skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep its simple

The more money you make, the better of a person you are, in literally every way - this is known as rule 1. So if the highest paid people work for FAANG, they must be the best people, so obviously the best humanity can do is 5 seconds to load a spinner.

At my lowly serf job, we are only able to make a web app that usually responds in <1s with a total of 8 low paid, middling, dull engineers working on many other things at the same time.
Keep in mind that the Internet actually has more bot traffic than human traffic these days. A 50% discrepancy between Google Analytics and access logs could be explained entirely by bot traffic with no ad-blockers involved.

It could be ad-blockers, though. And I want to emphasize a point you mentioned briefly: it very much depends on your target audience. An anecdote from several years ago, around with IE was still the plurality of traffic on most sites but no longer the majority. Two web properties run by the same company, with different audiences. On one of them, IE did not crack the Top 5 in browsers, and was actually outnumbered by Opera. On another, the entire Top 5 browsers were different versions of IE, and Chrome and Firefox combined were less popular than IE6, IE5.5, and AOL's browser (which apparently was a reskinned IE7).

The moral of the story is, what's true for everyone may not be true for you, and vice-versa.
When we were texting our tweets to Twitter a decade ago they didn’t respond with 200 random retweets.
There's only a concept and very basic simulations. I need help doing the initial rigorous analysis.
I don't know. GSuite admin panels used to be pretty fast in the early days --now it can become frustrating to use.
The linked article "How First Principles Thinking Fails" [0] , which states

"..But I think there's a more pernicious form of failure, which occurs when you reason from the wrong set of true principles. It is pernicious because you can’t easily detect the flaws in your reasoning. It is pernicious because all of your base axioms are true...In other words, the only real test you have is against reality. Your conclusion should be useful. It should produce effective action."

reminds me of the quote by Eric Zemmour:

"When principles are in contradiction with society’s survival then the principles are false, for society is the supreme truth." [1]

[0] https://commoncog.com/blog/how-first-principles-thinking-fai...

[1] https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/eric-zemmour-...
Also:

- labor laws (very hard to fire people in many European countries)

- lots of disjointed small-to-medium markets (with different laws and languages) make expansion on continental scale much harder than in the US
The typo is on the _first line_ of the _first page_. If that's not a proxy for a rushed and weak lawsuit, I don't know what is.
Walk to work instead of driving?
The World’s First Christmas Tree with Electric Lights
>What semiconductors companies did Germany , France and Spain built so far?

German companies like Zeiss build parts for e.g. ASML.
You're right on the money. We are for businesses that have outgrown those platforms.

We don't surface pricing now. We need to keep our pricing flexible since we don't force businesses to purchase our entire platform like monoliths such as Salesforce and Oracle Commerce Cloud do.

Instead of purchasing Fabric's entire headless commerce platform/product package, many businesses purchase individual or a couple products to start. They integrate these into their existing systems, then purchase more products (SaaS) down the road and integrate those. This increases time to value and removes the need for a total replatform.

For instance, a multi-billion dollar company just purchased our PIM (https://fabric.inc/pim) to start. They also want us to help with system integration. The needs and use cases are just too varied to offer blanket pricing at this point.
Uber Sells Off Its Robocar Unit
ARM was sold by Softbank to NVIDIA a couple of months ago
Ryan Long – 2018 a.k.a. Nanette 2 (FULL)
To the right under what rubric? In Germany, I have a legal right to have my kid given religious education in public schools. Bavaria can put crosses on public buildings. Abortion is only decriminalized, generally illegal after 12 weeks, and is subject to waiting periods and mandatory counseling. The governing center-right party declared accepting Muslim refugees "a mistake" that they would not repeat.

The American media demonized Amy Coney Barrett as a "Handmaid" because of the possibility that she could rule that elective abortion is a matter for the legislature, not a constitutional issue of fundamental rights. Which is the law of the land in Canada, France, Italy, Austria, and the EU Human Rights Court.

At least on social issues, the American media is significantly to the left of even moderately liberal EU countries.
Another commenter clarified what I was trying to say; if you become a part time resident of CA then all of your income gets taxed, not just the stuff you earned in CA.
Windows hackers target Covid-19 vaccine efforts
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Musk definitely understands the importance of (incoming) cash flows. Being paid upfront for functionality that may or may not be ever available is genius.

Edit: /s
You can't outrun a bad diet
I've still got a couple. Got rid of one last time I moved. Haven't used any of them in around 10 years now.

ETA: Wait, I used the CRT monitor on my desktop server sometime about 5 years ago after a power outage and I needed to restart the server.
This is exactly why I learned in the tip of my nose. Try it.
Consider it an investment to add minutes to the end of your life.
So, as someone who used to be an engineer in semiconductor manufacturing facilities, this reminds me a lot of Sematech. That was a joint venture between American companies in the 90's, when there was a concern that we were falling behind Japan. I'm sure there will be people who try to claim otherwise, but my view from inside AMD (at that time still doing its own manufacturing) was that nothing much ever came out of Sematech. It was a lot of hype, but not much result.

If, at the time of the founding of TSMC, you had tried to get a consortium of companies, much less nations, to agree on the idea of a semiconductor foundry, you would not have been able to get agreement to do it. Consortiums can help to pool resources when everyone knows what needs doing, but even Intel has had a problem getting the latest generation of semi manufacturing going, and their problem sure wasn't a lack of resources. Sometimes the problem is the speed of innovation, and the more parties you have involved the harder it is to get agreement to try any given thing, especially if it is innovative (i.e. not certain to work).

I wish them good fortune, it would be good for the stability of the world economy not to have all the world's advanced semiconductors made in one region, but I am skeptical of whether or not this can make a big difference, no matter how much money is spent.
If you are operating a billion-dollar computer paying IBM/Redhat is probably a good idea.
False. There are too many different reasons for a backup to make that statement, and for most people RAID and NAS are combined into one.

There is backup because a disks are unreliable and fail randomly. RAID is designed to solve this.

There is backup because you accidentally deleted a file. There is backup because ransomware encrypted your files. RAID with snapshots solve these (arguably better than most other backup systems).

There is backup because your main computers (phone) might break. NAS systems are a good place to backup these.

There is backup because your house burned down [or otherwise is destroyed]. This is the only one that RAID doesn't solve. (even then you can do offsite NAS)

What risks do you need to mitigate? Once you have that list you can decide what you mitigations to apply. RAID is a very useful piece of this and so saying RAID is not backup is not helpful and may harm people from making useful backups because they let the search for perfection delay them.
ASML doesn't make semiconductors :)
The problem is that you can just starve any competition when you are large enough. Amazon did that with a lot of competitors. On the console market you can it see very clearly, although here two behemoths are fighting it out.

Following Microsofts own statements and that from their sales team, Teams was indeed free to lure more users.

I don't think this particular issue is a problem, but the overall structure of tech enterprises is a problem. At least when it hits consumers instead of competitors at one point.
There's also the push-factor of the yawning black void of poverty in the US if you choose to pursue your passion rather than your comparative advantage.
That's fine, so long as they're not selling them to be used without transparency against citizens.
Are you thinking about STMicroelectronics perhaps? They are incorporated in the Netherlands.

NXP has a long history in the Netherlands. It started as a division within Philips (Dutch company) and it has done a lot of production work in the Netherlands.
https://www.swedx.se has dump monitors for regular TV prices.
> what are you storing that would draw the attention of a nation state with the power to do this?

The costs they're discussion (several hundred dollars to a million dollars) aren't only the province of nation states; plenty of larger criminal organizations can afford that. And the price of software & hardware generally goes down over time.
China's economy with all its issues has definitely far more potential for growth left than the EU or the USA... It's still a developing country for the most part. Better learn Chinese if you want to stay relevant in 30 years... wait better learn it now. In the hardware world, Documentation about new chips etc. is increasingly available in Chinese first.
Note that the article describes "walking moderately for 30 or 60 minutes". I'd be curious to see how high-impact exercise like running would make a difference.
I agree for the mindshare, in some cases at least. Pets.com is still in the minds of many of us. And we will still remember MoviePass in 20 years. But, hey, WeWork still exists!
I agree, it's a lot. Most people would benefit if they curb their calorie intake, instead of trying to lose weight primarily from exercise.
I suspect eating less is far more palatable than 50 minutes of exercise per day.
and incorporated in the Netherlands ;)
A few years ago I decided I was sick of being overweight and decided to make a change. My approach was two-pronged: 1) eat better, 2) exercise.

For eating, I cut out as much sugar as I reasonably could. For exercise, I made sure I "moved vigorously" for 30 minutes per day, every day.

I was never a runner. And in my early shape, that 30 minutes was just me walking. Eventually, though, I stopped sweating and being out of breath, so I started walking more briskly. Then eventually I moved to a treadmill and started jogging for bits of it.

And then I could jog the whole time.
And then I could run while taking jog breaks.
About 7 months in, I was able to run 5 miles in about 35 minutes. I did it every day.

The point was that I went every day. It wasn't about how much I did, but that I was sweating and moving for 30 minutes. Lost 75 pounds in about 9 months.

I took the winter off last year and fell into sugar again, so I restarted this past summer. A 5k every day, as many days as I can. I have to run outside instead of at the gym, so weather controls a lot.

All of this is to say I agree, mostly. 30 minutes per day every day can fix a lot of problems. It did for me. :)
Presumably the bank won't accept them as collateral for more than can be realized at the time of sale?

I'm no expert, but I would guess that, if shares are foreclosed upon, the bank's basis is zero (and their taxation short-term)?

(Edit: the downside here is that the government doesn't see any revenue from this approach, which it might otherwise. The shareholder must pay interest, though, which might not be to their advantage.)
Bitmaps do not save space relative to, say, a vector representation -- but they do save CPU time. And they were hella convenient to work with for compositing and collision detection because there was specialized hardware to do just that. The sprite hardware in the video unit of most game consoles could draw bitmaps with transparency just as the electron beam arrived at the affected pixels. And it would signal an interrupt when two sprites collided (and often alert the CPU via registers which two sprites collided).
Russia's FireEye Hack Is a Statement–But Not a Catastrophe
This. Exercise is a hilariously inefficient way to lose weight (but it's really good for you, otherwise). The metabolic boost that vigorous, regular exercise will give you will also make you hungrier, so you're still in the woods if you can't moderate what/how much you eat anyway.

Less Cal in than out is the way to go.
> Economies don't develop by linear growth extrapolation.

This is true, but I view China's economic growth more as 'reversion to the mean' when their population is 3x that of the US.
>and risk-adverse VCs.

I think this is the big one.

I don't know exactly how realistic this is. But from this side of the pond [Europe], it seems like, in the US there are VCs willing to throw millions [billions sometimes] at companies which are little more than a couple of guys with a silly idea, which would get you laughed out of your bank manager's office over here, if you went in asking to borrow a few hundred euros/pounds.
How to start researching any business idea
Only because the purpose of modern life is to work rather than working to live life.

There’s no need for people to work 8 to 10 hours a day, and commute 30+ min in an automobile.

Rather than use our technological efficiencies to improve quality of life now, we use them to compete with others to increase probability of securing quality of life in the future.
This. I know many folks who have a 30min - hour commute each way (pre-pandmaic). If they lived a bit closer, and spent that time walking to/from work instead of driving, there you go.
I find it weird how nobody complains about Apple bundling Messages or Safari.
Like Itanium!

We already have x86-64 (guarded licenses), ARM (less guarded but still uncertain) and SPARC, Power, RISC-V (open source).

Should a new ISA be the focus of major economic plans? Maybe if one of the objectives is protectionist ISA licensing, but that seems like an insular mistake.

An ISA ecosystem is a lingua-franca, so choosing a well established one is the most sensible basis for growing different semi/IT industry flows around.

In terms of discovering new technical benefits, new ISA's should be explored in academic circles and startups where they won't waste everyones time and money on boondoggles.

This might apply less to microcontrollers.
"we did not find significant associations between egg intake and blood lipids, mortality, or major CVD events."

I wish scientific papers would stop burying the lede, and consider adding a Tweetable TL;DR for the majority of the public to read.
How to model your data in a visual tool
Gf had access to 7nm through the ip transfer from IBM. They chose not to build new facilities because they didn't see themselves competing at leading edge in the long term. They weren't very good at innovation. Their 14nm was licensed from samsung and their unused 7nm was transferred from IBM who was leaving the industry.
Lots of places disagree with your figures.

The numbers are only small on an actuarial basis which assumes positive things about the future like: the number of years employees are likely to keep working, the rate at which salaries are expected to increase, the rate of return on plan assets, the discount rate on future benefits.

When conditions are bad, you have to switch to the market basis.

https://www.pensiontracker.org/
https://www.ocregister.com/2019/09/24/californias-pension-de...
https://calmatters.org/commentary/dan-walters/2020/08/califo...

And yes, sorry, technically I did lump in other unfunded liabilities (like bonds) in my calculation, but the number does indeed top $1T and California does its best to ignore these liabilities in their budgeting.
AWS democratizes access to the largest genomic sequences repository
How Old Are These Keys?
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/538/
Funny enough audio is 50/50 for me. It can either lull me softly to sleep, or keep me awake by way of being too interesting. Not much middle ground. One thing that does show though is that everybody has their own needs and it's helpful to experiment until you find what works for you.
Isolated Demands for Rigour in New Optimism
My understanding is that the master encryption key does not exist on the device in non-volatile storage, but rather is computed by combining a secret key (I guess you could call this a “salt”) stored in the secure enclave with the user’s passphrase. When you start the device and authenticate, this derivation happens, and then the derived key is kept in memory and it’s only software keeping an attacker out.

If the locked state without a derived key loaded is as secure as it theoretically should be, doesn’t that mean recovering data off the device without uncapping (or similar) requires correctly guessing the passcode in however many master key derivation attempts the secure enclave is configured to allow before it wipes the secret key and renders the stored data useless?

This seems really secure on average, even with a weak PIN. I’m trying to decode Cellebrite’s claims about access to “locked” phones and I’m assuming they mean locked with key loaded, though I guess I can imagine some vulnerability that sidesteps the maximum attempts logic in the secure enclave.
I am waiting for the cooler which can be supercharged with a shot of LN2.
The 451 code (which, by the way, is a reference to Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, not Orwell's 1984) just says that a resource is "unavailable for legal reasons". These "legal reasons" may be user-hostile (e.g., censorship) or user-friendly (e.g., GDPR).

Having said that, it's just good form to specify why exactly a request was denied rather than spitting out an "access denied" response and call it a day. Be liberal in what you receive, conservative in what you send, yada yada.
Yes it has and you said why.
Pre-COVID and WFH becoming normal, I had a short commute. Only 6 miles.

Many places, walking to work is a joke.
European alternative to Google, European alternative to Visa/Mastercard, European alternative to Chips. lol. When I think about where this approach succeeded only Galileo (alternative to GPS) and SEPA payment (but US sucks there) comes into my mind.
Isn't that a sign of technical debt? Not OP, but for development/testing: in a VM.
It's hard to say although last time I looked into this literature really deeply, it seemed like distance was kind of the key. That is, most health gains could be equated by distance in that whatever gains you'd get from 1 hour of walking, epidemiologically speaking, would be accrued by running the same distance that's covered in that hour of walking (on average or whatever).
I'm still relatively new to Linux. My question is why wouldn't Fedora Server be considered an alternative for the CentOS diaspora? It seems a better fit than Debian to me.
It's not the best they can do.

Without seeing them do better there's no way to actually know that. You're assuming they're capable, but you could be wrong.
Can you look elsewhere? Most _users_ of Google Cloud are not the decision makers and can't move to, say, AWS.

Consumers can more easily make that choice since they're not part of a hierarchy.
A half hour a day while improving your diet (Pick one: cut booze, fast until afternoon, cut bread, cut soda) is a lot easier to maintain. I ride an exercise bike for a half hour a day while working from home.
YouTube has historically been the home of conspiracy theory videos, what makes a current event with on-going legal arguments so important to remove?
Yeah, it would be interesting to have HIIT, running and walking with the same calorie count, to see whether the type of exercise makes a difference, too.
Max = Maximus?

When Optimus ordered Maximus to "Sacrifice to save your life; if not I shall make you die in torment," Maximus answered, "I have always wished it; it is in order to pass out of this short and miserable life to the life eternal that I have declared my faith." [wikipedia]
One of these lawsuits will stick any day now, right?

> There were hours of testimony given in state legislatures

Not in an unbiased court, unsurprisingly, where lying would have actual consequences.

> There's dozens of statistical anomalies

You mean where the GOP tried to use Benford's law to prove nothing? Or where they mixed up districts across multiple states when attempting to prove there were more votes than residents?

> take ballots out of suit cases

You mean the official ballot cases that all ballots are stored in?

> Keep denying the fraud. That's how you destroy democracy.

Take a long, hard look at your media sources. You seem like a smart guy and you've been fed a bunch of stuff by professional grifters and scam artists. This lawsuit is going to disappear like all the others not because there's some grand conspiracy, but that _people actually don't like Trump and didn't vote for him_.
Indeed. I misread your comment.
And yet, the population of people who commit to this is pretty solid. Every gym is populated with regulars who show up most days, no matter the kind of jobs or the size of family they have at home. You have to be slightly more creative now, with gyms being closed... but a little equipment can go a long way.

It's completely doable, as long as you see it that way.
Raising Money from Customers (beta)
>People wouldn't be so pessimistic about Boeing if they had just been overly aggressive in a new airframe design, rather than failing to safely mount new engines on an old design.

Unfortunately Boeing doesn't have a huge list of customers that are willing to spend what it costs to switch to a new airframe. They sell to airlines what airlines want to buy. Airlines wanted a 737 with higher bypass engines and that's exactly what they got.

Boeing deserves what they get for pushing a faulty design out the door but they didn't do it as some nefarious cost cutting measure. They did it because American and Southwest said they wanted nothing to do with a "797" and threatened to switch to Airbus.
"To Lose Weight with Exercise, Aim for 300 Minutes a Week"

should be titled

"To Lose Weight with Exercise you're gonna need to workout more if you eat more too"
Native widgets cannot be "skinned" on Windows and macOS, at least not to any appreciable extent.
To clarify, I'm not suggesting that correlation implies causation here (indeed, I think they take away your programmer card if you can't quickly parrot the phrase, "correlation doesn't mean causation").

From the NIST Engineer's Handbook:

"Generally, we first need to find and explore correlations and then try to establish causal relationships. It is much easier to find correlations as these are just properties of the data."

So I'm saying that correlation is often used (and misused) in an attempt to find good candidates for causation. This is how much science and engineering is practiced. If you disagree with this, you disagree with some fundamentals of how the scientific method is used (ie, hypothesis forming).

> To me correlation is more a way to reinforce a hypothesis of causality that is already suspected

It certainly can be used in this way, but that doesn't mean it's the only scientifically-valid way to use it.
But walking is rather easy and does not really count as demanding exercise, at least if there's almost no elevation change.

Also, I only need about 12-13 minutes for my walk to work, so I get only 25 per day - surely better than nothing but not enough to really counter work sitting at a desk 8 to 10 hours a day.
Read the article - the whole point is that the increase in hunger is capped at about 1000 calories of week regardless of amount of exercise.