skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The site is so remote that, after a two-hour drive from San José del Guaviare, a team of archaeologists and film-makers trekked on foot for around four hours."

So...not remote at all? This is less remote than the typical national park over there.

The snake danger is overstated as always, for extra sensationalism. Snakes don't hunt people. Unlikely attacks are defensive, when provoked, and virtually always happen domestically. The death rate after an unlikely bite of the top 3 most dangerous snakes in Colombia is in the range of 1-3%. Not 80%. And surely when you see it, it's easy to avoid.

"The territory where the paintings have been discovered was completely off limits until recently and still involves careful negotiation to enter safely."

Given the nonsense in the rest of the article, likely another exaggeration. Even in areas of Colombia declared red (= do not travel to in any case), you can just go. They are giant areas, where locals know exactly the 95% of the area safe to visit. Where nothing has happened for many years, with zero rebel presence. Just avoid that 5%.

FARC is gone and ELN focuses on sabotaging infrastructure. There's no interest in visitors or tourists. The latter has been true for about 2 decades now.

A true and real risk over there is running into somebody in a forest doing something illegal (narco, logging, gold mining). Then you de-escalate, pay, and wish them a good day.

None of this dismisses the beauty and importance of the discovery, just triggered at these constant falsehoods about Colombia and sensationalist writing.
P means you occupy all CPU time on a tabletop machine as opposed to normal computers or mini computers for which you share literally single CPU with multiple other users over VT100
Just about every sales rep I've interacted with couldn't solve their way out of a wet cardboard box. Instead, they'll sing whatever lie they think will get you to buy a product, up to and including promising functionality that later when you get the lead engineer on the phone you are informed "it was never designed to do that".
> even in the event of hospital overflowing, the measure should be to increase capacity, re-distribute to other hospital, don't admit people who only have mild symptoms.

The trouble with this argument is that the limiting factor is ICU nurses, and they can't be spun up on demand.
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There is no right for sure, just Microsoft is big enough and friendly to allow such model. Big Corp I work for was extremely hostile towards my intention to reduce work hours to 32 weekly. After European HQ intervention it happened, I made some enemies during the process. And when third of the group left this company I was forced to do 40 hours again.
Starlark is _almost_, but not quite_ Python, and Python 2 at that. You could do everything Starlark does in actual Python and get stuff like static type checking for free.

I think the term DSL is overloaded here? Consider all the Lisp and Ruby stuff that's definitely DSL but doesn't need most of a language implementation.
This is what I thought the article would be about: You get to be startup-rich not by convincing people to buy your product, but by convincing investors that people will buy your product. That's a much different sell, and you can ride it multiple times for a long time, getting rich without ever making a sustainable product. Your product, essentially, was selling hope (later turned to regret) to investors.
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It's a good point.

The speedometer is just:

- left: Evangelism
- right: Advocacy

The Medium visualisations are nice and would be an interesting/useful way of visualising Back in 2016 I used https://epochjs.github.io/epoch/
I agree with regards to lock-free not being faster than lock-based, but that:

> replace threads with separate processes that communicate via ring buffers

does not follow at all. Interprocess communication is always more work to set up and less efficient [1] than interthread communication. The only thing separate processes gain you is enforced memory protection.

[1] Different processes need different TLB entries, while different threads in the same process do not.
> ... std::atomic<bool>. This tells the compiler not to elide reads and writes of this variable, ...

If I'm not mistaken, this is not true. The compiler is still allowed to elide reads and writes on atomic variables. (For example merge two consecutive writes, or remove unused reads)
e = SUCC d # lol
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My understanding is that for ZFS, things like this would require a mythical feature called "block pointer rewrite", the same feature required to implement out-of-band deduplication.
Not to mention Homebrew and associated packages.
But if i already have a dedicated server room for sure i dont pay Amazon to use theirs, that just makes sense if your full on AWS already.
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Also, I think it relates to the point people arguing for Fahrenheit make that 0C and 100C aren't as relatable since they're related to boiling and freezing points of water compared to 0F and 100F which would be more "human" temperatures. So the joke is that this is one case where it doesn't matter.
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In most countries there is no policing of corruption and in some countries it is essentially legal and described as lobbying. I think the resistance to these new technologies comes from the situation where decision makers are paid adequately to never put such ideas forward. Fusion could turn many countries economies upside down so they have an incentive to steer away anyone at any cost.
There is no current scaled up artifact of a REBCO magnet. It's highly expected that one can be created, but they're not rolling off a production line right now.

There definitely wasn't one 10 years ago, nor were superconducting tapes expected to become viable.

So what exactly do you think anyone would have been building if we were investing in fusion 10 years ago? What would "hundreds" of small scale devices be if we tried to build them today? With a technology that is being kept proprietary and this unavailable for use?

Again: we have a whole bunch of small scale fusion devices. This is what the article here is talking about! And until very recently all of them suggested the same thing: you need an ITER sized reactor to be able to get suitable mean free paths, and that Q is going to be all about the b dynamic manipulation of plasma at scale (which is what ITER is setup to study).
the word trigonometry comes from the greek word "trigono" (triangle) and "metro" (count) which quite clearly describe what trigonometry covers: counting triangles (ie sides and angles). Its history dates back to at least the ancient greeks (if not more/other civilizations, I do not know). Linear algebra is a different field of mathematics which focuses on solving systems of linear equations which has a LOT of applications (even in other non applied mathematics). I think it is better if you do not try to think one as part of the other.

trigonometry provides the trigonometric functions, their relationship and a few basic equations. Linear algebra provides vectors/matrices. You need both of them to model 3D objects and vectors interscting with them (aka rays hitting objects)
I'm disappointed.
In C I can get a 1k Hello Word binary simply be writing

int main(void) {
puts("Hello World!");
return 0;
}

The Rust version is a mess [0]

[0] https://github.com/mcountryman/min-sized-rust-windows/blob/m...
Humans cannot sustain focus and productivity for extended periods of time. At 40 hours you're in diminishing returns.
Perhaps, but I'd certainly take increased leisure time over increased GDP, and I'm sure I'm far from the only one.
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Depends on line of work - ie in software development, definitely not. In factory working on some conveyor belt, definitely. You will probably collapse from overwork at some point though
The word advent alone doesn't have any religious connotations to me. Christmas itself is celebrated and enjoyed by many irreligious people worldwide.
When I'm driving I'm way more worried about hurting someone else then actually getting hurt myself.

When I'm on a bike it's the exact opposite.

Now maybe my perception is wrong and perhaps my perception of the absolute risk is incorrect but it sure doesn't feel that way.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopsony

See the box at the top of article showing difference between monopoly, monopsony, oligopoly, oligopsony.

A monopsony would mean the buyer gets to dictate all the terms, and the seller has to sell at very low price. In this case, TSMC has something very valuable, and Apple is paying a considerable amount (presumably, I haven’t seen real numbers) to the seller to make sure no one else gets it.

In fact, TSMC is a monopoly, the only seller of a much sought after product.
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I think you accidentally swapped those numbers.
>Less production will result in less revenue.

If you visit any Unilever factory you will find they are heavily automated. They really don't need many staff to run.

The value creation in these sort of businesses has been shifting to knowledge workers for some time now. It would be foolish if Unilever and similar companies didn't start questioning all their traditional working practices.
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Those companies got value via selling products with a margin to their customers.
So, technically their customers lost money for those companies to gain money.

Not that there is anything wrong with that. Just pointing out how I think your logic is flawed.
The white marble statues were usually copies of more highly regarded bronze statues. But you can’t melt the marble down to make weapons so those statues survived
Time for a European startup to shine!
Jeff is not the richest man on earth for no reasons. Us humans are lazy. Who wants to manage hardware or walk to the store when you can click on the cloud ?
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Yeah, too many scary notes and warnings for me.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ZFS

I would need a package that depends on zfs and provides linux-kernel at an appropriate version. Can't have something so critical break because of an upgrade, and I don't want to pin it and forget to upgrade it (also fairly anti-arch).
TLDR of Talib's take:
The study says:
"We are not sure whether wearing a mask OUTSIDE YOUR HOUSE (but not at home) will give you more protection than distancing from catching Covid INSIDE YOUR HOUSE."
Statistically, junk!
Myst was definitely also a game. Damn those puzzles were hard.
I would love to exchange with you about it, is there an email or a twitter somewhere ?
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Wow! You sound miserable
> As an aside, thinking about this (and many other things) in terms of ordinal rankings will often lead you down the wrong path. "Top four reasons" tells us nothing at all. If there are 5,000 categories constructed and they are roughly evenly distributed, "top four" tells us nothing. If 99% of the probability mass is in #1, "top four" tells us nothing.

That is correct, but please note that it's still a significant component. In the 15-24 age group, the top 1 cause has 13.4k deaths, the top 2 has 5.7k, and homicide has 5.1k. That's not very far away in relative terms.
“The false premise that your argument relies on...” is best followed by pointing out a false premise, otherwise it’s a bit obnoxious.
Should ₹ be part of the Latin font subset?
I visited SF late last year and it seemed pretty nice to me. Note that I live in Baltimore.
They already have VPN support built-in, you can add a VPN connection via the Network system preferences screen.
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I mean what does anyone do at Unilever? Maybe consider a 1 day work week?
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Does Tor provide more benefit or harm? New paper says it depends
Curious why you feel the need to jump in to try to defend companies like this. He said nothing about macs other than they're trailing behind in video and cellular, nothing about the os or battery life.
> Why am I paying for the other 21 hours?

Unsure if you've seen the comments elsewhere in the thread but in case you haven't and this is a genuine question - because Apple's EULA forces Amazon to do this.
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Investors don't have regret when that happens, they count on it. They spread their bets across many small startups. It only needs one investment to succeed and the other dozen or so can fail. Most startups will and are expected to fail.

It's part of the game that you need to convince investors that you still have a chance in being the unicorn.
I agree with your sense, but I don't think this is on Facebook at all. The commercialization is driven by rights holders and advertisers mostly, which might be customers of Facebook.

That some users prefer the fancy is also not a problem because I think there is enough (virtual) space for both groups. I can use the open web as well as before, just have to know that the most viral content is probably not that great.
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This reminds me of a story I heard about Paul Erdos while studying graph theory as an undergrad. He is supposed to have said (not sure if this is confirmed or apocryphal) that if all-powerful aliens ever come to earth and demand that we give them the 5:5 Ramsey number, society should marshal all of its resources in trying to find it. If, on the other hand, they demand the 6:6 Ramsey number, we should attempt (hopeless as it may be) to fight the aliens.
Facebook did not have special powers to change the
rules. They built an especially attractive service
(judging by user numbers)

That is why they initially rose to dominance. They provided a faster and more focused version of what Myspace had become. More attractive, indeed.

They maintain dominance primarily through the power of network effect. You are free to switch away from Facebook, but doing so is useless unless a significant portion of your network switches as well.

FB's end user experience is still good (I'm talking strictly about their engineering and UX here, not their business practices and other board-level decisions) and they have expanded it by adding things like their marketplace. If that experience ever got bad enough I'm sure people would start itching to switch.

But as things are, a competitor would not merely need to be as good or even 50% or 100% better. More like 500% or 1000% better if they wanted to overcome the momentum of FB's network effect.
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Regulations benefit incumbents. That holds whether the regulations are national laws or corporate policies. When you make new rules, the established ecosystem adapts and doubles down while new players have a harder time getting started.
> But I’m more curious about your second statement. Could you back that up with some evidence? How is ITER’s management and leadership “MBA/Political”? Is it really different from the other projects’? Such a statement needs to be backed up with some evidence.

Maybe a bit conspiracy minded, but maybe the real purpose is to give nuclear physicists something to do, so that the brains to make nukes are still around in case we ever need to start doing that again?
You may discard Fantasy Football, but it is not easy to be a top player - there are thousands of people who spend a few hours a day practicing, and have been for years. It’s been a while, but when Magnusen rose from “not playing”’to the top spot it was impressive and unusual.

Emanuel Lasker was iirc a very noted mathematician. As I mentioned, this is from memory. I’ve known a person who had both made the national swim team as a 19-year old, and was a national bridge champion in his thirties (not in the US).

I don’t know to separate talent from work ethics, but my layman’s impression is that that these aren’t simple, and definitely not independent, measures across fields.
if I can have a scotch, I'm in!
Hack, according to Keynes we are supposed to be working 15-hour weeks by now. Four-day week is well overdue.

http://www.econ.yale.edu/smith/econ116a/keynes1.pdf
Not having suffixes helps too. AFAIK, on x86 to find the length of an instruction, first you have to decode the instruction itself (the decoding can vary depending on the prefixes) to know if it is followed by a modRM byte, then decode the modRM byte to know whether it is followed by an immediate or not and how big that immediate is, and only then can you know where the next instruction is. The modRM byte (and the SIB byte) can be thought of as a "suffix" of sorts to the instruction.

Contrast for instance with RISC-V, where the first byte of every instruction has everything necessary to know the instruction length (and you only need 2 bits of that byte unless your core supports instructions longer than 4 bytes).
In my company, we used to have a plugin for our bug tracker to automatically analyze .NET core dumps with WinDbg (if they were attached to a bug) and extract some useful information. We used to do this relatively often, for a shipped product, not a live service, especially if we found memory leaks.
If measured by that, then yeah same, pretty much all companies I've worked for have made laptops mandatory - it saves a ton in insurance cost and break-in risk.

There was one exception where we worked on desktop PC's at a bank, because they were very reluctant about developers taking code outside of their premises. Less of a risk of burglary as well because of better locks and a full time security staff. They slackened that policy off a bit after risk analysis and making full disk encryption mandatory at least.
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Marie Kondo of shipping: How serverless apps tidy up your life
Congratulations, you are not a statistical average.
Maybe you responded to my comment by mistake. I never claimed that it's rushed - I asked for evidence of it being rushed since that's what the original poster is concerned about.
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I can test migraines easily.
Walk into Walmart or Target, or my old office.

10 minutes and I have a full blown migraine. (Lights)

If I’ve been solid with magnesium that time goes to an hour or two.

FL-41 lenses will add an hour to time as well.

Many other triggers, but light is the most consistent for me.
We as citizens have a duty to keep politicians accountable - and that includes campaigning against those unwilling to educate themselves and getting rid of them.
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Maybe start the Mac CI monday morning, and fix errors then? Would lead to a more enjoyable weekend IMHO.
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It's a nice concept, but I don't know why we don't just have decent native browser support for Markdown. And even if markdeep is necessary, it shouldn't totally fail if JavaScript is unavailable.
It should be said that the methods were developed before he joined SpaceX and were used at NASA / JPL for at least on Mars mission.
A future of fact checking necessitates a future of narrative control. No thanks.
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Personally I'm doing very well, but this line of argument sounds an awful lot like "letting them eat cake".

I mean, the assumption alone that people never thought of something like starting a family is mind-boggingly idiotic and presumptuous, as it assumed everyone around is just a mindless NPC.
fwiw balena has a "public url" feature. still host your app on your raspberry pi and balena will give you a public url that proxies to your Pi. Simple for sharing apps with friends and family on other networks. Let's hope it doesn't make it to front page HN though >_<

full disclosure: I work for balena as a backend engineer
A casual conversation concerning causal inference (transcript)
Accurate modelling on such a detailed level becomes intractable due to long time scales needed for folding, and the presence of forces that are not adequately described at the "ball and spring" level of abstraction that molecular mechanics simulation usually employs.

Its better to abstract everything away by a neural net, apparently...
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The EULA applies to leasing the whole OS. I don't need a whole virtual Mac to run CI jobs. It doesn't sound like there's anything stopping anyone from offering a Mac CI job runner that gets shared with multiple organizations at the same time.
How is the web less free, just because
there is one huge social network that
people like to use?

It's not directly because of FB.

We are on the verge of a single company -- Google -- assuming de facto sole control of what used to be the "open web" as its last viable competitor, Mozilla, fades away.

This is possible because, generally speaking, nobody cares about the open web. Even most of us in the tech industry no longer care.

That is where Facebook comes in. We no longer care because companies like Apple and Facebook have successfully shifted us into the "app mindset" in which the open web is irrelevant.

I care deeply about the open web, but I'm a minority.

I would love to understand the downvotes on this comment.
I think you’re using the terms incorrectly. This is “Hardware as a Service” not a “virtual machine.” Yes, AWS Nitro provides extensive management services for both, but they are fundamentally different things even if you access them in similar ways.

The new instance name is “mac1.metal” just like AWS’ other hardware as a service offerings:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-ec2-bare-metal-i...
Nobody's looking for "less clicks" when choosing social media platforms. The product sold by a social media platform is its network of users. There are many alternative services out there that may be functionally equivalent or superior to the most popular platforms, but absent the powerful network externality that Facebook and the like provides, those competitors can't be counted as replacement goods at all.
I've found them hit or miss, because they rely so much more on good storytelling (and sometimes visuals). I quite liked Firewatch though. Pretty art-style, great writing and setting.
With out of order execution being apparently a big deal here, what are the odds of side-channel attacks based on this OoOE being found for this architecture?
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This does make sense. If you look at some post world war 2 projects like Dounreay managed by United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, things can happen. But with how advanced things are now, can a single government entity manage projects which will require skills from many other countries?
That would invalidate the byte offset. The intention here isn't so much printing the data as its location on disk.
This site shows an up-to-date list of (hopefully) all accredited non-profits which are currently matching donations.

I was motivated to make this because I found it difficult to find any resource for listing which accredited non-profits were currently matching donations.

The code for this site essentially cross-references all established non-profits on Charity Navigator with their associated Twitter handles and then uses their recent Tweet stream to determine whether they are matching donations.
What are the cons of having one of these vaccines?
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They wouldn’t have Apple’s IP relating to branch prediction, memory disambiguation, etc.