skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's nice and would probably be my goto except that I used an HP41 for so many years that's just what I'm used to. (And TBH I don't need either to add up or multiply numbers from time to time :-) )

The Swiss Micro calculators are tempting but I know I'd just be indulging in nostalgia. I have zero need for anything beyond my iPhone app and a couple of HP-1x series landscape format models.
(AMD processors) AND (Intel processors with AVX-512)
Yes but until XCode runs somewhere else, Apple has to support C compilers and CLI tools and allowing general-purpose code to run on their machines. XCode relies on all of these things. Just because Apple doesn't make a general-purpose IDE for their platform doesn't mean anything as long as you can install VSCode or vim or Jetbrains or whatever your preferred IDE is.

Again, this is repeated here at least once a week for the how many years I've been visiting this site and it's no closer to being true now than it was back then. If it was even remotely true Apple would have left the Macs on Intel and just phased them out in favor of the iPad Pro, but instead they spent billions making their iPad chips run MacOS and desktop applications and code compiled for Intel processors and real talk here, what about that gives anyone any indication that they're planning on throwing all of that away?

They're actively doing the opposite of what you're claiming and spending billions of dollars to do it, and one blog post that says "this isn't even a big deal" is all it takes to convince you otherwise?
Fridays can be "lame duck" days, and I never start something new over after noon. So Fix it Friday is a good way to allocate smaller blocks of time for smaller tasks.

But 20% is about side projects. Meeting Free Monday could be a good policy to foster those.
Microsoft Office. Of course.
A cool thing that you can do with gdb is to change the values of variables in programs that are already running, or calling their functions. For example you can update a variable on your parent shell, e.g., "export" the variable $X to your parent (!) :

gdb --batch-silent -ex "attach $PPID" -ex "call (int)bind_variable(\"X\",\"$X\",0)"

I confess that I use this trick in my shell scripts more than strictly necessary, just for fun.
Unfortunately, we've just discovered that the incoming administration is in the pocket of the Chinese... so we're basically fucked.
Have you ever worked on an IT infrastructure where there is no comments in the source code, no documentation, no normalization, no specs? I am not talking about COBOL itself, I am talking about those COBOL jobs, it's only about fixing and/or maintaining. I hope no one is writing new things in COBOL.
Hi HN, I built Rumin as a suite of knowledge management tools to for my own needs. It includes a visual canvas and a rich text editor for linking notes.

After releasing the web clipper earlier[1], this is the remaining frontend code, for the getrumin.com web app.

I know quite a few of us are here interested in knowledge management. Hope this code can help with your projects.

Cheers!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24461070
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ELK is killing it. Especially with their apm server.
> Are you proposing to make your own router or switch with this stack in it,

this has nothing to do with that, to me this looks like the same general concept as using netcat (nc) to pipe text, but with auto discovery and encryption.
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Quasiparticles. We haven't discovered dark matter, for anyone else who got excited at the title.
You need to get used to how you chain calculations but if you do it on a regular basis it becomes second nature. I imagine the additional display lines of the HP-42 make it easier than the one line displays of most of these calculators.
Was there an exit interview? Was any one curious about your plans?

In my future perfect alternate reality:

Google Ventures, GoogleX, or even just thwarted & bored midlevel manager aspiring to become an angel investor, would offer seed capital to any one turning in their badge.

"Hey @jasongrishkoff, if you ever need some cash for an idea, please talk to me first."

In my mind, that parting offer is central to Silicon Valley's magic. There's an apocryphal tale about a much disliked boss offering seed money to mutinous employees. I thought it was Shockley and the Traitorous Eight, but I can't find a cite.
I worked there in 2010s and almost nobody was utilizing it anymore since general incentives were not aligned: it was hard to cut out time from your main project, and on top of the you had to pre-justify your 20% project as useful, which is for 20% project often more work than the project itself.
GHC's RTS (and optimizations/codegen too) is really great. I have a b/g in CompE and hardware but I mostly do FP now, so the RTS is the perfect fusion of those two. It's the area to find answers to "how do we efficiently evaluate lambda calculus?"
Who says they don't already support SVE; is it publicly known they support it or not? Especially if the binary doesn't have to be recompiled you'd never know whether they implemented it or not right?
Tether is “too big to fail” – the entire crypto industry utterly depends on it
I'm not familiar with LQRs. Versus HMMs and linear autoregressive models, I think avoiding the need to predefine the form of the autoregression is a bigger leap than it might appear right now. I'd always been a neural network skeptic, thinking they're excessively complex for no benefit. It seems to me that's no longer true. I'm not certain that'll hold, but it's exciting.
It's not about anything moral. It's about a qualitative difference between. The second one should even be called piracy.
The threat of communism is different than environmental destruction, but for those looking for historical precedent to illuminate today's problems, I recommend Bury The Chains by Adam Hochschild. It's on British abolitionism, especially Thomas Clarkson, also William Wilberforce and Granville Sharp, in the late 1700s and early 1800s.

Their actions and success seem inspiringly relevant to our times. Here's a podcast on the connections: https://shows.acast.com/leadership-and-the-environment/episo....
> The dollar is worthless without the American government and American economy backing it.

Now I'm not an economist, but wasn't the dollar originally Spanish? Perhaps the current US dollar would diminish to nill value, but there's no reason why any future evolution or alternative dollar wouldn't be able to survive without the government or bank that minted it.
Yeah it was great marketing. One of the reasons I so very much wanted to join the company. And here I am still, nearly 11 years later.

I have done some fun stuff in 20% time. Some relatively serious projects that went somewhere; enough to keep me entertained. It’s true that if you have a demanding role it becomes more like 120% time. However it’s more the spirit of the thing that matters; the fact that you’re encouraged to pursue your interests on work time has led me to learn and experiment more than I would have otherwise.
Could be just about anyone. Knowing what USA has done, it seems that even this type activity is standard even between "friendly" governments....
> Still, with all that freedom people don't always use it for good, they may actually just bunk off...

Working smart and not hard and reaping the rewards is not "bad".

The Protestant work ethic and living to work aren't healthy for everyone and I don't really see why we need to assign value judgements to people who do or don't subscribe to it.
Common Lisp has a pretty simple fix for this: when you declare a parameter with a default value, you can also declare a variable that will be true iff the parameter was actually passed.

The function definition looks like this:

(defun foo (&optional (a 1 a-passed))
(if a-passed (print a)
(print "a not passed"))

> (foo 10)
10
> (foo 1)
1
> (foo)
a not passed

This is still relatively easy to implement, and very easy to use in my opinion. Of course, combining this with named arguments is even better, and that is supported as well (just replace &optional with &key, and then specify the name when calling the function - (foo :a 1)).
when it comes to password strength, the number you are really interested in is something like probability of the password being generated by a naive human. Measuring raw entropy basically assumes that the only one non-random thing a user can do is repeat a character.

for example, by the p*log(p) measure

`1234567890abcdef` and `936a0ce28b1d74f5`
both have log(16!) bits of entropy, yet one of them is much easier to guess than the other.
You can do it a few ways. But in my experience, the simplest and best way is to force people to demo something at a pre-specified time. If you're doing it "hackathon" style, then it should be at the end of the hackathon. If you're doing it 20% style, then probably end of the quarter? You could do it with zero accountability, but having tried to run these programs (see my other top-level reply here), I think you'll mostly get a lot of people not doing much if you don't have any accountability.
Nice idea! You should plan an app version for this
Oil is a great example because oil is truly a global commodity. The demand for oil exists from all 196 countries of the world.

If USD devalues too much (but is still reserve currency), other countries will become richer aka, they can buy more dollars for fewer of their own fiats. Which means they can import more oil by converting more and more of their fiat to dollars. Which means demand for oil internationally will go up while supply remains about the same, causing price of oil to go up, regardless of where it is produced.

If USD devalues and other countries decide to abandon the dollar for trade in favor of say Oil-coin, US will lose access to international oil until it "earns" oil-coin somehow. How does America earn oil-coin? By exporting something. Since America can produce so much oil, the producers will try to export oil for oil-coin. Which means increased global demand and thus rising prices again.

US could shut down all exports of oil and only use it domestically and shun oil-coin entirely. But this means that

a. US can't import other things because of lack of oil-coin. So we will suddenly have severe shortages. Oh a bad disease in one year caused all potatoes in America to die? Tough luck sustaining all the food processing and chips companies. They can't do a stop gap import potatoes since we don't have any oil-coin. You can expand this experiment to all kinds of things such as stent-valves, rubber for tires, coffee. Our rich lives are truly there because other countries are working for it.

b. US energy supplies will be limited by domestic production and domestic supply and demand characteristics. Oh, we have such a great economic boom that increased oil demand but a few oil wells are down for repairs a few quarters? Boom, spike in oil prices again despite being self-sufficient. Another recession beckons since industries can't function with such high oil prices.

This globalization thing is not very simple. It may have caused a lot of grief, but it's also a very good distributed system that's preventing us from going back to shortages like medieval times. We're not dying just because there's a 2-3 year span of famine any longer because there's always somewhere else to get it from.
Even with tens of millions vaccinated COVID is too contagious and deadly to avoid social mitigation like restricting businesses, large gathering, mandating masks, and even lockdowns.

The long incubation period and asymptomatic carriers makes for easy spread of the virus. It's hospitalization rate means a wide spread will literally shut down hospitals in whole regions. At current infection rates we're seeing hospitals being overwhelmed at regional levels.

Even if vaccines had been delivered after a Phase 1 trial of "no one died immediately" in the trial group, we wouldn't have enough vaccinated people to avoid social mitigation. We'd be in a similar situation as we're in right now.

It will take something like 75% of the population to be immune (by vaccine or previous infection) to have effective herd immunity. Even if vaccines had started distributing months ago it would still be a long time before we hit that 75%. Distributing vaccines after the phase 1 trials might ultimately get an immune population to that 75% sooner but it wouldn't stop any of the damage happening until that number is reached.

Even if no one died from COVID the "long hauler" after effects can be crippling. Some 10-20% of COVID patients end up "long haulers". If the virus were to spread to significant portions of the population because no one practiced social spread mitigation because they assumed the vaccine would fix everything you're still in a terrible situation.
Loaded question! I've done a lot of podcasts/interviews lately where I touch on this subject.

Spotify did indeed take away a lot of the "regular listeners" from music blogs, but they're not alone in the downfall of music blogs as a whole. I think a lot of that can be pegged on the way the internet has shifted in general. Music blogs lost a lot of things in that 2013-2015 era, including (but not limited to):

- A steep drop in advertising revenue (we used to charge $5+ CPM - but folks learned Google/Facebook were far more effective). This wasn't specific to the music blogging industry - pretty much all independent publishers went through this.

- Google giving 50% of their real-estate for song searches to a giant YouTube thumb. Killed SEO for music blogs overnight.

- Technology: Spotify just does music-listening tech better than any independent music blog could ever hope to.

So, in an age where Spotify is king and everyone's buzzing about TikTok, where do music blogs fit? And are they even relevant?

Heck yes they are! Thing is, music blogs are where people actually go to discover music. Spotify, on the flip side, caters toward "passive" listening experiences where they make sure you never have to think about it for yourself.

Net result is that for artists a targeted blog promotion campaign is still quite important as it can lead to valuable exposure within the industry: A&R teams at labels, Spotify editorial staff, and festival bookers (RIP) still look to music blogs to do the grunt work of sifting through the 25,000+ new songs coming out daily.

In 2015 I launched https://www.submithub.com/ to help music blogs deal with the hundreds of music submissions they were receiving daily. That platform has since taken off - recently passing its 16 millionth submission (in less than 5 years).

We allow artists to easily connect with blogs, Spotify playlisters, YouTube channels, Instagram/TikTok influencers and more -- and compensate those curators for the time they spend listening to and considering each submission. And believe it or not, one of the most-targeted outlet types on there is still the humble "blog".

I could go on for hours, but I'll leave it at that for now :)
> - Be sincere

my issue is that 90% of the time, my sincerity would mean leaving the convo
The biggest problem is that context switching overhead becomes the main "work" being done, rather than the actual work of the threads, for some core count n (which depends on workload).

You can already saturate an entire core just copying data from a NIC. Of course, enter BPF and all that jazz. Plus it doesn't play as nice with BIG.little multiprocessing (AMP - asymmetric multiprocessing).

edit: I should note I am not advocating getting rid of preemption entirely, because it is needed for at least one processor, but having a fixed quantum causing a context switch on application CPUs is highly disruptive, both from the operation itself, and from blowing the cache all the time. Incidentally, one of the main reason for green threads.
As relevant then as it is now ... apologies for re-posting this, it's just not possible for me not to do so:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbZ8zDpX2Mg
That's interesting, what accent do you have? In American English I've only ever heard them pronounced the same in noun or verb form.
In the past I've thought that the trouble with "McCarthyism" was its lack of respect for freedom of expression and freedom of conscience, as well as some of the dynamics of "moral panic". That doesn't mean that McCarthy was literally personally wrong about all of his claims, and as you point out, some of them have subsequently been vindicated. It also doesn't mean that the anti-Communist or anti-Soviet cause was unimportant.

I guess this raises a big question for me: what does liberalism look like in a cold war (or a hot war)? The illiberalism of the cold war as well as other things that were done to prosecute it (including the exaltation of espionage and the seemingly irreversible boom in spy agencies and the classified world) are deeply upsetting to me even though they responded to a real and, I would agree, grave threat.
Yes but also no more that 200 to 500 depending on the area I mean I suppose I have to pay for the internet and it still is an hour of driving every day so yeah I already pay rent and so do most of the remotees so why would they prefer to pay for this instead of getting a bigger place, unless it is very cheap
No, definitely not on macOS. It uses the same VideoToolbox framework iOS does. You could probably write a kernel extension to add VPx support yourself tho.
The opposite of that is probably the Bible, or maybe Art of the Deal ...

Seriously though, I think the Bible is a bad book recommendation given its a diverse collection of books (statutes [eg Leviticus], erotic poetry [Song of Songs], apocalyptic predictions, communist idealism, segregationist supremacy, creation, etc.) written across a couple of millennia.
But that will never work if your population thinks even wearing masks is "oppressive"
Banning foreign investment in real estate forces foreign investors into more productive investments while simultaneously lowering the cost of living for workers and cost of business for companies.

Moving inflation to 6% will create millions of working class jobs in the US due to both a weaker dollar and cheaper money supply for value creation.

The losers in all of this are wealthy Americans. They will see their assets depreciate and buying power diminish. And that’s why we don’t do it.
But also, is it really a “record” time?

For example, Russia already has 3 vaccines: two of their own, and one Chinese.
They were very supportive of my departure to pursue my own business, and I've kept in touch with a number of folks there over the years. I was offered a "sabbatical" of sorts (assuming things didn't work out), but I declined that on grounds that accepting it would convey that I didn't have full faith in my ability to make it on my own. Thank goodness it all worked out in the end :-D
Bass is like sugar. Lots of it produces a quick addiction to their consumer, but that doesn't mean they are good. Beats produce loud but muddy basses. Good bass will be more subtle, but at the same time clearer. Try a Sennheiser if you can, especially one over ear with cable. It's too bad right now most of the known brands produce poor quality. My wife was completely amazed when she heard her favourite track through good headphones, she heard new instruments and other things she'd never noticed before. But also be aware that better gear might sound worse when you use it to play bad records, because it will expose the bad quality more clearly.
I do like the idea of being able to spend 20% of your time on work that is worthwhile, meaningful, rewarding, and that you actually enjoy, but I wonder if the percentage could be increased somehow, maybe to 50% time or something?
https://sputniknews.com/us/202012131081447209-us-treasury-ha...
Ditto here. Mostly children’s books.
Big fan of segment
I have no insight into how volunteers were recruited in the study but I would imagine that it is partially a cycle of African Americans being less likely to volunteer due to a history of mistreatment by medical community.

A lot of studies also recruit people who have a connection to the study (maybe friends/family members, students at the local university, etc...). If there is less diversity in the company and people running the study, I think this would also lead to less diversity in the participants. Again, I have no knowledge of how this one was done.
The best place to keep programmer dad jokes is in a dadabase. Like this one:

A programmer is sent to the store by his wife. His wife says, “Get a gallon of milk, and if they have eggs, get a dozen.”

The programmer returns home with 13 gallons of milk and says, “They had eggs.”
Yeah, pretty much everyone has been doing this all time, as long as they have the capability...
Just bookmarked
A change in stock to flow is not "priced in". And gold is also a speculation, it still works/worked. Social value networks are quite sticky and tend to get stronger over time.
"Buy a good screen" - so what defines a bad screen in the context of being good or bad for the eyes? LCD screens have neither the clarity problem nor the flicker problem that CRTs have.
Certainly such information has value on the open (dark) market, and not only to nation states.
Why is that surprising? They have exactly the same meaning; the difference is that 'but' additionally carries information about the subjective point of view of the speaker. (Where 'and' indicates that two things are true, 'but' indicates that (1) two things are true; and (2) the speaker considers this surprising or anticipates that the listener might find it surprising.)
An Australian vaccine candidate was discarded after phase one trials last week, and presumably there are other vaccine candidates that never even got that far.
I read somewhere, the more price tier the better
> More aggressive lockdowns initially could have limited the initial spread, and from there reasonable precautions could have been effective.

This is what Australia did. Except that some of the measures they used may have been unconstitutional in the US, and Australia is an island. The US has 4500 miles of porous borders with other countries.

And covid spreads asymptomatically, so the only way to get to where Australia is now is to get the number of cases down to basically zero. Which you can't do if you get 40 more from Mexico every week.

Notice that Australia is basically the only country that has managed to succeed with this; western Europe is doing little better than the US.

> Cutting funding to certain CDC programs may also have been detrimental.

This is fake news. The budget cuts were proposed (as a starting point for budget negotiations with Congress) but never actually enacted:

https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/democrats-misleading-coron...

> Disparaging mask use is also generally considered to be harmful.

For that you can thank CNN. They were writing a national story every time Trump would appear on camera without a mask, even if he was giving a speech to a camera with no audience or was in a room with entirely people being covid tested every day. This predictably led to Trump supporters defending him and it becoming a partisan issue.

It also didn't help that the CDC was disparaging mask use early on, ostensibly in order to preserve PPE for medical professionals, which gave everybody plenty of ammunition to fight about it once CNN had made it partisan for no good reason.
People are weirdly imprecise with their language in this domain. It’s like when people say a corporation is forced to do something to appease its shareholders, a complete falsehood.
Agreed, it absolutely depends on where you work and sometimes your management chain. I'm mostly referring to the finance industry where I've seen this pattern repeated many times.
Looks like this article was the source of the Twitter thread https://twitter.com/geoffwozniak/status/1337916048276852737 where I revived the discussion of my talk.
Great one, thanks
Buy a monitor that offers flicker free backlight brightness control.

Read up on PWM flicker in displays and their effects.

It’s one of the biggest factors yet ignored by most folks.

This is different from the refresh rate of your monitor.

This and the other tips mentioned in this thread.