skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you can just point a phone camera at the keyboard and screen, record a video clip, blow it up into stills with ffmpeg, and then count frames

Even at 60fps, you should be able to see the difference between 30ms and 100ms. Newer phone cameras often have a "slow motion" mode that'll give you 120+ fps video, too

SOME people can see the difference between 30ms and 100ms, but it's almost impossible to actually see it. You'll mostly end up feeling that everything sucks and not knowing how or why.
Right, they're specialized and rare.
I've always found this a bit funny - why are people so concerned with input latency at the terminal? (I get why I care with a phone, or gaming). It's not like anyone's typing hundreds of characters a second. I use Alacritty, but mostly because I like the way it's config file works and it does nice font rendering. The latency thing barely even registers.
> I’m not sure what the average user would want from an upgrade

I'd like to see a new revision with an HDMI 2.1 port -- support for 8K60 game streaming (the nVidia 3090s support running at that resolution) and 4K120 support.
I wouldn't worry about global pandemics. They don't happen.

It's also worth keeping in mind that Amazon themselves are a poster child of this kind of thing, with their Oracle migration. If it took them a decade, what hope do you have?
Will Stripe indemnify you against inaccurate results?
I thought the GDPR is only valid in the EU. But the author is from Norway, which is not member of the EU. So how does the GDPR apply for him?
Sure, but it doesn't necessarily make it an objectively poorer product just because it's hard to swim against the current on that platform. Every platform necessarily has some expectation of doing things a certain way, and when things are done that way the experience will be better/easier.

You seemed to be implying that this was some unique problem with OSX and that's what is holding you back from trying M1. But really, it sounds like what is holding you back is just the normal barriers of changing platforms.

Personally as a Windows user I am hoping that Windows for ARM gets supported on M1 soon, but I don't think it's so unreasonable we're not there yet, and I am not going to discount the whole platform just because of it.
100% agreed. I'd even pay extra to get 60Mbps or higher bitrate streams to match blu-rays. The compression artifacts on the all of the major streaming services right now are quite noticeable when watching on a projector.
This seems like a fairly level-headed bill that recognizes that organizations that create stablecoins are not materially different from banks, these coins aren't materially different from dollars and therefore should have to follow the same rules as banks.

We can have a looong discussion about the regulations that surround banks but that doesn't change whether these entities are banks.
It's done Arm's brand a power of good with the sort of people who read HN and that's probably the audience that they care about most.
Not on your guitar obviously, but on the furnace or in the oven, 500 F or 260 C isn't very unusual.
The fly episode of breaking bad comes to mind.
My main issue is conflating the potential for an approach to technology with something like, say, Bitcoin specifically. Yes, many blockchain applications exist, but that doesn't translate into profits from investing in cryptocurrencies.

I've always liked the saying 'sell pickaxes to the miners' - rather than investing in the virtual gold, why not sell things to those who want to go find it? The real winners will likely be the companies who facilitate things (much like active trading platforms make money while the options traders on them often lose money overall).
Fermented foods like Sauerkraut as well
Definitely not true. "Competent developer" is sufficiently specific. Role is just an instance of the class job.
That’s the direction all central banks are headed, although the ECB is ahead of the pack. I expect the Fed to get there with the same delays and feet dragging US financial infrastructure is known for.

People want stable currencies, not the ability to transact day to day with volatile commodities having no intrinsic value.

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/html/digitaleuro.en.html (“A digital euro”)

https://www.bis.org/publ/work880.pdf (“Rise of the central bank digital currencies: drivers, approaches and technologies”, pdf)
But I think that in case something isn't working you would get support from MicroG, or not?
The pattern of people that would seek to promulgate this bill is that they believe the "unbanked" are victims who can only be cured by banking them.

This is a distortion and perversion of what representatives and their constituents really want, which is financial security and access to credit.

They lack inspiration to see that the infrastructure being created in the non-bank private sector is also aiming to create a more egalitarian system, which does not require banks.
What is a “stablecoin”? I’ve been around the block a few times and have never heard this term before.
What I don't understand is why nobody discusses this from the point of view of academic freedom and research integrity. My boss says "retract your paper" and I retract my paper? In what dystopian sci-fi novel? That's just mad.
Wikipedia says that powerball is out of 69 balls, not out of 50, and in the U.S. there are only about 100 draws per week. I cant imagine the worldwide numbers are more than an order of magnitude higher (I guessed it at 200/week in a sibling comment). That’s 7.5x more potential draws, and 5x-35x fewer draws per week, which would change the numbers quite a bit, making the weekly chance way way lower than your estimate.
Why bring race into this?

Is it nonsensical emotional junk used to move the uneducated masses?

I'm no Trump supporter, but when I hear something so disconnected from policy it has a "Mexico will pay for it" vibe.

Edit- you guys read the article?
Lost I can forgive. Magic Island answers a lot of questions.

Battlestar Galactica on the other hand? Cylons had a plan my ass.
It is true, just not as often as we would like it to be. No “justice system” (informal here) punishes perfectly.
I bought a 165Hz gsync screen years ago for gaming.

I bought all of my other high-refresh screens because wow computing feels so much better in the day-to-day desktop because of it! Not joking in the least.
In America, class isn't just about how much money you have. It's also about what accent you speak with, where you went to school, and very obviously what you look like. Many people who aren't necessarily familiar with how this works have an idea that money is all that matters, and that e.g. a black woman has the same opportunity as anyone else to attend the right schools and speak with the right accent and then get a high paying job at Google, and thereby enter the highest level of the professional class. But of course, you can see in this very thread many examples of how someone who has done all of these things can be considered to not have earned the right to speak out or have academic disputes with prominent people.
It is kind of complicated. Alcohol was also causing massive social issues (hence calls for prohibition). More social issues then drugs cause now basically.

So it was more of big fight of two parts of public.
Huh. From the description, it sounds like CoroBase is essentially doing hyperthreading, except at the software level? Interesting.

From the paper's results, it also looks a lot more effective than most brute force prefetch optimizations usually are.
Twitter updates 2FA support (TOTP and U2F)
Congrats you just created debit cards.
Rarely, yes, but there are some. I also think you could say "new startups rarely have pedigreed founders". Like any business class, most new entrants try and fail.

I like a long tail, because it means there's a better correlation of profit and skill in being able to (sometimes) predict a company's future. When everything is a bit safer across the board, you can't convert wisdom into money at quite the same rate.
how is that the same? having more spots after the decimal is not the same as having more in front. cut an apple in half you don't have 2 apples, you have 2 halves. 21 million total bitcoin and breaking them apart is not the same as printing 5 trillion more dollars.
This sounds very interesting, so I tried reading some of the math in https://github.com/sipa/minisketch/blob/master/doc/math.md (I'm not great this kind of math).

In my understanding, a Bloom filter, while being O(set_size), nonetheless has a small multiplier for the linear factor (in the OP I think they mentioned using 10 bits). As I read the PinSketch setup, it looks like it would actually need the full bit size of the set members, so for SHA-256 you need the full 256 bits per set member. So while PinSketch would only need O(symmetric_difference_between_sets), the element size factor is ~25 times larger?

And also, in the example from the minisketch readme, it looks A still needs to send the full sketch (not just the symdiff) in the first message, right?

In other words, there are a bunch of trade-offs here that might very much depend on your application?
That’s incorrect. The H1 visa is by its terms a temporary work visa of limited duration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B_visa. It was created in the 1952 INA. In the 1990 INA, it was split into the H-1A and H-1B, but continued to be an non-immigration visa, as distinguished from immigration visas introduced in the 1990 statute: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1990

“Dual intent” is the “administrative fiat” I was talking about. Both the 1952 and 1990 INA define an H-1 worker as an alien “who is coming temporarily to the United States to perform services.” Non-immigrant intent is a prerequisite for the category. Since the 1952 Act, the INS adopted a fiction of dual intent to turn the H-1 visa into a de-facto immigration visa. However, the State Department didn’t recognize dual intent. When an H1 visa holder filed an immigration petition, the State Department treated that as signaling intent to immigrate, in violation of the H1 terms. When the visa holder travelled, they risked not being allowed back in the country, causing significant hardship.

With the INS having backed Congress into a corner, the 1990 INA included a narrow solution to eliminate the specific hardship and maintain the status quo. But it didn’t change the fundamental nature of the H1 visa as a temporary immigration visa. It’s still a temporary non-immigrant visa in the statute, as distinguished from immigrant visas which are also in the statute. The committee’s legislative history for the 1990 INA makes clear that Congress was just kicking the can down the road and alleviating that specific hardship without reconceptualizing H-1B as an immigrant visa:

> The difficulties encountered by those seeking temporary admission who have also expressed a desire to immigrate at some time in the future have caused severe personal hardship as well as inhibited frequent travel to the United States for business purposes. This has been particularly onerous for the beneficiaries of H and L visas. The Committee [on the Judiciary] sees no useful purpose in denying temporary entry to the United States for business purposes because of an inability to show that a residence abroad will not be abandoned. Such presumption of immigrant intent in particular circumstances creates purposeless, but often insurmountable, barriers for the prospective employee and the employer. For all categories of nonimmigrant visas (including the H and L), the bill provides that the filing of an immigrant petition cannot be a factor in determining whether an alien intends to abandon a foreign residence. The Committee notes, however, that the consular officers may rely on other evidence indicating the possibility of overstaying a visa, such as records of past visits to the United States.

If the H1-B was “meant as a path to permanent residence” the whole “dual intent” thing would be meaningless. The only reason you need “dual intent” is because the law still requires H1-B holders to have non-immigrant intent. It’s a kludge to deal with the fact that Congress can’t actually muster the votes to create a real skilled immigration system.
My mistake. But I think it might be similar to the ADA rules since the website specifies documentation only for emotional support animals or psychiatric service animals, so I assume

>Airlines can request specific documentation and/or 48-hours advance notice for emotional support animals and psychiatric service animals.

Also, I assume that Dept of Transportation website is now out of date with the newest rule changes requiring only service dogs.
What I don't get is why can't this occur via a massive deposit on the front end, that the landlord can then itemize and prove when the tenant moves out? Rent forces all people to pay a monthly charge for their pet, regardless if their pet is a disaster or well behaved.
Most distros have install time dependency resolution, such as yum/dnf using libsolv. Repos are a collection of packages alongside metadata tables containing package versions and their dependencies. The tables get cached locally and are used to resolve dependencies prior to downloading any actual RPMs.
Agree re:CAPE. Meanwhile, people are ignoring the relatively attractive valuations of small, value, plus developed and emerging ex-US markets. While retail investors pile onto overvalued US stocks, these are now slowly catching back up and starting to get ahead. Funny thing about all of this to me is that people are always fighting the last proverbial war. Ten years ago, US stocks and tech in particular were in the doghouse - no one was buying them then.

TL;DR A lot of investors buy high and sell low. We're seeing that now with crypto as well as US stocks.
It's a cryptocurrency whose value is pinned to a traditional currency because the organizational backer is willing to issue and redeem it 1:1, but it can be traded using cryptocurrency mechanisms.
But this is technology, where the usual rules don't apply because we're smart and special.
Those interested in this thread should also consider the posts by the user "anonytrary" while commenting this article in this context.
Not having a roku app is a deliberate choice. It's not like this is some engineering failure. Hbo and roku got in some sort of fight, I assume hbo wants to be paid by roku.
I'll just say it: They don't pay enough.

Someone who can pass their interviews and earn $300k in SF can just as easily earn $150k in Mayberry. And that $150k goes a lot farther in Mayberry than $300k does in San Francisco.

I'd gladly work for them if Zuck promises that I can remain in Mayberry while I draw a Facebook salary.
The value vs USD doesn't change.
Any member of Congress can propose a bill, including bills that have no chance of passing. Most bills go nowhere. Flagging this as off-topic.

See these posts by dang for why
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
It's easy to pick a winning strategy when everything is going up. If that's the assumption you're using for your investments though (everything has been going up, so it'll keep going up) then DCA still probably isn't what you want -- it'll underperform even dead simple strategies like a diversified buy and hold nearly always. My point is that when choosing investments if you have any theory at all as to what the market might do (and if you don't, why are you investing?), you ought to choose a strategy which based on that information brings you close to your goals, and secondarily it's worth pointing out that in a broad variety of pretty ordinary market conditions DCA is not a good choice.
Depends on the people. $180k + $80k is only $260k. It's enough to get a house at $1m but you'll be somewhat house poor. You have to assume they haven't been saving at $180+$80k that entire time unless you're assuming they're late 30's.

9% down isn't common for Bay Area btw. 30-45% of all homes are bought with cash (higher value the property - higher the all cash offer %). Do you think those numbers are like that in other parts of the country? Do you think you can get by with <10% down for a jumbo loan? The people I know who bought here have either paid all cash or had to put down even more than 20%.

We haven't even discussed what a $1m home gets you here. I wouldn't buy a $1m home here. You will not get a nice home or neighborhood. Minimum $1.5m to break into the decent neighborhoods. Want something resembling what the rest of the professional middle class has? At least $2m+.
Imagine if it stays as is. A ruin of a former empire, something for future historians to explore.
The point of law is to serve the nation

Is it in the nation's best interest for you to hire the best person? or to hire a tax payer?

It's not old school, it's self protection.
Honest question: in 20 years would you prefer to own a 21 milionth of bitcoin (1 bitcoin) or 21 milionth of gold (~8kgs of gold)?

Not thinking about the value of it, but of its future usefulness as value store and as mean of payment
What purpose do you need to hire that developer for?
Yes that's what the reply suggested. However the business requirement is that the row_id should be unique, such that looking up a row by ID is guaranteed to have 0-1 results. A unique constraint on (row_id, time) doesn't satisfy that.
>> Groove wasn't exactly a chat app either

> Neither are Duo and Meet, which were in the list of supposed Google chat apps.

Duo and Meet were video chat apps, which seems to be a part of "chat apps". You did include video chat apps/meeting/conference apps in the Microsoft list.

Groove is more like P2P Google Docs is maybe the closest Google analog. You wouldn't include Google Docs as a chat app would you? (Although I do know some folks that use it as such.)

>> Kaizala is in the process of merging into Teams, and the Lync line (last Skype for Business) is considered to have already merged/migrated

> I don't understand. The entire thing we're supposed to be mocking Google for here is that they launch chat apps, and then force users to migrate away. Now you're saying that all these Microsoft ones don't count, because they've either already killed them and forced a migration, or are already in the process of doing so.

I wasn't saying that they don't count, I was simply furthering the conversation on exactly that sort of semantic question, and relatedly also this one:

> Hangouts was the chat part of G+, so I think it'd be double counting to include G+.

While the clients are nothing alike and there's a backcompat break in the servers, Lync/S4B provided the foundations for the tech that became Teams' voice and video chat. Does that make Lync the "chat part" of Teams? (Hangouts was also a briefly separate "product" before G+ and then again briefly after.)

Kaizala I don't know anything about directly, but what I was reading suggested that it has a ton of features, especially for bandwidth limited networks, that have never been a part of Teams before whenever the merger is supposed to happen and those features are added to Teams. When those features merge, does that make Kaizala a part of Teams? Supposedly (according to sources cited by Wikipedia) Microsoft has even been considering a "powered by Kaizala" sub-branding on those features, for the target users. If there is a "Kaizala part" of Teams, is that double counting?

> And second, nobody forced Microsoft to buy Skype when they already had a popular app doing just the same thing, which they then killed to make room for Skype.

Windows Live Messenger and Skype lived side-by-side for several years and Microsoft at the time was criticized by confusingly marketing both and keeping both alive. From what I saw as an outside observer, WLM died by its own hand and a death of a thousand papercuts. Skype, too, seems to be on the long path of killing itself with self-inflicted papercuts. I do admit both of those sad tales seem politically similar to what we observe of Google's chat efforts. That's two products I definitely feel are comparable to all that.
It doesn't. This is like asking what percentage of international level pop singers live in the US. Definitely not 100%. Even considering baseball players the proportion isn't 100%.
> I just don't like the almost-religious overhyping of everything Apple. They're doing a great job. They're not perfect.

I'm in the same boat as you and the other OP up-thread. I'm amazed by what M1 has accomplished, but less so because of what it represents for itself (and for Apple) and more that it shows ARM is capable of.

As an architecture, ARM is impressing the Hell out of me as of late. Sure, it's not touching Intel and AMD in terms of raw performance, but once you start looking at the performance-per-watt, the story is absolutely different. x86's power budget is looking awfully bloated by comparison.

What happens if NVIDIA's acquisition of ARM goes through? Do they start producing their own CPUs?
Aricebo isn't the only radio telescope. The message is already sent, we have other installations that can listen.
The existence of companies that have voting and non-voting shares allows us to measure how much voting is worth. Google's non voting shares trade at basically the same value as their voting shares. Berkshire Hathaway's reduced voting right shares trade at basically the same value as their full voting right shares.

Whatever drives the value of shares it's not voting rights.
Paper cheques and Bank of Banks [Nov'20 edition]
What a shame that the flight attendants are either

1) so scared of their management that they won't listen to people explaining the masks are filtered or

2) simply unable to understand that a non-standard mask could have a filtered exhale valve (which is much safer than a cloth mask for others, too).

I had the exact same thing happen to me on 4 different flights, with the flight attendants becoming very aggressive. I brought a short note with a diagram of how the filtration works, and pointed it out to them, and they just told me "sorry, Mayo Clinic guidelines say you can't wear that." This was on United, American Airlines, and Delta.

The tip I figured out on my last flight was to wear a hoodie that covered up the respirator on the side, and then wear two surgical masks over the respirator in front. Haven't gotten a second look since then. I don't think this would be possible with the narwhal mask (unfortunately).
From Jeff Dean's email:

> Timnit co-authored a paper with four fellow Googlers as well as some external collaborators that needed to go through our review process (as is the case with all externally submitted papers). We’ve approved dozens of papers that Timnit and/or the other Googlers have authored and then published, but as you know, papers often require changes during the internal review process (or are even deemed unsuitable for submission). Unfortunately, this particular paper was only shared with a day’s notice before its deadline — we require two weeks for this sort of review — and then instead of awaiting reviewer feedback, it was approved for submission and submitted.

> A cross functional team then reviewed the paper as part of our regular process and the authors were informed that it didn’t meet our bar for publication and were given feedback about why. It ignored too much relevant research — for example, it talked about the environmental impact of large models, but disregarded subsequent research showing much greater efficiencies. Similarly, it raised concerns about bias in language models, but didn’t take into account recent research to mitigate these issues. We acknowledge that the authors were extremely disappointed with the decision that Megan and I ultimately made, especially as they’d already submitted the paper.

> Timnit responded with an email requiring that a number of conditions be met in order for her to continue working at Google, including revealing the identities of every person who Megan and I had spoken to and consulted as part of the review of the paper and the exact feedback. Timnit wrote that if we didn’t meet these demands, she would leave Google and work on an end date. We accept and respect her decision to resign from Google.