skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NumPy is a really well isolated local maximum, because it gives you just enough of a performance edge in a generally comfortable programming environment (Python). Most things that are faster or more flexible than NumPy are much more alien and difficult to work with.

I think NumPy is worth praising for demonstrating that parallel programming does not have to be difficult. Sure, NumPy itself usually does not run in parallel, but its vectorised bulk operations are potentially parallel, yet don't have any of the race conditions, deadlocks, and other complexities we usually associate with "parallel programming". The same style of programming could be implemented in a library or language where those operations really do take advantage of parallel hardware, still without risk of race conditions. NumPy is just one of many programming languages and libraries that have this property (even Fortran array expressions do), but NumPy is demonstrably accessible to data scientists, students, and others who are inexperienced or poorly trained in programming. Hell, if you add NumPy, R, MATLAB, and all the other bulk-parallel programming models used for quick data analysis scripts, it may be that most of the world's code is actually written in a data parallel programming style...
Considering how they've been making Mac servers more and more irrelevant, I wouldn't have my hopes up.
There's no way the final rendering is realtime though, right? Post production work is reduced, but not totally eliminated. But the advancements they made with that dome are amazing
Sorry you had a bad experience. Hopefully the Haskell Foundation will be able to put resources into the beginner experience and you will find it easier in the future.
your entire thread treats the premise of the paper as inane or making a moral implication about what this phenomenon means, but it is actually useful to know that value for human life over other life is socially conditioned.

if you treat it as a given that value for human life is innate then your society may fail to foster the conditions which promote human flourishing. many adults are also ethically immature and if the people who all do care about human life all say “well of course human life is valuable, it is stupid to study” then all those ethically immature adults spend their entire lives trampling on everyone else.
It seems that if you could still buy macOS separately you could buy more copies than computers and lease these out for 24h while sharing the hardware with much higher granularity which would lower the cost significantly.

However it seems that no version of macOS since Lion (2011) is available to be purchased standalone anymore.

It is a shame that Apple forces such a wasteful and inconvenient process but it is more profitable for them and apparently they are legally allowed to do so.
I don't think every California home owner is some evil beast trying to keep others out. I support building more homes, and would love it if every single family detached home were automatically rezoned for two units on the parcel. But if it weren't for Prop 13, my home and my business would have been forced out by people moving in and paying too much money for homes next door to me.

And "raising property values" only raises my property tax, while giving me no real benefit.
I don't know if it's so much a move away from text but instead an addition of other media. Short form text (tweets) and images enable "snacking" and infinite scroll just feeds the dopamine machine. That's what a lot of people want out of the web.

I don't think there's any less demand for long form text content on the web. It's growth just isn't ever going to eclipse the snack sized content.

In the case of Reddit, there's still plenty of long form text links and discussions in the comments. The current UX doesn't make that as prominent by default but it's there. The Reddit snackers make more money because they see way more ads. As long as there's an affordance for long form text content Reddit has utility for me.

If they go full TweetBook and kill the likes of i/old Reddit then I'm out. I guess I'll try to get a lobste.rs invite or something.
Emails compromised in cyber attack on Finland's Parliament
https://markmanson.net/the-fear-of-the-unknown

Not everyone likes Mark, but if you’re curious, he explains the psychological situation better, at least, than I can.
Can confirm with this, when we approached Apple on MDM they all but opened an account for us with JAMF.
my vote, extremely useful.
Our birth rate has barely dropped. It's gone from an average of 3.11 births in 2018 to 3.08 births in 2019. Interestingly, the birth rate varies greatly by city, with Jerusalem's being twice Haifa's.
>Porque no los dos?

Fine, then mention both. The comment I was replying to blamed it all on the lockdowns even though the problem would exist without lockdowns.
>> So your saying that I have to decide that all of a sudden I can't wait to eat crickets because they are more efficient?

No no, not you. All the poor people. They're the ones who will be fed "efficiently". You and I and most people on HN will retain our privilege to eat what we want.
It's not a binary classification of "Haskell safe, everything else unsafe". It's a gradation. Haskell provides more such features and more ergonomically (goes the claim, and it's one I happen to agree with).
Well of course the vertical farm will be built to a clean room standard, far greater than standard construction. Or at least that seems to be the only possible way for their product to have ‘zero pesticides’.
what about buying second hand macs? I am not agreeing to any terms there, how can apple still enforce those rules then?
While no less arbitrary, your metric for comparison seems shallow. I had already decided the panda should die before you finished that question, not the other way around.

The panda won’t be missed by many.
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Can be download as .exe files which are linked to each other (can jump to another when while watching)
Macstadium seems to be offering pricing of $59 per month, which is much more competitive versus buying the hardware outright.
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I think it’s more that there are more layers of indirection than are typical for a democratic system.
> Naturally, one may wonder if this has resulted in the labor market disappearing for artists. But it hasn't. The demand for high quality art skyrocketed because the tools economically allowed for it. (In some ways the market for artists has gotten smaller, because there is less appetite for low-skill Photoshop monkeys, but highly skilled technical artists are much more in demand, because we are starting to see dramatic differences in productivity between artists just like we have seen in engineering.)

But are the artists treated better than they were a decade ago?

The wife of a good friend of mine is a digital artist. She works on films. The pay in her field is crap, as are the working conditions - meanwhile, competition for paying jobs is fierce.

When computers became an order of magnitude cheaper, the demand for, and the pay rate for computer programmers sky-rocketed. It doesn't seem like the same thing happened with artists.
>I just hope that a battery life breakthrough is on the horizon from AMD or Intel.

Intel has their Lakefield chips which use the same big.LITTLE configuration but their first large release chips will be Alder Lake next year.

My concern is less with Intel and AMD's ability to implement the cores as much as Microsoft's ability to implement a scheduler. They never came to grips with the weirdness of AMD's Bulldozer architecture.
There is a lot more to a standard kitchen than appliances. Like walls, floors, counters, etc. None of that comes free, or even cheap.
Did you mean "Ask HN"?
I think it’s more a sign of the times than Apple being Apple that they don’t tell you what hardware you buy when you buy one of their systems or how it is connected. Television manuals used to contain hardware schematics, car manuals used to be way more detailed, etc.

Apple also had detailed info on their hardware. The Apple II reference manual had schematics, mapped it to the PCB, described what each part did, described 6502 assembly and had an assembly listing of the monitor ROM. The only thing missing to build a copy, I think, was an assembly listing of the Basic interpreter.

The phone book edition of Inside Macintosh also had info on the hardware, but a lot less of it.
That's not what I meant. I want to deploy a new instance on the host which I have to rent for min 24. But I can't because the host is "pending".
Here's a good comment covering it[0]. I got my summary slightly wrong; buildings aren't re-financed, but rather the owner has the ability to delay payment on any unleased units. Leasing a unit at a lower rate suddenly modifies the value of the building, which means signing a lower lease can put the loan underwater. The same basic motivation structure applies though, it is far better for the owner to leave a unit empty and pray that someone can rent it at market rates later than it is to lower rates and get a tenant now.

0 - https://old.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/innhah/nearly_twothird...
Ouch. If you can put up with the winters, Madison is quite a bit nicer than Chicago, even in it's current state. But, it's not really a city. Aside from 3 blocks around the capitol, there's basically no density and you're driving a minimum of 10 minutes to get to anything worthwhile.

I grew up here, but I personally hate winter and can't wait to get out of this entire region.
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This is also what a realtor told me. People working from home means they need bigger spaces, and COVID means they need these spaces by themselves, not shared with other people. IIRC condos haven't been selling well but houses certainly are.
It's more likely that the bulk of adults have stopped reasoning morally and instead go with socially prescribed conclusions. I mean, how else would you explain the killing if trillions of land animals each year?
it's arbitrary but it's more the license for MacOS and not the Mac hardware itself. If you (are able to) flash linux on the Mac, you won't be bound to the MacOS license terms and can rent it out without the consecutive 24 hour minimum, although at that point you might as well just run a graviton2 instance.
The best land for high density construction in SF are the smaller rent controlled buildings, not single family homes. These smaller rent controlled buildings are near lively neighborhoods and transit, and are also often at the outer edge of their useful lifespan. I have yet to see a policy proposal to open up this land for development because nobody wants to give up rent controlled units.
> Apple aren't really documenting anything for their new toys

This seems an odd strategy for an accelerator. How are they expecting that people will use these new instructions? Only through Apple-supplied closed source compilers and libraries? (This is not meant to indicate you're wrong, only I'm confused about Apple's strategy)
The problem is that it is chicken and egg. If all the developers switched their ecosystem would be crap and they would need to fix the experience or the users would leave. However right now it is profitable to target their users, even if it is awkward, so why wouldn't Apple (from an economic incentive) milk the developers for every penny they have.

Apple is very much biting the hand(s) that feed here.
There already is one.
Lyx (at https://www.lyx.org/) is a very nice bit of cross-platform software.
According to a comments on slashdot:

>I'm bored, and had to look at the term and conditions. They're accepting 15 people.

>Perhaps even less than 15. "Helsinki Business Hub will choose a maximum 15 participants."

>According to the T&C, you pay for your own airfare and accommodations.

>You have to go home after 90 days.

>So 15 people are getting a 90-day tourist visa to visit Finland at their own expense.
This is a lot like Singapore's HBD, which builds lots of public housing. And you're right, it's the absolute nightmare of people in SF who say they want non-market housing, precisely because it means new housing and new buildings.

However, it's a generally popular idea, that if put to a majority vote could pass. It's individual small groups that would stop it, because city politics are highly undemocratic and controlled by small factions.

However, there's hope at the state level to make this possible. I'm hopeful that in the coming legislative session there will be some serious attempts at state-level public housing to alleviate our desperate shortage.
The measurement of inflation is based on a basket of goods like McDonald’s hamburgers that does not include housing, stocks, or gasoline apparently
Is RoboCode still around? That’s the game I played in class about 17 years ago that would fit the Bill.
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I've been watching this project for awhile with great interest - https://spectrum-os.org/
Having a life worth living is something a lot of people forget to do.
It’s not really an evidence kind of article .... no one is trying to “prove” anything. It’s a thought piece.
They get big and then yes.

https://www.ibtimes.sg/china-ccp-nationalize-jack-mas-alibab...
Please could you expand on those niches?
I'm aware of the taxpayer perspective and it's a big problem with getting adoption for an LVT. It's the type of policy that makes most people better off but you can never really convince people to adopt, because it sounds worse than alternatives.

There's actually an economic theorem (the "Henry George Theorem", discovered by Joseph Stiglitz in 1977 [1]) that states that under conditions of democracy & perfect information an LVT will exactly "right size" the government, spurring investment in only those public goods that pay for themselves in increased citizen welfare. That's because the tax revenues from public good expenditures come back in the form of increased rents: a playground nearby, a subway stop, better schools, low crime, stable currency, a strong military, etc. all increase the amount of rent that a landlord can charge for a property within their jurisdiction. That rent then comes back to benefit the exact same people who are paying the tax, which removes the principal-agent problem inherent in most taxes (where you pay the taxes but it benefits your neighbor). Landlords have an incentive to raise taxes on themselves right up to the point where the public improvement fails to raise rents by more than its cost. Tenants have the same incentive - as long as the cost is less than the public benefit, they get to enjoy the benefit, their rent will raise by the cost (as landlords pass along the tax), and they end up better off. When costs rise more than benefits (as they seemingly have in SF), people leave the expensive jurisdiction and move to areas that have more smartly allocated their tax dollars.

The main problem in practice is that you can always direct people's attention to small problems that don't raise their welfare in aggregate much - saving the burrowing owls, for example, or banning abortion. The economist's answer is that this will eventually even out across many people and many municipalities, but I think we have pretty ample evidence that people are not necessarily rational beings, and an LVT isn't all that robust to irrationality.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_George_theorem
"Neither of them have been deplatformed from any social media sites, been denied the ability to speak or to earn income"

???

Vindictive campaigns, which you've tacitly admit exist - are clear evidence of cancel culture - that said campaigns don't always work, is not evidence that they don't exist.

These hate campaigns have a chilling effect on institutions. They tried to 'cancel' Stephen Pinker, hardcore Harvard secular humanist [1] - who will survive the ordeal but much erstwhile reasonable science won't get published.

"The definition of "cancel culture" seems to have degenerated to the point that it encompasses any criticism of anyone for any reason. "

... this is obviously false given the examples above.

It's an easy lie: "Some people use the n-word, so cancel culture is acceptable in all cases" is the logic implied.

But this:

"Having someone disagree with you and express that disagreement isn't cancel culture, it's free speech. "

... is the crux of the lie.

It's fine that people disagree. That's probably a good thing actually. 'Cancel culture' is not about disagreement, it's about sanctioning people for having opinions.

Nobody is 'up in arms' that people are 'disagreeing with JK Rowling - they are concerned because of attempts to stop her books from being published, to stop her films from being made, to stop her public opinions from being published. [2] And if she were any less powerful, the campaign would be more successful, in 2020 you need to be a billionaire to have an opinion.

Couching the aggressive dismissal and deplatforming of people's who's opinions are different from yours merely as 'disagreement' is really a devious and wilful ignorance of the rhetorical goalposts.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/steven-pin...

[2] https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/b...
> Around here, cheapest option for a decent actual meal is ~8-10/eur/person.

Same here, but always coupled with a value of entertainment at that price point. You cannot directly compare the entertainment experience to your home kitchen, as already mentioned. You, at least, would have to include some of the cost of your living room, TV, Netflix account, etc. or whatever analogs of entertainment you have in your home. At which point 10 eur is going to look pretty cheap.

> "starter" ( recommended if you're going to let or for first buy) are at 2k, everything included.

Whoa. I'm not sure you could even put up one wall of a kitchen for $2k in North America. Maybe if you're buying a stove and cooking under the stars you could get in for that amount. That's not what anyone I know would call a kitchen. Definitely not what is being referred to as a kitchen in this thread.
The really odd thing about this comic is the way that the final panel is missing; where the dot-com bust happens, and he ends up back with the muffins.
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I also don't understand the assumption he/she makes that the additional interview time doesn't help. Of course it helps.
The water filter is definitely a good idea. I use a big carbon filter in my kitchen, and that's the only tap that we get drinking and cooking water from.
No thanks, I'd rather make out with my Monroe bot.
> people literally dying from a virus isn't a public health priority

(This is going to seem combative, but it's not meant to be...)

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/wp-content/uploads/sit...

Look at the deaths by age and pre-existing-condition ("Tab 3 Deaths by condition")

If you are under 60 and healthy, you are appear to be at almost no risk from C19.
> It seems to me that the licensing situation—you have to lease a whole machine for a minimum period of 24 hours—will make the Mac Pro a poor choice in most contexts

Not necessarily. A Mac Pro would work well for single-tenant usage where you want to run a series of applications that can each burst to the whole machine but not take long to finish.
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Just how radical were these ideas you speak of from the accepted dogma?
Doreen Traylor proves that a homeless person can write, have an online presence, and make a living as a freelancer. The fact that you think that's important is exactly my point, that you think homelessness is a different issue depending on whether or not homeless people are capable of living a certain kind of life we value. It shouldn't matter. It's sad that it does.
Alibaba nationalization has started
https://www.ibtimes.sg/china-ccp-nationalize-jack-mas-alibab...
Are you mentally deranged? Is that why you kill animals?
I've been exclusively using only this for weeks now. Really like it.
That moves less hardware.

If they actually wanted to make it easy to develop software they would allow compiling on other platforms, and ideally provide a VM to test on.

This is why I support IE and Edge on personal sites but not Safari. You can download free VMs from Microsoft for web testing, but you have to pay Apple to make things work on their platform.
If you think Apple wants to do something nefarious to users of their hardware, don’t buy or use it.

If they can’t be trusted, they don’t need to add opcodes.
Let me first say that game developers should do a better job about testing, especially when it comes to developing isolated systems to support unit tests. But it certainly seems like you misunderstand how much change there is in the vast majority of game development.

> Moving goal posts and requirements changing constantly is a challenge at literally every single development job I've had.

It is hard to describe because it sounds the same. But game development is really different because there are no fundamentals of things you care to test.

Even doing a combat sequence requires a herculean effort. You need basically the whole game running because otherwise what is the point. You fake out most of the data so your test doesn't fail when the designers decide to make combat harder. But now it ends up that pressing A defends instead of attacks because reasons and all of your combat tests now fail.

This is all fixable but it makes the cost per test of anything but the tiniest things hard enough that broad test coverage can sometimes be a determent as you end up testing what the game is now which means it will all be thrown away if your assumptions change.

Sure that can always be the case but "the sum of the lines equals the total" kind of tests are much less likely to backfire in this way.

> Plenty of teams have idiosyncrasies around their tool chain

C++ is chosen because the tooling doesn't exist outside of C++. Full stop. You have to build all the tooling in language X which when talking about 3D graphics is a huge amount of tooling.

Rust is starting to have some cool stuff but if you compare you will see there is a world of difference.

Thus if you choose not C++ you get to write C wrappers around your API and deal with all that nonsense since C++ interop is the worst in most languages.

At some point Rust will get proper C++ interop and then the gap will be smaller but for now you are giving up a ton for a slightly safer language by not choosing C++.

Also note that nearly everybody writes a huge amount of non-C++ code, they just call it a scripting language instead.
> Can you explain to me what you think is happening in your Telegraph link?

Smokers and obese people are being prevented from receiving surgeries that are not deemed "essential" unless they stop smoking for 8 weeks or loose weight, respectively.

> In particular, why you think this is "the NHS" and not some specific services in one part of the country

Maybe this question isn't to be taken literally, but multiple articles' titles with some variation of "NHS bans some obese and smokers from surgery 'indefinitely'"

> and also why these patients can't make use of private healthcare instead.

As of 2015, only 10.5% of population was using private insurance [0]. We could assume roughly 89.5% of population is covered by the NHS since it's given by default. If you cannot afford private insurance, you will only have NHS.

In my opinion, I believe having a public option will slowly eliminate private insurance or at least reduce the types of services available. Additionally I think it's dangerous for the government to set that sort of precedent.

[0] https://www.commonwealthfund.org/international-health-policy...