skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. It seems possible that there’s something about the red ochre hand motif is hardwired into human brain and is related to language development. But on a time scale of tens of thousands of years, even if we somehow outgrew it as a species, it seems there would still be residual evidence.
"some financial ability" is not remotely the same as money being your main focus in life.
A magnetic field?
Not that I agree with the parent but isn't technically mRNA used to "hack" DNA to make it synthesize a specific protein?
Yeah, I'm in the same boat on this one.

I am just as in favor of fully open source hardware, software, the whole stack (heck, I'm a huge RISC-V nut), but I won't stick my head under the sand and pretend that I'd rather have a 10x slower, but FOS, machine.

I applaud Purism and other companies that strive to make a fully open source full stack, but I won't always have the financial freedom to purchase products that are either slower or less ergonomic than a closed alternative. It's sad, but it's pragmatism.
It's not reasonable to speak concretely about the result of multiplying a rough estimate by a large number.

Of course, I'm coming at it from a perspective where I don't think the potential deaths from the pandemic are obviously outweighed by other things that have happened since it started.

Much of the economic impact would have come regardless of government actions, and there would likely have been much more death if the spring pauses had not happened (there's been much time for people to make less costly adjustments, treatments have improved, etc.).
That surprising to me. I think you should keep it as you did something novel. At the very least as a 'bug bounty'.
This is a well thought out analogy but by the same token even though it might be nice to shrink the form factor even to watch size if you could but a lot of the space required isn't the machine at all it is screen and keyboard in which the pickup truck or van style input has an enormous advantage.
It worked even finer for those who paid someone else to do the test for them.
Thank you. I hope that’s the case but I’ve escalated the issue for the last month with no follow-up from Amazon.
does anyone have digital scans of the rock face? would love to see the paintings.
Crazy strong EM fields to make sure that the plasma doesn't get anywhere near anything!
None. dboreham has it right -- all the confinement is done magnetically or photon pressure. Stars do it through gravitation.
> It turns out that soldering parts in place makes them less likely

You've obvious never heard of MBP BGA chip solder ball cracking and rendering the whole device useless...
Fair point. I forgot about the PXA line. I suspect, however, more of the IOP & IXP embedded processors were sold.
> Is there any evidence

Well that's the rub for future unknowns. You don't know what specific issue you might be concerned about until it happens in the future. People in 1930 couldn't collect evidence for super bacteria as it was an unknown at that time.

FYI, I'm getting the vaccine and trust the test results. Just pointing out unknowns are hard to provide evidence for or against.
To be clear, no relation to the E language?
>Is this GPT-3, trolling, or just honest stupidity?

What if it is neither?
Lenovo ThinkPad or dell for Linux is fine. Lenovo run their QA off of Ubuntu live USBs.

AMD is traditionally better for desktop GPU support but either is fine.

Particular hardware doesn't really matter these days, just check the manufacturer website / reviews. Level1 techs on YouTube cover Linux support well for various mobos.
RethinkDB founder: “don't hire a hot young girl before product market fit.”
How to pick startup ideas – defmacro
Kotlin doesn't have checked exceptions, so being able to do it in Kotin is irrelevant.
Here you go: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a2/e4/cb/a2e4cb366c802776412e...
Oh man. I almost got through this with Python before some planned huge life change took over last year. I just couldn't get the final bit figured out but maybe this is the universe telling me I should attempt debugging it again :). Plus, not 24h ago some Michael Abrash notes were featured here on HN.

For anyone curious, I implemented it at https://github.com/skytreader/praytracing in a way that's Pythonic, more software engineer-y, with experiments on the code outlined in the comments. It also has no dependencies (save mypy) which means it could turn your computer to a radiator for a short while, perfect for winter.

(Also used it to benchmark and experiment with PyPy, but that's another story.)
> For example, the delay in the decode stage itself scales quadratically with the width of the decoder: ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/sohi/trs/complexity.1328.pdf (p. 15).

That's a decoder for a single field, where width of the field is the parameter it scales by. That would be instruction size or smaller, and instructions don't change size depending on how many you decode at once.

And logically once you separate the instructions you can decode in parallel in fixed time, and if all your instructions are 4 bytes then it takes no circuitry to separate them.

Also: "We found that, at least for the design space and technologies we explored, the quadratic component is very small relative to the other components. Hence, the
delay of the decoder is linearly dependent on the issue width."
Me too. I have been running full btrfs since at least 5 years (single and RAID1 disks), which no data loss whatsoever. Now that there is support for swapfiles, I do not even need to create a dedicated partition for them.
Ẁhile I agree the situation is ridiculous, what prevents anyone to do the same in Python?

I can publish is-even on PyPI if I want, is that Pip's fault?
They don't mention a datacenter id in the docs, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's changed since the docs were written: https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-ids

I implemented a .NET port of Snowflake where I work--being able to work with data without ever having to worry about an identity column is extremely freeing.
Here is a theory - survivorship bias. Humans made all kinds of things, but only small amount of it survived. Red ochre on rock faces just happened to be something that lasts a long time.

To expand on that I think there was a lot of self expression covering all possible surfaces. So the statement shifts from many human groups picked same thing to express themselves to multiple self expressive groups discovered ochre techniques and produced artwork that survived to this day. There were probably plenty of groups that did not discover that and none of their art survived.
Yes unfortunately this seems to be the case. Their incentives aren't aligned with the OP and sadly will continue raking in cash while screwing over sellers until they lose their monopoly.
My wife teaches CS (remotely right now) and I feel like a lot of the commenters here don't really understand what "cheating" consists of right now. The common vectors are:

- Finding an answer online (on Chegg), and copy-pasting it. For homework, this is super common. Unless you build every assignment from scratch each quarter, there will be an answer available online.

- Paying someone to take the exam for you.

"Let them use wikipedia" resolves like 0% of the problems people actually run into when teaching remote classes. The problems are when people cruise through a class with 0 actual effort, through a combination of looking up answers online, and getting someone to just sit exams in your place.
I believe the difference is that you resolve the error at the same point where you resolve a successful result, making it impossible for a reader of the function to, for example, assume that you can access a value after an exception was thrown.

MyType x = null;

try {
x = doRiskyThing();
x.doThing();
} catch(CheckedException e) { ... }

x.doThing();

This code makes it unclear where the exception is sourced from, and makes it seem like you can use `x` even in a failure scenario. In Rust, however:

match doRiskyThing() {
Ok(x) => x.doThing(),
Err(e) => ...
}

Here, it's clear where `x` is available and valid. You could even have the error path panic and merely return `x` if you wanted to use it later on in the method (borrow rules permitted, etc.)

A model that fits this more closely in Java is 'try-with-resources'.
Is that label typically applied to anyone not an ethnic Bangladeshi, or to people who aren't citizens of Bangladesh? E.g. if there's a Bangladeshi in India, would they be bideshi? Conversely, if there's someone who moved to Bangladesh from Pakistan but are current citizens, do they get that label? (this is to satisfy my own curiosity about identity formation on the subcontinent, not accidentally stumbling on some hot button political issue)
So do the students have any legal recourse here? Seems pretty invasive and I personally would not comply l possible but I'm not sure that would be an option.
Well done

I haven't logged in in years, but this was so well done.
> - Make the device last longer before it needs repair (reliability, longevity)

2016 MBP owners will appreciated the joke !
Of course there is. There always is after an ATH; it always crashes 70%+. In doing so, it'll reach new highs, and even the crashed amount will be likely higher than the previous high. The concern isn't that; it's those who get roped in close to the ATH out of FOMO and then lose substantially.
Unilever to try out four-day working week in New Zealand
Celsius units are so difficult to relate to... what's that in Fahrenheit?
I’ve seen something recently in movies and ads that says “you do you”, an impolite way of saying be yourself and do what you feel is right. Education is a personal goal that should be done for your own personal enrichment and future job prospects. If talking about a STEM Degree even more so as they are quite tough to get through and then pay off later. My grandmother got her PhD later in life and worked for many years after that. If you want it go get it.
Yep. I'm a bike guy myself.
> unless you invest a ton of money in a legal team to aggressively stop them

How much is a ton of money in this case?
Pandas Receives CZI Funding
Huge electromagnets. Perfectly tuned. With the power budget of a small town.
Hey, thanks for the response. Let's say I've done this first part – where would I then go to broadcast my landing page to the world?
>"But I’m also willing to bet you’re reading this on a phone."

I am reading this on my PC on one of 2 4K monitors. I use phone for a phone calls, off-line GPS and couple of specialized off-line apps.
The M1 is a 10W part, no? I would kill to see the 25W M-series chip.

Oh and the 10W is for the entire SOC, GPU and memory included.
Any reason to believe why this ATH is any different than previous ones? I can totally see it get to $100k. I can also totally see it crash back down to $30k. Some will still be ahead; many will buy in at $90k and be devastated, at least temporarily.
For those of us who went to University of Virginia, this seems truly weird. I was allowed to take my exam anywhere I wanted. In physics, a lot of us would just head up to the much more comfortable tables in the physics library to take our exams. If someone walked in wanting to talk, we would say, "Pledge" (that is, we were under pledge not to cheat on the assignment) and they would say "OK" and leave.

And then there were the take home, open book, open notes, you have three days to finish this exams...
I still don't get why they didn't use RISC-V. Sure, they have an ARM license, but running existing ARM software on the M1 doesn't seem very useful. Why not use the superior ISA?
Yeah we tried that.
It's not really enough for ZFS (unfortunately). It won't move snapshots, bookmarks etc.
no. DNA doesn't synthesize proteins.

Roughly: Protein descriptions are "read" from DNA into mRNA, which is then used by ribosomes to synthesize proteins. An mRNA vaccine adds additional mRNA with instructions to synthesize the vaccine-specific protein to the cells. So it uses some of the same mechanisms that are also used to generate proteins from DNA, but does not involve DNA itself.
Well, you don't need to take my tax dollars to give it to CalPERS so they can put it into Private Equity to get a 10% IRR. You can just leave it with me and maybe I'll put it in there myself.
I haven't been buried on HN for awhile so I will go ahead and present my opinion.

It's clear that the proper execution of anti-cheating is critical to avoiding a situation where the cure is worse than the disease.

Having said that, I do think that it is needed and will improve college efficacy.

Cheating in college has been an epidemic, with a majority of students surveyed saying they have cheated, and a significant percentage of those saying that it's acceptable.

If the courses are too hard or curriculum irrelevant or course loads too high, then those problems should be fixed. Cheating is not the answer.
Fixed Mindset vs. Growth Mindset
Just multiply by 2 for a poor man’s Celsius -> Fahrenheit conversion. 200M degrees.
The Disco MapReduce framework has a tag based distributed file system.

https://github.com/discoproject/discodb
Covid: Poor public health made pandemic worse – Ex-UK Chief Medical Officer
Since the conversion factor is about two: 200,000,000 degrees.
It does. Not sure how well it works though.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/createml
No, definitely not!

Still, risk homeostasis is (sometimes) a thing: people reportedly ski faster when wearing a helmet, drive closer with ABS, and stuff like that. I was just trying to pre-empt that argument.

That said, if this were a factor, it would be small and would make the trial results most impressive, rather than less.
At that temperature it's almost meaningless to compare the numerical value of C and F. But it's 180M F for the curious.
"his mistake was underestimating just how pedestrian both the tech and those uses would be."

Nah. Gibson pretty much nailed the petty, pedestrian uses. It's just that most people only remember the glamorous parts of his books.

Here's how Gibson described a seedy ghetto bar frequented by one of the protagonists, Bobby Newmark, the eponymous Count Zero:

"People paid to get into the place because Leon pirated kino and simstim off cable and ran a lot of stuff that Barrytowners couldn't otherwise afford to access. There was dealing in the back and you could make "donations" for drinks, mostly clean Ohio hooch cut with some synthetic orange drink Leon scored in industrial quantities..."

The failed heist that much of the book revolves around was Count Zero's own attempt to steal some of that "soft kino porn".

Can't get much more pedestrian than that.

In another part of the book, a "sorcerer" explains to Bobby why he uses a critical technology in the book, in terms Bobby can understand:

Vodou, he says, "isn't concerned with notions of salvation and transcendence. What it's about is getting things done. You follow me? In our system, there are many gods. spirits Part of one big family, with all the virtues, all the vices. There's a ritual tradition of communal manifestation, understand? Vodou says, there's God, sure, Gran Met, but He's big, too big and too far away to worry Himself if your ass is poor, or you can't get laid. Come on, man, you know how this works, it's street religion, came out of a dirt-poor place a million years ago. Vodou's like the street. Some duster chops out your sister, you don't go camp on the Yakuza's doorstep, do you? No way. You go to somebody, though, who can get the thing done. Right?"
Well they need to make electric cars then.
I haven't used any essay-checking or exam-taking software yet.

Even so, based on what I've heard from my immediate superior, I'm flagging somewhere between 10-20% of all of the plagiarism and cheating cases in my faculty.

It's not hard to detect (generally good writing mixed with bad on essays / the repetition of similar phrases by different students on exams), but it does take a bit of time to confirm and you need to write a some policy-consistent boilerplate to make it simple to take action.

Some here have suggested that we need to write the equivalent of "open book" exams for the online environment. I'm not sure that would be beneficial. It's still important to exercise your mental faculties. People who can recall information and reason for themselves are still more valuable than those who can cut and paste. Or to put it another way, you need to understand the math in order to wield a calculator well.
Most colleges offered correspondence courses in the pre-internet era. You did everything by mail. There was no proof that you did the work yourself; it was just a matter of trust. I took a required writing course that way because it never worked out to schedule it as a regular class. I think for some of the classes that had exams you maybe went to a local exam center where a proctor would check your ID and you'd take the exam. I don't know what they did if there wasn't an exam center conveniently nearby.
Compare it to what? People are going to people. Just because your continent doesn't have the same gun laws as the US doesn't mean there's any less crime - gun related or otherwise. There are quite a few Europeans that wish they had guns so they weren't stabbed, dashed with acid, or beheaded.
Do... you actually have anything practical to relate it to at that scale? If you're talking over 1M degrees, it doesn't much matter if it's C, F, Rankine, or whatever. It is fucking hot :P
One reason may be that some people are hoarders. It's in our genes, like squirrels packing away nuts for the winter.

Another may be that texts are like emails for some people, and some people have reason to save important emails. I know a real estate agent that does a ton of stuff via text.

I delete texts after I process them. If I get a pic I want to keep I save it and back it up on the computer. I don't really save emails, either (I empty my trash every couple of months)

EDIT: added email comparison
Because the behavior is merely described, not enforced. It's relying on everyone to obey the two design rules that: 1) only the writing side should close the channel and 2) only one side should write.

In this sense, it's as safe as mutexes: everything works as long as everyone (including any 3rd party library) does exactly what they're supposed to. When compared to what modern and robust concurrent programming looks like (e..g Erlang), it seems like a compromise to me
ZFS isn't really designed for local 'temporary' file systems (IMHO). You don't really need to nest checksums, create snapshots or volume manage when you're slugging pages between ram and nvme.
Temperatures seven times hotter than the center of the sun aren't exactly easy to relate to regardless of the unit of measurement ;)
You're only allowed to have certain ideas about certain topics. Step outside those bounds and the thought police will attack you.
What's the earthquake risk - are you close to any faults? That's always been my concern about the west coast.
Would really depend on what you do isn't it? If you are backend developer, I would say jump with both feet. If you are someone who uses adobe suite etc,
Linux is no substitutee for mac.

On top of my job, I do consulting for couple of places. I have two macs, but for my main gig, I use Linux. It's much easier/comfortable for me to code on Linux and do everything with terminal, write quick scripts and not bother with forced updates.
Yeah I bet there were hundreds of thousands of works of art painted on animal canvas or pottery, but due to deterioration did not survive.
Nice. Will this be on F-Droid?
How to Make Millions, by Having Buds?
This article starts by citing problems which could be solved using a more "open web." But then the author proposes their own centralized discovery service, Insight, as an aggregated platform for comparison. It seems pretty obvious that the endgame of this product would be just another Amazon. Why would it turn out any differently for the "curators" on the Insight "platform"?

Beyond that the author's specific arguments don't feel very convincing to me:

> Think about the last time you did some research, e.g. choosing a phone plan. You asked your friends, compared on forums, looked at the official sites, scribbled some notes and made a decision. Even if this journey was quick, you likely traversed a dozen services and products to do this.

The only site I went to is reddit. reddit is where I go to get on the ground crowdsourced recommendations (e.g. I buy coffee equipment by researching on r/coffee). In fact I avoid searching for this kind of thing widely, because I get a bunch of random blogs and content marketing sites of questionable provenance and accuracy.

> Over the years you keep shopping there, until you've forgotten that

- free 2 day shipping is now near universal
- amazon isn't often the cheapest place

Well no, free 2 day shipping is not "near universal." I still find most sites which aren't themselves backed by giant corporations (and even so which are!) don't even have multiple shipping speed options, let alone free 2 day shipping. I also have a degree of trust in Prime shipping and I've never personally had a painful experience returning anything to Amazon.
What fascinates me is the constant push pull between "Nanny State" and "personal freedom" - whereas you could easily frame this as another example of the social media regulation problem - companies exploiting human cognitive deficiencies for profit, against the "best interests" of individuals and society.

I think we have a long social debate / change ahead of us.
Don't ask customers about your idea
Maybe you simply misunderstand the P in PC. PC's have offered multiple user accounts historically because they were expensive machine that might be used by multiple people. Most devices at this point are liable to be single user but aren't less personal for having a function you don't need.

In fact even the iphone has a guided access feature https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202612 presumably partially so you can hand your kid the phone in a game and they can't accidentally share all your photos or spend your money.
Linus argued against it half a year ago.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/5/29/1038
So tech folks came in looking to get rich quick, creating huge wealth disparities which helped fuel the homeless problem and the associated social issues, but now that they can all work from home and is complaining that SF is now "a dump" they all picked up and left. Sounds about right.
Places to get free stock footage for your video marketing
Well, people tend to actually use it in real life.

edit: Signal protocol also has message deniability, future and forward secrecy. OpenPGP lacks these properties.
Yeah, sure is messy.
Rich people have the weirdest hobbies. There are surer, quicker, and much more fulfilling things I could do if I had $30k.
Trevor told Jonny Robb to stop posting about his behavior towards women, and in exchange he would give him $500,000. He told Jonny to come and collect $50,000, and that $50,000 would be paid in successive increments as long as he continued not to post. When Jonny arrived to meet Trevor he found that Trevor was with the police and it was a sting operation. He was arrested for extortion and possession of a controlled substance (weed + mushrooms in his car). When he was released from jail he took his own life. It's not 100% certain that Trevor first brought up the idea of a payment to keep him quiet, but that is my belief after talking to Jonny's family and friends as well as listening to Trevor's story in person.
His book "The Dueling Machine" based on a short story from 1963 was an early exposure to the possibilities offered by virtual reality [0]. Time to dig around the bookshelf.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/397658.The_Dueling_Machi...
From the perspective of a human observer, an AI more or less does exist outside of space and time. It can travel at the speed of light through radio broadcast (with some caveats). It can spend the equivalent of a lifetime learning a topic in just a few days.