people whose sole job is to prevent bias, fight discrimination and what not. Whether they be ML researchers or corporate diversity officer. What happens to these people when full equality is achieved?

Like let's imagine tomorrow everyone she'd all of their sexist and racist and other ist tendencies both conscious and unconscious. Wouldn't these people be out of a job, and as we continue to be a more and more equal society won't these positions have less and less work Todo? Because if they are doing their job they should be solving the very problem they were brought in to counter.

Is it inevitable that these positions will end up continuing to try to justify greater and greater outrage over small and small incidents? What is the future for these positions and the cottage industry that has sprung up around inclusion and diversity?
> I can't even find someone who would take a bag of random bricks for free, let alone the whole pile.

People sell Lego by the kilo on ebay etc all the time.
I wonder if Amazon’s theory here is that by offering multi-cloud support they can put decision makers at ease when choosing cloud vendors by making them feel like they’re not getting locked into AWS - but Amazon also expects most customers to mostly only use AWS out of convenience

Disclaimer - I used to work for AWS
I am not sure if the derogatory tone is fair. This is just example how progress works. Not that long time ago Apple had to be saved by some pennies thrown by Microsoft. Not that long time ago Apple was moving from Motorola processors to Intel ones.

There is nothing bad that someone stayed behind. Someone has to stay behind if we want progress. No reason to insult predecessors.

Planc and Dirac weren't making fun of Newton. Minitel was used in France as some simple version of Internet years before Internet was created. Was Minitel bad? Should we make fun of it?

Was Minitel standing in its underwear in front of Internet? Has Dirac stolen Newton pants?

Intel made a lot of great stuff. Now Apple is making great stuff (or, to be precise, TSMC does). Next year someone else is going to make great stuff. Maybe Apple maybe not.

Intel and AMD chips are not that far behind, depending on what benchmark is used, even though they use older 14/10 or 7nm technology.

I also really hate the concept of not being able to upgrade RAM - If I use Mac and I need more RAM I need to throw away my old Apple laptop and buy a new one. So I have to spend way more money, not to mention impact on environment.

So, today, I am still choosing Intel/AMD computer, I can install whatever operating system I wish and upgrade my system to whatever configuration I dream about and I can afford now or in future.
I can't find it listed on the website, but does it really not have a USB-C/Thunderbolt port? My XPS connects out to a dock via USB-C that then goes to two displays, one on HDMI and the other on displayport. I assumed this kind of setup was fairly standard, but that's awful if Intel is using their muscle to prevent it on non-Intel HW.
You can't connect 2+ 4k/60fps monitors to it, which is the only thing I expect from non-gaming GPU, besides being silent.
Same here: haversines seemed normal to me since I was trained as a merchant marine officer and we used them in Great Circle calculations. I still have my old copy of American Practical Navigator ("Bowditch") with pages and pages of trig tables.
how big is your monitor? to me, 4K is noticeably better than 1440p on a 27" monitor, especially for rendering text. 1440p is certainly acceptable at that size, but my guess is it would look quite bad on anything >30".
All these multi-cloud things by the big clouds are more like ways of putting each big cloud in control of other clouds. They're more a way for them to fight over their center of gravity.

A true multi-cloud solution would be cloud agnostic and independent.
but you could conclude that cos and sin are both jsut the constant function: x->sqrt(0.5)
There are currently projects on ethereum which implement indices in a decentralised fashion. Take a look at PieDAO [1] if you are interested. Included assets, their weights and all indices are governed by the DAO [2].

[1]https://www.piedao.org/
[2]https://www.investopedia.com/news/daos-and-potential-ownerle...
If you actually turn off location services in the OS none of this tracking occurs. About the only remaining source would be the mag of apps implement their own harvesting of the Earth’s magnetic field. Such things are extremely technically difficult to do well (you’d need to map the mag signals across the world) and the accuracy isn’t great (somewhere between wifi and coarse cellular if I recall correctly).

If at any point this actually became a reality the OS would start treating mag access as needing location permissions.
Food takes energy to produce, transport and store, that releases (much) more CO2 for now than plastic packaging. Plastic is rather efficient, you only need a tiny drop of oil to create a lot of packaging.

If food production at some point becomes CO2 neutral you still have a lot of other detrimental effects to the environment from food production to account for. Plastic is a net positive for the environment when it comes to food packaging.
> The unsettling part is that location logging continues to work with the phone off

There are specific bits of malware that make the phone appear to be off when it is in fact powered on. Such malware typically requires root access or an exploit, and is the realm of shady governments not advertiser's.
But if you don't have that malware, you can't be tracked when the phone is off.
Indeed, same with Precision laptops. I unfortunately had time limits and had to bite the bullet with Intel. Gutted.
I understand it could be looked at that way. The point was that it was not because they do not like foreigners, but because they feel they cannot uphold their service standards if they cannot communicate. Maintaining the expected quality service and reputation for that excellence is the only thing that matters and not doing so would bring shame. It is a very uniquely Japanese view on things and I do not in this case see it as racist. The reality is that the Japanese think very differently then most western (EU/US) and it can be very hard for outsiders to understand or even relate.
'Governs' Golan Heights and Cyprus buffer zone? Come on, man. A few blue helmets to discourage shooting across the ceasefire is a great idea and all but it's not government.

I didn't know about Cambodia, that's another case, thanks.
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"AMD is for budget devices"... Sadly, that's what marketing says. I don't understand how these people have a job at big companies, or anywhere really lol

XMG (Clevo/Schenker/Sager/Eurocom/etc) has the best Ryzen laptop I've seen yet, although I don't really like their quality: https://www.xmg.gg/en/xmg-apex-15
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What ever happened to the laws of supply and demand? If the demand is high, and the supply is limited, they should be raising their prices. Stockx says an xbox series X is worth $750, a PS5 is worth $950, and a Ryzen 5900X worth $800. Why can't vendors just raise their prices, so I can buy from a retail outlet I trust, rather than a scalper.
Tangent question: why do financial services pluralize index as 'indexes' rather than 'indices'? Throws me off every time, and seems to be an industry thing.
> I would add that UX-first _can be_ the start of the conversation in a larger context.

As a backend engineer who took a job where I also have to do frontend work, it took me a good six months to learn what you just summed up.

A good UX design really helps to highlight the context that the user is presented with, and it's much easier to iterate over and find gaps before having a hefty backend in place.

You can show a frontend design to your team, have them go over it and find edge cases you haven't considered, show it a manager to get early feedback, and then have confidence going into the backend work that you know the scope of what needs to be done.
I'm unable to read this article. Any way to bypass the "create an account to continue" wall?
I'm using express, and currently "good ol' brcrypt" (your [2]) for the reasons I mentioned and because it is battle-tested, as you say. On the "battle-tested" note in particular, I am not confident in my ability to evaluate the trustworthiness and technical competence of most of the libraries out there. And while something like this[0] provides algorithm recommendations that I trust, there are no specific implementations referenced. "Good ol' bcrypt" is widely referenced enough that I feel comfortable using it, and I would also feel comfortable using node's built-in scrypt, except for the shortcomings in its api that you and I have already mentioned (aka "things that I do not want to concern my employer with once my contract is finished").

I think it's fine enough if I stick with bcrypt, and that's what I'm planning to do, but I saw this was on the front page, so I opportunistically made the comment hoping that someone with experience in this area (e.g. tptacek) might see the question and jump in :)

[0] https://latacora.micro.blog/2018/04/03/cryptographic-right-a...
How do they charge egress for this?
The premise of my argument is that the end user is barely affected either way. There is potential harm to the web ecosystem by making the stack more complex and I am questioning the rationale for tolerating that harm is since these fundamental changes are being mostly driven by the specific use cases of large corporation, not the needs of the greater community.

You’re right no one is forced to adopt this new web stack and for that I am grateful. Given recent events I will likely not adopt google’s web stack.
It wouldnt be uncommon to have multiple indices and one that is "Crypto ex-BTC ex-ETH"
But if you need to ship twice as much unpackaged as packaged you're harming the environment in other ways.
And yet we wonder why people get Alzheimer's and Parkinson's left and right. We look back at leaded gas and think "holy hell were people stupid back then, and man, BP knowingly preferred that over less hazardous solutions just because they already had a patent on it" when nothing has changed today.

I threw out all Teflon pans years ago. When the dishwasher finishes I do an extra 15 minute water-only run, same with laundry. Im torn between thinking it might make things a little bit better for my health, and feeling like a sad clown in need for a tinfoil hat. Assuming a lot of soil is already contaminated and thus food that I eat, what I do is probably irrelevant.

Also

> President-elect Biden has promised fast action. But he also placed Michael McCabe, who oversaw DuPont’s successful effort to dodge regulation of PFOA and introduce a similarly toxic replacement PFAS compound, on his EPA transition team.

Really disappointing. I guess for the people, Biden is still the better outcome than Trump, but the Democrats would have deserved another slap in the face.
That article makes no sense whatsoever. And whoever wrote it doesn't not understand what they're talking about.

SMT is designed to boost performance in multitreaded workloads.

It can be thought as multitasking for a CPU core.

Using two threads for one benchmark and use one thread for another, it is not comparing single core performance.

Because why wouldn't that CPU schedule the load on other cores?
The post does mention Azure's Arc and Sentinel, but definitely should have called out Anthos specifically.

The interesting part of this to me isn't so much that other solutions already exist -- Azure and GCP, due to their catch-up position, have always been far more conciliatory toward the reality of other cloud workloads than AWS. It's that AWS is signaling, however grudgingly, that they will have to play ball with other clouds in order to stay ahead. That's a big shift.
You are really bringing this to the next level. Love how easy it is to use the product.

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Considering that I don't have kids and feel the same, I'm not surprised by OP. Depending on your commute and chores, that's not so crazy. Of course as someone without kids, I have way more time, but if I cook a dinner and do chores... There's also overhead and time spent overwhelmed. You can work harder, and take less breaks, but that's the rub. Being a flurry of constant activity burns people out.
In my opinion, she is being very unfair to a lot of her colleagues by not telling the whole truth and at the same time making very serious accusations. She sent email to large group of employees which violated some standards expected from a manager by Google. She is giving all the information except for what exactly she did. It's ironic that she is in "ethics business" but at the same time not realizing that it's unethical to withhold what she did while launching attacks on everyone.
I really can't wait to see what they'll do in the desktop space. For all the gushing reviews the M1 is receiving, it's worth remembering this is their entry-level machines.

As it stands right now, I have an 18 month old 27" iMac with 64GB ram and an AMD gpu - and an 8GB M1. And I'm preferring the M1 for almost any task that doesn't demand the real estate.
The T14s is great, but just needs a 16:10 screen. The new X1 Nano has that and is my ideal form factor, but it’s still Intel only.
I mean, sure, but if you have a 4K display, you want your machine to output 4K at a decent refresh rate.
Time to stay home.
Exactly. Intel is hardly being left "in the dust."
Is it? Apple controls the keyboard and camera. Why only prevent terrorism or child pornography at the app-level when you can stop it at the os level?
cos(x) and sin(x) are just the unit circles applied over the 2-dimesnional real + imaginary axis.

Because x^2 + y^2 = 1 defines a unit circle, if you perform x^2 + i * y^2 = 1, you get a unit circle over the real/imaginary planes.

Or to put it in a picture: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Eu...

Remember the definition of sin / cos: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Sine_and...

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Once you realize that "the imaginary axis" is just an arbitrary 2-dimension extension field (and that "imaginary" is a very bad name for it), it becomes way easier to see.

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Now if you had a 3-dimension graph (real, imaginary, and time), and then you project the unit-circle over the real + time axis, you get a sin (or cos) respectively.

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Or to put it another way: there's a periodic nature of i:

* i = i

* i^2 = -1

* i^3 = -i

* i^4 = 1 -- Cycle-length 4

* i^5 = i

* i ^ x = i^(x mod 4) (In general)

This period itself forms a circle, moving from real-to-imaginary and back. (e^i^x) = (e^(ix)) therefore is periodic as well. And the most natural periodic cycle is a circle (which is of course, just sin/cos).

To make this "period 4" into a proper circle, multiply by pi/2.

i^(pi/2)^x == period 3.141592.... or the "circumference" of the unit circle.

e^i^(pi/2)^x == e^(i * pi/2 * x). Done.
This has been going on and known for a few years now, why would it change in the upcoming year?
You know this won't happen.
If they can really crack the PC laptop market, Intel is really in trouble. They lost phones, are losing Mac, are slowly losing cloud/data center/HPC, and if they lose PC that's about it.
The lenovo x13, which comes in intel or amd variants, is closer to the XPS13. I have the prior generation x395 running pop_os and it's fantastic.
Does it need to be a big deal to wait a few minutes at the deli counter?

In our rush to maximize everything for efficiency we are causing numerous small problems that are adding up, a tragedy of the commons and loss of our humanity. Our culture seems to value efficiency above too much else.
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the laundering of billions of dollars is usually done in, dollars which are totally anonymous rather than a transparent blockchain that transmits all your transactions to the feds.
Many IT companies provide their employees with a two screen setup and more recently with the availability of Ultrawide screens you can replace 2 screens (1920 x 1080) with one ultrawide (3440 x 1440) and the first thing you notice is that HDMI 1.4 can't feed the ultrawide at 60Hz and to make it work you need to make some ugly hacks and downstep the refresh rate to 30Hz even though the monitor supports 75hz native refresh rate.
So crypto funds can follow hedge funds in demonstrating how well they’re underperforming the market
Those two things are not equivalent.

In the case of overly vague terms of service, people agree to them because there are essentially no options or alternatives.

Sure, it does not help that people agree to them without thinking about it. Which is somewhat similar to people spending money without thinking about how much they have.
I mean, most of the actual work-work Gebru did was investigating to see if a bias existed in certain things. As we do more things or as those things change, that testing will have to be expanded or at least repeated.

An ethical review is like QA, you never really "finish" it unless you stop developing altogether.
Completely agree! Probably going to 28 :-)
Self-driving robotaxis are taking off in China
YesScript2 addon in full-blocking mode (in Firefox).
This is funny because when I was in school being taught navigation, we were told that celestial navigation would basically tell you where you were half an hour ago, because doing all the math with trig tables and a slide rule or log tables (forced to learn how to do it without electronic calculators), it would take about 30 minutes to reduce a star sight to a position on Earth surface.

So now we use that algorithm and you've just calculated where the ship was a few hours ago :-)
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