skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That doesn't necessarily require that the base system be the same system; for an extreme case, there's no reason they couldn't just stick the PS4 OS in a VM. (I mean, I tend to agree and I think it's most likely that the new OS is just an enhanced version of the old one. I just want to point out that mere compatibility is only weak evidence.)
My ping is 2. As the other responder notes there are more significant sources of latency on a local gaming rig.
Merry Christmas to all!!!
> OpenAI seems to be doing quite well.

How so? OpenAI is nowhere near turning a profit, it’s a research lab masquerading as a business. It’s alive only due to massive injections of capital from investors (and when they weren’t prepared to fork over any more, Microsoft).

Sam Altman is clearly brilliant at raising capital. I don’t want to downplay the importance of that skill. But selling a product to actual customers for more than it cost to make is a completely separate - and let’s face it, less sexy - endeavour.
Your friend is angry, and likely at himself, even if he won't admit it. I've been that way too, which is probably why this comment from Jean-Luc Picard (TNG: S04E12) struck a chord with me:

"I think when one has been angry for a very long time, one gets used to it. And it becomes comfortable, like old leather. And, finally, it becomes so familiar that one can't ever remember feeling any other way."
Awesome programming language.
In contrast to some of the other replies, I don't find your friend's response particularly unexpected. She probably didn't mean to be hurtful. People often don't know how to respond to hearing other people's problems. They don't always know how you're feeling. Sometimes they try to commiserate by relating about their own problems.

I think most single guys are experiencing similar problems right now with online dating. It's tough. Your friend may have misjudged how much you wanted to talk about it. Often the best way to get the response you're looking for is to straight-up tell the person (politely) how you're feeling and what you want from them.
I've been homeless, lonely and desperate in many ways over many years. I appreciate your comments here.

I would add that people who are desperate will drag you down like a drowning person. I have been on both sides of this, and I have had to overcome this "total reliance" on others that makes them go away.

But, the best advice I have ever gotten (paraphrasing) was "face YOUR problems". It didn't matter what or how they said it. If you don't want things to be better, they never will get better.

The problem is that hopelessness _feels_ permanent. I have just gotten where I can be helpful to others after decades, and I am seeing that _extreme_ patience, caring and understanding allow that difficult discussion about change to happen.

Keep saying what you are saying. It was people like you that helped me start facing things on my own. Bravo and peace and love to you.
Americans frequently emigrate to the UK to eventually have guaranteed lifelong access to healthcare.

Tourism is a totally different matter. You go to the “eastern” EU countries in that case.

As for the cancer patient survival, in the US, 42% of patients lose their life savings within 2 years and the amount was typically around $92,000. That alone screws American cancer patients over long term, and it can cause them to die.

EDIT forgot to add link for further information: https://www.truthorfiction.com/do-four-in-ten-cancer-patient...

You can cherry pick data, but your logic does not add up.

Spend some time on HealthData.org examining the US versus other developed countries.

We may have better cancer survival rates, but when you look at deaths attributed to amenable and non-amenable medical errors (believed to be the US #3 leading cause of death by multiple studies), the average American life expectancy, and anticipated life expectancies in the future (in addition to disability free years of life), it is 100% clear that we fail as a system.

A lot of these patients probably had missed or late cancer diagnoses too, due to the lack of preventative care and also just the lack of public health regulations in the US.

Pretty much every developed country has a better healthcare system than the US.

We do not have a normal system, and many like to think of it as normal, but it is far from that.

You can cherry pick data all day, but you are not seeing the big picture here, and you do not realize how easy it is to become a statistic.

I nearly died from medical errors in the US healthcare system myself, and from sepsis at age 23.

I am a dual US|EU citizen (culturally American) living in the EU, and I never plan on working in the US or living there long term.
When you use Apple’s email proxy, is there an easy way to shut off email from a particular sign-up? (Kind of like the benefit users derive from Apple managing subscriptions — you know there’s one place where you can turn it off with no hassle.)
Awesome :D same story here, but up to 42 now! Hope to hit and then keep it at least above 45 for many years to come, but I'll see if I can't reach 50...
Merry xmas to all you dorks, to a prosperous 2021 and beyond!
A lot of people here are living inside the big tech bubble and don't understand that the collapse of unions and unlimited flow of scabs have been an unmitigated disaster for American workers.
Unrelated to the article, always enjoyed Lem's realistic portrayal of the feature.

Also, rare example of sci-fi comedy. There's German made show, based on the Ijon Tichy series [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9D_PlfpBH4
> Except there is no such thing (not in the sense you need it)

???

Okay, lets choose the simplest hash function of them all: a 1-bit XOR (resulting in a 1-bit "hash").

Lets say I flip the 75% biased coin 100 times, count heads as 1 and tails as 0. I XOR all the results together. What's the probability of XOR(all) == 1, and what's the probability that XOR(all) == 0?

You'll find that its quite close to 50/50, which is the limit to the amount of entropy you can pull from a 1-bit hash function.

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Now lets see for smaller values:

1 flip: 75% chance of 1, 25% of 0. Which is the limit of information so far.

2 flips: ... you know what? Imma write a program and get back to ya a bit later. I probably will edit my post.

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2 flips: 62% chance of Parity0
3 flips: 43% chance of Parity0
4 flips: 53% chance of Parity0

Etc. etc. etc.

By 16 flips, its 49.9985% chance of Parity0, pretty close to unbiased. It gets pretty hard to distinguish this coin from an unbiased one.

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I'm not sure if you need a cryptographic hash actually. Its just that cryptographic hashes are close enough to random that its easier to use.

Now I'm curious if a CRC32 would efficiently extract 16-bits of entropy from biased coins. CRC32 is clearly not a cryptographic hash, but its pretty good as an "avalanche" due to the nature of GF-arithmetic.
>There were many cases of pilots breaking the sound barrier in a dive prior to the X-1, even during World War II,

Aerospace engineer and amateur WWII historian here: I'm not aware of any credible claims from that era. The only WWII-era claims to have broken the sound barrier (by piloted craft) I've seen can be attributed to poor pitot tube design which gives erroneously high indicated airspeed readings when the ram pressure gets high enough.

A reconnaissance Spitfire I believe is what got closest, at something like .9 of Mach measured by a fancy pitot system at the RAF test establishment.
3000 feet isn't that high, shouldn't take more than a minute to reach. And the info on those packs says their operating ceiling is 15000 feet, so going up to 3000 feet should be no problem.
"Thinking fast and Slow". It took around four and a half months to read it. I got the answers to some of the great mysteries related to human behavior.
For example,
- Why don't good people keep their promises?
- Why do people don't change their miserable life when their actions could change many things?
- Why does charisma trump intelligence in most of the debates?
- Why is it hard to change a habit?
- Why do people judge so quickly.

It had a profound impact on me. After reading that book, I stopped trying to be silent when I was feeling angry.
I invested in my relationships with family and friends a lot.
I realized the biggest problem in the Tech industry is not the technology but the people. I became empathetic to introverted people.
Okay, I'll bite: Why would Sony want Linux support for their controllers? Like, it's great, but what possible benefit do they get? It's unlikely to sell more PS5s, it... might sell more controllers but I'd be shocked if the profit from that is enough to justify porting the code unless it's really trivial, and the "best" use that I can imagine is supporting emulation which I rather doubt Sony wants to support. So what gives?
You know, what you are describing sounds exactly like most production code I've inherited over the years. It's what imperative programming devolves into. Start at the top, run to the bottom. You see a lot less of this with compiled languages, and I suspect that has a lot to do with the additional complexity of actually compiling the code filtering out people who don't want to be bothered with details. Enjoy what's left of Christmas Eve.
> It's almost like they think that people get primarily paid based on the dollar amount of revenue they generate. The salary of employees is conditioned on a multitude of factors, mostly relating to supply and demand, industry norms, the quality of their work, how much better they are than the median employee, etc etc. Profits made are obviously a factor, but less so when there's a high supply of potential workers.

> tl;dr: You get paid based on what you can demand. Money and power are never given, they are only taken. I have been both in a position as an employer and an employee and people who worked for me didn't get raises unless a couple things were true: they were good at their job (i.e I valued and needed their labor) and they went to me to demand more money. If you don't demand more money (or are not in a position to demand more money, like many low-skilled employees), you're (probably) not going to be paid more.

If you are a low-skilled worker or any worker not in position to demand more money then you organize with others in the same position until as a group you are. It's called a union and Amazon employees have until now failed to form one through in some circumstances a lack of action and others through actively voting not to. If they have failed to benefit through these circumstances as their employers have the fault is their own.
Homicides nationwide are well off of historic highs [1].

The Vox link you previously posted shows the large spike (+~30%) being 2020 related.

The 21.8/100k you cite for St Louis in 2003 was also abnormally and suspiciously low, as 2002 and 2004 were in the 30s/100k. I wouldn't baseline anything off a single local outlier that's 50% off from other years. Perhaps a statistical / data collection anomaly? You can see in 2004 the rate was about 35/100k, while in 2013 it was 38/100k, a scant change.

You can see that data in context within a chart in this NYT article from 2015 [2] which discusses some possible factors in St Louis' persistently high crime. 2014 and onwards is likely skewed considerably by the Ferguson unrest, and it sounds like St Louis might still be dealing with that alongside other factors.

Outside the local context, none of this data at a macro scale looks like the trend we see in the 70s-80s that the lead-crime hypothesis seeks to describe though. Crime nationwide has indeed been growing slightly since 2015... to hypothesize about why we're seeing this, I'd guess it's largely due to loss of opportunity and rising income inequality leading to poverty and desperation, which our recent economic policies have only been worsening. But I'm absolutely no expert in the subject, just trying to figure things out like you are.

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/murd...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/11/us/st-louis-puzzles-over-...
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Saying "Trusting a vpn provider ..." is like saying "Trusting a person ..."

It's meaningless. VPN providers come in the same full spectrum of integrity as people or companies.
This is exactly what I've found as well, particularly the lack of auctioneering. It won't work otherwise.
How many of those Bible copies were actually read?
I’ve seen them getting lapped by the 700 lb lighter Porsche Cayman.
> A lot of them come for the sole purpose of having access to better and guaranteed healthcare

This pretty much never happens.
Not everything has to have a business model. Some people write code because they want to, and then give it away for free. If you plant a seed in the earth, it will give you food for free, too.

Also, we’re starting to reach the point where money is an ineffective incentive.
As it turns out, Malta did just that - the referendum result was not accepted by the opposition party, and it was settled by an early general election.
Yes, because one is choosing which charity to give to, and the other is enforcing fairness equally, at least for basic needs.
Christmas Eve 1913: Italian Hall Disaster
I haven't heard of this but that sounds awesome. Are there a couple of good handwritten fonts you like that do this?
Artificial Intelligence (A.I.): Is It All Just Costly Hype?
It's one of those situations in which one organization does it and everyone else realizes there are no downsides. It's probably more sincere that we'd like to admit. Sure, there might be a liability aspect to it, but why wouldn't you plaster it all over, even if it's a rubber stamp? At worst, it has no effect. At best, you help people--people who are likely your customers. Dead customers don't pay bills.
When you find out, also let us know how to turn it on please.
Very few Americans emigrate to the UK in order to gain access to healthcare. You are posting misinformation to push a political narrative.
> That is how the Lisbon treaty was passed, right?

Nope
I'll chime in with some perspective of my own as someone who has had some formal training in both(private lessons and CS classes).

Music, in and of itself, is pretty simple and natural to create: clap your hands, stomp your feet, sing a little. There's a low "skill floor" on it.

Programming has a much bigger skill floor - syntax, memory management, indirection, and other conceptual forms of knowledge. But once you have the concept, it doesn't matter a great deal what exact things you type if it's implementing that concept successfully.

But music has tradition, and not just one - it's one per instrument, with subsets for different playing styles. When you get classical training(which I did) there's a lot of pedigree built-in to being a "student of so-and-so". You learn technical competence - how to not injure yourself by playing(RSI is a big one but it also occurs with posture, breath control and so forth) - but also to express the music interpretively, a translator who turns notes on the page into a dynamic performance, and this involves both repetition and attention to detail that is suited for coaching. Music can be very athletic at the world-class level!

Over time I've been able to cross over the two worlds - finding ways of programming that are a little more iterative, more like performance - and approaching music from a more theory-and-concepts perspective has helped me understand compositions beyond the surface expression. But the broad differences still remain.
My mom made me take a typing class just before high school -- in the late 70s. She said: "I'm not going to type your term papers for you." Then I took a class in BASIC and fell in love with programming. By the time I got to college, I was a very fast typist.

I noticed that between my two kids, both graduated from high school now, the one who never learned to type had a hard time throughout school because of it. If there's a physical obstacle to typing, it will translate into a difficulty learning to write. They did vastly more writing in school than I ever did.

In college, I preferentially chose courses where the grades were based on written work rather than exams, and I got to the point where I could sling text like nobody's business. I was also the first student at the college to submit a word processed paper.

I don't know if typing should necessarily affect coding. After all, you really shouldn't be coding faster than you can think anyway. What matters is how much good code you can write, and that might include time spent away from the keyboard altogether.
Porting the code? The PS5 runs FreeBSD no? I can’t imagine this was a big lift.
Unfortunately as blog post says, the unique features introduced with DualSense (e.g. Adaptive Triggers, VCM based Haptics) are not yet supported.

I was wondering has anybody hacked/reverse engineered them? Wanted to play a bit with the haptic feedback over the years and see the responsiveness and expressiveness of the feedback.
...I'm devastated...
I think it’s to sell more controllers. Being a good generic PC controller is a small but not insignificant market. And it costs basically nothing since Sony likely already needs the drivers for their own internal use. I use my Xbox 360 controller for lots of games on my PC.
It's amazing that people don't use adblockers. uBlock Origin on desktop, also works on mobile such as Firefox Android, Kiwi browser, etc. On iOS you can use AdGuard, Edge with adblockers, Wipr, etc.

Also, SponsorBlock for YouTube to block sponsors inside videos, and even uMatrix if you want to globally disable JS and select which sites do use JS.
No that is the literal design, as we are not a pure democratic system. The whole point is that states are sovereign except in a few specific areas, e.g., foreign relations, interstate commerce. The founders were terrified of a tyranny of the majority. So they designed a system that made it difficult.

We did not get lucky.
iOS. These

https://cohan.me/images/IMG_3580.jpg

https://cohan.me/images/IMG_3688.jpg

There were more but I didn't start screenshotting till they felt like they were taking the piss
They should bring that character back for the new movies and have him be played by the old actor.
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> playing Cyberpunk 3089 on our RISC-V gaming machines.

Maybe via Stadia :).
Show HN: I made a(nother) minesweeper implementation with curses
Isn't China's population supposed to peak in 2023? Then what?
> As for the cancer patient survival, in the US, 42% of patients lose their life savings within 2 years and the amount was typically around $92,000. That alone screws American cancer patients over long term, and it can cause them to die.

If you have insurance, and 80-90%+ of Americans do (and probably more among cancer patients, as they are usually older so they often qualify for Medicare), it’s extremely rare to spend $92k in 2 year. Even in the plans with the highest out of pocket maximums, these are almost never more than $10k/year. That might drain people savings anyway, but a lot of people have very little savings.

I really don’t know where your data is from, but it doesn’t match the reality lived by most Americans. The US healthcare system has a lot of problems, so many that you don’t really need to make ones up.
Oh, yeah, then we agree. I'm expecting it to make inroads in embedded stuff first (which, I mean, it already has, ex. WD using it for controllers) and eventually wind up as something where you can get a single board computer running on it pretty easily but as a second-class option for a long time. But we already are in a place where you can use Linux for most daily tasks if you want, you can run NT games via Proton, plenty of folks use Pis for side projects, etc. So if we get there with RISC-V in a few years I'll be happy.
When I say “becoming a single country” I mean politically and economically. In the US we used to identify as citizens of individual states first, until the civil war.

In the US, this means people in New York weighing in on what should be taught in schools in Alabama. And it’s a state of affairs nobody finds particularly satisfactory. But once you unify the finances there is a tremendous push toward that kind of political integration.

For example, consider refugee policy. I suspect folks in Spain and folks in Hungary don’t see eye to eye. Now, they get to have their own immigration policy. Further integration could change that.
My parents forbade me from having friends when I was around 7 or 8 years old. Hit me across the head to emphasize the point; friends would distract from studying hard, and you don't study hard then you can't get into a good university. So until I was 24 I had no friends whatsoever, not even through university and not even through the time since then.

As you might imagine I'm quite okay being alone for the most part having grown up friendless. I have no idea what having a friend is like, or how you're supposed to be a fiend, and for the most part that's okay with me. Ironically, my parents are actually now concerned about why I haven't dated anyone in my 30's; they've actually asked their family friends if they knew anyone that might be interested.

And there in lies the rub. If you're really okay with being alone, why bother having anyone else in your life? It's hugely uncomfortable for someone that's used to it, for little benefit.
Presumably, in a functioning democratic system, those receiving taxes would also have a say in the matter. I don't think your first point is wrong, but there is a difference.
The impact of anti-patterns that we faced as a software development team
Or qemu user mode; that'd probably be simple enough once performance catches up.
Interestingly, we have a word in French to call these gibberish languages that sound like real ones but have no meaning.

It's called speaking "yogurt".

It was originally used because young French people wanted to sing the English songs that they heard, but didn't know the language, so they would make up sounds that looked like English.
Please allow me this minor hijacking to express my complete and absolute gratitude for your efforts in developing uBO.
Android (linux) support for their Remote Play and cloud streaming services. It's a lot easier to get users to try when you can say "Use your existing controller and a phone you already have!"

Steam Controller added Bluetooth support for their release of the similar Steam Link app.
No kidding on that. The Tomcat is hard to employ effectively, but it's definitely worth trying out even if there's only a few days to do it for free.

Beware though, this addiction leads to things like buying entire hotas setups from companies like Virpil and VKB and that's a very pricey proposition.
Turbo: The speed of a single-page web application without writing any JavaScript
Can you elaborate why mostly no in practice?