skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> just that math stuff has a certain cavernous quality that is more common in that area than most ...

Hahahaha you clearly don’t know how much you don’t know about art, music, philosophy, ummm psychology.

Sorry to be a bit mean but come on man .... :).

I’m not denying that math isn’t special in certain ways. It is.

And you could even make arguments about the mathematical nature of music.

But man, to be a serious classical musician or serious jazz musician you have to study and practice your entire life since childhood. Just to have a running.

You wanna get good? Achieve mastery and knowledge? Compose work in dialogue with the great work of the past? Would take you years just to get started.

Or Picasso. His father? A painter. He was literally born into it.

I encourage you to read some good biographies of some artists.

Or even a biography on say, Winston Churchill. Or Lincoln. True political / leadership skill takes a lifetime of study and acquiring experience.

To pick more examples of obviously challenging and cavernous non-math stuff, have you read any Thomas Pynchon, Don deLilo, or David Foster Wallace? Or James Joyce or Samuel Beckett?

Or Homer, for gods sakes. Or the Bible, the Koran, the Old Testament, the Tao Te Ching?

Allow for creative, rational thought which is less precise but more complex than pure logic or math (ie allow for human fucking language), and you get what is maybe the deepest cavern there is.

You underestimate both the time and effort needed to gain a real understanding of literature and art, and, to create it on a high level. And all the fields of human experience which we are unable to completely describe our understanding of via mathematics.

As someone else said, math is hard because it is easy. Humanities are easy because they are hard.
you know, you can also do all those kinds of things as a kid non-cynically, and then go to those schools all the same
The solution to hammered closed is the volume weighted average price (VWAP) [1].

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/v/vwap.asp
I think you'd be at risk of things like meteors, comets and solar flares no matter what planet you chose. Plus they would need to acquire natural resources, it would make sense to acquire them from uninhabitable planets rather then waste good real estate.
> evidence ranges from the fact that masks almost certainly capture water droplets

That’s not evidence, that’s a hypothesis. And in its current form it can be empirically disproved:

Some masks allow droplets through and others don’t. Most people have no idea which one they are wearing. https://youtu.be/Py6SCZHAUgQ

Of those which don’t allow passage, many will simply redirect the exhaled air from going forward to going sideways with same number of droplets left in the air. For example a surgical mask does just that - my glasses fog up at every exhale.
These People Helped Shape Video Game Culture in 2020
I think you've missed the point of the article. He is illustrating a society of post-capitalism where the emphasis on work is not to maintain ones' standard of life, but rather to "play" as he puts — a method of unlocking the 'true joy' life has to offer. This concept is not rooted in the need of capital.
Gematrix.org
> Oh yes, to be comfortable you need far more than just food, I agree.

Its more than comfort, agricultural productivity relies on modern technology. Storage and transport of food relies on modern technology. Modern technology is a society-wide endeavor where many people contribute in tiny ways that all add up to something that can't be replaced by any of them.

> My point is that we are far past the point where mere survival requires the whole population to work fulltime.

Indeed, labor employment to population ratios range between ~40% and ~80% nowadays.

> Collective choices are made with the assumption that everyone should work but we have the means to create an entirely different society.

I think the issue is different than you are characterizing it. Why would a few people work to support everyone else without getting anything in return?
Thanks, for pointing me to that. I was not aware of the Sankey diagram. As I understand it, both these diagrams employ the same device: arrow width to represent an extra dimension.

To my mind, the pie chart and the histogram are top of the pops in terms of classic visualization. Not sure where my life would be without histograms (I edit images).
Genie Script Works Review, Legit or a Scam?
To summarise: Top-of-the-line desktop computer barely beats an ultraslim passively cooled laptop.
https://www.redbubble.com/i/laptop-skin/Katsushika-Hokusai-T...
Depends on how you define product, there are a large number of tech enabled Fortune 500s that do not sell a tech product but have built an integrated internal product for their operations that do need that scale. Airlines for example.

But yes, I agree that most companies jump to this level of complexity too quickly.
Which reminds me of an insightful observation that the array indexing operator [] and the function call operator () are basically doing the same thing: evaluating a function and returning a value.

So what you've just described is basically Currying, or partial function evaluation. It's a bit like defining "al(i)" as array lookup for an index 'i' instead of "[i]". Then the following are equivalent:

something[i][j]
something.al(i).al(j)

What people also want are:

something[i,j]
something.al(i,j)

In languages like Haskell, every function can always be evaluated argument-by-argument, with no special effort by the programmer. The compiler takes care of generating the code for the various intermediate call forms. In languages like C++, it would be a significant hassle to create all of the various partially-evaluated wrapper types.
So the only misleading thing is "keep 99% of what you make", it's really "96.1% of what you make - 30 cents" or "keep 99% of what you make after payment processor fees".

Still cool, though obviously depends on volume. I use sendowl which is as cheap as $9 a month + Stripe fees (2.9% + 30 cents).

I used to use gumroad, but had issues. I think they've gotten a bit complacent (see https://medium.com/@atrigol/gumroad-review-things-they-need-...) so prob room in the space. Good luck!
A Case for Hierarchical Thinking: Solve Complex Problems the Easy Way
For me, a system that ran Win7 fine for years, has now bluescreended a far too high amount, and wiped notepad++ sessions etc more than once ... So it can't be the hardware.
The top level things like process node, ISA and memory controller are big. But a lot of boils down to being able to shape the entire chip design exclusively around system level traces of real mac workloads. Intel needs to factor so many different kinds of traces into their chip design. Even windows vs apple makes a huge difference.
Some leaks indicated that the White House wanted people to get infected, so the nation can establish herd immunity.

Draw your own conclusions on this one. I think this administration left us to fend for ourselves.
Not clear what RISC-V has to do with the Apple M1.

Also not clear what benefit RISC-V would have for "coprocessors". GPUs and various machine learning speedup devices are massively parallel devices, intended to run small, specialized programs in parallel on multiple specialized execution units.

Also note that the real win of the Apple M1 is lower power consumption. In terms of basic compute speed, there are Intel products that are roughly comparable. But they use more much more power. This is more about battery life than compute power. (Also heat. Apple laptops have had a long-standing problem with running too hot, from having too much electronics in a thin fanless enclosure. The M1 gets them past that.)

The hardware video decoder is probably to make it possible to play movies with most of the rest of the machine in a sleep mode. The CPU is probably fast enough to do the decode in software, but would use more power than the video decoder.
(Also, an aside it's possible for it to be totally true too)

Early Google users definitely trended towards power users, and if the average early Google user made 3x as many queries as the average Altavista user, Google would have higher actual query volume.
I've been around the anarchist milieu off-and-on for years and even run into Robert Black, JD a few times (83 and 07 I think). He's an impressively intense alcoholic, impressive enough to keep up with other epic friends.

For an anarchist, he's fond of sic'ing the cops on people. His most infamous stunt was trying to burn down the apartment of some political enemies of his in the 80s, with them in it. Yeah, quite a guy.

He's a clever writer, if not too deep. His writings are a mishmash of anarchist, primitivist, situationist and whatnot. A lot of his humor is taken from Groucho Marx. Good stuff but still better the first time.
Found a typo: Coprocessor as special purpose processors ~> Coprocessor are special purpose processors
And you have to assemble the pc and install an operating system on it. It's really not comparable.
You can FINALLY use JSHint for evil [audio]
Personalized ordering of comments
That sounds so fun. Honestly, I wonder how you could enforce that on more experienced chess players; is there a way to make a second move "forgetting" what you did first?
Tip: Don't race to make the most uncharitable, extreme interpretation.
Yea I think this argument about node size comes up because in this case you couldn't buy just the soc but the whole Mac computer. People didn't care that some of advantage Intel had was from their process superiority because you didn't have to make any choices other than the CPU itself.
I think the sweet spot for using Kotlin is to adopt it as "Java with nicer syntax."

If you try to embrace the ecosystem, a lot of tools and libraries are still immature as other folks have pointed out.

But if you stick to the existing Java ecosystem and just use Kotlin for the syntactic niceties, it's great for readability and productivity.
> Anyone who attempted to conduct a similar analysis today would have to credibly conclude that masks have no protective effect whatsoever.

Absolutely not the case. It would be just as credible, as has been noted by others in the comments here, to suggest that the major cause of spread is unmasked private gatherings.

> But who knows...maybe they slightly alter the slope of the curve. It's impossible to tell without a controlled trial.

I agree that without controlled trials, it is very difficult to tell definitively. That does not, however, translate into "there are lots of reasons to doubt ..."
I've heard of c band sar, and x band sar. Is x band higher resolution? I understand it has properties where x sees through fewer things, but is x fundamentally better resolution or something? If not wouldn't higher wavelength be better for seeing through and resolving objects?
I agree with your take on the web today. I am trying to do my part to promote the things outside that bubble. I thought this was a good place to do that :)
I'm not sure I would call people that would rewrite something just because it gets boring otherwise as "engineers". I think the proper term would be "children".
And so much more. I just recently saw his name inside the cover of Cox & Forshaw’s The Quantum Universe: Everything That Can Happen Does Happen [0]. I went to find an image for you all and got this link with that and the rest.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2013/sep/09...

FWIW I adore New Order with all of my heart. Just had to say it.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Quantum_Universe
IceWM is everything I love about Linux from a ux perspective.

IceWM is brutally fast and never crashes or loads. It handles multiple desktops light years better than Windows. Yet it's so simple and lightweight you'd assume it's barely doing anything at all. And it's awesome on old hardware.
Looking beyond the obvious problem here, just curious why the admin ran chkdsk /f for no reason, then did it on 6 more systems after observing it caused ntfs failure.
Operation Elop: The final years of Nokia’s mobile phones (2017)
This line from the Wiki jumped out at me:

> As of 1998, it used 20 multi-processor machines using DEC's 64-bit Alpha processor. Together, the back-end machines had 130 GB of RAM and 500 GB of hard disk drive space,

I'm typing this on a machine with 20 threads, 64GB of RAM, and a hair over 12TB of disk.
Yep it's probably the first at this size and packaging that you can just hook up to a TV and replace a decent desktop computer with (like I did; goodbye late 2015 iMac 5K...).
When I used to work for an MSP, we would sell Dell servers to rural banking groups.

We supported disaster recovery and high availability deployments.

Any failed component, Dell would send us a replacement in less than 24 hours.
You don't even need serverless for those things. Any of the automated deployment/orchestration systems in the last ten years solve those problem (ansible, terraform, etc).
Captures cannot be undone either, but yes, that might be a problem. Go solves it with the ko/superko rule that states it is illegal to move in such a way to reproduce a previous configuration of the board, and I think the same rule would be relevant here.

Edit: another simple solution (with interesting strategic implications) could be to forbid moving the same piece twice in a row.
> This implies that an employee of a firm like Renaissance Technologies should have the same social status as an unemployed welfare recipient; I do not believe this is the case in our society.

No, rather it implies the opposite because the employee is working whereas the unemployed person is not.
If you have a thing for obscure window managers, are looking for massive configurability and have time to sink, check out Fvwm2[1]. Fully configurable using text files[2][3] that can be version controlled.

Edit: apparently it has been revived as Fvwm3[4].

[1] https://www.fvwm.org/

[2] https://satyanash.net/software/2011/12/25/my-fvwm2-desktop.h...

[3] https://satyanash.net/software/2012/12/04/fvwm2-explained.ht...

[4] https://github.com/fvwmorg/fvwm3
> Trees and bushes are invisible to X-band (10GHz) SAR. It has to be an optical image underlaying the radar data

Trees and bushes are very much visible to X-band radar systems. See e.g. http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~saraband/KSIEEE/J54IEEETGRSJan00S...

Foliage Penetration (FOPEN) radars, in my experience, do not use X-band.
This gravestone is frankly the most beautiful thing I have seen in ages. Thanks. It simply didn’t occur to me that the principles of graphic design could be applied to such things.
Lockdown advocates are no different from the nazis. Mass genocide and they still have the audacity to talk about COVID and the number of cases
Ask HN: Why didn’t Cyberpunk do a beta program and avoid all the bugs?
Most of what you're listing are Layer 7 services. The time cost there is in the configuration. You can put Active Directory in the cloud, but it's still going to be Active Directory, i.e. a massively complicated proprietary framework that touches every Windows system in your network like an octopus.

And some of those things actually make sense. You can't really locally host a CDN, can you? If you need a big amount of compute for an hour and then never again, it doesn't make much sense to buy hardware for that.

But the point isn't that it never makes sense to put anything in the cloud at all. It's that companies regularly overuse it as some kind of buzzword panacea when there are only a specific set of things that it's actually good for.
Wait, you're not talking about the same thing as the comment you responded to. Parent comment was about managed Nextcloud hosting.
There are plenty of 8 core/16 thread Ryzen 4750U laptops for around the same price that outclass the M1 in multicore benchmarks.
It seems that you’re not going to die, if the pilot is from a major western airliner company.

However, if the 737 Max is flown by a pilot from a 3rd world country, then, yes, you might die.

And this was the problem to begin with. The pilots in 3rd world countries were not even trained on the 737 Max. They just told them, that it flew the same way as the older 737 planes.

To everyone’s horror, they found out the hard way. While the plane was in flight.
Too long is so long that time spent thinking on the thing disrupted or took away time from some other higher priority thing / task / whatever. Or so long that it delayed the decision / outcome / whatever enough that it had materially negative impact compared to making a suboptimal, but earlier decision.
It seems to me that you're trying to fight two battles at once.

1. do masks inhibit production of and exposure to aerosols carrying SARS-COV-2? This seems (to me) to me clearly established, and essentially irrefutable.

2. do mask mandates reduce the spread of COVID19? this is an entirely different question, and has almost nothing whatsoever to do with the abilities of masks referenced in (1) above.

I would suggest that we know that the answer to (1) is yes, without doubt, but we have only hand-wavy answers to (2). That's still quite different from what you're claiming.
It’s mainly about the runtime (lack of it) that language brings, ie. garbage collected language brings garbage collector runtime with it that has to be included with every binary. Even rust and c have (relatively thin) runtimes. AssemblyScript has optional/controllable very thin runtime.

What their decision means in practice is that you can execute any language if you want but they won’t expose any specific runtimes to thin your binary. They will also actively support workflows based on AssemblyScript.
Cross-arch images are supported, but you can only virtualise the arch you’re on. No running x86 on ARM for example.

Edit; see replies, I got this wrong
As someone who comes from the UK but has now lived in Sweden for 20 years and has relatives in both Sweden and Norway, the supposed demographic gulf between the two countries (which Swedish people seem to have only noticed this year) is certainly not apparent to me. But I wonder if it’s worth all the downvotes saying so?
In my experience booting from USB and installing the updates from that works 99.99% of the time, for the remaining 0.01% nuking it is the only option
Try the "Modern Javascript Tutorial"

https://javascript.info/
Thank you! Pushed a fix to append "after payment processor fees" to make things clearer.
I think the narrative around instruction set is a bit overblown. I was a chip architect for the shader core at a major GPU company. I worked on simulators and modeling performance for next generation chips where we changed the ISA for each family of chips. The big reason why Apple Silicon is so damn fast is because they were able to shape the design at modeling time exclusively around Mac system level workloads. At best, Intel would have some subset of traces come from Apple for important traces to optimize for. Combine getting to narrow traces down exclusively for one platform, and heterogeneous design space (cpu + coprocessors) and you can really tune a monster.
No, it's strictly anti-curiosity. The answers found at the top of a wrong ladder can be more illuminating than the solution being sought after.
Ryzen 5950X Compiles 300 Native Windows Apps in 45 Seconds
Really cool. You should include an option to invert colours on the black and white dither, I think that might make a cool effect.
I have a laptop that was stable for 18 months, then started crashing with increasing frequency. Booted in to memcheck and the memory was faulty. Replaced it and the crashes went away.

Not saying it's definitely the cause, but strongly suggest you check if you haven't yet. It doesn't take long.
Flax Engine – Competition for Godot/Unreal/Unity?
Nice power move.

But I have to have my ip publicly accessable (permission from isp?) beforehand right?
I also attended a 10-day silent meditation retreat (the Goenka one) three years ago. I'm an atheist. I learned a crucial life skill at the retreat: awareness of my mood and thoughts. It's like adding realtime metrics to my emotional core and consciousness core. My state became observable. Since then, I've built a habit of checking those metrics and taking actions to improve my wellbeing. My life has gotten a lot better.
"Logically depend" has an easy interpretation: the second move must be also be valid if performed before the first move. [You could do a harder variant where both moves must be legal simultaneously.]
I assume it just means that, for instance, you can't move the same piece twice, or for the second move to one only legal once the first occurs.
The funny thing is that I remember AltaVista being much cleaner than Yahoo and the other competitors at the time. I think they only switched to the cluttered page to try keep up with the trends. Then Google came along and rolled it all back to basics. (Of course the better results helped too.)
> That's my sad conclusion as well. We could get to an automated society with far less pain and much faster if it was decided collectively though.

I disagree. I think we have decided collectively to progress towards automation as fast as possible without unduly impacting people's quality of life.

> Look at car automation: if a city wanted to make automated cars a reality in their streets, there are tons of accommodations they could do: from radio beacons to official maps, standards on how to signal construction work, purposefully designed roads...

I believe there already are official maps and standardized signs in the developed world. I agree that incremental improvement is possible and desirable, I also think people are working on these things already. It is possible that signs could be redesigned to make them easier for machines to read but I'm not sure that's much of a bottleneck.

> Instead, we are trying to design automated cars with the assumption that zero efforts will be made to promote them.

I see lots of effort to promote them, they just aren't technologically ready to perform at scale yet.
Story recommendations based on click history would be cool
Then how did the room get built? Few men build rooms by themselves
Thanks! I finally have the name for the wretched hive of scum and villainy that spews forth those horrendous ads.

> Taboola is the world’s largest discovery platform. Through our exclusive partnerships with many of the world’s top publishers, we serve 360 billion content recommendations to over one billion people across the web each month. You have probably seen our feed serving recommendations on sites like Bild, Bloomberg, NBC News, Le Figaro, MSN, The Independent and The Weather Channel.

Yup... MSN is right there in their list of customers! They mention "native ads" quite a bit on their front page. What are native ads you ask? They tell you:

> Native advertising is the concept of creating ads that are so cohesive with the page content, assimilated into the design, and consistent with the platform behavior that the viewer feels the ad belongs there.

and:

> As consumers become more resistant to traditional forms of advertising, Fortune 500 brands and consumer startups alike are allocating bigger budgets towards content marketing and non-disruptive ad formats.

Translation: People are starting to become resistant to the overt brainwashing, so we're making the brainwashing covert.

I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.

How do the people that work in these places sleep at night?