skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absurd.

Right from the start of the paper:

Traditional traffic engineers argue a wider lane is safer. Although every engineering standard publication (FHWA 2011; TAC 1999) identifies pavement width as the most influential safety feature, discussion is surprisingly scarce (Hauer, 1999)

The article itself asserts that "traffic engineers" believe this to be safer, that "every engineering standard publication" agrees.

Whilst the article may, or may not provide a conflicting view (I haven't the time to read it right now), it 100%, completely and totally agrees that roads are built this way to promote safety. It agrees, stating that this is why engineers are building roads this way.

The very best you can argue is that "this is wrong", but you cannot argue "the purpose is not safety", for this is why engineers are doing it!

You are literally misrepresenting things. Please stop.
fair enough, then likewise you aren't entitled to know why other don't want privacy.
Mastercard blocked charges from them and VISA signaled they would do the same. Pretty simple.
> Why?

The rest of the sentence, which you conveniently left out when quoting, is one why.
Cool project. For this I usually use a text file on dropbox and the send tab function in Firefox (which has the annoying aspect of needing me to sync manually to see it on mobile). This seems like a better option.
That depends where in the world you are!
Agree, and on Matrix as well.
Replying to myself, in 2014 it was:

1. Feeding people - 55%
2. Feeding animals - 36%
3. Biofuels - 9%

https://www.vox.com/2014/8/21/6053187/cropland-map-food-fuel...
Paying a 3rd party to spread a message or information would be an interesting way to define it. In that scenario things like classifieds, craigslist, and job boards would all get the ax too.

I like to think about these issues because I make a living selling advertising on my website. We try to have use good practices, have the ads be high quality, targeted toward the content as opposed to the user.

On the other hand, I live in a city which does not allow billboard advertising (Santa Barbara, California) and I do enjoy it in comparison to cities with many billboards.
Economic transactions are a mediation in place of violence.
US agencies hacked in monthslong global cyberspying campaign
But that's an even weaker rhetorical strategy. You're asking people to admit that they're susceptible to psychological manipulation. It's akin to asking them to admit "I'm weak and have no control over my beliefs". The people who are most vulnerable to that kind of manipulation are exactly the ones who are unlikely to respond well to this kind of rhetoric.
The controlled environment probably makes pest control a heck of a lot easier as well.
I’d like to see a “benchmark” about M1’s support for real world dev setup (docker, brew, libraries and so on).
And when can we expect the full support
All of history is luck.
The relevant law here is the DMCA, which gives safe harbor to anyone hosting 3rd party content if they respond to timely takedown requests, which YouTube does.
use this application
https://iristech.co/iris-mini/
As soon as Apple sells this chip in a 32GB package I am going to be all over it.
Sweden Considers Cashless Society with Digital Currency
Icebreaker makes extremely good thermal wear. It’s comfortable, warm, breathable and looks great. Be prepared to spend though.
Sure the technology seems to have a long way to go. But would it not being real really matter once you could no longer tell the difference?

Either way, when the alternative is loneliness, depression, and eventually suicide, I find the AI solution to be way more humane.
> Just Buy M1 if you'd like to have a low-power, long-lasting, quiet, and performant dev machine.

If your development environment/tooling/workflow does not gain any real advantage from more CPU cores. Also your data must fit in the 16GB of RAM as offloading any workload to disk will kill the performance and you cannot add more.

The M1 has excellent single core performance so any task that is mainly single threaded will do really well on it.
Build a 3D Self-Driving Car Simulation
I only paid attention to his predictions that get people killed. When you have predictions that bad you should just stop predicting.
Some commenters are claiming this issue can be worked around by using by-reference capture, but the following code still requires dynamic allocation:

void reverse_bitstream(void * read_ctx, void * write_ctx) {
guard {
while(has_more_bits(read_ctx)) {
int b = read_bit(read_ctx);
if (b == 0) defer write_bit(write_ctx, 0);
else if(b == 1) defer write_bit(write_ctx, 1);
}
}
}
The fact that we are even able to realistically compare a CPU in an ultralight laptop with no fan to an i9 is absolutely amazing. To me that would be an upgrade even if performance is a complete wash.
FYI: Comparing current generation M1 to old generation AMD and Intel. Mix of laptop and desktop.
Can't wait to see the Mac Pro.

The argument is over for best laptop processor. I want to see if Apple is as eager to beat the competition in the Workstation/HPC space as they were in the mobile/laptop.

I think they are, Srouji looks like he's got a knife in his teeth and can't wait to claim fastest personal computer ever period. But we'll have to see, it's a tiny, tiny market to justify the effort.
For is also from Algol, replacing "do" from Fortran. I agree it would be interesting to know why the word was chosen, but I think it comes from the mathematical "for all x in Y, x > 5" or whatever other assertion is being made.
Before Youtube, many people in that part of the world listened to the radio. How will radio stations survive without ads?
The amount of government regulation has led to this payment processing duopoly. Not saying it's a bad thing, just that it's the major reason of how we got here.
Surprised SQLite was faster on Ryzen. But looks like M1 outperforms nearly everywhere else!
> Masks protect you / masks don't protect you (I don't know which is true but it is one or the other)

Or maybe it's not a binary thing at all?

Early discussions centered around "masks are imperfect when worn by non-medical professionals and may lead to more risky behaviour".

In light of this people argued that it was best to not recommend them.

The science of covid does not map cleanly only public health advice. The latter is the art of the possible and the former is - like all science - incomplete and continually evolving.
I'm not willing to accept this argument, School of the Americas (now Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation) is not a public-access educational institution. It is purely for the spread of imperialist propaganda around Central and South America.
I would also point out though some interesting places where the 3900x clearly wins. Looking at Naive Bayes for example, it's a nearly 10 fold difference in speed. I wonder what specific x86 optimizations help there, likely SIMD?
I use it on the desktop too, but mobile is where old.reddit.com is actually a _requirement_ for me
Get ready for a bunch of new accusations about the election. Dominion Voting systems uses SolarWinds according to their login pages, while the hack was still unknown. I shudder to think of the crazy conspiracy theories that are coming from a certain someone on twitter now... smh.
For a long time I've felt there are a plethora of communities for frontend development, but little for backend development. Any recommendations on backend-oriented communities?
It takes time to make the economics favorable by incrementally improving the technology. Once indoor vertical farming does become favorable, it will have huge benefits over outsourcing food production to Africa or elsewhere.

National security for one; it times of war no one can starve your population into submission by cutting off shipments of food into your country. Your crops are also more resilient to pestilence and disease if grown in a controlled indoor environment.

All this makes it a worthwhile line of exploration, no?
alloca() is not a standard C primitive. It's only an extension, and its purpose is to dynamically allocate memory that is automatically freed. Using a dynamic amount of stack space is dynamic allocation, it's just not on the heap.

This still makes it really easy to overflow your stack, especially if for example your loop count above can come from user input. This is dangerous for all the same reasons that variable-length arrays are dangerous.
There are multiple ways to secure FTP: FTPS and SFTP. FTPS uses SSL. SFTP is technically a different protocol, and uses SSH.
I don't think it is a stretch to assume that GameRanger will never add RaceNet server emulation.
Based on feedback from the committee, I think it's very unlikely a dynamic approach will be used. The static only affects the for loop in terms of whether the deferred statements are run once or for each iteration of the loop, and the only real world use of this I've found so far involves allocating and deallocating resources within each loop iteration which would be supported by the static approach.
That was a common convention at the time and you can also see it in early BASIC manuals.
From the article, Pornhub only had 118 incidences of child porn over the last 3 years whereas Facebook had 84 million incidents of child porn during the same time. So it sounds like Pornhub is taking child porn seriously, and Facebook isn't.
It wasn't the only sentence I took issue with, it was just the one that raised my eyebrows the highest.

> low on abstractions

I feel with this that the author is going to the opposite extreme. The takeaway isn't that abstractions should be eliminated categorically, just that they have a cost and shouldn't be fetishized.

> mostly imperative

I take issue with this too, though this part may be more a matter of personal preference. Yes, it's worse when your imperative logic is split across 15 files, but I see imperative logic itself as something to be done sparingly. Imperative logic means mutation of state, means easy-to-lose-track-of side-effects, means unpredictable behavior. This is sometimes unavoidable at the systems level (where C is typically used), but it is absolutely avoidable at the application layer (where Java is typically used).

Here's another one that raised a red flag:

> A well-considered class...should be easy to name, ideally with a noun that corresponds to something in the real world with a lifecycle of its own.

Real-world-modeling was found a long time ago to be a bad approach to OOP. The author is right to say that classes should represent clearly distinct concepts that are easy to name, but there's no reason those concepts also need to map to real-world entities. Often, they shouldn't.
Geeze dude. I seriously have a hard time believing just how toxic people in those sorts of circles are capable of being.
My thought exactly.

In my experience people usually use aggregators for this kind of quantity.
>In the event we finance an ISA of a student who has not graduated we have to refund what we received if a student doesn't graduate.

Interesting, I didn't know this. I thought you just sold the ISA outright, which would retain some of the incentive but weaken it quite a bit. It's great to hear that that's not happening.

I found https://lambdaschool.com/the-commons/announcing-our-new-isa-... discussing this in more detail. Seems like everyone complaining about Lambda School ISA financing should just read that...
How much effort is it really? Make a version of this with more cores and cache and maybe all high-performance cores instead of heterogenous. It's just a remix of the same already designed components.

The only really tough thing would be supporting things desktop users want like external video cards, but people may be willing to forego that if the CPU smokes everything else and if the built-in GPU is at least fast enough for serious work.
It's never as easy as it sounds to "just" do something. I'm hugely in favor of the carbon tax you've described, but it will not be easy to enact it globally.
There is a low probability I would rent a space like that. If I lived somewhere close enough to have deserted woods (where there could be multiple cabins with trails) within a 20 or 30 minutes drive I think that implies a low cost of land.

If that's true my first priority would be to have either a house big enough for a separate office or even enough land to have an office shack or floor above my garage. A separate work cabin that involves a commute doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

It's okay if you just didn't go into detail but I don't see anything about a kitchen, and the remote location kinda implies there isn't anywhere nearby to get food. Nothing nearby is totally okay as long as I have somewhere to make or at least reheat food. Firepits aren't enough if they're the only method of cooking because it can be pretty gnarly outside and I don't want making lunch every day to involve making a fire, dealing with rain, and getting smoky.
Ask HN: How to Backup a Google Account?
My life (and many others) rely too much on information being stored on Google's products.

Between the outage recently and occasional accidental account closures, does anyone know of a way to backup a Google account to some cloud storage (S3 / Azure storage etc) ?

I know Google Takeout exists, but it is

1. Manual
2. Not incremental backup (need to upload from scratch each time)
Its absolutely possible, the worst AWS outage was caused by one engineer running the wrong command [0].

"This past Tuesday morning Pacific Time an Amazon Web Services engineer was debugging an issue with the billing system for the company’s popular cloud storage service S3 and accidentally mistyped a command. What followed was a several hours’ long cloud outage that wreaked havoc across the internet and resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars in losses for AWS customers and others who rely on third-party services hosted by AWS."

[0] - https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2017/03/02/aws-...
Mold is more of an issue due to the breathability / air exchange of the house, than it is due to insulation. Insulation doesn't have to eliminate air exchange.
I wonder why the mac mini M1 seemed to sometimes underperform the macbook air M1 -- shouldn't the mac mini be outperforming the mac book air essentially across the board due to the better thermal envelope?
Ideally, Docker et al will be ready by the time the MacBook Pros come out. Here is hoping.
Horse poop.
Thanks. My major public project for map utilities has been Tippecanoe, https://github.com/mapbox/tippecanoe
Ryzen 4000 series (which is for laptops) is relatively easy to get, but I don't fault the author for not buying a laptop specifically for this benchmark. The 3900x still pulls more power and is on the same technology as the 4900HS/4900H so it's definitely not a bad-faith comparison.
You’ve accidentally triple-posted, I assume this happened when you tried edit a typo?
2 things:
* this Patagonia down jacket is a killer jacket, it's a-ma-zing. Of course it gets the job done.
* bike rides require less clothing than walking, because your body heat keeps you warm. Plus, if you're not a heavy sweater, you're blessed (as am I).
Someone claimed a while back most of these vertical farms would switch to growing weed once it became legal in the state(s) they have farms.

I’m not sure if any other crop beside weed would turn a significant profit. You might be able to get a government contract to grow some other controlled substance and turn a small profit.

The only other way it would work would be if it was a co-op owned by residents or subsidized by the local government.
> Virus as dangerous as Ebola (read on the front page of the Times in the UK!)

Except that's not what they actually said:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/covid-19-death-rates-are-...
> I want to see if Apple is as eager to beat the competition in the HPC space

Doesn't HPC use PPC or something?

I could see them delivering on Desktop, not sure about HPC though. There's only one Fortran compiler for M1!
I’m not saying it’s a direct comparison, just that bootstrapping off of content theft is pretty par for the course for the internet, be it individual creators or entire websites. I also don’t see it as a good thing, but at least with anime fansubbers it is kind of a begrudgingly accepted reality that this kind of activity helps create the market that allows the legitimate player to exist.
Really crazy results imo, being able to carry around the performance of a desktop in a laptop is quite the feat. I might pick up a MacBook next year if they allow for more than only 1 external display connected and increase to 4 usb c ports. Seems like a powerful portable option.
I don't see mention one way or the other in the article but everything that was tested has a native version already so I'd assume Rosetta was not at play in these numbers.
Your anecdotal survivorship story was, indeed, rather unhelpful when I had previously linked news articles discussing the widespread loss of productivity associated with this concern.
The advantage of that AMB format is that it does not depend on large and variable-length data structures so you can easily implement a viewer in BASIC or macro assembler on an "8-bit" computer like the Apple ][.

(e.g. a friend of mine wrote a "filesystem" in BASIC on a TRS-80 Color Computer that stored 90kb on a floppy side (you flip) and also built a "robot" that could change floppies. The IBM PC was double density and heads on both sides so it stored 4 times as much, 360kb on a floppy, the early C64 split the difference around 150kb,...)

I think the hash index is cute and probably scales up to the 1.2MB floppy range that came with the PC AT.
He has $15k in 'expenses' every month according to a linked blog post in that article
Who determines the value of nature? Would you be satisfied letting a market do that, instead of a centralized authority?

The fact that “money” is still involved has nothing to do with this argument. Even the Soviet Union issued currency.
iRacing doesn't have rallying, only rally cross, which despite the similar name is not the same category of motorsport. RX is multi-car circuit racing, no pace notes, etc.

That said, how is the dirt racing in iRacing? I haven't had the time to try it in several years.
Depends on the country. In the US (as I understand it) a key component to being charge with a monopoly is you have to show that consumers/users are negatively impacted.

Philosophically I don't know whether or not I agree that's best, but it's the way it is currently.
Or if the bottleneck in your workflow is RAM read/write speed as opposed to RAM capacity. The RAM being on the same chip as the CPU/GPU gives it tremendously low RAM latency, which seems to be where it's getting much of its edge in these tests
You shouldn't be downvoted. These are valid questions that have been poorly handled by media and political leaders. Pretending they're right-wing talking points and ignoring them is a big part of why so many people distrust the mainstream narrative and recommendations regarding COVID.
Biologically speaking it’s all memorization.

You memorized how to obfuscate comprehensions in a thousand ways. High 5

Discovery of net new abstraction is more interesting than re-proving you know what a mutex or cloud stack look like.
That's akin to saying “Construction work is highly exploitative and uncomfortably close to human trafficking — see the case of the Qatar football stadium.”

Obviously providing a single example where it went wrong does not amount to showing a universal criterion, which is what your wording suggested.
A hybrid capitalist system with social elements for healthcare and education and proper regulation is probably a better system. But those things are a far cry from talking about getting rid of private property and capitalism all together.

I believe evolving our current system and maintaining certain elements is better than getting rid of it all together. I see reactions like yours as throwing the baby out with the bathwater when there are more level headed approaches we can take like limiting lobbying to course correct.

Edit: This is my US centric view, I realized after the fact that we may not be in the same place since this is a global forum
That's not how any real-world algorithms work (and maybe this is exactly your point); rather, provided they learned on a representative sample, they'd learn that there's a 99% chance that a given light-skinned person is a non-citizen (or more likely, that the lighter the skin, the less likely they are to be a citizen--i.e., continuous and not discrete). For a given light-skinned person, they'd return a confidence of 99% that the person in question is a non-citizen. "Bias" would be a person looking at that confidence interval and misinterpreting it as 100%.

Additionally, it's problematic because it's easily conned--for example, if it's used to determine who is eligible to vote (even if we take care not to round the confidence interval up to 100% by classifying 1% of light-skinned people as eligible and 1% of dark-skinned people as ineligible), someone could haul in a bunch of foreigners with dark skin to commit voter fraud. This also isn't "algorithmic bias", but rather foolishness in the application of the algorithm (of course, it's impossible to conceive of a legitimate purpose for an algorithm that maps statistically between skin color and citizenship).
> I luckily grew out of it, but being absorbed by the pursuit of easy, digital approximations of real accomplishments ...

The really harmful thing might be the artificial meaning this creates,
which might be at the end more addictive than the fun.

I never really was addicted to games. The funny thing is, I could only
play games that were really fun for me, because of the game mechanics or if
they had some interesting new aspects. But this kind of fascination never
hold that long and after that the game play just got repetitive and
tedious, at which point I just stopped playing.

Therefore also most games that contain a lot of repetition feel just
pointless to me.
Are you that isn't your connection? I am getting 20ms TTFB from Romania.
Wait who is the org that will pay websites and services based on how much time I use them?
Even with multiple search engines, if they are all trying to solve the same problem, you'll get convergent evolution.

Let's say you have 10 search engines each with their own algorithm. 1 of them has an exploitable weakness. Either they close this weakness by switching to one of the superior algorithms or they get exploited and become much less useable than their competitors. In either case, you soon have 9 search algorithms. Repeat this process a few times and you're back to a monoculture. Best case scenario, you reach a stable equilibrium where a few different search engines are all plagued by different but roughly equivalent issues, such that none is good enough to beat out the others.
Yeah seeing a MacBook Air beat an i9 is hilarious.

I think this should put arguments over X86 efficiency disadvantages to bed. The X86 is obviously a huge boat anchor. There is no other explanation for this monstrous of a performance efficiency gap... unless Apple has invented something fundamentally new that has never been done in the entire history of CPU design. I doubt that.
A different way of approaching this mental categorization is political involvement. If "it's all luck anyway" translates to "let's change things to address structural and societal problems" in the political sphere, it's not so bad. The inverse streak would be the concept of pulling yourself by your bootstraps or the moralistic punishment-first attitude towards social ills such as drug addiction and so on.

Lucky people at the top of society believing they made it all by themselves are far more dangerous than fatalism among the masses.
That wasn't the argument (and the said 1000 health professionals weren't professing any other outdoor activity). Assuming that shouting in close proximity of people is even covid-safe.
Not necessarily a gender problem. Few desirable men will get most dates/gfs, others may end up with none. It is kinda true anywhere.