skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's nice that you feel this way about your parents and grandparents, but this is a nightmare scenario for me. I hope I die suddenly before I have to rely on anyone else to support me in any way, and if I'm being honest, I hope my own parents go out that way too.
It's a good point, but I think some nuance is missing: yes, it's true that if the government was to suddenly direct all of their antitrust ire towards Apple, without providing a similar amount of scrutiny towards the other tech giants, it would serve to give the non-Apple tech giants more power.

They are all behaving anti-competitively in different ways, and they should all be looked at!
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It's really beyond me how bad Slack's video feature is. If it worked well, most companies could leave behind Zoom.
>Nominal returns. Unfortunately, none of us are average.

With index funds and ETFs everywhere, it is quite common to be average. It's also far easier to buy an all-market index fund/ETF than to pick stocks or active funds.

> You can gain 100% many times, but lose it only once.

True of all investments.

>It's going to be fun when the "just buy an index and you'll be fine" strategy falters (in this case a cap-weighted, large US company index that buys shares at any price). The S&P500 isn't diverse like they talk about in finance textbooks. There are quite a few years in that article you linked where hedge funds beat the index (2001-2005, 2007, 2009, 2010). It's almost as if who beats whom is random...

Not over the long run. From the same article, "After 10 years, 85 percent of large cap funds underperformed the S&P 500, and after 15 years, nearly 92 percent are trailing the index."
Hm, interesting. I think the discrepancy comes about because Scott takes into account equivalence under state permutation, but I'd have to crunch some more algebra to be sure. In any case, I'd certainly accept Scott A. as an authoritative source on this.

[UPDATE] No, that can't be it. A two-state machine has no equivalent permutations because one state has to be a privileged start state. And even if it did, there are only two permutations of two states, so this can't possible explain the discrepancy.

[UPDATE2] Turns out there is a typo in Scott's formula. The correct answer is (4(n+1))^2n, not (4n+1)^2n. This is because each state transition has 4(n+1) possible values, 4 possibilities for the movement direction and symbol to write (with two possibilities each) and, independently, n+1 possible next states (including the halt state). The result for 2-state machines is, as /u/tromp correctly noted, 20736.

[UPDATE3] (I think I'm about to set some kind of record here.) As a sanity check, it's pretty easy to see that the result has to be an even number because every possible TM has a corresponding distinct TM where the direction of movement or written symbol in any state is changed to the opposite value.
I get the technical difference but not the legal one. Why would one be OK but not the other?
Like I said, I don't think it's productive to argue about this, I just think it's a trap to think of chess performance as any kind of leading indicator of general intellectual aptitude. The skills are simply not transferrable -- the things that make you good at chess don't make you good at thinking generically.

From the man himself:

"I’m not saying that I am totally stupid. But my success mainly has to do with the fact that I had the opportunity to learn more, more quickly. It has become easier to get hold of information. The players from the Soviet Union used to be at a huge advantage; in Moscow they had access to vast archives, with countless games carefully recorded on index cards. Nowadays anyone can buy this data on DVD for 150 euros; one disk holds 4.5 million games. There are also more books than there used to be. And then of course I started working with a computer earlier than Vladimir Kramnik or Viswanathan Anand."

Another quote from that same interview:

"Carlsen: I’m not a genius."

Some sources:

https://www.chess.com/news/view/-misconceptions-about-chess-players
https://www.wsj.com/articles/does-chess-make-you-smarter-1479403551
https://www.acsh.org/news/2017/05/31/do-chess-players-have-higher-iqs-11366
https://en.chessbase.com/post/magnus-carlsen-on-his-che-career
https://www.chess.com/blog/RoaringPawn/magnus-carlsen-a-genius-or-automaton
https://gardinerchess.com.au/fm-stojic-is-magnus-carlsen-a-genius/
>I cannot wait until the nursing home lan parties.

I've seen this sentiment a lot on the internet, but after having visited many nursing homes, I don't think it will ever happen. Maybe nursing homes are different in the US, maybe I've seen the wrong kind of nursing home.
For what it's worth, I made a Python package that lets you combine both approaches: https://github.com/breuleux/breakword. You run your program once to print out what's going on, but it also displays a unique word next to each line and on a second run you can set a breakpoint at any of these words to investigate deeper. It's pretty handy when you spot an issue at the hundredth invocation of some function deep in the program's execution.
Android phones, tablets and wearables use sleep quite a bit in addition to desktoo and laptop users. Servers at home too often use wake on lan.
Not realllllly related to the OP's post, but I practice this game everyday and it is a continual exercise in emotion management. There's really nothing like encountering an obstacle that can be overcome but which you personally don't know how to overcome, and having someone continually use that against you and mock you for it.

Honestly one of your spaced-repetition exercises should be "play a character you don't know how to use, lose badly over and over, and just let it go without an elevated heartbeat."
At the bottom of the article, he says:

> And if you'd like to read a true, but much more boring story about getting MRR, go here.
I was a teen in the early 90s, and was super into computers. I remember seeing one Quadra in real life. It was at my friend's house -- his dad was composer for TV, and the Quadra was his main computer for that work. He ended up getting a couple of Emmy nods.

We weren't allowed to touch the computer or even get near it, and at the time that really pissed me off, but as an adult I totally get it now.
Hagerman, the King-Emperor of Magic, Is the Last Great Wizard
Heroku-16 stack is now deprecated
This is not a platform issue, it is done on purpose to deceive the customer, especially the less tech- or financially savvy customers.
People have been complaining about the cleaning fee ridiculousness forever. Airbnb could and should limit the total allowable cleaning expenses (for type of house, room, location etc., in one word: localization), but they don't do it because it would decrease revenue, not because of technical difficulties, please.
Will 2020's death toll exceed 2019's?
That’s the first version that is 100 % secure.
Lessons from South African entrepreneurs surviving against odds
The child comment is dead for some reason so I can't reply, but he's right: it's important to note that filtering can be difficult, bexause even laptops that nominally support Linux (or ship with it!) can have terrible support. The Dell XPS developer editions (I bought two, one for work and one for home) are the worst Linux compatibility experience I've ever had. Amazing hardware, but shame on me for believing the line that Dell had turned over a new leaf and was competent now.
It's not the expiry that's an issue. Firefox says:

"Websites prove their identity via certificates. Firefox does not trust this site because it uses a certificate that is not valid for www.mojeek.com. The certificate is only valid for the following names: dock.shp.mcafee.com, *.dock.shp.mcafee.com

Error code: SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN"

Could be caused by the extensive (68k lines) of blocking in my /etc/hosts file, I suppose.
I'm more than happy to take cynical views, I find they're often what I would consider just realistic.

That's a great breakdown and it makes total sense. I've found people respond well when you already know stuff about them. Do you think it would be even better to come in with something like this? "I know you want to achieve X this year, and I have an idea Y or a personal goal Z to help us get there. What do you think?" Or do you think that would be getting too ahead of things?
http://thorconpower.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/ColdWallL...

This one is just a bunch of separate tanks spaced as far away from each other as possible.

I've also seen a "Bed of nails" design where the liquid salt would flow over a bunch of moderating spikes, seep down between them and freeze.
In my opinion, Apple's over-excitable field detection (which considers every NFC field a potential for an Apple Pay transaction, not just payment and transit terminals) is mostly a nuisance, at least for Face ID phones.
The dark reality is NOT that people can't compete against monolithic companies.

It is that companies have tens of billions of dollars they can spend to acquire companies that are hundred-million-plus net-losers.

That lump sum of acquisition money could have been spent in significantly more meaningful ways.
A typeface is an artistic work and as such is certainly covered by copyright in "most countries". If they were not then why would license agreements even be a thing.

If you don't wish to agree to the license terms of a particular typeface, you have the option to choose another typeface instead. This includes the myriad free typefaces that exist today.

If you buy something from me or strike a license agreement with me, I'm not a "third party" to that transaction.
And where's the list of everyone who spent hundreds/thousands of hours building an online business .... and in the end, got nothing?
Recently I had a look at some COBOL out of curiosity, and as someone used to modern languages it appeared very verbose and awkward - far less complex conceptually, but the syntax itself is not at all lightweight.

It seemed to be more or less as expected - fairly straightforward and apparently easy to learn, but unattractively bureaucratic.

My understanding is that you don't get paid the top money for knowing the language but for being able to understand and maintain/revise the kinds of systems it operates - which is a whole other level of skill and experience, and not something you can just pick up in a few evenings of side projects.
Johnny•Decimal
I'm native indigenous from Oaxaca, Mexico, home of several sacred ceremonies with magic mushrooms and other plants from millennia. I'd like to share that our Native Nations do not give permission for scientific research of magic mushrooms outside our culture. This is not an egoistic stand, but it is for your own safety. Sacred plants on pharma and marketing industries hands will only create more damage than good. If you are interested to learn about sacred plants you must learn respect from native nations and come, live here and share for a time, then a request to research can be asked to the community.
Please don't take HN threads further into generic flamewar, the last thing we need here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
I was just discussing this thread with a friend of mine and we agreed on the same thing. Taleb has a line about college being the closest thing to a natural social state in the Western world. I think our brains feel comfortable in some sort of regular, persistent social milieu, particularly one formed by close friends/family. We expect some sort of tribe to be around us. That doesn't mean some of us aren't introverts—I definitely am one—but as I get older the absence of my friend group constantly there in the background is really painful.
Maybe this is a good time to stop the multiple wars that were falsely claimed to be justified by "9/11"? Dare one hope?
Well, with a carbureted engine that has no mechanism to limit RPM, you're probably not actually producing work at maximum RPM, but rather wasting mixture due to valve float. In essence, you're not burning that mixture. If you did, the RPM would keep increasing until the entire motor disintegrated.

With electronic ignition, you usually have a way to limit max RPM by stopping ignition, so you're not producing work (and heat) either way.
I think the argument that it's anymore viable a reality than founding a Slack or an Airbnb relies on some statistics showing that profitable one-man-bands aren't just as rare.
runtime_pm is generally for runtime suspend (Intel calls it s0ix) instead of S3 suspend. You can implement S3 suspend using the same callbacks as your runtime_pm callbacks, but you don't need to.

The runtime_pm framework is for when applications are still running but the device goes to sleep. In S3 suspend first every single user space application freezes, then the drivers go to sleep. S3 is much easier to implement.
I had two dell XPSes in 2015/16, one of which shipped with Ubuntu, and they were by far the worst compatibility experience I've ever had with a Linux laptop. I loved the hardware, but my God was the firmware garbage.
That Infini-D screenshot is giving me a stronger pang of nostalgia than smelling my high school girlfriend's perfume would.
Starting from about age 20, most of a given day an average American spends alone (except for those who have kids, for whom for a few years the situation is different).

Would be very interesting to find statistics obtained by similar methods for others locations.
With Covid or of Covid?

There are financial incentives to test for Covid and there are financial incentives to put Covid on the death certificate.

Of course nobody will EVER admit it but like anyone knows: Follow the money.
At least for me, I criticize from experience: I worked with COBOL, and think it's an awful, unfun language, commonly used for unfun projects. And COBOL jobs don't pay particularly well where I live, either.

> In my country and in Sweden it is quite easy to get good and stable job in banking/insurance/consulting business

Yes, that much is true: a stable job in banking/insurance. Mostly maintaining clunky legacy systems. If that's what you aspire to, and aren't passionate about software -- which is perfectly fine! -- I guess learning some COBOL is a reasonable career choice.
I find it hard to imagine that if 3000 people had been killed by Saudi terrorists flying a plane into a nursing home people would have said "let's not bother invading afghanistan, those people would have died soon anyway"
The Advent of Code 2020 Day 11 log, Headache pain
Given I can’t manage a 40-hour work week to start with, looking for a job while I have a job isn’t doable.

That said, I’m available if someone wants a senior rails dev. :)
If insufficient other measures have been taken up to that point then it only has to be less catastrophic than unmitigated climate change.
Do you have some weird constraint where you can't use 3rd party libraries? Yeah, hash tables aren't built into the language, but libraries to provide them are all over the place. See for example http://fortranwiki.org/fortran/show/Hash+tables. Or you could a C function. Or C++ in some compilers.
Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos Use Opportunity Zone Tax Breaks for Private Space Race
You're going to continually misunderstand the market if you think $200 wired headphones with a line running from your head into a $100 ES100 Bluetooth receiver clipped to your belt is an analogue for the wireless cans people want.
Oof, this hits close to home. I was working towards being a fighter pilot until I was told by a recruiter in no uncertain terms that having a visual impediment disqualified me irrevocably. I've moved on to other aspirations but damned if I'm not a little bitter around military aerospace hardware.
This is not specific to Linux. Windows also constantly wakes up whenever it don't want it to. A lot more often than 20%.

It's incredibly annoying. Sometimes I put a PC to sleep, and it will wake up a minute later. Sometimes it wakes up in the middle of the night to spin up its fans. Laptops I put to sleep without being hooked up to power will have their battery drained next time I want to use them. I can't imagine any OS being worse at sleeping than Windows.
Such a failure seems reasonable to me, such a pressure vessel obviously needs to be as light as possible to maximize payload. But making it lighter will make it weaker. And even today there are limits to computer analysis, hence why they would do pressure tests at all; if the models were foolproof then why would anybody test pressure vessels? Pressure vessels are tested because their danger is well understood. Testing would be a waste of time if outcomes were certain, so failure during tests is not concerning.

(This rocket falling over was presumably not part of a test to see whether it will fall over.)
The business model of PE is to buy distressed assets cheap. You can look at a company’s financials and determine if they are cheap. The magic pixie dust of PE is to look at those financials, the state of the company and the sector, and determine if it’s something that will possibly offer a return.

What most people fail to recognize is that when PE is in the picture, the company is already circling the drain. If it was a sure thing to fix, then the company wouldn’t be cheap. Generally speaking, PE doesn’t kill a company: Management did, but PE is the triage doc with bloody hands. They make for a nice comic book villain, but it comes down to “don’t fuck up”

There’s another class of PE activity, which is “my company is only mildly fucked but I can’t fix it while answering to shareholders.” So PE helps the owner go private to fix it. Examples are Dell and TIBCO. I don’t care enough about the latter to even look, but I think we can agree that Dell isn’t being stripped by PE bandits.
If you can fund them.
Did they miss that Waymo opened up driverless rides to anyone in their Arizona service area? These are actually self-driving cars, here today
Pornhub Releases Statements About Credit Cards, New York Times Allegations
I wonder why everything has been ascribed to COVID-19 now.

Unlike what the article claims, the resurgence of Bob Ross popularity on VoD/streaming has very little to do with the pandemic but has already been a thing for many years due to Twitch streaming Bob Ross's The Joy of Painting [0].

And while most Twitch chats are toxic dumpster fires, a surprisingly wholesome community grew around that Bob Ross channel.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2015/11/09/after-pulling-in-5-6m-view...
The base price could be cached and then multiplied by the number of nights plus the cleaning fee before the map is rendered. I can't imagine that would be too expensive to calculate on the front end.
The exact same argument exists for not hiding IntList and StringList behind fancy generics like List[I], which obscure the how.
Can you explain what you mean please? How does a doctor/hospital/insurer benefit from putting Covid-19 on the death certificate?
Nope, that's not it. See the sibling comment from xjparker.
Having to appear worked that way does cause restrictions in multiprocessor case. ARM chips naturally do all of that too, with the memory model simply giving them way more freedom to reorder things.

One couldn’t do X86 version of M1, mostly because there is no way of making an instruction decoder that wide for it.

And the performance penalty of M1 when working in TSO mode strongly implies that yes the weaker memory model indeed plays a major role. Not the biggest, but definitely not insignificant. Tens of percents here and tens of percents there combined become a ridiculous perf boost.
> I just hope Sony, Sennheiser, etc. don't follow Apple's lead.

I don't see this happening because those brands undoubtedly have a much larger share of the high-end headphones market, whereas Apple seems to focus more on a smaller niche with even more disposable income. The fact that AirPods max can only be turned off by placing them in the case is such a weird design decision beyond the other absurdities of the product design. Hopefully Sony and others adopt the good ideas (like replaceable ear cups) while staying true to their customers.
Driver developer here. The sentences above are just plain wrong.

Drivers have to implement callbacks for suspend. A driver needs to make sure it saves all of its state before the suspend, and then it needs to make sure it restores all of its state after resume. S3 suspend often kills the state of every register that was previously written.
Because it's a pretty good idea to know if the stuff that's responsible for containing the radioactive parts can do the job?
Actually, appears to be some BS being pulled by my ISP. It is also marking emacssurvey.org as "dangerous" ....
I've never really grasped FP and I seem to be in an eternal state of confusion about monads but I'm excited about GATs in Rust. They'll allow for traits that hide implementation details like `trait Foo { type Bar<T> = T | Box<T> | Arc<T> }` without dynamic dispatch or ugly hacks.
Pass on that. Solar and wind are already clapping nuclear in LCOE, and before you can rip out the nuclear battlecry, "But BASELOAD", storage costs are in freefall too.
The further I have moved from Family the more I have started to wish I was closer to them physically. Especially this year when our normal yearly gatherings were disrupted.
Hunter-gatherers were considerably taller than farmers.
Proof or gtfo.
> We can't mix together residential and commercial properties in the US (anymore) due to zoning laws

You make this statement like there are national zoning laws. Doing exactly this is common in northeastern New Jersey, and the result is pretty dense and walkable suburban areas. That said, much of this is due to momentum; many of the suburbs were platted before car ownership was widespread and the later ones continued similar, familiar patterns.
“Pharmacy Benefit Managers”
Doesn’t the market play a role as well? Back in 2013 or whenever FB IPOd, things in tech stocks were a bit less crazy than everything right now. So could they really expect it to close at $140?
It's probably not completely off the table but unlikely in the near term since arm was just sold from SoftBank to Nvidia
This comment is gold. Even with some jobs and plenty of effort to learn career skills behind me, I feel like I'm only just starting to appreciate the value of someone higher up being a sponsor of your work. Thanks for really singling that out and explaining how it matters.

Your second point is also really insightful. That distinction is also something I've recently begun to really realize, and your wording cuts right to the point. Thanks for your advice!

As a follow up, in your experience, what kind of stuff has been received especially well by higher-ups?
Zodiac ‘340 Cypher’ Cracked
And gate keeping.

How do you become an artist? Make art and say you are an artist. How do you become a professional artist? Have someone pay you to make art. I'd say he qualifies.
Seven Rejections by Brian Chesky (2015)
LARBS: Luke Smith's Auto-Rice Bootstrapping Scripts for Arch Linux
"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25371653.
What are GATs? I couldn't find anything in searches.
I see your point, but the post i replied to blamed social networks for ‘ddos of misinformation’. I am seeing the same in mainstream media. The only difference is - they think they can hold on to the mic forever.
Kubernetes is deprecating Docker in the upcoming release
A server at home connects via curl to my mail server outside every n minutes, where iptables logs the access to syslog where a script extracts the dynamic address.

If one doesn't need or have a full blown server available, a cheap cloud server like the ones Hetzner offers for less than 3€/month should do.
For people that can do it, consulting would be a good solution. Unfortunately, it’s not something I can handle.