skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only reason people are tolerating more lockdowns and more quarantines and masks are because the vaccine which is being deployed now is going to end all of that. First it was 14 days to slow the spread and flatten the curve and somehow they stretched that for a year into wait for the vaccine. Unlike Charlie Brown, if they pull this football away I won't be obeying any more orders. Gates said it might be into 2022 until masks will end. Who the put Gates in charge?
> I dunno. The M1 is a great mobile chip. But high performance is not what you should expect from a mobile chip. You can hope for high performance (for a mobile chip).

I think this sentence automatically counts you out of the target for this marketing. Most people don't even know what a "mobile chip" is, except maybe something you find in phone. They certainly won't be looking at the M1 and thinking "mobile chip".

You not being in target for the marketing also explains why you find the "Performance vs. power" graph confusing. Again most people don't know what a "Wintel" even is, never mind 14nm++ (is a big number or a small number?). "latest laptop PC chip?" is perfect, exactly because most people have no idea what the latest laptop PC chip is. What they will know is how fast their current laptop "feels", how new it is, and can then extrapolate how fast they think a "latest chip" should be. By extension, they can figure out what Apple is trying to tell them.

> Duh. I don't understand it, and I know someone who doesn't focus on hardware won't understand it either.

Well I know a few people who don't focus on hardware. When talking to them about the new MacBooks they definitely had an idea of how fast a new computer might run, or at least they new it was faster than their current computer. That all you need to understand Apple's graph.

> There are other much less confusing charts showing relative performance of the M1 in laptop benchmarks that reflect realistic workloads

Again depends on your audience. Most people don't really know what a benchmark is (or even workloads) never mind how to interpret them. As someone who in theory know about benchmarks etc, even I struggle to interpret the graphs and it always takes several minutes to get to grips with the data. Even at that point, the only conclusion I come away with is that thing A is 2x faster than thing B. Which is exactly what Apple's graphs show, but without me needing to do mental gymnastics.

> The ML slide he's writing about undermines what he's talking about in terms of clarity and 'talking like a human.' It is just gibberish, equivalent to Star Trek nonsense about dilithium crystals transfobulating the warp core. All it means is "has the same features that have been standard for a decade or more on every operating system except a little better, working on more cores than before."

I don't ML slide is targeted at the general population. Rather it's for people who know a little bit about tech, have heard about this ML magic, maybe read a couple of articles, and the blurb helps them feel a bit smart because they can understand it, then explain it to their less techy friends.

> This is not Apple's best marketing work, but it is their best actual laptop product in a while: go figure.

The laptops are selling like hot cakes. Clearly the marketing works. There's an almost infinite supply of examples showing that building something good just isn't enough for it to sell. You actually need to market it properly. The evidence show that Apple have nailed it for the new Macs.
27% of teachers are considering quitting because of Covid: survey
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The strange thing about super-stimuli is it looks very ridiculous when animals fall for it; there is the funny example of a turkey trying to mate with a red balloon on a stick. But it is the nature of super-stimuli that they will not seem ridiculous when we fall for them, because the very features we use to gauge authenticity are what will be simulated. And so we will get sort of hollow simulacrum that emphasize these features and lack everything else.
Don't drink tap water.

If it goes in your mouth, it goes through reverse osmosis first.

Just get used to the fact that your house needs two water supplies, the one you drink and the one you use to shower and flush your toilet. Human population has grown far too much for us to be able to keep the latter supply as clean as the former supply.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_des_pays_par_PIB_nominal

In France, they use milliard and billion.
Indeed. Also, Google’s revenue is about $300K per minute. The value they provide is likely higher than that, but as you said, being able to send an email an hour later than you hoped it’s fine in most cases. Also, Google Search was fine, and that’s their highest impact product.

I’d guess actual losses to the world economy were more on the order of about $100K per minute, or about 1/3 of Google’s revenue. MAYBE a few hundred thousand per minute, though that seems unlikely with Search being unaffected, and everything else coming back. Certainly a far cry from billions per minute :)
Ah, yes, because winter isn't miserable enough.

>The relationship between thermal comfort and clothing weight explains why we tend to prefer a higher air temperature to adding more clothing. [...] This clothing layer (which is actually worn in combination with briefs) has the largest potential to substitute a heating system. [...] Because it fits tightly around the body, long underwear has an optimal "pumping coefficient".

When I was a child, we used to go skiing and then hang around in our long underwear. It is warm and flexible, but it's also tightly woven and form-fitting, which traps moisture inside. There's more to comfort than weight: even in a cold room, sitting with your back against the couch can accumulate sticky sweat.

>Synthetic thermal underwear should be washed regularly - a process that consumes energy. This is less an issue for indoor use than for outdoor sports, because couch potatoes don't produce sweat.

Anyone who's ever reworn a pair of sweatpants for a week inside knows intimately the rancid depths of this falsehood.
For a platform that drives revenue through continued engagement, clicks, views, and activity... could functioning search be considered an anti-feature?

If I can't find what I want, I'll start a new post, or reply to a comment… leading to people getting notifications, leading to clicks, more replies, …
> In her final form, she is just a grotesque undulating array of psychedelic colors perfectly optimized to introduce self-limiting microseizures in the pleasure center of the your brain.

This will inevitably happen
Costco started carrying these ultra thin, stretchable crewneck short sleeves shirts. The brand I have is called "32 degrees cool", but I think they have other brands now like Bench, that sell this same blend of material, black or white color.

Compared to an a cotton undershirt the difference in comfort is amazing. Basically you don't feel any of the stitches, or anything pressing on your armpits. And its super light weight. You can sleep in it, its so comfortable.

And its also cheap, 3 or 4 pack for under $20.
A lot of mistakes in your analytics.
Tesla increasing their global share not losing. ATM it's ~26% global ( oct 2020)
If you cut segments where it's not represented yet. e.g. cheap Zoe etc. it will be even higher and totally dominates luxury and performance ev market.
In 2022 tesla will deliver 25k car, and you can compare Zoe sales and Tesla sales.
Zoe sales also driven by car sharing, everybody knows that. It's more a public transport segment.

Range of model 3 is 350 miles. But you also confusing WLTP and EPA. EPA is more conservative. sometimes up to 50%.
Tesla will at least double their sales in EU in 2021 due to delivering cheaper, locally Berlin produced, with local service model 3 and Model Y.

So far Model 3 is the best selling EV by volume despite been a very expensive car, In some market $50-80k. And even with this price it easily oversold nisan leaf, zoe etc...
WV probably will be the biggest competitor in EU, but don't compare their first pre-order delivery sales with delivery of the car that is 2-3 years on the market :)

In my opinion the biggest challenges for tesla are
1. an ability to quickly enter local markets. They still not represented in many markets. E.g. LatAm is almost 0. You can't buy tesla in brazil... at all.
2. Deliver wider range of models and more often refresh it. Yes, tesla is still not on par with production abilities of traditional auto makers. Model S and X are very old cars even they update a lot inside. Model 3 is getting old as well. Those are great cars, but if you spent $80k+ on model s and you see on the road same 5 y.o. car that is not that shiny , you have same feeling, that your car maybe is not that cool and bright. But every new model production is a huge problem for tesla. Maybe model Y was simple, but the rest.... They learned how to scale production. Now they have to learn how to scale scaling.

To explain #2. I want EV I considered Model Y. For me it's still a small SUV. Due to the fact there is 0 other brands in this segment with decent mile range, performance, and software, Model Y was no brainer for me. If there will be another brand, even not that great but it will be bigger , but not CYBERTRUCK big, I'll chose another brand for my next car, simply due to size, despite been a loyal tesla owner.
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Integrates with AWS Lambda
If you want to dip a toe into this without spending much, 32degrees has a a pretty good sale right now. In the men's baselayers section you'll find shirts for $7, leggings for $9). I think they're one of those Costco brands. I've heard that some of their stuff pills up after a few washes, but that's not really a big deal for me at this price.
There are plenty beneficial applications of ML. Some examples I came up in 5 mins:

* Recommender engines (e.g. music similar to the one I'm listening to)

* Spam filters

* Gmail's email classification (not sure how well it works in practice)

* OCRing documents

* Automated video transcription

* Opponents in games

* Face unlocks for phones
Former student here as well. Can confirm everything here. I know multiple students “withdrawn” (kicked out of Slack with no warning and still on the hook for the ISA) after they gave respectful negative feedback. The whole thing is a giant scam after I realized a $10 Udemy course was higher quality than all of Lambda’s lectures.
I'd also recommend Mountain Hardware. Some of the North Face's more expensive stuff is good too: my sleeping bag comes from them.

Look for companies that are long standing and have good warranties. These companies have good reputations to protect, and are aware that buyers of outdoor gear tend to be very loyal to companies that treat them well. My family personally swore off Columbia after two of their coats failed us catastrophically, for example.
Imagine a system that's so technologically complex, that lawmakers can't even create laws to codify the system, much less controls on the dependent systems.

We already have that in the W3C browsers. This idea of "legal controls" on advertising will have to start with well understood systems before online advertising is affected, imo.
Common Crawl is great and super useful for research. It's where I got all those 18 million robots.txt files that informed my analysis. As far as using it for a search engine though, it's been proposed before and hasn't gone anywhere as far as I know. There are three major limitations that prevent it from being used to start up a search engine.

First, Common Crawl doesn't execute javascript or emulate a browser like Google does, so any page with dynamic content or interactivity wouldn't be crawled as fully as it would be by Googlebot.

Second, it suffers many of the same limitations in permissions as any other bot that isn't Google or Bing, so it wouldn't have access to important websites like facebook or linkedin.

Third, Common Crawl is on a monthly cadence. That's useful for research but not as a basis for a search engine by itself. It's outdated within a few hours of it finishing it's crawl.

Some people have suggested using Common Crawl as a starting point and then expanding from there with your own directed crawling of sites you deem important. I think it's not a good starting point for a search engine for the above reasons and also people have been suggesting probably since this 2007 and yet here we are, with not even a minor search engine based on common crawl that I am aware of. If you are gonna run your own crawler at the end of the day, might as well do the whole thing rather than try and combine two separate outputs.

So, Common Crawl is great, and I am very glad it exists and has been very helpful to my research, but I do no think it will not increase competition in the search engine market because it hasn't for the past decade. I think the governments needs to regulate Google's crawlers for us to see competition in the search engine market.
CSS Typewriter Effect
What did you go for?,- I live in Northern Europe too.
Average testicle size has been shrinking for decades too. And as you say, nobody knows why.
I've been using this on Windows for a few months now, and it works great!

Only issue I have with it is that it doesn't run as a Windows service - so you have to manually switch the monitor the first time so you can login and start display-switch. I see someone else has opened an issue in the github repo, so hopefully it gets resolved.
> Were the Greeks that original in some definite way that later stuff is derivative but they aren't?

I believe some folks are interested in if Indian thought and philosophy, or other Asian philosophies / schools of thought had any influence on Ancient Greek thought, as there was communication, trade, Alexander the Great conquering stuff, etc. But I believe it's an open question and probably one difficult to answer.

Schopenhaur, Nietzsche, and others, were aware of and admirers of Buddhism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_and_Western_philosoph...

IMHO there's generally more cross-pollination, in multiple directions, than is generally realized or credited.
Client-Side Field Level Encryption (Csfle) in MongoDB with Golang
> I disagree. You don't need to understand exactly how a nuclear bomb works to understand its impact.

Sure, but critique is the easy part of anything (including philosophy). You do need to understand how a nuclear bomb works in order to eg design an effective monitoring program. And not just how it works, but how it is built.

BTW, you also don't exactly need a professional philosopher to explain the dangers of a WMD or the pitfalls of facial recognition. Broad critique is the easy part. Specific critique is what leads to solutions, and specificity requires expertise.

> We've let scientists/engineers/practitioners control the steering wheel for decades

But we haven't!!!

How many POTUSes have been STEM people?

How many representatives?

How many senators?

How many governors?

How many federal judges?

How many CEOs?

Very, very precious few people who control the actual machines of power in our society have any amount of STEM training.

So, no, technologists have not been at the healm of the United States. On the contrary, non-technical people -- lawyers and business people, mostly -- have been managing a highly technical world for decades. That's why we had no economic policy to manage the impact of automation in the 1990s. It's why we still have no climate policy. And it's why we had a complete dearth of privacy regulation in the early 2000s.
"Hand-shoes"
Read "gloves".

I smiled reading that literal translation of "handschuhe" <3
I actually agree with you in part - if this were anything like as bad as asbestos per capita surely we would know that by now.

The point I was trying to make was that so very many people, essentially everyone, are being exposed to micro-plastics that even if this were several orders of magnitude less toxic than asbestos that's still a major health crisis.

That and as you've said we just don't know what we don't know really.
My response is: what needs to be hidden can change day to day. Your controversial hot take today may become jailable sedition tomorrow.

The "nothing to hide" argument assumes power relationships are static or slow-moving. But the powerful can make new decisions about what information is incriminating based on what they find out by invading your privacy.
it is a bit annoying yes. There are some proposals to have a anonymous reusable placeholders like '_', but they haven't gone anywhere yet.

You can do

lock(mutex), some-lock-protected-expression;

but it is a bit too cute and limited.

On the other hand, being able to name the RAII object is often very useful for example if you need to dismiss them early, which happens often in transactional code (unlocking a mutex before the end of scope is a relatively common occurrence).

Also specifically for mutexes, a nice pattern is to bind object and mutex together to guarantee that the object is always used with the lock:

sync<my_object> foo;

{
auto l = foo.lock(); // starts the critical section

l->do_something()
l->do_something_else();
} // it ends here

// or if you only need to hold the mutex for a single call:

foo->do_something(); // critical section lives only for the full expression
TEDx is not exactly the same as TED. Just about anyone can organize a TEDx, and lots of cranks give "TEDx talks". There are dozens and dozens of "TEDxes":

https://www.ted.com/tedx/events
Let me guess, next you are going to tell me that my first person shooter game makes me a violent thug and should be banned

These types of "studies" in gaming have been debunked for years, I image the porn "studies" will be as well
How to open your own video or image hosting site:

Step 1: Open the site, have no content, get no clicks

Step 2: Pirate everyone else's content

Step 3: Start getting clicks due to the pirated content

Step 4: Continue to spin the flywheel putting more pirated and "user generated" content on your site

Step 5: Start to get more and more legitimate partners

Step 6: Start blocking porn and pirated content. The content that the site was founded on.

Step 7: Congratulations, now you're legit.

Similar to how JFK's father created their fortune via bootlegging during Prohibition.

Congrats PornHub, now all you need to do is go public.
Interesting. Could you share a list of products you have bought?
Forensic Audit Dominion Voting System – Antrim County, Michigan [pdf]
On reddit thread there are some really good jokes about this [1] related to their asinine interview questions. Like:

> Did they try to fix them by inverting a binary tree?

>> Yeah maybe implementing a quick LRU cache on the nearest whiteboard will help them out here

>> Did they try checking what shape their manhole cover is?

>> Dev ops was too busy out counting all the street lights in the United States

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/kcwqij/every_s...
This is equally fascinating and terrifying. The article mentions that 75% of users are male - which is lower than I expected to be honest.

In removing sexual content from the bot, I wonder if they opened a door for adult companies to build serious alternatives. One of the things many OnlyFans performers discuss is that while they obviously peddle in pornographic content mainly, most of their interactions are non-pornographic.

I also have a general complaint about the infantilizing of adults, and something like this is positioned to be super dangerous - imagine if your best friend was a perfect mole and reported anything and everything to the government/advertisers/etc. Combine that with social conditioning (you do tend to average out with your social circle) and this could very much be a tool to enforce new cultural and social norms.
If my wall thermometer is accurate, which it probably isn't, 18C is about right for me and 20C is "uncomfortably warm, I should have turned the heating off half an hour ago".

We do adapt to these things. My grandmother never had central heating, she lit a coal fire in the grate every day well into her 80s. Then spend the next decade with electric heaters and the decade after that in a nursing home.
I find this style of storytelling dizzying. As a non-native english user, the interleaving of narrative confuses me. Is it a desired style of journaling?
What’s worse, Reddit disables NSFW/porn content in Incognito on iOS Safari and prompts you to install the app. How that got past Apple is beyond me.
Your experience sounds extremely localized (I'd guess California). The pandemic has been handled very differently state-to-state and city-to-city (not to mention internationally). I could see being frustrated if you live in one of the stricter regions, but you should also remember that in many parts of the US and the world, people have been having parties and going to bars, etc for most of this year.
If the proposed implementation requires a guard clause, then it seems like it is no better than the while (TRUE) implementation above and it's not worth the support in the standard. Maybe it's a bit more structured and covers a few more use-cases, but not worth the standardization.
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Search competition is zero clicks away.

<Ctrl>+l , duckduckgo.com, <Enter>

<Ctrl>+t , bing.com, <Enter>
Yeah, I don't think it's about us being helpless to defend ourselves from misinformation. It's the legions of people that desperately want to believe terrible things, or are just stupid, and unsophisticated with no ability to assess the credibility of the source. It's never been about you, me or 90%+ of users (who are also dumb/shitty people), that have the ability to recognize that some sources of information aren't reliable.

That's a gross oversimplification, and there's other issues at play. For instance the lack of trust in traditional media. I don't think the issue is that most people are susceptible to "viral radicalization", and can't tell the difference. Some small minority of people are vulnerable to these things, and can fall victim to it if exposed.

In a large population that winds up being many people, and is a huge issue. See the cult movement of the 60-80s. Most people knew it was a bad idea to go live in the woods with a bunch of free spirits. It's people who are absolutely fed up with reality and so anything that seems to bring back "community" looks attractive. On the commune people dance, sing, and share everything. In cases like Johnstown, it was often racial minorities that were just glad to find somewhere that seemed to treat them as real people (even though they were really props and pawns in a narcissists sick reality). It's so sad.
Malicious SolarWinds software update sent to around 18,000 customers
The redesign was a massive success. The goal was to turn reddit into a typical social media property, and it worked. Real conversation was pushed aside into niche subreddits, and was replaced by typical social media filler crap, like r/funny and pics and wholesomememes, etc. It was bad before, but I just feel like the redesign made it 100x worse. Try opening the reddit homepage, new design, no account, and tell me with a straight face that that is a place where serious, well-thought discussion happens. The content on the front page is exactly what I would expect to see on my Facebook timeline or on the Instagram explore page, which I see now was Reddit's goal from the start.
This is undoubtedly a positive move, though I do not believe it will be enough to satisfy the likes of the credit card companies.

They are requiring ID verification (i.e. that you're 18 or over) to upload content. As much as I am privacy-minded, the idea that someone could upload an explicit video to Pornhub without verifying that they were 18 is mind-boggling.

This is also a net positive for content producers on Pornhub, who often see their content pirated on the very same platform.