skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait for a disaster to happen in your area - a time when you'll want your cellphone the most. At which point your cellphone will be... well, a good camera.

And personally, as someone who grew up in the 80's, let me offer up a counter-anecdote: I don't ever recall hearing a "fast-busy tone". There was never a time we couldn't use our land line (at least until we had a modem, that is).
Not with VoLTE and FaceTime Audio around now. Inter-carrier calls can still suck, but I now have noise canceling headphones which enables me to get a much more intelligent signal out of the mouth of the other caller than I could with just the call speaker held up to my ear.

There’s a lot that still sucks, but I don’t miss landlines the slightest bit. Scheduled do not disturb is a godsend next to trying to remember to turn the ringer on the landline in the hallway off at night.
You can do that, but SAML is heavily namespaced.
However it may not be fair comparison as apple has no incentive to support optimization outside their stack. A skewed better performance in OSX is not just about the processor but about their stack preferring one arch.

Benchmark for OS+CPU stack should be their best combination not where one vendor has advantage.
I think I can explain. The original google interface was a text box hanging in white space. Mind-blowing. Let's use this as our design language.
> "There are several theories as to why the M1 does so well on on JavaScript benchmarks."

A major reason it does so well is the native Javascript support added in ARMv8.3-A.

Specifically, FJCVTZS (Floating-point Javascript Convert to Signed fixed-point, rounding toward Zero)[1] which is a Javascript-specific variant of FCVTZS implementing the overflow and exception handling behaviour that Javascript wants.

Javascript needs to do these conversions a lot, since it doesn't have integer types, and it's much faster to have it implemented in silicon rather than using the old instructions and having to handle the overflow/error checking.

[1] https://developer.arm.com/documentation/100076/0100/a64-inst...
So even longer for me.
They release something not called "encoding/xml". They could do what they did to the syscall package. The syscall package, by its nature, can't conform to the 1.0 compatibility promise Go itself maintains, because it changes outside of the scope of the Go project. So they froze the syscall package at some point, and then offered one in the golang.org/x/ namespace at https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/sys .

I would again emphasize that encoding/xml, to my knowledge, only has problems with this particular roundtripping use case. It can consume non-namespaced XML correctly, and handle namespaced XML as long as you don't plan on re-emitting XML.

What would probably end up happening is a new package appearing on github.com for this use case, forked off of encoding/xml, for this use case. (If you're looking for a project that might attain some use, this is a likely candidate.) Unlike something like Python where the core packages are often C-based and thus you can expect better performance from the built-in "set" than somebody's pure-Python "set" implementation from before the built-in, encoding/xml is just a pile of pure Go code whose only advantage is that it ships with the compiler. Anyone can replace it without incurring any other disadvantage whenever they like.

(I looked a few versions ago, FWIW; encoding/xml has deviated so much from what I forked that my fork is essentially dead and no longer releasable without basically starting over from scratch. Plus I built it with the idea that it should be a minimal modification (so I could port it forward, which turned out to not work, but it's still how it was built)... if I was truly forking I'd have done some more extensive changes to it to support namespaces in general, rather than for my particular case.)

Anyhow, upshot, the Go project as a whole is not stuck... it is specifically encoding/xml as the standard, built-in library that is stuck. It's not like Go is completely incapable of handling XML correctly from first principles for some reason or anything.
The latest Chrome. This has been a problem I've experience for years.
>Why is it so important for the individual to have a child if you're never going to spend any time with them down the line?

Why do anything in life at all? We're all going to die anyway!
Google Drive UI makes me want to gouge my eyes out. Even on non-mobile devices obvious actions and behaviours are made impossible. Want to open a new tab for every folder in Drive? Tough luck, you can't use middle click nor "Open in new tab" since it's some poorly made abomination without respect for the user. So you need to go back, but it's a large folder and will never load folders in one go, so you have to scroll down again and spend 5 seconds for the animations to end and load the next dozen elements. Just one of the many things personally annoying me, and it's not limited to it alone but all Google services, they are definitely among the worst I've ever had to deal with when it comes to usability.
Slogans work better when there are one or two parts, but this is unfortunately oversimplified and recent building patterns have made this much worse.

The first thing you should dress is the building, because it takes the longest.

We have forgotten that passive cooling and heating from the environment are your first line of defense. We screw this up, and building codes now allow such small boundaries between houses that we can’t retroactively fix it on new construction.

This was really driven home for me recently when I explained to my partner that I wanted to rip out the arborvitae the previous owners installed before they got too big for me to dig up.

I wanted a tall, narrow deciduous tree for the south side of our house, to reduce solar gain in the summer, but to let light hit the house in the winter. She paused and said nobody had ever explained that to her before, which shocked me given how long we’ve lived together.

We need to use vegetation to “eat” the sun and wind during the times of year when we want neither, then adjust our houses within that protective shell we have created. But we have forgotten how to do this, if in fact we ever knew.
Yes, for that reason it'd be amazing if one could run Linux on M1 hardware. Despite some old Intel models were great for this purpose and Linus has shown some interest, I'm not holding my breath.

It'd be nice if we saw some good competing CPUs. Nvidia is in my opinion is well positioned midterm due to the acquisition of ARM. But I'd prefer AMD due to openness and staying within the PC standard.
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Some great advice here.
> 1. Amazon, Google, Microsoft start building their own chips for their own clouds.

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/graviton/

> 5. If you want to develop for AWS you'll be safer to have a laptop with an Amazon chip,

Since I mostly work on Java that runs at Amazon, I develop locally using Amazon Corretto (https://aws.amazon.com/corretto/), less for performance than for greater confidence I won't run issues between JVM differences when deploying at AWS.

> Or we'll end up with 5 different laptops (unlikely) or one that connects to a remote desktop running in the appropriate cloud with the correct chip.

We're already there when deploying Python with dependencies that need to be compiled from a different OS. The options that I've used so far are 1. Only using pure Python dependencies, which mostly works, and 2. Running a container locally. Thinking about the CPU you're going to be running on might make sense if you're working on native code, but it probably won't be a big deal.
"This makes them feel unsafe at work."

This is modern office equivalent of nuking the opponent in war.
Because the demonstrable[1] security risks for most people of their vacuum cleaner or thermostat getting pwned are non-existent.

[1] I'm not talking about theoretical geek-fantasy concerns about how the Mossad, or some other sufficiently sinister and all-powerful organization[2], can stop your heart by varying the power setting on your internet-connected Roomba, or map out the internal layout of your apartment and fly a poison-dart-tipped AI-controlled drone into it. I'm talking about actual, demonstrable harm to the typical end user. People grousing on the internet about security have done an incredibly poor job of this.

[2] That for some reason is futzing around with thermostat zero-days, instead of just taping a bomb to the underside of your car, or scrubbing your teapot with polonium, or jabbing you with a poison-tipped umbrella.
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Tense is wrong, they have this ability RIGHT NOW to a very high degree of certainty.

Just because the tip of the iceberg has been discovered doesn't mean its mitigated. Even Fireeye is probably still compromised. It will take a while to understand the actual scope of this.

And in the meantime new attacks are likely happening also.
I like to add "shit", "scam" or some other negative term after the product name to find the negative reviews.
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Lower latency too. It's crazy how much of a difference low latency really makes.
> you can't just revamp the UX for a product used by billions of users without some pretty serious blowback

Somehow, that doesn't stop companies from breaking they UX, only from fixing it.

Most of the Google software started with good usability (gmail, drive, search, maps). It got horrendous by changing.
> Recommender engines

Not so sure about these. Personally, I mostly feel deprived of options. (E.g., I guess, there are some videos uploaded to YT every day, and there must be more than some 3 months old news clips and those videos I've already seen, but it has actually become hard to learn about them. Therefore, in my personal YT universe, human creativity came mostly to a stop.)
"Small" is really exaggerating the changes. Schedule is just a small part of it. But while we're talking about schedule, many parents that are students at Lambda School struggled hard with the increase of meetings after the changes were implemented.
> ... without making some really major changes that are highly disruptive. Now, you could just say that Google should bite the bullet and hit reboot on some of its bad UX decisions from years ago.

They don't seem to have much of a problem EOL-ing products. THAT is often far more disruptive to large swathes of people. Perhaps not billions, but I would hazard to say millions of people have been affected by various product shutdowns, and there's never any rebound from that. Making UI changes can be rolled out to groups of folks with adjustments made on feedback, then further rolled out, or ... scrapped.
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Software engineering licensure is an old debate. To say the least, I can easily imagine it making things worse, where let's say, all software has to be written in Java and get a rubber stamp by someone who hasn't actually built anything for years, and then still nobody gets held accountable when security breaches happen. Meanwhile, a bunch of college dropouts build something that's actually good using bulb, and then just have users sign away their rights in a contract instead of getting their software certified. And most of the world still runs on the Linux kernel which also had no interest in getting certified.

It's a hard problem.
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all the more reason to prioritize minimization of scope for PCI ;)
These ARK funds have been making some killer investments. I'm so excited about the companies in ARKG and PRNT.
If we had incontrovertible evidence of every abuse, every predation, every theft attempt via privileged information, misuse of identity information, every inappropriate property action, et cetera... Now include tools for reversing reversable illegal activities (if not identifying them before they are committed). Add real time knowledge of the location and status of all people. What effect would you expect this shift to have on the expected value of illegal behaviors? How long would such practices last? What if rapid response teams would immediately go into motion to end assaults and other risks to health and well-being?

There are great reasons we maintain privacy in our society's current configuration. A shift can sound like a perfect tool for authoritarians and many stories suggest that result but it might also be a perfect tool for exposing them early and suppressing their rise while facilitating greater safety and efficiency in society. We will certainly have to adjust our societal agreements and expectations.
Is General Assembly as bad as Lambda School?
Who recalls the provenance of this old legend about the fellow who challenged his pal to decode a certain floppy?

It was a bog-standard DOS boot disk (IIRC) that he could put in his machine and boot normally. But his pal put it in his computer and... nothing doing, no boot. Analysis of the floppy availed not. The challenge went unmet.

What did our hero do to make the floppy?

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I'm curious about this too. I actually think it won't because even with the huge amount of marketing for this new chip that apple is doing, the average consumer doesn't explicitly care about the cpu.
Look into WebPerf
> Content moderation has been ~solved as well.

I strongly disagree. Pornhub just purged 10 million videos because they couldn't moderate out child porn and rape videos.

There's terrible content all over Facebook

- Using Facebook's own numbers ~750,000 instances of "child nudity and sexual exploitation" were reported by users before being removed in Q3 2020. https://transparency.facebook.com/community-standards-enforc...

- Facebook’s improved AI isn’t preventing harmful content from spreading https://venturebeat.com/2020/11/19/facebooks-improved-ai-isn...

- Despite Facebook ban on Holocaust denial, it’s still easy to find https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/despite-facebook-ban-on-holoc...
I'm German, studied in Auckland (NZ), worked in Sydney and Melbourne and am now living in Sweden. The coldest I've ever felt is Auckland and Sydney (probably Sydney slightly colder). Sydney houses are so poorly insulated, there's cm-wide gaps under some doors and windows and the only heaters are typically a small plugin resistive heater. Auckland was typically a bit better, except that the heaters were indoor gas heaters with a LPG bottle (welcome to dampness and condensation on all windows).

During the day in Sydney winter it is often 18-22 degrees, so you can walk around in t-shirt quite comfortably, but as soon as the sun goes down it drops down to 8-12 and it's as cold inside as outside. Try to work on a computer when it's 12 degrees in your room (or maybe 15 if you have your electric heater on full blast).

Melbourne gets much colder and insulation is only marginally better. However, apartments/houses typically have some sort of proper heating (heat-pump or centralised gas heater). You still largely heat the outside though (one of our houses was so badly insulated, that when it was windstill the house could be easily heated to ~20 deg even with ~1 deg outside, when windy that indoor temperature dropped to >10.

Now in Sweden, I can easily sit in t-shirt and be comfortable. In fact my office can be heated just using my moderate desktop PC (~450 W power supply), because you don't loose the heat to the outside immediately.
The "average user" of 20 years ago was watching TV news, TV entertainment, and choosing their goods from what their local stores decided to carry. Similar arguments were made about how they wouldn't want to do a bunch of technical stuff, yet today digital technology is just part of everyday life. If the middleman as a service industry could have held itself to ~2010 levels of intrusiveness, then I'd say perhaps there might not be enough of an advantage to pull people into newer technologies. Alas, every bit of top-down meddling seems to beget even more top-down meddling, as the powermongers discover that the nouveau middlemen can be pressured just as easily as the old set.
I think as the "tech elite" it is more our job, as experts, to teach people. I got my parents to use a VPN because Netflix was hounding them when they would watch movies at their second house. I installed ad blockers (and at the same time privacy badger and HTTPS everywhere) in their browsers. We've talked a lot about surveillance capitalism and they've always quoted Goebbels (unknowingly). But after some time they now excitedly tell me about how wrong the ads are that they get in the mail or on their phones. The same thing has happened with several of my friends (many of whom I've gotten on Signal). The fact that they see wrong flyers in the mail has really also opened their eyes about how much they are tracked. Though I'll admit they're trending a little more towards the paranoid side now, but it is unsurprising when you consider Boomers grew up with Orwell, Huxley, and the Cold War (they also watch Fox).

It became clear to me that "I have nothing to hide" was actually "I don't think I can fight it." It was a justification for an apathetic view. Which I understand. If you try to fight a team of psychologists, mathematicians, and super computers, it seems like you have no chance. I think this same thing goes well beyond just privacy too. But most people need to consider that most people are not tech literate and it is a very daunting idea for them, one that they are pretty embarrassed about.
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So far I've seen ZERO EVIDENCE. Reuters and the Washington Post have breathless claims of Russian hackers "according to officials familiar with the matter." Uh huh.

Saying "APT29" or "CozyBear" doesn't make the accusation any more credible.

If multiple US agencies are trumpeting the same story, you really must ask yourself "Why? Why this? Why now?"

It's pretty amusing, in a depressing way, to see how quickly so many otherwise intelligent people can be made to snap to attention and fight the Russian Menace with a few anonymous government claims.
ARK publishes their "balance sheets" daily. I noticed that they update them usually around 6:30PM central. So you're basically just comparing with previous day's data to find deltas.
OK guess I'll have to wait until those land in Debian bullseye and upgrade to that once it's there.
I spent a winter in Moscow many moons ago, they had 2 sets of windows creating with a significant corridor in between them. Where I was, heating was centrally controlled by the city so if it got hot, open the first window. Still hot? Open the second for extra fresh air. Quite a good system I thought and awfully romantic for me: watching the snow fall through open windows with the heating on full blast.
We pretty much already know.

14-inch and 16-inch with same size but thinner bezels are expected to next year.
When I moved to the UK and I was looking for a property to rent I was surprised to read advertisements bragging about "double glazing". I don't really remember seeing single glazing in my home country (even pre-second-word-war had double, just not two pieces of glass in a single window frame, but two separately openable single glazed windows). But it doesn't get that cold (outside) in winter in the UK, while the strongest winter i remember was getting down to -30 degrees celsius. However houses are definitely cooler inside in winter in the UK.

Nowadays there are increased requirements for thermal insulation in new houses and many new buildings where I come from have triple glazed windows, some people get recuperation (warm air having house warms up newly coming air) and some even heat pumps (winters got milder recently, so even air source heat pumps are sufficient most of the years)

Talking about Canada, when I was an exchange student in Halifax, New Scotia, one day when the snow fell (not even a particularly big amount in my opinion) the uni cancelled the classes; we were some of not many people who arrived to the uni building so we went sledging on a small hill nearby. It was the only time in my life that school/uni was cancelled due to weather! So Halifax didn't live up to the stereotype and my expectations about Canada, but maybe it's because it's not really a hardcore part of the country :)
Can we just consider XML itself an unsolvable vulnerability and call it day?
"For classical economists such as Adam Smith, the term free market does not necessarily refer to a market free from government interference, but rather free from all forms of economic privilege, monopolies and artificial scarcities."

so this usage is at least 250 years old - and canonical.

I suspect the 'free from government interference' definition is a modern conservative creation, attempting to claim the ground of what an ideal market looks like in the public's imagination.
Someone explained it some years ago. It was about the lack of consistency in shadows and that conveying depth on a virtual sheet of paper does not feel natural
Yeah, nothing wrong with not having memorized how to do that - it's certainly not often useful in practice. But if you're given the definitions and a couple minutes to figure it out (which, in an interview, you are), and you actually can't come up with the 10 lines of code to do it, maybe that question is working as intended after all...
There is also a site with similar functionality. [1]

[1] arktrack.com
About 8. I can't imagine doing more than that. There are only so many hours in a day, and the rest are taken by:
- 7 hours of sleep
- 2 hours of dealing with food (cooking+eating+cleaning)
- 1 hour of exercise
- 1 hour of miscellaneous house chores (organization, cleaning floor and furniture, dealing with plants, etc.)
- 3-4 hours of personal project / learning time
To be honest now that you say that it sounds less of an issue than I think but I still feel a little strangled by only two ports for some reason.
The point of travel is to get from point A to point B as fast as possible. It's never about the journey and it's always about the destination.

The only hassle at the airport is all in your head. As a frequent traveler (I used to fly every 2 weeks) all the screening and getting to the airport was a chore, not something to be angsty about.
Google inbox was the last Google product I used and easily the best. Completely got rid of my inbox clutter and gave the ability to snooze emails.
I admit I'm not terribly familiar with Prolog/Datalog, but it sounds similar to class expressions + properties in Jena:

https://jena.apache.org/documentation/ontology/#ontology-cla...

https://jena.apache.org/documentation/ontology/#ontology-pro...

where you can apply sub/super classes and define a property as disjoint/transitive/equivalent to other properties.

I guess at that point I would wonder how much more is really practically necessary for a 'web of semantic data'. Imo, that's already over-powered for the basic use case which is linking one schema and its properties to another and defining an exchange protocol via the linked data platform.

Again, I admit I'm not very familiar with these things and I appreciate you taking the time to read through this stuff.
I distinctly remember estimates of the CFR being as high as 5% in several independent (as in non-MSM although I hate that term) reviews of available data.

I never got a sense that the media over-reported CFR or IFR.

They did a terrible job of contextualising all the figures which was infuriating - but the net result of that wasn't especially exaggerating the threat. More that it didn't educate people to understand what they were hearing.
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