skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was interesting. You carefully outlined a clearly delineated issue and the poster conjured up some overarching philosophical point and responded to that instead.

I bet it was like dealing with Amazon all over again.
That's precisely why there is a control group.
What if you only have linux computers at home and can't run their spyware?
When we arrived at Nikola headquarters, we were told we could record everything. The idea was to get the word out on social media that the company wasn't a fraud.
...like when you see German museums talking over and over about the "period of migration". First time I saw that it took me a while to understand what they were saying...

"Oh, that's what the Anglosphere calls //the barbarian invasions//".

(...or, I think every country has a statue of its native son who invented the television. Some are people I'd never heard of.)
I refer to July 31, 2020:

https://news.yahoo.com/fauci-shoots-down-flawed-hydroxychlor...

Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-Mo.): "it was peer reviewed"

Fauci: "It doesn't matter. You can peer review something that's a bad study."
how does that hot temp get controlled?
I remember some math classes that did it well: send students home with original assignments to do proofs. I guess it's theoretically open to having someone else do the assignment, but so are lots of other things. Because I could just sit and attack the problems like problems, without massive time pressure and my every action monitored, I enjoyed those assignments and exams.

Similarly, in CS classes, I always enjoyed assignments where I got to go write a program to do something. Again, it could be cheated, but so could lots of other things.

The fact that some students cheat shouldn't ruin classes for everyone else. Since cheaters do lower the value of a degree, maybe universities should start taking legal action against them instead. Provide a huge disincentive without messing everything up for the majority of students.
The first two are content farms optimized for reaching top organic search positions. They get most of their revenue from advertising and selling consumer services. The third one is an actual hospital and research facility. Most of their revenue comes from selling medical services. The fourth one is a federal agency with the budget set by the government.
At how many seconds we will have fusion reactor ?
Another south asian with a fetish for making the worst parts of their culture seem like a norm. No, your uber driver is not the same as a serf sex slave your family can afford to enslave. God damn. What's next, some idiot saying college degrees are just white people with a caste system? Is divorce just white people satisfied? There is something deeply rotten in south Asian culture.
Usability and perfect forward secrecy. Usability is observable empirically: I was able to easily onboard everyone I text with to Signal, but getting them to use PGP has been completely intractable for years, even with tools like mailvelope.
The vast majority of structures in the protein data bank are determined by crystallography, which involves putting the protein in a chemical cocktail that causes it to crystallize. The cocktail is very different to the chemical environment in which the protein functions, so an open question is whether the protein structure determined by crystallography (and hence learned by AlphaFold) is representative of the structure in it's natural environment.

It would be very interesting if there was a way to use computational techniques to go beyond what crystallography and other experimental techniques (Cryo) can accomplish and determine the protein structure in it's true biological setting. Some research into experimental methods for this include high power X-ray pulses.

Nonetheless, impressive work!
it's easier to think:

first one, and then the other.

at temperatures that high, there's nothing really relatable to what most of us have seen, so it's much easier to think in "abstract" terms.
Easy there, before you start foaming. In case you blacked out after the first paragraph, they mentioned that site.

> The site is in the Serranía de la Lindosa where, along with the Chiribiquete national park, other rock art had been found. The documentary’s presenter, Ella Al-Shamahi, an archaeologist and explorer, told the Observer: “The new site is so new, they haven’t even given it a name yet.”
The main problem is that receiving a credential and receiving an education are very different things that we do at the same time out of tradition and convenience. When testing was easy, it made sense to lump it in with teaching, but now that testing is impossible, I say we ditch it for the time being.
Wait until reddit is fully captured by the groups that do that sort of content marketing.
Example from the article:
f = drop dup dup × swap abs rot3 dup × swap − +
Anti-glare coatings help somewhat (eg. most flagship Thinkpads seem to ship with them, though there’s a glossy 4K display option presumably for content creation & consumption).
No, I think that's not precise enough because you might think Delaware Bay in New Zealand, company number 4234998. Weird that you wouldn't clarify this.
DMCA works on any Internet property operated by a US-based entity. Amazon.com is operated by Amazon US. You might run into issues trying to DMCA Amazon.com.uk but for the top-level main US site you're fine. Note that you must not overstate or misrepresent your case in any way, and you are strongly advised to seek a lawyer since this no comment on this post should be considered legal advice.
As always, path tracing is not ray tracing.
My naive assumption would be that 4c big + 4c little would perform better than 4c/8t all other things being equal (and assuming software was written to optimize for each design respectively). Also no reason you can't have 4c/8t big + 4c/8t little too.
I'm confused, because that seems backwards to me? How can He exist within time and space if He created the universe (including time and space)?
Perhaps they're confused by the images you submitted. In the image with the man's hand in his pocket, the 'copy' has details that don't exist in the original:

- More of the man's hand and shirt cuff

- Seams on the front of the shirt and trousers

So, at least at first glance, it seems impossible for the left image to be a copy of the one on the right. Perhaps you had previously used a more zoomed-out version, and they copied that?
Probably should check Abner's guide, but the P6 is still the rough blueprint for everything (except P4) that intel did since.
What do you mean "more open spaces" than a suburb?

Who makes a buying decision about where to live based on "random desks"?

Surely working comfortably from home primarily depends on all the usual factors that determine which home you move into, which for almost all buyers will have nothing to do with living near other remote workers. Where is the value?
Europe! Deweaponized! HAH!

Compare the murder rates of Detroit MI, Cheyenne WY, London, and Shanghai, and then tell me which city has a weapon problem and which city has a culture problem, or both!
This is precisely what I said to one of my professors this semester and thankfully they were reasonable and didn't use Respondus for either of the exams like they had planned.
Reading over the comments here makes me chuckle a bit because it proves the author's point: "Error handling is hard". I don't think any silver bullet solution has been invented yet.

I'd like to see error handling supported in a transactional way, which at least would roll things back to a clean state before the error happened. Of course if you performed an operation which cannot be rolled back, then so much for my great idea.
Lascaux has human figures. It's pretty common.
Hm. Nietzsche would seem to be in the lead there.
"there's plenty of ubiquitous surveillance happening in the Sprawl Trilogy. Marly's pursuit by Virek in Count Zero springs to mind here."

But that's an exception, only made possible by Virek's virtually limitless wealth.

When Marly becomes aware of this surveillance it's a shock to her, because she and most people in that world are not used to that level of surveillance.

Contrast that with today's world, where most people know they're being tracked and surveilled, but are ok with it, or even willingly participate in surveillance of themselves.

No one today would be surprised to be told they were recorded in public (due to ubiquitous cameras in public places) or that someone knew where they were (due to the tracking built in to their cell phones).

Gibson did not foresee this.
I feel like we need a SpaceX for Fusion, someone willing to fund and build a whole bunch of SPARC reactor prototypes of various sizes quickly, with the understanding they may or may not work.

The Nature Papers on ARC show it's almost sure to work. So it's rather disappointing it'll take 5 years to build SPARC, and then another 10 for ARC. Seems to me the primary problems are manufacturing and scaling components like REBCO. Someone like Musk would look at this and go "ok, first thing, let's build our own REBCO factory, and even mine the materials if necessary ourselves to get cost efficiency". They're still approaching this as "big science" project, where they don't want to fail, and they're gonna subsist on grants and as much off the shelf providers as they can.

Given the climate crisis, the government should be doing the same as they did with the CRS for space, award DOE contracts of $X billion for a working reactor, dole it out to people doing SPARC or Thorium Molten Salt (LIFTR) designs.

The innovation rate in Fusion is way too slow, we need to build and fail a lot more rather than sink $22 billion into multi-decade projects like ITER.
> [we] have a TINY amount of the wealth in comparison to older generations[1].

This is 100% true, especially compared to the home ownership rate of past generations at younger ages, 25-35.

The home ownership rate among people 25-34 and 35-44 now is significantly lower than a few decades ago.

[1]: https://www.zillow.com/research/homeownership-rate-us-housin... (from 2016 so could be a bit different, but still relevant)
[2]: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/30/homeownership-eludes-million...
> South Korea's fusion device KSTAR runs for 20 seconds at 100M degrees Celsius

Maybe I'm being paranoid, but given what 2020 has been so far maybe is not the best year to tinker with 100M C fusion devices ;)
The Polgar sisters are the counterexample:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judit_Polg%C3%A1r
As someone who volunteered for the AZD12222 trial and who has various "co-morbidities", I consulted with 2 of my doctors beforehand. Given that none of the vaccines being tested are live virus vaccines (meaning there is 100% no way to get COVID-19 from the vaccine, unlike say, the polio vaccine), and all had already passed Phase 1 safety trials, they both put it as (paraphrasing): "It's a personal choice, but if you do it, thank you for helping science."

I think COVID-19 is perhaps different than many other types of diseases in it's mainly-selective dangerousness to select groups of people. A healthy 30-something is unlikely (but possibly) to have severe, hospital-landing COVID. Someone with various co-morbidities, however is more than twice as likely to die than someone without. As such, I think that makes it much more likely that this group will volunteer, than "normal" people. It's certainly what drove me to do so.

The only issue they seemed to really care about during the intake was immunosuppression. As another comment pointed out, as long as other medical conditions were stable, you were eligible. From the vaccine makers point of view, I'd surmise this group is almost desired (my personal opinion), as you're less likely to a have asymptomatic COVID infection, which given how they are running the trial are unlikely to get noticed.

I take great solace in hearing that among the people who got COVID even when having received the vaccine (I'm talking about the AstraZeneca one, which is ~70% effective), there were no serious cases that required hospitalization. This indicates that even among the "not-effective" group, the vaccine confers some immunity. For me, that bring the personal risk factor from "possible death sentence" to "just like the flu...it'll suck for 2 weeks but I'll be fine".

Obviously I don't know if I got the vaccine or not (though given I felt crappy the next day, I'm fairly sure I did), which as another commenter points out is what makes these trials effective. Neither I, nor the doctors I met with (nor anyone at the clinic where I received it) has any idea if I got vaccine or placebo. In fact, they even had the vaccine couriered over from another hospital pharmacy using only a numeric identifier so really nobody knows what I got.

Coming back to the original question, I think many people, especially with co-morbities might seek out advice before enrolling, but at least in my case, two doctors were all for it.

I'm thankful I enrolled, and I'd encourage others, especially those who are more likely to get severe COVID to do so as well!
But for people who do video editing on ThreadRippers and such, the new Mac Mini is a little, not-too-fat nothingburger of a machine.

Um, no pun intended but this isn's an apples-to-apples comparison. Most ThreadRipper CPUs cost more by themselves than does the entire Mac mini.

A 16-core ThreadRipper starts at 180 watts and costs more than the Mac mini at $699. Duh—it's supposed to be faster.

On the other hand, the Mac mini and the other M1 Macs are entry level machines that put almost all Intel and some AMD processors to shame, running at 20-24 watts TDP—so cool that the MacBook Air doesn't need a fan and the one in the MacBook Pro is silent.

From the AnandTech review [1]:
"The M1 undisputedly outperforms the core performance of everything Intel has to offer, and battles it with AMD’s new Zen3, winning some, losing some. And in the mobile space in particular, there doesn’t seem to be an equivalent in either ST or MT performance – at least within the same power budgets."

That's pretty good for entry-level, consumer hardware. The professional level processors should make things quite interesting.

[1]: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16252/mac-mini-apple-m1-teste...
Yeah, that might happen. I'd have to find an alternative in that case. Whatever I replace it with would probably still be another highly centralized source though.
>Do... you actually have anything practical to relate it to at that scale?

I think was the point of his comment. That the number is so big the unit doesn't matter.
Sure, I never claimed it to be the be-all-end-all, just the only real source I could find. Adding "SPEC" or "geekbench" didn't really help.

Doing a little more digging, I have also found this [1], which claims "the results show that the average instruction length is about 2 to 3 bytes". On the other hand, this [2] finds that the average instruction length is 4.25 bytes.

Bytes per instruction doesn't really say anything useful for code density when talking about RISC vs. CISC though, since (arguably) the whole idea is that individual CISC instructions are supposed to do more than individual RISC instructions. A three instruction CISC routine at five bytes each is still a win over a four instruction RISC routine at four bytes each. Overall code size is what actually matters.

[1] https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.40...

[2] http://www.cs.unc.edu/~porter/pubs/instrpop-systor19.pdf
I joined 4 months ago.
And if you pick the right accounts to follow, there’s tremendous value, people that provide great mentorship and potential customers.

It definitely helps you take advantage of opportunities as well.
I wonder whether it's a sarcastic comment. Due to Poe's Law, I cannot tell.
IIRC the chip they sort-of released was originally meant for Amazon, but missed targets wildly, leading Amazon to doing one on their own.

Lisa Su put the kibosh on K12 for focus reasons, given how well Zen turned out it was the right call at least for now.
A Modest Proposal for Building the Future
Yes, important to keep in mind that revolutions always have their roots in civil war, and that's always brutal.
Wells: "it would have been almost as easy, no more costly, and far more interesting to have taken some pains to gather the opinions of a few bright young research students and ambitious, modernizing architects and engineers about the trend of modern invention, and develop these artistically. Any technical school would have been delighted to supply sketches and suggestions for the aviation and transport of A.D. 2027."

True, to a slight extent. OTOH, Lang starting filming only 23 years after Méliès. 'Trip to the Moon'. It's quite a leap from a 12-minute short to spending 17 months and 5+M Reichsmarks to make a 151-minute monsterpiece. Is it over the top? Compare to US silents of the time (UFA partnered with Paramount and MGM for financing to finish it).

Imagine how Wells, a major geek, have moaned about the all the needless sentiment and emotion in George Pal's wonderful realizations of his greatest works? Compare them to his 1936 baby, 'Things to Come' with its cold, mechanical dialog, 'awkward pace and uninvolving characters'. I've seen Pal's dozens of times, 'Things' one-half time.
FWIW - it isn't entirely wrong, the wiki says: "Ringworm is a disease caused by infection of the skin by fungus, appearing as scaly, ring-shaped patches." then it goes on to describe it in Harry Potter

But yeah should be looked at!
Surely that's the most unsurprising thing in the world. I doubt there is a set of things that all currently alive people in the world find "surest, quickest, and most fulfilling".

And I'll set aside the fact that $30k in the Bay isn't rich in any form.
I think mRNA vaccines will be a big one too.
Here to plug the excellent: Fusion Energy Base by Sam Wurzel (prev Founder/CEO of Octopart, early YC founder).

This is a great article on measuring fusion progress:

https://www.fusionenergybase.com/article/measuring-progress-...
It's a difference in the community's engineering values. JavaScript devs pull in a dependency for virtually everything, whereas Python distributes an extensive standard library with the language. It's less important that the same thing is hypothetically possible in both communities and more important that specific communities have chosen to use similar toolkits differently.
All the "anti-cheating" (spying) software should be outlawed.
When I want to search "the best something", the query is always preceded by "site:reddit.com". It's really hard to get an honest review otherwise.

But considering how easy it is to game reddit I'm not so sure I can trust it anymore.

All r/hailcorporate I guess...
First as tragedy, then as farce.
About 3/4 of Microsoft Flight Simulator Players Flew Home for Their First Trip
I know a couple of people who go through these types of Reddit threads and embed referral links into their answers.

Quora is already filled with growth hacker answers.

We are more captured than we think.
Half hour compile of Webkit. Seems like a pretty good test. Faster than an 8 core Intel laptop, much less energy usage. 20% slower than 12 core 48 GB Mac Pro. So, per core performance is better than a desktop with a ton of RAM.

https://twitter.com/panzer/status/1328700636926332928
https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/17/yeah-apples-m1-macbook-pro...
So what happens if it touches something? Meaning, somehow, the magnetic field fails due to equipment. Would it be like highly corrosive acid going through material or a much more violent reaction?
> I also shop at Amazon because I have a degree of trust in Prime items and I've never personally had a painful experience returning something.

My degree of trust in prime is rapidly eroding and returning things is painful in general (because it's a physical item, not because it's amazon)
The article doesn't begin right but it is pretty reasonable once you reach the last few paragraphs:

"The real disruption would be something that renders the gig economy or servant class empty, because it lifts living standards for so many. Something that creates actual middle class jobs and lifts real family incomes across the board. In the past these have been government infrastructure programs, or opening up to free trade, or allowing more free movement of people. But those policies aren’t sexy and they don’t have an app.

But we shouldn’t mistake gig economy company’s for more than what they are. They deliver convenience, not prosperity. They touch millions of lives, but only in a superficial way.

As it is, however, the gig economy is a symptom of rising inequality, not a solution. For countries that haven’t had servants the difference seems truly revolutionary, but in reality they are just stepping back into the ‘developing’ world, hiding the ugly parts behind a gilded screen"

In a way gig economies are even worse than servants since the worker is squeezed out of productivity in the most efficient manner, dehumanizing them in the process. The benefits however accrue to the customer and the aggregator since the individual gig worker can't really scale.
If a guy is selling sandwiches on the street for $1 million and a hungry Jeff Bezos happens to wander by and purchase one, the sandwiches still aren't worth $1 million.
Just buy a bunch of totinos pizza rolls.
> As far as variable-length instructions, a separate Instruction Length Decoder sorts that out before decoding.

And how fast is that able to run on x86? How many instructions can that process at once, compared to an alternate universe where that circuit has the same transistor and time budget but only has to look at the first four bits of an instruction?
I suspect it has more to do with the incentives faced by those who set the speed limits.

I don't know exactly how it goes. If it's chosen (or heavily influenced) by politicians, I suspect politicians can win some votes by saying they'll improve safety by lowering speed limits (particularly around schools or other places where children might be); while they'd be less likely to win as many votes by saying they'll raise the limits (exposing them to the risk of their opponents calling them reckless/irresponsible). If it's chosen by non-elected officials, that's less of an issue, but something like it may still be there; or it may be that raising the limit and then there being a fatal accident will damage your career, while lowering the limit and irritating everyone will not damage your career.
Fuck grades.

They were already a problem in universities and this is their final and worst form.

University systems have the major problem that a significant portion of students are only there for a degree, and their participation is playing the game in order to get that piece of paper, and the GPA number rating them.

The core of this problem is the question “will this be on the exam?”

Testing of course can be an important part of learning, but making that the metric by which you decide to hand out degrees substantially damages the value of testing as a teaching tool, and damages the value of a university as a place for research and learning.

Another way needs to be found to sort students into degree worthiness.

Raising humans for the first quarter of their lives in a dystopian police state is not what anybody should strive for. We need to figure out how to measure people less.
Dang. He wrote great sci-fi for kids when no one was. I read him in elementary school, my first sci-fi reads.

and

Freaking Covid.
Details for some of the power supplies used for the superconducting magnets in the first plasma experiment: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5226386

And details about the magnets: https://www.osti.gov/etdeweb/servlets/purl/20261539

> The vertical load on coil system is estimated to be 330 tons for the coil weight and 320 tons for vertical disruption load.

With some incredible forces that can be generated by the plasma.

> The lateral loads in tokamak could be generated by plasma disruptions and localized halo current flows through the plasma facing components (PFC) or vacuum vessel. The estimated peak lateral load in KSTAR is about 1.3 MN