skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There were people who were insulting to me. You are not one of those people and I was not hostile to you. I wasn't really hostile to those other people also just slightly less polite in my replies. I'm trying to reflect the slight humor in your original post had and I guess it came off as too sarcastic. Apologies.

Right I get your point and I'm saying the point is invalid because it doesn't apply to English. Clearly in all your English posts to me you can destroy some portion of the grammar and spelling while maintaining the same level of readability. That is an inherit contradiction to your logic and the way humans think.

You save screen space with code but not with english. We use code and english to communicate. Why does your logic which clearly makes sense when applied to code but makes zero sense when applied to English? Why do we want all our english to be much more wordy and verbose then code?

My point is that O(n) doesn't actually matter to us because we don't care to save on time complexity for the english language. Clearly english reads better then code so why don't we take programming up to the exact same verbosity level as english?

The contradiction between verbosity in code and verbosity in english is the crust of my argument. We also clearly prefer reading english and communicating in english over communicating in code and thus I'm saying it makes sense to bring up your programming verbosity so it reads like english.

Also the whole point of the meta reasoning is to point out our contradictory bias. The need to shorten names in code clearly does not come from logical reasoning given the contradictions.
You can test on a tester of use some of the examples from the checklist paper. In that paper they might add "I hate you" to some random data and assert that sentiment doesn't improve.
Who knows? TBH I had this movie from 1982 in my mind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.T._the_Extra-Terrestrial

wherein some sort of turtle/reptiloid alien is somehow stranded on Earth, and can make electronic(or all sorts of things? (can't remember anymore)) work with his (on demand) red glowing finger. And tries to build a "telephone" out of trash with the help of a child, to "phone home" and call for help.
It sounds like one dose is enough to make you much less likely to develop serious symptoms or symptoms at all, and two doses gives you close to immunity.
Would of course be an obvious location for our erstwhile cosmic mentors to place their easter egg monolith. They may know in only four years that we found it.

Alternatively, if we really are hearing native Proxomitrons, that'll be the clearest cue imaginable that life is abundant absolutely everywhere.

Please let it not be some unshielded box of cheap electronics in the observatory basement.
> we're still just scratching the surface

I think the same can be said of just about any field, but with medicine it's more clear to people who aren't experts in the field, compared to a field like physics. As I understand it, for all of modern medicine's many marvels, it can't do much about the common cold, or tinnitus. I suppose that's analogous to how we have software that can beat any human chess player, but text-to-speech is still a work in progress. Our systems have a harder time moving the pieces than picking world-class chess moves.
Right behind my house is the Panhandle Trail in WV. Old coal town that used to have several tracks running through it.

Not very long, Length: 29.2 miles, but it crosses a couple longer trails in PA.

"The Panhandle Trail crosses the 61.5-mile Montour Trail, which links to the 150-mile Great Allegheny Passage and the 184.5-mile C&O Canal Towpath for an off-road connection to Washington, D.C."

https://www.traillink.com/trail/panhandle-trail/

Photo of my back yard, Panhandle trail can be seen across the creek. https://i.imgur.com/VbQehh4.jpeg (Dec 18th 2020)
This point needs to be hammered home every time the rich (or their "hope to be rich" enablers) talk about what percentage of total revenue they pay. It's almost as if they think a poll tax would be fairest. They pay a higher dollar amount because they have more of what is being taxed, which in turn is largely because of a system that actively drives "rich get richer" disparities. You have to look at the rates not the dollar amounts. Is 46% of revenue on 40% of wealth that unreasonable?
At the time, HotBot was my other go-to search engine. Interesting to see that it is still around, but is now a VPN company.
This article takes me back to my college days ca. 2009, my senior design project was asynchronous cryptography circuits... I read this article and a few research papers more than a few times before I gained an entry level understanding of asynchronous circuits. Unfortunately the entire concept was very difficult for even senior computer engineering students to wrap their heads around when they had just been studying clocked circuits in-depth. Understanding the mueller-c element [0] in particular caused me significant difficulties.

Understanding the concept from a high-level isn't too bad however. As the article covers, if you visualize each piece of information moving along the pipeline as a hand-off, like a chain of people passing balls to each other, with the rule that they can't pass a new ball until they've passed the previous ball, you have a rough idea of how asynchronous processing circuits work. What's funny is that a natural "clock" begins to take shape at that point, although it's determined by the slowest component in your pipeline, rather than by an oscillator. The ball diagrams from the Rx libraries are actually also good visualizations for asynchronous circuits [1].

Those were some rough months attempting to achieve our advisor's goals, clearly the trauma still hasn't left me.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-element

[1] Example Ball Diagram from the Rx libraries: http://reactivex.io/documentation/operators/map.html
>""The baseline rate is 50 MiB/s per TiB of storage (equivalently, 50 KiB/s per GiB of storage)."

Does the mean that baseline is only realized when at least a Tib of storage is actually being used then? In other words there was a distinction between how much you storage you were actually using vs how much storage you provisioned? Are there other services that use this same model?
"Whatever results in higher profits for the company"
There's a US government program that tests drugs' efficacy beyond the manufacturer dating to extend the life of the stockpiles.

https://www.astho.org/Programs/Preparedness/Public-Health-Em...
There's no such thing a free lunch. Ie. Time-spent

Time spent chugging a beer is regained by removing your inhibition to say "this conversation is over."
The difference here is that California is a state not a country. It's much easier for a wealthy person or company to relocate to another state than it is to another country. The EU may have made it easier to relocate to another EU country than it was in the pre EU days but it's still nowhere as frictionless as moving from California to Washington, Texas, or Georgia.
In any economic system where the more money/property you have, the faster you can earn more, wealth inequality will naturally increase over time until a tiny group of people own everything and everyone else is immiserated. Unless there are very progressive taxes or other mechanisms to correct the imbalance. It’s just always amusing to me how apoplectic the ultra rich get at the suggestion that their taxes get raised. The future of the nation literally depends on it. They really do want to collect the wealth generated by the working people of the country and not pay for the public services that maintain that population.
Kn95 and kf94 are readily available and cheap in Los Angeles. I cannot believe healthcare authorities would rather have workers use a month old n95 that degrades after 72hours of use than a kn95 that is readily available in the area and costs $1.
Hi, I'm the author. To be honest, I'm not sure how the refurbished thing works. That's why the whole paragraph is full of "I think" and "perhaps" and "my theory is". It's all just speculation. The shop where I bought it had it marked as refurbished, that's what I'm sure about, but I don't know what's the exact history of the machine. I've heard rumors those are computers from Apple Store etc., hence the speculation about worn out display, but I've never really investigated it further. Doesn't matter much now, whatever the reason, the display is dead.
The Silver Comet trail is amazing. I lived about 5 miles away from one of the trailheads and I used to go riding and walking there all the time. It goes through some very pretty areas.
Why in heavens name is a WSJ opinion piece getting any traction on HN? Why would anyone with half a brain believe anything in such a piece? It’s some of the worst partisan garbage media out there right now and it’s being discussed here as if it’s factual reporting. What is wrong with you?
Insanely good weather is not an universal counterweight to every hare-brained idea that the political class may come up with. This sounds as a repellent to foreign capital as well, not just richer Americans.
Yeah, that difference is gonna fix itself at some time.

Monopolies can subvert natural human behavior for some time, but if Google won't make its AI content aware, it will eventually stop to matter.
Sure, but it seems that HNWIs are moving into the Netherlands, also despite this difficulty of relocation.
Stocks. Markets not liking it is the only reason to avoid delays (at least if your budget can support it, of course). Valve is privately owned and not publicly traded, isn't it?
We just have to compile Rust and C to AssemblyScript, à la asm.js, and come full circle (again).
This was the controversial section in the retracted article in "Angewandte Chemie" which was given as an example:

> In the last two decades many groups and/or individuals have been designated with "preferential status". This in spite of the fact that the percentage of women and minorities in academia and pharmaceutical industry has greatly increased. It follows that, in a social equilibrium, preferrential treatment of one group leads to disadvantages for another. New ideologies have appeared and influenced hiring practices, promotion, funding, and recognition of certain groups. Each candidate should have an equal opportunity to secure a position, regardless of personal identification/categorization. The rise and emphasis on hiring practices that suggest or even mandate equality in terms of absolute numbers of people in specific subgroups is counter-productive if it results in discrimination against the most meritorious candidates. Such practice affects the format of interviews and has led to the emergence of mandatory “training workshops” on gender equity, inclusion, diversity, and discrimination.

I apologize for my naivety on this topic, but: Isn't this basically saying that if A and B have the same qualifications, but B is a member of a discriminated group, B should be preferred. If A has better qualifications, A should be preferred. I can see that this might be controversial, but what exactly is offensive here (or "appalling" [0])? Am I misunderstanding the section above?

[0] https://twitter.com/CIC_ChemInst/status/1269003560357773312?...
What makes you think those same Californians won't follow these companies to Texas?
It might rather be due to the brain simply requiring a baseline level of excitability to be present in order for it to properly function. Many unconscious states are characterized by reduced activity throughout the brain. The thalamus, being connected to practically every area of cortex, is well positioned to push the cortex into a more active state. And note that there are loops everywhere! The thalamus connects to the cortex, the cortex connects to the basal ganglia, which connects back to the thalamus. And there are many more feedback loops between these structures. So it could be that you simply need to “kickstart” the system, as this article is suggesting, and once a baseline level of excitability is reached, all of these loops do the job of keeping the system at a functioning, stable state of excitability. To what extent this leads to the repair of damaged brain areas is less clear, but we know that lack of activity causes atrophy, so pushing the system back into an excited state could in principle prevent further damage.
Ask HN: Lightweight self hosted HN clone?
I am looking for a HN clone that runs as a single forum for a single topic. Any recommendations?

I'd prefer serverless but I don't mind hosting a container or worst case a small VM for it.
China’s Army of Paid Internet Trolls Helped Censor the Coronavirus
I feel like this might be a better and more feasible solution. Is there a reason that JS can collect as much data as it does about our hardware? I feel like I always hear the mantra, "The browser is a sandbox," but reading articles like this make me really unconfident that that is true. I don't really have too much of an idea of how WebGL works, but I wonder if there's a way to create some sort of additional abstraction layer between a website and the hardware? So JS just has access to "hardware interfaces" like a CPU and a GPU but can only interact with via this interface. That way, even if a site wanted to, the best it could do is determine that your computer has a GPU or a CPU but not how many cores or what type of GPU?

This would however have the downside of incurring an additional latency with an additional abstraction, but if there was a way you turn this off with trusted websites and only leave it on when you're using a site you don't trust it could be more usable? It just seems better than disabling JS entirely since a lot of websites just completely break without JS.

It just seems like with the amount of information that JS can collect, even if you're using TOR or a VPN, if you crunch all the information about a particular user, like the kind of OS they're running, the version of the browser, the screen ratio, mouse click movements, time of access, number of CPU cores, type of GPU, whether or not it's a VM, etc., it just feels like you might be able to devise a pretty reasonable heuristic for where this person is and the kind of computer they're using. I can't really say I know the extent of browser and JS capabilities, but these things already seem alarming enough where I wouldn't really feel super confident that I can't be tracked even with TOR or a VPN.

Edit: Just discovered something similar to this is being worked on already! https://gpuweb.github.io/gpuweb/#malicious-use
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Mocks should be used when the call you depend on is hard to get to behave in the ways you need for your test.

"Randrange" isn't hard to get to behave in the way you want. In fact, the way you want it to behave here is all it does!

I'd argue if what you want is to do engineering, mocking this isn't what you'd want to do. You want to ensure your code works. And your test can tell you that it works, even if "randrange" works differently while maintaining the same signature after you update the module it came from.

If you're doing software engineering for aviation for example, I doubt "well, my tests using mocks passed, it's just that the dependency broke it's contract" is a good enough excuse for a catastrophe.
Also of note: https://thegreattrail.ca/ completed in 2017
It was astalavista.box.sk
Hi, I'm the author. I didn't have much choice. Whatever older would be worse than M1 and whatever newer would be more expensive and I'd have to wait several more months with broken display to get it. I was really tired of waiting, working on the potato with ghosting display was like torture and I was counting days when the M1 was about to be delivered.
This focuses on the people, but the processes and the tools should even out performance and limit failure and are not doing that effectively. People's performance is often a reflection of their environment with many factors involved in any particular success or failure.
Somewhat related, I had some fun with the K3V2 SoC on Huawei's Ascend P6. It wasn't the best by any measure, far from it, but I liked it, just because it was extremely easy to modify everything.

They advertised it as having a 1.5GHz CPU, but the governor was set up to practically never let it go beyond 1.2 GHz - most of the time it would top at 1GHz. Shenanigans.

The clock/voltage configuration for everything (CPU, GPU, RAM, some other stuff) was stored in a password protected Excel file (.xls!), and removing the protection was laughably easy. The kernel would compile with the data directly from that file, I haven't seen that before.

I was able to play with the settings to my heart's content. I got the CPU to run at a real 1.8Ghz, at which point the phone would literally burn through the battery at around 1% per second under full load. Of course, it would get extremely hot and shutdown in about half a minute :D

I got that phone super optimized, custom CPU,GPU and RAM clocks and voltages, got an extra hour of screen on time out of it and it was smooth as hell, a stark change from the default settings.

The damn GPS wouldn't work while moving though, which was pretty ridiculous.
The M1 is on a 5nm process from TSMC. I'm sure if AMDs Zen 3 (eg Ryzen 5600x) was also on that process instead of 7nm the perf/power ratio would be similar
Won’t someone please think of the wealthy? In fact, why don’t we just further subsidize their lifestyle some more? Let’s forget that the rich in other countries pay more and whine less for paying their fair share
I assume the same way they enforce it now. Get a judgement against someone and seize their assets (bank account)
Czech here. Tomáš Hudlický is a Czech emigrée as well. His tribulations provoked a wave of discontent here, with the Charles' University condemning the journal's actions.

30 years after Communism fell, people start grumbling that very similar ideas seem to flourish and grow in the West, threatening freedom once more.
The federal government does something worse, you pay federal income tax on all income no matter where it is made and what country you are living in (with the exception of some deductions for income taxes paid to other countries one is living in). Other countries only make you pay taxes for income generated there.

Even if you give up US citizenship, which requires something like paying taxes on all unrealized gains and ten years of projected earnings before they let you out of the US, the feds still go after your estate for estate taxes when you die no matter how long you have been gone from the US.

And good luck getting back in for a visit after relinquishing your citizenship.

This all started with laws passed after the Dart family, wealthy for styrofoam cups, gave up their citizenship and left the US (how dare they!), see [1].

[1] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-15-fi-perfi...
If the goal is employment, a lot of the times an internship is becoming expected. This is easier to secure at a larger school, where recruiters visit to make face time on campus.
Generally consuming something means that it no longer exists after it has been consumed. A fire consumes a home and it can no longer be lived in. I consume a hamburger and therefore you cannot eat it. Content on the internet isn't consumed in this sense. If anything it's your own time and attention that is consumed when watching videos.
I had someone do that to me a few weeks back.

I told them flat out no, gave them my ip, made an account on my local machine and started a shared tmux session over ssh. Since that's my usual ide I didn't lose any capability.
Hi, I'm the author. I don't know what DAW is and I don't spend time editing video. I made my first video in iMovie ever just a few days after I've got the M1 :)
It would have to emulate the host hardware to do that because the fingerprint is only going to report what's listed in Device Manager for instance.
Those poor rich people
> The Witcher 3's main game and DLC are among the most polished AAA releases ever

what haha

TW3 (and 2) were pretty much unplayable when they came out. Took a good year for things to not be a bugfest.

Even with the very latest patches I still had a few glorious crashes in TW3.
The cloud providers have no desire for higher rents. Andy Jassy the CEO of AWS just said in his keynote that only 4% of enterprise workloads are on any cloud provider.

The cloud providers want market share. Right now, they are competing against non consumption. AWS has never raised prices on any of their services. In fact, they are aggressively trying to reduce costs by creating their own processors purpose built for their needs and passing them on to consumers. I would think the same is true for Azure. Amazon and Microsoft both know that the minute they raise prices, it’s going to scare companies away.

Who knows what the heck Google is doing with GCP.
The hill up to the house I grew up in is a hill with 14% gradients. It’s only a km long and 1/3 of it is flattish but it’s always a nice way to fully drain the tank at the end of a long ride. Something much more satisfying about ending a ride that way.
We have ninety plus miles of trails from Cobb County, suburb to Atlanta to Alabama named the Silver Comet Trail. We have the Atlanta Beltline trail system which will connect to the Silver Comet by some time in 2022 as well.

There are obviously other major walking and riding routes based on rail lines that are no longer in use and it would be interesting to see more of them interconnected

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeltLine
The Factory Records cataloging system is another fun thing to dive into. Posters and records got catalog numbers but so did things like the Haçienda nightclub (FAC51), Rob Gretton's dental surgery (FAC99), a stray cat that wandered into the club (FAC191), a Christmas party (FAC259), and their website (FAC421).

The last number was allocated for Tony Wilson's grave, FAC501. The headstone was designed by Peter Saville and in typical fashion took three years to create. And it's beautiful.

https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/2651/peter-savill...

Factory's own table: https://www.factoryrecords.org/periodic-table-of-factory-rec...
We'll know next year how much worse the odds of actually dying from Covid-19 were as a nurse in unsafe conditions vs. as an unemployed ex-nurse.

I'm far from certain that deciding to stay on the job isn't a rational choice. It depends on how much losing your job actually lets you lower your odds of getting Covid-19, and whether, once sick, Covid-19 survival rates are different for healthcare workers.
Same, at one point the size of AltaVista's index was vastly above all the competition and was the best place to go for finding obscure stuff. With the boolean filters it was possible to exhaustively search the web.

Unfortunately that didn't scale with the size of the web; at one point the amount of pages got large enough that doing a smart ranking like Google did became more effective than the "look at all pages of results" usage required for AltaVista. It felt like a monumental transition, like when a program gets too big for main memory and causes the computer to start swapping to disk.
You mean, invasive as in humans?
Invasive species are by nature Alpha, to the indigenous Beta. They don’t earn the right to stay, they take it, and it’s the indigenous Betas that must earn the right to stay once invaded if they aren’t killed in the fight, and they tend to end up subservient to the invaders.

Non-territorial species are by definition nomadic and Beta as they get pushed out by Alpha invaders.

This is different from the macaques as they are an occupying species and usually non-aggressive. Mammalian occupation due to population growth is not the same as being invasive.
Leaving the personal pronoun out indicates more humility, and it could also indicate dissociation, like lying. It's ambiguous and/or contextual, though.
kinda obvious, but also kinda insightful. if you're an introvert and you're just waiting around for people to invite you to things, the people most like you are waiting for you to make an invitation.