skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So a long time ago, my wife broke her leg badly enough to need surgery. After she was up to it, I took her out to a movie. Got her out of the van, into a wheelchair, into the theater. We sat through the trailers, and were just about to get to the movie that we actually wanted to see...

... when our oldest called, saying that our youngest was throwing up, and we needed to come home now. All that work (way more work than usual), and we never got to see the movie. If we had been watching it at home, we would have just paused it.

On the other hand, if we had been watching it at home, we would have been watching it with the kids, not just with each other. That's fine, if that's what you want. But if you want some time together as adults, it doesn't work.
If there were carbon taxes, plastic taxes, or more generally if the externalities were priced in this would be less of an issue. Plastic would still be used where it is economical, or where it is really needed, but cardboard, paper, and other materials that can be recycled or reused would be cheaper and more common. Glass jars or wax paper could both work, but currently the glass is more expensive than plastic, and wax paper would probably give a shorter shelf life. And these taxes don't need to be for 100% of the cost to change behavior.
Its depressingly ironic how intolerant OPs comment is to the conversation.
Towards a browser inside an editor inside a browser
I'm aware of that practice, and that's why I would hope that we could build something like the often talked about USPS bank, or whatever, so everyone can have equal access to real banking with no predatory practices.

Not that any gig companies are doing this yet, or even thought to do it, but I just don't like the idea of this being done in a "company scrips"-like fashion, there are some things that should be totally nuclear to the touch, and tying even more of your life to your company (in the USA you have medical, housing, food, etc. tied to your work) should be nuclear.
From the response, it was more like "I want you to do X otherwise I'll resign", and google said "ok, cya". Curious the author isn't willing to publish the actual email, just the management's response.
I think this isn't nearly so bad as forcing an early termination of two weeks notice.

I had a job pretty recently, was senior tech and was eager to please, which ended up meaning having to take the hard/after hours calls no one else wanted to handle. It also meant I eventually became the only on-call tech for over 4 months straight. This in turn meant I knew the most about all of our accounts, knew the most about their systems, scheduling for jobs as well as subcontractors, I handled it all, right down to installing the CCTV systems at our new location, single handedly.

When I decided I'd had enough of being taken advantage of and being lied to, I gave my two weeks notice.

They assumed I was going to work for a competitor (I wasn't I was taking some much needed personal time), and they fired me on the spot. While walking me out they also informed me that since they had my resignation letter if I tried to claim unemployment they would use it to claim I had resigned. I didn't care as I wasn't in need of unemployment I was just even happier now about leaving. They were rude, talked down to me and belittled me all the way out.

2 hours after I left the calls began 'how do we' 'how does this' 'this job's permits' 'how do we log into'. I politely told them to fuck off. They even went so far as to have other workers call/text me asking the same questions ver batim.

I will never again give 2 weeks notice unless I have in writing they must give me 2 weeks notice upon release for any reason other than something illegal.

This person offered an ultimatum and their employer made a choice. I just don't think its as bad as early termination of 2 weeks notice.
“I think a lot of the emotional support animal shenanigans are simply people not wanting to cargo their pet and not having the time to drive them across the country.”

That’s what we did when we flew to Germany with our dog last year. Too many stories about pets dying in cargo. Our small dog just sat on my lap the whole time and a lot of people and children stopped by to pet the dog and give treats. I think it made the flight better for all. But we knew that she wouldn’t make trouble and wouldn’t have taken her if we had had the slightest doubt. I guess some other pet owners go on board with problematic animals.
Laptops have outsold desktops every year for the last decade+. The M1, being a mobile friendly chip, is addressing the larger market. People may not care about power usage from the wall, but they do care about battery life.

Also, the fact that the M1 is even being mentioned along with a desktop powerhouse like the threadripper says it all. The M1 is the lowest end mobile Apple Silicon. We know higher end mobile chips are coming along with desktop ones. The M1 has put all the chip manufacturers on notice, much the same the way the iPhone did (to the point RIM thought Apple was lying about the iPhone because they thought the device was impossible).
Then you and I are different kinds of people. Don't get me wrong, that moment would have been enjoyable if I watched it for the first time on my phone by myself. However there is a heightening when you get to share some experience with a crowd of people who feel the same way you do. That applies to movie theaters, concerts, sporting events, and numerous other communal events.
Some theatres like Alamo have strict rules and enforcement around it. I stick to theatres that I know are rather quiet and enjoyable.
>There's no equivalent to the curtain to remove the possibility of bias

Other companies have tried. Names and vitals deleted from resumes before any people involved in the hiring process see them, remote interviews conducted over IM or with voice masking. That's one benefit I see with the much-maligned leetcode-style interviews, is that your identity is completely isolated from the process until the very end.
The whole narrative has changed over the last few weeks too.

"Fastest chip" uhh well no..

"Fast for this one thing", yeah it's 0.1s faster opening that program no one ever said was slow.

"It has good battery life"

So this is the new narrative? Are nerds constantly fighting back against Apple marketing and they are adapting?

Usually their marketing team just insists over and over. Maybe because this is actually measurable (unlike privacy and security) their legal team is holding the marketing team back.
It didn't trigger based on warranty, it was specific circumstances. If an in-warranty battery was sufficiently degraded, it would trigger the throttling, and an out of warranty device with a healthy battery wouldn't.

> This performance management works by looking at a combination of the device temperature, battery state of charge, and battery impedance. Only if these variables require it, iOS will dynamically manage the maximum performance of some system components, such as the CPU and GPU, in order to prevent unexpected shutdowns.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208387
If you “ran” the most worker-centric paradise, you’d be the elected CEO of a co-op where the workers had democratic control of the means of production. In such a place, there’d of course be no need for a union because the workers would have the say in what happens already.

Now your strawman benevolent dictatorship could never exist since you would still be denying workers control over their workplace. Thus they may form a union to fight for that control.
Bitcoin is scarce; the consensus mechanism makes it prohibitively difficult to change the supply. It's barely even possible to do widely desired protocol upgrades; anything more is simply out of the question. The scarcity is far more secure than any fiat currency.

I think it would actually be easier to increase the supply of gold via asteroid mining than to increase the Bitcoin supply. That doesn't require consensus and will probably happen someday.
Hello! Emails to work@supabase are getting kicked back. I've been working on something similar for hobby use @ apime.dev since the pandemic started and would love to chat :).
when's the sunset planned for?
Underrated post. Would be interesting indeed.
> she needs the fastest gear she can buy on her budget.

> Apple M1s are not it.

If a person had a $1000 budget, they could by an M1 equipped laptop from Apple. Is there something significantly faster at that price?
I remember a radio host ranting that in his flight there was a lady with a pony as an emotional support animal, there was also a joke about a guy who registered a swarm of bees as emotional support animal. I wonder if that was the case that forced these emotional support animal in planes.
I found this particularly telling:

>But now there’s an additional layer saying any privileged person can decide that they don’t want your paper out with zero conversation.

Decisions in megacorporations are made in one direction, from the top on down. If this is her main point of contention, I sympathize but that's what you get for joining one of the largest corporations in the world. It seems both parties will be better off without each other. I hope her research won't suffer for it.
Yes. That's what the Open Rights Group are doing, and they want donations to help with it.

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/help-us-protect-your-data...
You definitely can pop off the last layer in the loop stack, but my particular pedal seems to require another accessory in order to be able to do that (there's a separate pedal you attach to this one).
It’s misleading to say that WASM has no registers in the virtual machine. Function locals behave very much like a static set of registers. The stack machine is mostly used to encode expression computations but ultimately data shuffles around through locals and not through the stack.

This is evident by the lack of “dup” and “swap” instructions which are critical to passing data around in a pure stack machine.
Manawyrm/ISA8019 – RTL8019-based ISA network card, NE2000-compatible
Humans have an incredible way of elevating their universal importance to hold the conviction that an alien species capable of receiving such a message and actionably responding would have any desire to do so, let alone that the loss of one observatory would leave the species thinking that they were being ghosted and that humans are assholes. We're really nothing more than flatlanders at this point and we need to work on our humility toward the situation.
Hopefully google will come to their senses at some point and stop creating roles within the company where the job description is to tie the company's shoelaces together
I'm really sorry that happened. We've invested a lot this year in making things smoother (incorporation is faster than ever and our Atlas support team has scaled up), but I'd like to see what went wrong in your case—and if we could prevent it from happening again. Could you email me at edwin@stripe.com?
I always understood the memorization part as a stopgap to truly understanding them.

In the same sense that doing this work by hand will build depth of understanding, I know that remembering the trig identities came before really understanding their relationships. And that also came far before I could truly understand Euler's formula, radians, etc.
> HTTP/3 is not running over TCP port 80

Yes, obviously it's not TCP, and obviously not that port. I explicitly stated "UDP->QUIC->HTTP3", which is only inaccurate because HTTP3 is an implementation of QUICv1.

But it is still running over port 443. So my point is exactly the same. They refuse to change the port so that nobody has to agree to implement something crazy, like a new L4 protocol, or worse. (HTTP/3 does supports the ability advertise additional ports besides 443, but so does HTTP/1.1, in "Location: https://someurl:442/" redirects, and still nobody has ever used anything but 443 for production)

> Look, we’re dealing with people here. You can’t just say “we’re dropping this thing you’ve been using for years, effective immediately”.

But we are saying "All the clients [that effectively 2 companies control] will be using this new thing, so unless you want to be left behind, grandpa, get on the bandwagon." There is plenty of muscle to start the process of upgrading legacy crap. Over 5-10 years we could get 90% adoption of an entirely new network stack. But we have to actually start going there by writing the standards with that intent.

QUIC is a good start, but from the protocol stack's perspective it's a hack. 10-15 years ago, it simply would have been a new revision of SCTP. But the design is being pushed by an advertising company that just wants an 8% reduction in traffic so they can increase their shareholder dividend. They don't give a crap about evolving the stack to actually improve computing as a whole, which is what the standards are really intended for.
Yes, it's possible to destroy or transmute gold, but as you already stated, it's prohibitively expensive thus with respect to scarcity it might as well be impossible. Yes, that might change in the future but there is no reason to believe that it will.
Twitter Is in China’s Pocket
I think the variable of interest with crime is poverty, not race. Rich black people don't commit more crime than rich white people.

And we DO discriminate economically in our neighborhoods - people move to wealthier areas where the opportunity cost of crime is higher and better schools + better police make crime unattractive.
Architectural analysis of the chip [0] suggests it is a massive improvement as a general purpose CPU, not just because of Apple's vertical integration and streamlining.

The magnitude of extra ROB entries, having an 8x wide instruction decoder, that massive L1I cache, and such fat cores with lots of ALU and other op units while simultaneously keeping over a 3GHz clock is a phenomenal architectural improvement overall.

Apple may not need to add more RAM locally. Other silicon designers like IBM with POWER10 are moving to serial memory with massive "L4" caches, seen previously with their Centaur memory controllers. I can see Apple using OMI or a similar serial memory bus to add extra memory, using 16/32/etc GB of PoP RAM for caching reads and writes to slower off-chip memory. I expect Intel and AMD will eventually move to a similar memory model, at least in server grade hardware.

[0] https://www.anandtech.com/show/16226/apple-silicon-m1-a14-de...
I do not understand your comment.
This is also a great way to get ADB to run on chromebooks.
I'd say "not for me" rather than "not good". Presumably they're for somebody. Netflix gets no jollies out of producing a bunch of content that nobody wants.

There are a lot of people out there, and Netflix is like a catalog of the different kinds of things they can want. It's hard producing content that hits me personally where I live, and I'm always grateful when they do. It happens a few times a year.

I'm glad other people are also getting their stuff. Clearly a lot of people are finding enough to make them happy. I'm sure Netflix would love to produce more shows that manage to hit a wide range of people. I think that they did bottle such lightning again with Queen's Gambit.
But for every moment like that, there are dozens of times I've been in a theater and people have applauded scenes that don't really deserve it or are totally unnecessary. It gets old. Or it's the same people who have seen the movie in theaters three times already and know the lines and jokes by heart.

99% of the time I just want to watch these films at home. I'm glad it's going to happen.
That's pretty awesome and now Im regretting my Roku TV mounted to my wall.

I want HBO Max, but thus far only if available on said TV. Yet now with this I might get a Fire stick or a Chromecast.
From article:
In total numbers this means around 3,000 more Swedes have died in 2020 than ‘normally’, which is less than half of the number of people who has officially died with/from Covid-19.

This to me is a strong indication that the Covid-19 pandemic more than anything has moved forward deaths by weeks or months rather than by years and it is an indication that Covid-19 to a considerable extent has ‘replaced’ other ‘normal’ causes of dead among the old such the flu or
pneumonia.
This made me think of Miyazaki's Nausicaa.
I work in research, and citation count, especially of a single paper, is such a dumb metric for evaluating performance. There are about a million reasons that one paper gets cited over another that don’t have to do with quality.

Does the same paper get 1000+ citations if it were published in 2010? Or even 2015? Probably not.
Good point, that also took a bit of disentangling for me.

As such, I find it really quite baffling that someone would be unwilling to share that scientific feedback with her, or who raised it.
It's also because Microsoft half-assed their Windows-on-arm attempt. They made something akin to Rosetta 2 (x86 to arm translation) but only supported x86, not amd64. Apparently they are working on 64bit support, but releasing something half done doesn't inspire confidence. Even the 32bit support was reportedly not very good/fast, compared to Rosetta 2, anyways. If Microsoft steps up their game then I can see Windows on arm starting to take off, even if Qualcomms chips trail Apple's M1 in performance.
The issue is that being in a "not-union" isn't a protected class, so you could probably get fired for it after your employer sent the "not-Pinkertons" to do some intel.

To prevent this, you'd have to get your "not-Union" to either have huge solidarity, or lobby the government to make that a protected class.

Maybe if you went for the first you could make a song about it, how about "Solidarity not-for-finite-periods-of-time"?
How do you think May Day was celebrated?

The Haymarket Affair [1] which occurred in 1886

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair
> horrifying externalities like energy consumption and criminality

Opinion varies. For many people, being able to access drugs outside of government control (cancer patient victims of the opioid crisis), or receiving donations (wikileaks) is worth a lot more that the small drawbacks.

Same as due process and the "fruit of a poisonous tree" legal doctrine - it lets bad people walk out of jail, but overall I think it does more good than harm to society.

> Once it has the same constraints as traditional finance it offers nothing of value, and will wilt away on its own

Actually, at the bare minimum, it removes political control of the monetary supply, leaving only fiscal policy, which may enable better long term control of public deficit by implementing a Milton Friedman like rule (whether it's constant inflation, deflation, or nothing, all is good as long as it remains constant and predictable)

Given the long term inefficiency of the Phillips curve, and a lot of economic similar concepts, most economists would think it's for the better.

See also the founder charter of the ECB, which enshrined similar policies until politicians made it dance to their tune.

This shows the problem isn't our lack of understanding, but our lack of self control and long term motivation- just like kids with a cookie jar: we can't help it!

> if you trust your government you don’t need crypto

Hackers often fall prey to black-and-white thinking. Trust isn't binary, because you can't fully trust an organization made of people, regardless of how "good" they are, or which legal constraints they have.

If anything, look at HIPAA laws: even without them, you should be able to trust your healthcare provider, but if there're things you don't want out ever, you better not share them with your health provider regardless of the laws protecting the confidentiality.

Because leaks happen, even for whole countries sometimes (look at Finland mental health leaks)

This doesn't mean you have "0 trust", just 0.7 or something non binary.

We both know the ideal medical file would be encrypted with the patient private key, or would have some other mechanism of plausible deniability - just like how DKIM was denounced recently. It wasn't possible or even imaginable before we had the technology. Now that we do, it may take a while to get there, and the world will be a slightly better place.

Crypto is a similar small step for finance, and it may also enable most countries to use the same coin (because once monetary policy is out, there's little reason to use your own thing)

> we all know how 1984 ended yeah

It didn't end: we're right inside.

> Whatever. Makes no difference to me, once the harms are mitigated. JMHO.

You are so close to understanding, yet so far. I hope eventually you'll admit more complexity in your reasoning.
Wow, that’s a lot of memory use. Would you be willing to file a Feedback Assistant report with a sysdiagnose? Would like to see what’s up here. How many tabs is this?
most new products off-gas.
Decrease by 4%, AFAIK.

Upvoted your downvoted comment.
Emotional support animals require a prescription?
> So something I only recently found out myself is that there is actual no real requirements in order to register an animal as an "emotional support animal"

Yes, this is done to avoid the risk of running afoul the ADA and ACAA. Sadly this has gotten more and more abused in recent years.
> Does anyone have any quick checklist or metrics to make decisions like this?

I'm not a database expert in any way, but I've had to evaluate database options for both existing and new applications, and my "methodology" is as follows:

- Understand the workload

Is the database workload read-intensive, write-intensive, or both? Does the application require strong consistency? Does it require replication? What kind of replication? Can writes be batched, or are processed ad-hoc? What kind of read operations will you do, and what is the desired response times for those operations (ex. is 2s tolerable? 500ms? 20ms?)

- Scouting

Select a set of available options to benchmark using whatever criteria you may see fit, but following the previous step constraints.

- Benchmark

Create a somewhat simple model that fits your workload and models your real case, using the language you'll be using to build your application; Create benchmark code for the most critical/complex operations; Run it at least 5 times on similar hardware of what you expect production to be (this is important; eg. storage (both memory and disk) latency varies wildly between "my laptop" and a cloud provider) and record the results; Be sure to keep an eye on memory consumption, cpu and disk usage when running the benchmarks;

- Decide :)

Usual criteria:

* Price;

* Features (of course);

* Easiness of deploy or cloud provider availablity;

* Documentation quality;

* Driver quality for your application language (it may happen you already excluded a candidate on the previous step due to this);

* Query language familiarity;

* Performance;

* Adoption (translated to: can I expect a new developer to have the basic skills on this tech?);
Price Mechanisms for Marketplaces
I mean, Dr. Sagan has passed on.

But I hope Ann Druyan's taking it okay.
‘Battle for Middle-earth’ exposed stresses of game dev. They haven’t gone away
What makes those slides so special?
What if I want it alive and fresh, as in the article?
People using powerful laptops care about battery life, though. For someone moving from a "workstation"-class laptop, the M1's value is significant.
Same for me! I don't know if I just got grumpier as I got older, or the smartphone era happened to occur in the same time, but I literally dread going to a theater. Instead of focusing on the movie, I just realize how self entitled society has become.
It's a lousy use of the word "Open" in a discipline where Open has a fairly specific meaning.

I mentioned that as well though. Using your goofy definition of Open, x86 is no more "Open" than ARM. Pinebook and Raspberry Pi both use no bullshit ARM setups. With ARM, how accessible the architecture is is 100% dependent on the implementation which vary greatly by manufacturer.