skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not interested in or know much about self driving cars so I’ll leave it. I think your points about cooking are really off base though. It seems like you’re basically describing mass production which we’ve already had for a long time, a wasteful process that produces inferior food.

As for a turing test, we’re talking about a professional chef here. Someone you can take an enormous variety of ingredients to in various forms of freshness or preservation, who can produce something that tastes really good. Theres often a large amount of creativity, improvisation as well as fine motor skills and expert timing involved in the process. It would be a monumental, hugely expensive task to create a machine that could even produce something edible given the same constraints. This just seems so far fetched to me.
Looks like the report I was looking at was a bit dated and they don't provide the same chart in the 2019 annual report. Here is an older one though on page 92.

https://www.goldmansachs.com/s/2012annual/assets/downloads/G...

I was just contrasting that large institutions can short the market and easily move price due to the volume they trade at without being investigated but there is outrage when handful of random guys do and the price collapses.
Interesting thing thanks for sharing. Thermal conductivity while relatively high however pales in comparison to aluminum.
What other treatments are there? Do you have a good resource if I'd like to learn more?
For a good reference into what a major MLM scheme looks like, check out the documentary “Betting on Zero.” They are remarkably resilient operations
Castrated by a paltry 8GB of RAM in stock configuration!

Probably not.

macOS has had RAM compression since 2009; by now, it's probably implemented in the M1 SoC, so it's really really fast.

8 GB on an M1 is closer to 16 GB on most other processor/operating system combinations.
What do you mean 10 years? TSMC didn't really start beating Intel until 2016-18.
It may outclass it in performance. However, all my life I've been waiting for something that runs over 10h on a single charge. I am naturally surprised that this is not something that ppl truly appreciate in a laptop. Hell, I even bought a cheap Atom laptop once just to have more battery time.
So as of now, there's literally no decent competitor to M1 laptops. One must be living under a rock to buy anything but Apple and this is coming from someone who doesn't have Apple products and always hated their walled off ecosystem. I am reconsidering my life choices :)
This is an insightful question and likely points towards several fruitful modes of analysis.

Why are ants and amoebas always moving? Their biological drives continue to give them orders and so they are never satiated.
Not to mention that, despite CS degrees being devilishly useful, college isn’t strictly necessary full stop. These days you can get your foot in the door via code schools. I worked with an excellent engineer who never went to college but apprenticed back when that was a thing, another very entrepreneurial former colleague just built up a portfolio in high school and became a contractor while his contemporaries were in college.
I think that the Buddhist principle of dukkha, the first noble truth, explains this most succinctly: "to exist is to be dissatisfied / suffer".
Here's the initial announcement video with a timestamp where they called it the "worlds fastest CPU core". They've very quickly stopped using that as the tagline, but it was part of their initial marketing push.
https://youtu.be/5AwdkGKmZ0I?t=529
It’s fairly straightforward to configure QEMU to do the emulation.
And the Docker preview released a few days ago does that without even asking.
https://youtu.be/5AwdkGKmZ0I?t=529

"Worlds fastest CPU core"

Of course it's more reasonable to compare it with other low power CPUs in laptops, and not desktop CPUs with 5x the TDP that cost as much as the mac mini before you even buy the rest of the PC, I agree with you on that - I'm just pointing out that people are making these comparisons because Apple themselves did it first.
There are plenty of operators that already have flight routes not serviced by Boeing. They would more than happy to guarantee certain tickets a certain flight with a certain seat.
Yeah it’s true but it requires a lot more config. The job I mentioned in my comment involved thousands of lines of anisble to perform operations you wouldn’t even need to consider/could perform in a few clicks when using a serverless platform.

Don’t get me wrong—serverless platforms are not a ci-cd silver bullet. Many organizations build pipelines on top of serverless deployment apis, but it certainly does take care of a lot of things for you—not to mention other features mentioned elsewhere in my comments
The right answer to this, as usual, is probably somewhere in the middle. Perspectives like this are pessimistic, but important because the industry has age bias and yet we need to understand where technology might be going full circle. But instead of taking that as a bad thing and stopping there, we need to understand why and how the context is different this time and what that means. Managed services in general seem to be the ultimate cloud computing offering so far, and aren't reinventing the wheel. They are expensive and costs can be hard to reason about (probably on purpose), and cloud computing companies are profiting greatly from inefficiencies, but they take care of entire categories of operational concerns. This feels like the natural progression of the field. We can take advantage of these things selectively while being conservative in when and how we adopt them.

Complexity is a difficult topic, not the least because the many ambiguous meanings it has taken on. When people bring this up, they talk about it like it's a fixed thing that could go to 0 if only someone actually tried hard enough. Yes, complexity is a problem, but that complexity is always increasing is inevitable as long as technology advances. The first episode of the 70s series "Connections" comes to mind. We need to be able to identify and eliminate waste while dealing with this fact.
Let's Adopt a Vegan Lifestyle
I don't have the age breakdown but serious/long Covid is about 15% of cases, which is potentially millions of people in most countries if we let the epidemic rip through.
Symptoms include mental fog, loss of concentration, extreme fatigue, loss of smell..

This is why the idea of chasing herd immunity without a vaccine has always been misguided
Tasting History is a wonderful YouTube series about history and food.
> Assuming I don’t want to starve to death, what are my other options?

Well that's the rub, you don't want to work, you want to eat. The food has to come from somewhere. Even if you were a forager, other animals want to eat the same food.

> I suppose that’s technically a “choice”, but only by the most ruthlessly literal definition.

"Technically correct, the best kind of correct." More seriously we are talking about survival and food. Its hard to imagine a more ruthless domain of inquiry.
That can happen without serverless - renting VMs is OpEx enough.
Private tutors and teachers are in demand
Online and video-call teaching were often viewed as a lesser option versus traditional face-to-face sessions, yet this pandemic hasn’t left much of a choice for many parents, and naturally, they are seeing the benefits.
Study sheds new light on how the brain distinguishes speech from noise
Yeah of course. I’m not saying that serverless is the only ci-cd solution, many businesses build ci-cd pipelines on top of serverless apis. However, most serverless platforms take care of a lot of the deployment process out of the box, which would have been enough for the business I was describing in my comment
It’s not like AMD is going to be standing still for the next few years though
Welfare is a full time job. Anyone who thinks otherwise has never had to get the right forms filled out, wait hours on end every x weeks at some govt building that takes hours to get to without a car and then fight the bill collectors that buy junk debt to be collected from the poor.

The point of welfare is to make not working so unpleasant that a minimum wage job is less work to hold down.

This is true across the whole developed world, the majority of which I have lived in.
I did hear one minister describe a replication rate below 1 as budget available to spend.
Headphones of all shapes and sizes can help.
Non-surgical medical treatment is generally the most fruitful. (SRS, or GCS, is a surgical procedure involving construction of genitalia, and up until very recently there weren't any decent options for it.)

Unfortunately, therapy alone generally isn't shown to make suicide rates or gender dysphoria go away.

Elsewhere in this thread I posted a link to a great talk that has the leading expert in transgender care go into extreme depth on methods of treatments for transgender patients. If you want a doctor's perspective, and one that has probably the most experience tied to it (he sees an incredible volume of transgender patients), I definitely recommend checking it out.
If you're on macOS, since 2020.3 you can try the macOS System Shortcuts keymap. It should feel much more native, no function keys included.
Fences are detrimental to nature, and quite expensive.
All that smoke about hardware supply chain implants and in the meantime someone is analysing all the software items that are widely deployed and have pervasive access... SolarWinds won't be the last.

With so many grifters and snake oilers in the security space it must be really hard for the mainstream press to tell what is puffery.
yep! using it for my family for about five years now. completely painless across devices.

apples can access it via builtin caldav/carddav, android needs an app.
Yes, HP seems really like worse machines. I just set the max. CPU to 80% because of the costant fan noise. He is quiet now but also slower (of course). Also just the sound driver is around 500MB in RAM, serious? Lucky me I have 32GB.
Since I work in a large company, I have nothing to say about the computer brand. At home I'm a happy Fujitsu user since many years.
I liked the game at first, despite not being able to play it on high settings with my 1070, but today I couldn't launch the game no matter what I tried.I made a copy of my save files, took advantage of their return offer, and will get it again once it's fixed. But I'm not letting them keep my $60 until then.
> Can a person live a decent life without working?

Here is how I read this:

"Can I live a decent life?" - > Can other people make sure I have what I need when and where I need it?

"...without working?" -> ...without me doing anything for them in return?

Sounds awesome. For me.
> I suppose you could add “move to a country with a better social safety net” to the list.

How many countries allow people to move there for the purpose of collecting public assistance?
It's sad to say but I've had more hassle with Windows 10 than any previous (NT based anyway) release. 2000, XP, Vista, and 7 all served me well. 10 has done everything from deleted my files (thanks, October 2018 Update) to DESTROYING my Linux boot loader that was placed on a separate hard drive.. it has no business touching that!

I always looked at Linux as not being worth the hassle.. now it's not worth the hassle to use anything else.
Yep, this happened to me. Destroyed my entire data on my SSD, and forced me to Linux. Now I've literally ditched Windows, save for MS Office, and am currently using Linux for code, and even recently games, since they seem to run faster in Ubuntu.
Why'd they add "R2" to the end?
>It's forced passive-aggressively. Update notifications are sent daily, sometimes 2-3x in a day. There's no opt-out or blocking the system notification.

You can however set the system to manual update, and you wont see any notification.
Overwhelming desire to run this

wusa /uninstall /KB:4592438

should I?
Outbrain is the other big source of chumbox adverts.
You should instead quote about him chasing the rabbit. It is even far more relevant.

Someone can paste it here after googling.
99.9999..% of servers in the world run x64.

x64 virtual machines, Docker, etc have to be supported on Apple's M chips for a long time to come. There's zero risk of this changing soon unless Apple wants to scuttle the non-iOS/non-Mac developer market for Mac.

M1 is a cool chip, but there's no reason for an average development company to rush into it unless targeting M1 MacOS specifically. Maybe the server world swings to ARM, but that will take decades to sort out, if it actually happens at all.
It depends on the games. Zelda is definitely a AAA, Super Mario Party not so much.

I agree that Nintendo is not the kind of company to release a game with obvious bugs and hope to fix them later.
Who the heck is society? That's just us. But we don't come together and decide like that, so I don't think society exists in the abstract the way you think it does.

It's more like this is how reality is. You've probably never been a trader, most traders lose their money, it's an extremely risky profession. For every win you hear about there are at least 10 losers.

At the end of the day the activity of traders readjusts the asset prices on ongoing basis closer to their true valuation. The more trading occurs the more precise the price is. Without enough trading activity an end user might be forced to overpay for an asset.
You're correct. I'm not proposing some kind of spooky process that can't be described in terms of causation.

But I am proposing that we should have some skepticism when importing an explanatory style that has worked well in physics and expecting it to perform equally well everywhere. I think we're likely to make mistakes of this sort:

If a cat's head appears from behind the couch, and then later its tail becomes visible--you wouldn't say that the cat's head caused the cat's tail--they're just different parts of the same phenomenon. We're familiar with cats, so we don't make this exact mistake, but I think that we are quite susceptible to misapplying causation to things that we don't understand well, like happiness.

Years ago I had this idea that many of our ideas about causation are flawed in this way. So I developed a habit of taking a causal claim that seems true, flipping the arrow around, and then testing the mutated hypothesis--just to see if it worked backwards. I was surprised by how often it did.

I don't have the data to convince you that the habit of mistrusting my instincts about causation and using "deep down, it probably goes both ways" as a heuristic has caused me to reap benefits that I would have otherwise ignored, but I suspect it strongly enough that I plan to keep doing it.

So the difference between the alternative perspectives is that if you're skeptical about the universal utility of causal nitpicking, you'll learn to recognize when you're wasting your time trying to prove that the laws of physics demand whatever you've noticed. You'll bail sooner on perspectives that don't work, and you'll be more creative about finding new ones.

On the other hand, if you demand a certain style of causal argument, you're more likely to double down against the opacity of human behavior to other humans. You'll design experiments and write articles that inspire further nitpicking about which is a cause and which is an effect, and the matter will remain in stasis--perhaps indefinitely--where its capacity to positively affect people's heath is limited.

I'm not saying that we shouldn't try to uncover underlying mechanisms when we can. When that's in cards it's pretty great. I'm just saying that we shouldn't always expect results of that sort to be within reach, and that reasoning from correlation alone can get us further than we tend to let it.
With all the discussion about what the “big trick” is that makes the M1 seem to be such a breakthrough, I can’t help but wonder, if the M1 is more like the iPhone: The sum of a large number of small engineering improvements, coupled with a lot of component integration detail work, topped off by some very shrewd supply chain arrangements.

Analogous to the iPhone being foreshadowed by the iPod without most experts believing Apple could make a mobile phone from that, the M1 was foreshadowed by the A1 for mobile devices with many(most?) experts not forecasting how much it could be the base for laptops and desktops.

It seems, the M1 includes numerous small engineering advances and the near term lockup of the top of the line fab in the supply chain also reminds me of how Apple had secured exclusivity for some key leading edge iPhone parts (was it the screens?).

So the M1 strikes me as the result of something that Apple has the ability to pull off from time to time.

And that is rather hard to pull off financially, organizationally and culturally. And it more than makes up for some pretty spectacular tactical mis-steps (I’m looking at you, puck mouse, cube mac, butterfly keyboard).

EDIT for typo
Increasing the productivity of yourself and your team
In Seattle. I was very impressed once the mask mandate was out how many people complied. Sure there were some people protesting “are you sheep?” but 99% complied.

Honestly Costco and Fred Meyers + others really Amped up the game. You can’t enter if you don’t have a mask. Fred Meyers were nice enough to give you a mask if you don’t have one for free. You’d have to really be a rebel not to wear a mask. There are quite a few rebels here and there but strict enforcement by supermarkets really worked.

If the police were enforcing this I bet a few African American folks would have been shot over not wearing masks. The cops here just go crazy mode for the smallest thing.
I'm in the home counties around London, and I can see something similar. I actually ran into a pair of covid guards from the council, the only time I've seen them, and I kid you not they had their noses over their masks.

The rules stopped being followed some time ago, and I'll tell you why.

We can't believe in the government anymore, and it's because there's been too many cases of one rule for the people, one for the rulers. Multiple government level staff have been caught breaking the rules. Cummings was maybe the most egregious case, a known positive driving hundreds of miles to his parents, who is then protected by the PM from sacking. On top of that, when he actually did get sacked it was due to a petty internal power struggle months later, with no mention of the breach. Then there was the scientist with the affair, the MP who took the train back to Scotland, and so on. Plus stories of cronyism in who was given contracts to service the covid needs.

I can see why people think the rules are a theatre. They obviously don't think the rules matter, or that it matters whether we get the required projects done by competent people.

We elected a talker to waffle his way through the Brexit negotiations. That would have worked, because those treaties are impenetrable to normal people; He can do a bit of clever rhetoric to talk up this or that point, and nobody is any wiser because they won't know what it's like to be a cheese import business with no voice in the media. Now the game is up, because you can't talk your way out of a global pandemic, it's too far from normal politics to have practiced stepping around.
This is the type of cultural accuracy I've been looking for.

Are all the commenters in this thread just cynical engineers who really can't see past their own narrow world view? I get snake oil is snake oil, but there is such a strong brand of "anything new must be snake oil" that runs through the HN community it boggles my mind.

The world is actually full of complex systems. And only once these systems are in place does the software engineer get to do his work! People on this site act as if they have all the understanding and knowledgeable necessary to decry something like cloud vendors because clearly these same people know better than everyone else and these are actually simple problems if only we had their perspective and knowledge.

The ego and arrogance of people in tech really shines through here.
Hopefully this won't be abused. The fines are pretty significative!
This reasoning seems to me similar to how declaring a pointer in e.g. C works: many beginners write

int* a, b;

And think that this constructs two pointers-to-integer. In fact, it constructs one pointer and one plain integer. A better (equivalent) way to write it is

int *a, b;

You're not declaring variables of type

int*

You're saying that b is an int and

*a

Is an int, where the asterisk means "the dereferenced a"!
> What are you even talking about dude? You don't have to build a rack in a colo to run a non-Serverless app. There's this thing called The Cloud now, and Virtual Machines, and other fancy new technologies from 15 years ago

I think you are miss understanding my comment. I was comparing serverless to colo because that’s essentially what the author was doing. I agree that there are plenty of other cloud compute solutions that work for many workloads.

> There's like 20 other things you need for a functioning product, many of which literally cannot be replaced by Serverless-anything

I totally agree. Serverless is usually just a piece of infrastructure that is combined with other resources like databases, batch clusters, blob storage, vms, etc. I don’t think you’d be able to create a very interesting app using stateless functions alone, though I could be proven wrong ;)
The special fuel was specially distilled/blended oil. The problem with using it in normal jets is that it is so hard to light that you can't get the engines started without special ignition fluid. This poses the obvious problem for the tankers that you can't get their engines started without special engines, or segregated tanks.
Anyone have more literature on the alleged "Galactic Federation" that he claims exists?

This will probably seem pretty strange to you. Corey Goode mentions "Galactic Super Federation" in his testimony, but also says that it's probably different to the "Galactic Federation" mentioned by this guy, which Goode suggests is probably the "ICC" - interplanetary corporate conglomerate. You can see a very brief discussion of this difference in this video discussing the Israeli scientist claims, and hopefully that's enough for you to find out more yourself from there if you want.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7OwPpc4cLA

Basically, I think (tho it's probably a bit incorrect)

GSF - Genetic-farmer ET races that run genetic experiments on earth with a view to handing over administration of this to humans, have regular meetings (sometimes in a station near Jupiter or Saturn) to resolve disagreements, Goode was an intuitive-empath assistant to human delegations attending these meetings.

ICC - companies from Earth that do mining and trade with other civilizations, that emerged out of, and now largely run, a secret space program developed by Earth militaries from back-engineered alien tech, with significant contributions from Nazi scientists, and built and operate bases throughout solar system and beyond.
This. MacOS fans will sing praises of Apple, while discounting that Apple messes up even though they have very few hardware types to service compared to Windows. And they still screw it up big time - I haven't moved to BigSur for this reason.

That being said, Windows 10 cannot be in the business of "ship and keep calm", due to the number of businesses and governments relying on Windows.