skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a bit of a bait and switch or motte and bailey.

Now you're arguing that people should do philosophy.

The original argument was that we need philosophers, as in we need to take professionally trained philosophy graduates more seriously and bring them into the software industry so they can help us make better software.

The first is probably useful, everyone benefits from a broad range of knowledge and activity. Including sport, novels, humanities, philosophy, natural sciences, computer science, people management and psychology, etc. It doesn't necessarily mean we need graduates of all these fields in the software shop.

I suspect part of this push comes from a certain resentment from philosophy majors that their expertise is not valued much and they can't find jobs.

But for all but the richest places like Google, it is totally ridiculous that a software company could employ philosophers and pay their salaries for coming up with publishable articles according to the academic standards they learned at university.

Most software places are already annoyed how unpractical and far removed from the ground the CS graduates are compared to day to day practice. Them hiring philosophers is completely out of the question.

When I read philosophers takes on AI for example (eg Precht's new book), it's painful. It's as if their philosophy is still stuck at decades ago. They are asking the wrong questions, answer them clumsily, not using mathematical tools right or misunderstanding them, taking simple and well-understood things to be profound new insights and thinking that something is simple when it's actually really hard.

Philosophers (as in these actual real-life current humans) tend to invent problems for themselves completely orthogonal to what would actually be interesting and complex to investigate, probably out of fear that they are not technically adept/trained enough to engage with the details.

There's a component of tech-envy here that makes this type of discussion quite heated and tribal.
Same, im buying one the second its on sale
Thank you for giving me a reason to start a blog :-)
No lobste.rs mention? In the article or these comments as of now.
I know G-Suite. I meant regular gmail.com without custom domains.
> the general idea that a life spent alone, consuming pornography all day is unfulfilling should not be controversial

1). I don't see why that's not controversial. It doesn't seem self-evident. If a person can fulfill the need by watching porn, then by definition, it is fulfilled. If a person finds it unfulfilling, well, such a person will be motivated to branch out and start doing something else.

2). OP claimed that regardless of whether you watch it all day for a few times a week, porn hinders you down from pursuing females. I'd argue that the latter doesn't.

3). Not forming a family doesn't mean a life spent alone. The only people I know who's determined to not ever get married, has a very active sex life and parties all the time. The idea that one can't be happy without a family is fairly outdated.

4). Addiction is a real thing, but one has to recognize that there is a wide gap between pathologically addicted to porn, and just enjoying watching porn.
I think it's the "our brains on capitalism" bit that got downvoted. To be fair, the communists are no better/worse at this, it's just government propaganda instead of corporate advertising.
He said that there are "porn companies that feature of-age performers" that "are highly exploitative and uncomfortably close to human trafficking", e.g. GDP. Nothing more, nothing less.

> Qatar football stadium

The issue with documented human rights abuses in the construction industry in Qatar is a problem with Qatar, and not with the construction industry. I don't think I have to explain why.
Wasn’t Take Two Rockstar Games that bought it last month?

https://www.polygon.com/platform/amp/2020/11/10/21558320/tak...
> Comparing to Reddit though, I think it's fairer to say something like 'if someone opened a cafe where paedophiles liked to hang out and chat'.

The difference here is Reddit content is persistent and public. If you are in a cafe, your conversations are transient and can only be overheard by your nearest neighbor. Your cafe would have to have a bulletin board or file cabinets where descriptions of content is posted along with where you can get it.

I'm pretty sure that wouldn't last too long either.
The article has mentioned its purely based on speculation, it doesn't claim - it was the cause. There has to be a bigger chain of attacks that led to the breach.
I agree. I visit Reddit and HN to engage with other people.

If I just wanted to read, I'd directly subscribe to a select set of blogs.
Capitalism depends entirely on the existence of functioning markets. It is the philosophy that recognizes their value and promotes them.
Based on the movie WarGames, but did not get the official license apparently due to someone being sick and the agreement not being signed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcR7sKmAxTs&t=402s

http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe--war_1179...

https://colinhume.com/work.htm#Thorn_EMI
It sounds like this in this case it's not recent grads, it's the people still paying the bootcamp, who are grading other's work. That is one way to reduce costs!
I prefer to wear sweaters in the house , because when I work out the house is nice and cool.
I find it cooler indoors in New Zealand during the winter than I did in the UK for this reason. NZ pretends it’s always warm and has little home insulation, or none in my house, except the ceiling which I did. New Zealand has very poor housing.
Synthesis of Tabular Data in Finance Using Generative Algorithms
But it's not intended for any other complex operation. It has cameras that take pictures that are later processed. It's basically a spy plane, not a combat plane, where the pilot is expected to evade enemy aircraft or otherwise engage them.
This is one of the biggest reasons for me, personally. It is such an inexpensive difference in overall cost versus the benefits of having that headroom.

Plus I am sitting at ~26gb used memory right now. I tend to give my VM's a nice big 8-12GB chunk of ram depending on what I am doing too, so it is almost like I have two machines in one.

The disks and data pipelines on these new machines are so fast though that I do wonder if the RAM's responsibility has shifted towards being a giant CPU cache and the disk has likewise shifted into a point where it performs more like RAM.
I figure I will eventually pass this laptop on to a family member by the time I will be in the market for a new laptop, so I am not necessarily worried about that. I suspect my 2017 mbp would have worked fine for a few more years but I wanted to transition to a more portable device.
Emergency Directive 21-01: Mitigate SolarWinds Orion Code Compromise
Point taken/understood.

For curiosity's sake, I just tried the above shortcuts in Chrome with a bluetooth folding keyboard and an Android phone. Worked great.
Yes, you missed that this was a weekend project that appears to simply be a search of the books in the OpenLibrary database.
Nasdaq, SEC, Diversity, Monopoly
The Nasdaq asked the SEC if it was okay to make the companies listed on its exchange to be diverse. Meanwhile, their anti-competitive behavior continues apace.
I'd be surprised if they didn't still include 2 or 4 high efficiency cores to continue touting power efficiency - the business customers would love to cut their power bill in the long term.
Tonic is betting that synthetic data is the new big data for scale and security
That was DMOZ.
Reddit Snaps Up Dubsmash to Expand in Fast-Growing Video App Market
> What professionally inappropriate information do you have published about you by academic institutions and former places of work, or alternatively by you in your masters thesis?

So pretty much the “I have nothing to hide”-argument?

There is nothing “professionally inappropriate”; I simply do not want arbitrary persons to be able to look up where I work or what my master's thesis was about and many other things.

What if I ever were to find myself having a stalker who can now easily look up my place of employ to accost me there? What if others realize what my field of expertise is due to reading my master's thesis and use that to nag me for assistance?

> I am not a proponent of "if you have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to fear" (quite the opposite, in fact), but disclosure of your information under academic and professional context is not only unavoidable, but actually beneficial. As long as the information is reported honestly, it serves as a public record of your positive reputation. This allows all the participants of the job ecosystem to make better decisions about hiring/accepting job offers, because it reduces the risk of the unknown. It's to be embraced, not avoided.

And I could surrender my master's thesis voluntarily if I were to go job hunting to my benefit.

But in my jurisdiction looking up the name online of potential employees is already not allowed, though obviously it can never really be stopped, they can't reference what they find in there without opening themselves.

You say you are not a proponent, but this is absolutely a case of “I have nothing to hide.”; you decide what information is beneficial or not. Even if it be positive information to you, it might not be to others.
I had been seeing one. I don't see what good it can do in this case though...
Thanks, F-droid looks interesting.

Stuff like this just baffles me:

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.metabrainz.android/

Ver 2.4(27)

read phone status and identity
Allows the app to access the phone features of the device. This permission allows the app to determine the phone number and device IDs, whether a call is active, and the remote number connected by a call.

I'd run a mile from that app if I saw those perms listed on Google Play.

And something like Google Calendar being > 50MB.
https://archive.vn/g6gZ5
Grinding exemplifies delayed gratification. You know that if you grind enough you'll get to something more interesting/fun.

People who are good at grinding would probably ace the so-called Marshmallow Test:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_marshmallow_experimen...
The M1 has pretty high memory latency at around 100 ns [1], which is significantly higher than either AMD or Intel for typical systems. Note that physical distance between CPU and memory is rather less important for latency, as DRAM is high latency in itself, so adding a few ns at most due to wiring is not going to matter.

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/16252/mac-mini-apple-m1-teste...
Not sure why you got downvoted.

Also see:

You Can’t Stop Touching Your Face Because You’re Subconsciously Sniffing Your Hands

You might not realize it, but you’re constantly smelling your own hands to learn about the people and world around you

https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/in-the-news/you-can-...
Not directly related, but whack-a-mole default settings are actually one of my biggest pet peeves. For instance, how many times have you had to tell the same piece of software after an update, "No, I do not want to send telemetry data, please stop reverting my answer to yes."
I’m not sure about 5nm but I know they were targeting 7nm and something broke that set them back till 2022/23. Not looking good for intel

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-announces-delay-to-7...
I'm not getting the idea that privilege is meaningless from that story. On the contrary, for someone to honestly believe and state without any trace of irony that they are starting from nothing with their own bare hands with 15k monthly expenses and more than a million in savings means that privilege is hugely meaningful and significant as it allows people to live in completely different realities.
Can't you configure it with two external displays (and the internal display blank)?
yep! https://forwardemail.net/en/faq#can-i-send-mail-as-in-outloo...
China warns of interference over Bloomberg journalist arrest
"This means every piece of Pornhub content is from verified uploaders, a requirement that platforms like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat and Twitter have yet to institute."
the entire world's solution for fixing the fucked up society seems to be moderation and not education.
Color me an only fan.

M1 earned it.
Heh. :)

You could consider this an observation that writing a batch mode parser is so much easier that I'm comfortable writing a book about it, but I still don't know enough to write about IDE-grade parsers and analyzers.
I don't know that there is that much polarisation. There is a very high degree of polarisation and conformity in the media and among public figures. I don't know that the population is actually that polarised. The media would like us to think so, so every Trump voter is presented as a caricature of a Trump supporter, and every Biden voter is a caricature of a SJW activist. But that's not actually how people voted. People rather voted to the centre at this election. There is some correlation but I don't think you can call it a camp.
ShhGit – A tool to monitor sensitive secrets exposed via GitHub in real-time
How I or anyone else feels is irrelevant, they purchased an asset for four billion and already made more than that.

Likewise code Masters expect them to milk these franchises dry until you ultimately don't even want to play the games anymore, but if EA can make 1.5 billion by the time the code Masters brand is dead, they would have made a profit.

You can always open up Unity or Unreal and make your own rally game
> Most likely though is that EA only wanted the licenses to F1 and WRC series.

Typical.
This is a FANTASTIC article looking at "why" rather than just showing a great illusion.
JPMorgan Bank wrongly charged 170k customers fees. Fed refused to penalize it
What makes you think this kind of political baiting is suitable for this platform?

Did you read the terms of posting here?
That solution doesn't work if you malloc up a structure and stick other things that need cleanup and won't be aware of the context (example: a file descriptor) inside.
Cannot find a simple explanation of what "Ecosystem Accounting" really is. Sounds like a number of disjoint ideas without any specifics. If you want to even start challenging GDP, you need something that can be reliably calculated. I don't think too many people take PPP seriously and that's much easier to calculate, let alone a monstrosity like this.
A degree in what? The return on investment of a coding bootcamp I’d wager is still higher due to the supply and demand of the market for coders.
The parent comment mentioned he is a registered republican, so its relevant. I was merely making a joke about that since they referenced that in their comment. They also mentioned:

> the last LCD panel manufacturer in the US closed around then and we could no longer manufacture LCD for our military vehicles

Where did they say it was a good idea or a bad idea? Where did I say it was a bad idea? My reply was commenting specifically on the fact that the party he supports literally tried to manufacture the one item he was referring to and failed at it.

Maybe YOU'RE the one with little value added to this discussion other than getting triggered.

EDIT: Just to clarify - you seem to be only focusing on one part of my comment an interpreting exactly what you want to hear. Maybe take a step back and realize what's important to you.
I have the exact same attitude. Reading WaPo, Bloomberg, and even NYT (though I think NYT has a slight edge here) report on technical issues make me cringe. You can tell they're trying to hardest to understand and to explain it in a comprehensible way but it's just so bad. Then I think to myself, if that's the way it is for computing, what about other technical/STEM/specialized fields? I trust them for their reporting on those but what if they have missing the important nuances there too?
My point was that without in insider there's probably 50 easier ways to drop malware than infiltrate the software supply chains that I've personally been a part of.
Webflow and Ghost blog with Caddy server
I think the point was partly the media didn't seem to care much about BLM protesters not wearing masks. There may have been some lip-service footnotes is all.

Compared to - say - how much they cared when it was Trump supporters rallying etc.

Then all of a sudden it's a big concern.

To be fair, that's probably as much of an issue about media bias as it is about scientifically responsible reporting - but the mixed/contradictory messaging all adds in to the armoury of those who would challenge the mainstream medical view.
I expect people on HN to have already figured out the obvious:

It takes much less energy to heat the area under your clothes, using existing heat, than to heat a room or building with artificially generated heat. Your body is 37 deg C. Wearing low-insulation clothing and letting that heat float away, and then heating the entire room or building to warm you up again, is absurd if you understand basic physics and think for a moment.

Wear a sweater, wear shoes (that's where the cold air is). Keep the thermostat at the lowest comfortable temperature - experiment a bit and test what you become accustomed to, and you'll know for the rest of your life. Do that and you lose nothing. Maybe go a step further and wear long underwear and maybe even a hat; why not?

Another way to look at it: Only use the energy that you need. Heating a building when you aren't there is silly. [0] Heating rooms you aren't in is a similar waste - if and when you can, get a heating system that segregates areas. Heating the entire room when you are in one place, and already generating heat, is also a waste. Just put on some insulation and trap the heat that's already there.

All heating is local. (Edit, because people are omitting the obvious implications: The consequences, climate change, are global.)

[0] You'll be fine waiting for it to heat when you need it, or just use a thermostat with a timer or remote control.
Code blocks should use backticks (which allow to specify a language and easy to type).
There was never gender equality. We can have equal rights, but cannot be biologically equal. Hypergamy (1 highly selected male can reproduce with multiple females) is a big part of what makes having 2 sexes instead of 1 so successful in evolution.
The values in the yellow/gold cells in the tables are really hard to read due to very low contrast.
> He said that there are "porn companies that feature of-age performers" that "are highly exploitative and uncomfortably close to human trafficking", e.g. GDP. Nothing more, nothing less.

No, he did not say that; he said “Even porn companies that feature of-age performers are highly exploitative and uncomfortably close to human trafficking”.

> The issue with documented human rights abuses in the construction industry in Qatar is a problem with Qatar, and not with the construction industry. I don't think I have to explain why.

And why do you believe that the specific instance referenced is a problem “with the pornography industry”, rather than one with that specific company?
Every now and then a play a video on Reddit to see if it works yet, and the answer is always no.

Sometimes the first second or two plays though.
Rumor is in a few months Apple will release a new chip that is made for pro computers. It will be in iMac and MacBook Pro 16in. I don't know what it is called but it had almost double the cache and core count of M1. That MacBook Pro is the one you probably want to buy for coding purposes.
Anyone know if M1 is just a small first step and we're going to see big uptick in performance from here - or have we seen the big leap and we're back to 10% improvement a year from now on.
I wonder if the Mac Pro version of this will do a two-tiered thing, with 16GB on the chip, and then a bunch of slots for your slower, "external" memory modules— basically the Mac Fusion Drive of RAM, with an internal controller to manage moving stuff in and out of the low-latency area.

I could certainly also see them going all-in on the integrated architecture, but the possibilities are intriguing if they want a reasonable story for a workstation that goes up to 100s of GB (the current Mac Pro's top configuration is an eye-watering 1.5TB of RAM).
> I'm not sure how Youtube or Pornhub adds value to the content.

By making it available. This is value added too.
The bit about multicore not being as useful for development as production is a rather odd generalization. If you build large C++/Rust/Haskell/etc projects regularly, you want all the cores.
Is there a solution that's not either robots or forcing(or economically "encouraging") women to date undateable men?
Maybe that’s the eventuality. I don’t run VMs much if at all for my work/day to day, but I have a desktop in the event I need to.
I consider myself a "real" developer and I don't use any of that stuff. So far my observations about tool and library availability:

Node: build it from source at HEAD and it works fine. Will work out of the box in release 16.

Java: Get the Azul JRE, works fine.

Go: Has to be bootstrapped from HEAD.

c++ toolchain: works out of the box

cmake: build and install from source release, no problems.

bazel: still doesn't grok darwin_arm64, release build tries to x-compile everything.

anything that needs bazel: doesn't work due to above.

python3: comes in the box, works

R: no native package yet
Leaving aside the fact that process size is a marketing term these days, I’m currently typing this on a previous-gen Macbook Air with a 10nm Intel CPU. They’re definitely not stuck on 14nm.
EA's DDA on more titles. Not good.
> I can't speak to why they have been stuck there for so long.

Semiconductor manufacturer has been able to use refractive optics (lenses) for decades and decades. The biggest change until now was to immersion lithography as we started getting into UV. Now we're into EUV (extreme UV). Lenses no longer work, everything has to be done with reflective optics (and even then the mirrors get ablated over time). It's the biggest single change in lithography we've seen and Intel still hasn't been able to pull it off in volume.
During the illegal content days, Crunchyroll wasn't subbing the videos. Those were uploaded by dedicated fansub teams who did the actual work and CR was just another anime tube site.
Defector’s Plan for Not Fucking over Freelancers
one site i frequently consult for electronics is https://geizhals.at because it lets one filter by various product characteristics.
it is mainly for DACH region.
i guess their business model is whitelabeling for other sites which want to include the functionality, never noticed any bias.
Right now he is also working a part-time job as a head of product in Gumroad (working 10 hours per week).

https://twitter.com/shl/status/1300848723182776322?s=08
> it seems to be a no-go topic for discussing the serious societal issues from porn

I don't think it's true. It might just be my YouTube bubble, but I find many are talking about the negative side of porn: different variations of no-fap, victims of the porn industry, changes in every day sexual behavior, unrealistic sexual expectations, and the addictive nature of masturbating, these are all issues that seem to be trending.
I mainly develop C++ targeted at x86-64 Linux.

I'm interested in hearing about others' experiences trying to develop for that target using an M1-based Mac.

For example, what's the status of VM systems with M1 Mac as host, and x86-64 Linux as guest?
Yep. But these days for anything else, I just fire up a cloud VM and kill it when it's done. I spent less on that than the 3900X and RAM would have cost me in 5 years.

My main daily driver machine and dev box is now the absolute ass end M1 Mac Mini and it's the best computer I have ever had.
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