skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have the opposite experience. Nothing but Blue Screens on Windows.
Yeah, all portal sites were cluttered heavily. Google was only the logo, the search input field, and the submit button. That was one of the biggest advantages for me.
This is a very good point. But it makes me wonder how much is innate to the topic. If physics has as many confounding variables, I’m wondering if there would be equal difficulty in reproducibility
If you don't remember the 70s and mainframes, you're not in a position to evaluate comparisons yourself.
> The leftist desire to redistribute wealth (which I think is strongly misplaced and immoral) will become irrelevant once we achieve a certain level of abundance that is unlike anything we are accustomed to today. It will be like wanting to redistribute oxygen or dirt -- two resources so abundant they are essentially free.

This is hopeless naive. There are more houses than there are homeless people, and yet the prices of houses continues to rise. Dirt and oxygen are not hoarded because they are impossible to hoard, anything that can be hoarded will be hoarded.
It uses a ludicrous amount of RAM and a fixed block size and offset boundry, making it very slow and fairly ineffective.
If you use a local mail client, you could drag all your gmail folders to the local folder area. Most clients will then copy all the emails to a local destination. Then you could have a rule that copies all incoming mail into the local folder, catching any future mails.
Didn't realize medium can pay out that much! Is this writing copyrighted by them? (I.e. can I republish the same content on my personal site after a bit) if so why would anyone not want to put their content there?
I had an idea for a chess variant recently that I haven't had time to test yet (but maybe it already exists?): it's exactly the same as normal chess, except on your turn you can move any piece, black or white, even your opponent's king (God chess?) You still have to eliminate the other king, and a piece can still only take pieces of the opposed color, obviously. I suppose it very well might turn out to be completely awful, but in my head it sounds interesting.
Maybe there is a reason housing isnt built on that land. Maybe we shouldnt be bulldozing every forest just so we dont have to rethink how we organize society
I'm one that believes that the price of bitcoin can be manipulated by large bitcoin holders working together. But bit coin is getting easier for the common man to be able to purchase. So as the number of owners increase it will be harder for the price to be manipulated. So given that, I still think that it will drop big at some point but it will be above 10k. We will never see sub 10k bitcoin again.
Interesting paper concept. I'll read it.

I also notice Kramnik is the last-listed author in a group of four, the rest of whom work at DeepMind. Is this a new marketing "thing" in published corporate research?
{Free} Ultimate Resources for Front-End Development in 2021 and Giveaway
What made me switch to Google from AV was the simplicity of the Google home page and the clean results page. AV was getting too cluttered, Google loaded faster. (We were still on dial-up too!)
http://archive.is/Elp9Y
Can we talk about how it's even possible for a save file to reach 8mb? Back in the day (way before my day!) a z80 could only address 65kb of RAM total. It was still possible to load and play an entire 2D game + save file given that space constraint. Obviously I'm not going to compare a modern AAA title to Drug Wars from 1984, but I will compare strings to strings and ints to int. The basic data sizes haven't changed.

Let's be generous and assume every character in the save file is stored as 4-byte UTF-8 (the edge case - most characters are 1 or 2 bytes only). Given that 1MB is 1 million bytes, that means you can store 250,000 characters in 1 MB, or 2 million characters in 8MB.

What is being stored in this file to warrant space equivalent to 2 million characters?! As far as I'm aware the save file doesn't include PNGs or video recordings that would obviously blow up the size. It onlys contain strings and numbers. How are there so many to fill up all that space?

Maybe someone in the game dev industry can shed some light? It seems so crazy to me, although I am admittedly approaching this from an embedded hardware background.

EDIT: It seems like people are saying this is caused by craftable item data. Even then, with 2 million characters to work with, you'd have to craft 200 guns assuming each item takes up 10,000 characters, and 2,000 guns assuming each item takes up 1000 characters. As far as I can see each gun only has a handful of attributes, so...what gives?
The PC platform has plenty of freedom for innovation, it's actually quite open, you can create what ever peripheral, addon, whatever you want on top of it.

The problem is that if you want mass adoption of your fancy new bespoke offer it's quite a bit tricker no matter how good it is at doing it's thing, and that problem does not got away with different ISAs, probably harder to be honest.
First, many of these benchmarks are single threaded. Secondly, in the same power envelope as the 5800X you can also find the 16 core 5950X. So perhaps Apple would have to add even more cores.

Finally, in a core count war AMD has an easier task. They scale up their designs with multiple chips. A Zen 3 CCD is about 80mm^2 on 7nm, which is already much smaller than the M1 SoC on 5nm. If Apple adds 4 more cores, their chip size will increase. Meanwhile AMD can add more cores without increasing chip size like Apple's current integrated approach. This is why AMD is already shipping 64 core CPUs (EPYC 7763) using multiple of the Zen 3 CCD as these desktop CPUs.
how long does it take for this signal to reach Earth?
You're always free to challenge whether or not any particular piece of art is "good" -- who can say, really? But there isn't really any doubt that this one is, to use the title's word, iconic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_innovation

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man" --George Bernard Shaw (b. 1856)
Another corny metaphor I use for my mind is: Most of my thoughts are runaway processes that are just burdening my system. You don't want your CPU going at 100% for extended periods of time, same for the mind.
I was wondering this too.
I'm also curious whether they're vulnerable to spectre (any variant)
What a wonderful video! He's obviously having so much fun, it's impossible not to have fun watching this.
WF and the army: We actually don't update. /s
40TB is essentially infinite unless you're doing something with large amounts of media content.
My idea for a chess variant was giving every piece a fixed number of moves (with move-count visible at all times). After the quota of moves is finished, the piece becomes immobile except that it can still capture an enemy piece (and thus move to the captured square).
Hollywood Learns to Love ‘Churn’
Show HN: Figma Scene – Generate animated scene directly from Figma
I learned from https://yts.mx/movies/zero-days-2016 that software that generates big heat can destroy hardware/nuclear plant
What does it mean for a window manager to have audio support? Why is the WM messing with audio at all?
FileCloud Community Edition (https://www.getfilecloud.com/filecloud-community-edition/) is another viable option for self-hosted file sync and sharing. It runs on top of windows and linux. The installation takes just couple of seconds
It's notable because it's a very traditional Japanese woodblock but done with Prussian Blue which was at the time only recently introduced in Japan due to the end of Japan's isolationism. Depending on one's interpretation the wave could signify the tidal wave of cultural change approaching Japan.
I used to hate Apple too, but I've found their products to be better than the alternatives. I was a die-hard Windows/Android user for something like 6 years, and I slowly moved over to Apple once I got my first MacBook. WSL is great for development, but it doesn't come anywhere close to macOS in my opinion.

Anyway, the walled garden sucks, but it's worth the trade off to me.
Well the perception was that AMD and Intel had a unassailable lead. That even with a power and clock speed disadvantage that the M1 can be quite competitive with several other serious mobile chips, like the Intel I9.

Now apple has proved that a cool running chip that sips power can run a wide variety of intensive applications well.

People were quite dubious of apple's chances on a competitive desktop chip and have just received a wake up call with a relatively conservative M1 chip (3.2 GHz and 4 fast cores).
That has a lot of resonance for me. In this modern age, we are all kings, and there are vast industries to save us from ever being alone from our thoughts.

For December, I quit sugar, social media, and video games. It's been really interesting to notice what state I'm in when I go to reach for those things. Sometimes it's just habit, but often it's because I'm uncomfortable or in distress and want to avoid those feelings. But indulging in those things often just kicks the problem down the road.

Indeed, breaking my social media habits reminds me of Oscar Wilde talking about cigarettes: "A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?" The same for me is definitely true with Twitter and Facebook. An infinite feed of shiny, entertaining, funny, and outraging things, but almost nothing that's ever satisfying.
Mata Hari's head was embalmed in 1918, discovered missing in 2000
I'd say working at a hospital has always been risking your life more than many other jobs. The places are bacteria cesspits, full of sick people.
Proxima Centauri is 4.2 light years away, therefore it takes 4.2 to send a signal from there to here (or vice-versa)

Assuming this is an intelligently-created signal, then it’s most likely something that was transmitted from Earth 8.4 years ago.
> We have a whole system for dealing with that.

Worked pretty well in the case of Epstein, didn't it?

That's why some of us are not going to shut up when it comes to holding Mr. Epstein's "enablers" accountable this time around, got it?
You might want to run memcheck on the machine. Windows is terrible in many ways, but having regular blue screens is not at all normal.
Under a capitalist system, those with the most resources have the most political power, and the most firepower.

Under a socialist system, those with the most political power have the most resources and the most firepower.

Under an anarchist system, those with the most firepower have the most resources and the most political power.
Forgiveness too.

Forgive everyone who you imagine did you wrong. And imagine everyone forgiving you.

Then forgive yourself.
So, like normal, the value of a Mac is in appealing to others not doing things on the computer.
> Russian state backed hackers

> small criminal gang

They're the same picture.
> More than twice as many young adults died of Covid in 2020 than died of car crashes (or any other one cause, including the former top one, opioids). Source: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2774445

This paper does not include or support the assertion you are making. It is not a valid or plausible source for the claim for which you have used it as a citation.

The leap you have made is far beyond the already tortured reading that this poor paper has received throughout social media. In order for the same number of people (leaving aside the "more than twice" claim in your comment) in the 25-44 cohort covered by this paper to die of COVID19 as died of opioid overdoses in 2018 (which is the figure this paper uses), essentially all of the other 62% of the increase in all-cause mortality which does not yet have an available documented cause of death, among a group especially vulnerable to the second-order effects of lockdowns, would have to instead have come from a virus that is known to kill them at vanishingly rare rates and diagnosis of which is now routine nationwide.

Put another way: two-thirds of the lethal COVID19 cases in the 25-44 cohort have to have been completely missed by this nation's medical professionals (and even then, opioid deaths have to have remained at 2018 levels, which is also unlikely). This is just in order for COVID19 deaths to be close to the number of opioid overdose deaths. It is completely impossible for COVID19 to kill twice as many.

To be clear: all of the reliable data - every shred of it - shows convincingly that the assertion you are making is strictly false. The number of opioid overdoses has far outpaced the number of COVID19 deaths (having increased since 2018 rather than remaining flat as you implicitly assert); the same is almost certainly true of car crashes. Depending on what you mean by "young adults" (ie, if you are including the 18-25 cohort in addition to the 25-44 cohort studied in this paper), it will be surprising if COVID19 kills even a third as many will have died in car crashes, as this group dies even more rarely of COVID19 and even more frequently of car crashes.

Moreover, even if your claim were within 60% of being true (and there's no reason, given the available data, to believe that it is) the comment to which you are responding said "old or vulnerable" (emphasis mine), whereas the paper you've provided showing over 4,000 deaths (again, just to be crystal clear, this is less than half of those from opioid overdoses) includes people in this age group with other (sometimes grave) comorbidities.

It is true that people who are neither old nor suffering from one of the three most frequently indicated comorbidities have a risk of adverse effects similar to seasonal coronaviruses.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eci.13423

tl;dr: Around 4,000 people under 45 have died COVID19-related deaths, while more than 10,000 died of opioid overdoses in 2018, the latest year for which a reliable figure is available (but every credible expert believes that the number will be much higher this year).
The thing that’s been on my mind lately is that the definition of our human sentience is that a thought about a thought is itself a thought. We to some extent have solved the halting problem. Or rather it doesn’t apply to the way our programming works, if you will.
^This, but its a good thing. Something that irks me about Chess is that at the high level the conventional wisdom is to memorize openings and gambits rather than derive moves from some sort of first principals. IMO this undermines the entire point of a strategy game.
This is the opinion of an amateur, but I think this is where "skillful effort" comes into play. A retreat like that will be less strenuous if you already have a daily meditation practice.

I wouldn't describe a weeklong meditation retreat as the "extreme" side of the Buddha's middle way. That would be more like starving yourself in asceticism. With the right practice/preparation (IE a few months of daily hour-long sits), I think a weeklong retreat would be beneficial and reasonable for most people.

Of course, getting to the point of a daily practice is pretty challenging itself, but not too much more than the average workout routine in my opinion.
Should you create your first online course on Udemy?
Just in the last few weeks, I’ve had two instances where I let Windows update and a whole bunch of system stuff (including Windows Update itself, once) proceeded to break, even through a few reboots.

Anecdote, of course, and theoretically I could have hardware issues, but things to seem to be worse than a few years ago.
But they had no reason to be skeptical, given the A series. To only take a processor seriously once it’s housed in a case with a keyboard attached is ridiculous.
But brooding for a long time is not really healthy. I don't know the exact issue on which you got mocked, but there are these unproductive loops of thought into which you can slip into, spending many days. It takes some other pressing issue to snap out of this.
HP's drivers are the worst I came across. We got HP Elitebook notebooks at work a few years ago and replaced them with Lenovo and Dell because the HPs kept crashing and slowing down over time. Their "utility" software like HP Sure Click slowed the whole system down and turned into nagware. There were at least 3 HP programs hogging the tray area and made discovery of my actually wanted tray icons hard. On top of that the fans just didn't spin down, even after a reinstall, so I were forced to work with constant fan noise in the background.

I never felt so miserable using a notebook before and dreaded each day I had to use it.
Disrupting calls? What is this horseshit. He is accused of framing dissidents to set them up for trumped up charges of paedo and terrorism. Why isn’t that the headline?
"Happiness? It's quite simple. Practice ALTRUISM" --Unknown
Are there any future plans to bring this wonderful application to Flatpak too?
The HN version of this: 'All problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room and code alone'
Another way to look at it is the number of different jobs a certain person could do, if necessary. A surgeon can operate, but if needed, also likely fill in as a nurse, CNA, phlebotomist, and could of course sterilize a room. That's not to diminish the contributions of any particular group but not all individual skill sets are created equal because some (literally) encompass many others.
It is really powerful, simple to draw yes, but it may be complex to reason on and build a network. Have a look at Judea Pearl's work : http://bayes.cs.ucla.edu/jp_home.html
In todays world, more often than not, being kind is interpreted as weakness.

This is especially true in modern corporate environments, where incentives are aligned to promote a dog eat dog world, no matter what the corporates speak about 'values'. It is compounded by a culture where not getting a promotion or not earning ever increasing salaries, is propagated and interpreted as undeserving, weak or useless.

Human nature is described in Hindu scriptures as 'restless and unpredictable as a drunken monkey, stung by a scorpion'.

So people learn to hide their kindness, and put up a facade of toughness. But just as a lie repeated a million times is percieved as truth, a kind personality hidden behind toughness loses itself and the person becomes a shell of their former selves.

That is why you have news stories today celebrating small acts of kindness, integrity, honesty or truthfulness, where the norm is those acts should be a standard part of every persons life.
Two things:

1) Without having access to the relevant data (and doubting that it is exists in the first place), I think it's reasonable to surmise that this particular group is more likely to either be in a vulnerable sub-population or to live in a multi-generational household than any other group of front-line medical workers.

2) Front-line medical workers have experienced adverse outcomes which have outpaced the risk based solely on their age and comorbidities. There has been widespread speculation (and some research) that this is due to a higher likelihood of receiving a higher initial dose of the virus.
Is this a reference to this skit?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DqoQq1zME8
The way I think about it in the case of A and B are equal merit or extremely close: on some level, you must decide if you accept or reject the underlying ideas that

1. There are groups of people
2. Some groups are in better positions than others
3. There are historical reasons for claim 2
4. The people in the worse off group today, did not cause this historical reason, yet still suffer from it (be it done by or to their predecessors, doesn't matter).
5. a just world is one in which all groups, when given the opportunity, are represented in positions of power at the expected rates.

So let's say I run a school that generates successful powerful people regularly. I always get a greater than capacity nunmber of applicants scoring perfectly. Some might argue that random choice is the most fair - but I'm not interested in being fair to the better off group at the expense of furthering what I believe to be the creation of a just world. It is of no concern that some white upper class student didn't get in. If I go by random choice that group has an outsized chance of winning at the expense of the worse offs, because we would expect them to have a non-representational ratio of applicants to the worse. off group. Say, 15:1 or something.

Oh but that's not fair to the individual, you might say.

Well, groups are made of individuals and so my belief about group representation in a world of equal opportunity isn't over ridden. It's for _those_ individuals in the worse off group.

So I see little to no problem in caseas of equal merit being decided with an explicit favouring.

Furthermore, where the merit is not equal but the imbalance in merit is solidly explained by the inherent deficits of the worse off group, I see no problem in leaning that too (think extra curricular - captain of sailing team in high school and attended expensive code boostcamps in summers, or something). Two activities that would be unjustly unavailable to the worse off group.
I actually really like what I do at my job. The problem isn’t really the work but the duration. 40 hours a week is way too much and it’s pretty soul crushing. If I could work 2/3 the amount I currently do that would make me a much happier person.
This part - https://i.imgur.com/CmtzOES.png

But now that I have a better understanding of the layover effect I think it might just be that the satellite is looking from where it looks like the sun is shining, and it's directly imaging that front window frame and brick wall. Need our SAR pro to comment :)
i think sun tried to sell more servers and storage systems by giving free access to the tools (JVM/JDK) that would simplify enterprise software development - without having to worry about core dumps or very long compilation times. It might be that Joel was too focused on Microsoft in order to see that.

Also SUN was selling licenses for very expensive J2EE stuff (remember EJB? That's the stuff that was replaced by spring) Giving free access to the JDK would make sense, as making the complement cheaper to create demand for EJB (that would have worked if EJB would have been easier to use)

Java was initially focused on small devices, but that was not it's main use case at the turn of the century. i think phone hardware was too limited for Java until a few years later, when Sun was no longer around (actually we had the epic Oracle vs Google case, which might have been a Sun vs Google case - sans acquisition by Oracle)

It may well be that Linux became good enough for this market segment and thereby turned server hardware (i.e. Sun) into a commodity, but that's a different story.
Mathews: Thank you, Texas, for taking Elon Musk off our hands
Distracted Writing: Learning to Write with ADHD
And Jobs spent too much time on calligraphy than he should.

And yet, that experience was tinder for the start of font rendering in computing. Whether it is naval gazing or creating unique insight, it's only known in hindsight.
I find this both fascinating and terrifying.
Do you have sources? I have never heard of any CPU manufacturer optimizing Geekbench scores.

Consumer grade CPUs are driven by a variety of things - marketing, brand loyalty, gaming benchmarks, reviewers such as Anantech and Extremetech, and yes, Geekbench scores. Datacenter processors are a whole another beast and driven by proprietary benchmarks by vendors.

Geekbench runs so many different tests, atleast a couple of dozens of tests. So, if CPU manufacturers are optimizing to those tests, its hard to believe that that's not a good thing and would apply to pretty much what an average user does in the first place.
You choose what life you live. Don’t pass the blame. Determine the life you will live that will leave you without regret, and then live it.

Anything else is a waste of time and will leave you with regret.