skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We like to assume they are many orders of magnitude more intelligent than us. But it might be that the human brain represents the optimum size and capability possible for a living organism to sustain, based on requirements for energy consumption and evolutionary competitiveness.

We know that Neanderthals may have had bigger brains, and may have been pushed to extinction by homo sapiens. A bigger brain will require more food and take longer to develop, potentially putting Neanderthals at an evolutionary disadvantage to humans.

Assuming the laws of Physics do not vary throughout the universe and that evolution, if "run more than once" will eventually lead to similar outcomes, that could mean aliens capable of space travel are not significantly more intelligent than us, they've just had longer to develop technology.

And given their apparent tendency to crash their spaceships while visiting earth, you might have a reasonable case for "alien idiots"...
Ok. I guess verb tense falls short in this case. :-)
Macaulay's “Minute Upon Indian Education”
This is what I used (combined with stackoverflow posts) to try it.
Mine gave me a top of the line MacBook Pro, fully loaded.

Then loaded so much security crap on it that all cores are maxed out without me even touching machine. Base vim nearly unusable.
Then they made it so I could only access things via a double Remote Desktop tunnel.

Basically an expensive space heater.

3 months of nothing done until security software suffered an unfortunate accident.
> To actually connect the USB port inside the M1 to the USB type-C connectors on the back of the Mac Mini, we had to interact with a chip on I2C (which means GPIO and I2C drivers) which has customized firmware. We've seen the protocol for these while building our virtualized models; nothing is a big surprise if you have a bird's eye view of the system.

You're not kidding. This is more of a flex than an explanation.
Free Notion Kit for unbiased house hunting research
> (Insert Racket example and others here).

Common Lisp (via CL-PPCRE):

CL-USER> (parse-string "a(?i)b(?-i)c")

(:SEQUENCE #\a
(:SEQUENCE (:FLAGS :CASE-INSENSITIVE-P)
(:SEQUENCE #\b (:SEQUENCE (:FLAGS :CASE-SENSITIVE-P) #\c))))

You can use both notations to compile and execute regexes. Also, bonus point for any Lisp that does it: you don't have to monkey around with ".end()" and such to turn a "fluent syntax" - which is inherently linear - into something resembling a tree, because s-expressions are trees and you get that for free.
That's how I understood it
The burden of proof is on the vaccine makers.

Unfortunately, waiting to see if the vaccine has long term side effects means that we would not get the health benefits of a widespread rollout.

Tough situation. Vaccination is probably the way to go.
Gravity boots have fixed all of my back/neck/posture problems from sitting at a computer.

Inversion is the key to decompressing the spine/hips/neck and you only need to do it a few times a week for ~10min each time. I go to a local park and hang upside down from a sturdy pull-up bar for 2-4min three times.

You could also do it at home with a pull-up bar, or get even fancier and buy an inversion table for ~$200.

I know I'm sounding like an infomercial here, but it really works.
Sounds like a cool idea. I encourage you to try. It would be cool in the future to have some easy tool to start a personal Internet Space built on top of some open protocols to easily communicate and share data but still own the thing.

I'm in the process of gathering some friends and we plan to start a blog/newsletter, just for us. We're going to share our projects, achievements and cool stuff we enjoy. We've already had a small success - I connected two of my friends who study Psychology and Biomedical Engineering at different universities and together we're going to write an article about differences in brain structure and behavior.
Not sure about OSX, but in Windows 10 + WSL 2 Docker development can be made faster by cloning code directly to a volume.
After reading [0], I was left with the question: why not just have a utf-8 string type in addition to a byte string type?

Also, as a nit, I don't think iso-8859-1 is ASCII.
I think a lot of people are more interesting in helping the half of the country that supported Trump and QAnon walk itself back from the crazy positions they've talked themselves into so we can sit back down at the table and get through dinner.
I agree that the article fails to make an argument for why this prediction would be useful. What would you do with it, even if it was perfect?
This article reads more like PR than research. Research is based on 76 urine samples which is way too little. In the paper, there's little info on model hyper-parameters as well as how they trained and tested them. I suspect they overfitted their model, meaning it just learned all the samples. If that's not the case, the only other explanation for such high accuracy is that there's a very obvious correlation and a human would be able to diagnose cancer with high accuracy also, meaning you don't need any AI.
Is it possible to build a zero-trust version of this?
I think there is a little assumption of this sometimes.

Like for example, the question can become, is good software design and coding practice more advantageous than using Haskell?

If you're going to spend time and energy in a mechanism to improve your code base and the quality of your application, should you try Haskell? Or some other mechanism more focused on better design?

Or put it some other way, if I have many problems, and one of them is I'm not currently writing the clearest simplest easiest to read and test code, and I don't spend a lot of time on design or don't know much about it. And then I encounter an Haskell evangelist, I will very likely assume that Haskell will make me a better coder and designer, and that the language will force me into good design and safer code.
Everything you say is true*, but there's plenty of other evidence that Craig Wright is a fraud, independent of whether he's in possession of Satoshi's private keys: https://craigwright.online/

* - Except where you point out that it's your opinion
Did you guys use a law firm to file your patents? How difficult was the process?
EU orders next-generation Galileo satellites
One side wants to help people, the other to hurt. This is not a 'two sides' issue. Your country is half evil, fix it.
Yeah, I'm not impressed by performance here, did you try this? https://donalffons.github.io/opencascade.js-examples/index.h...

It takes ages to load (probably gigantic wasm file), and ages to re-generate that silly bottle. I could live with the initial loading hog, but the performance of the actual kernel has to be there.
How We Improved SmashingMag Performance
Wirth (Pascal, Modula, Oberon) believes that the best performance test for a compiler is how fast it can compile itself.
That approach sounds like it would yield many false positives.
> When day comes, we ask ourselves, where can we find light in this never-ending shade?

> The loss we carry. A sea we must wade.

> We braved the belly of the beast.

> We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace, and the norms and notions of what “just” is isn’t always justice.

...

> We’ve seen a force that would shatter our nation, rather than share it.

> Would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy.

> And this effort very nearly succeeded.

> But while democracy can be periodically delayed, it can never be permanently defeated.

..

> This is the era of just redemption.

"Era of redemption." Gee, I'm sure looking forward to it.
Also, didn't they say something about being able to run the full stack self-hosted?
Before I take you up on your offer, what qualifies as a nazi to you? Someone who is an official member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party? Someone who simply hates jews/minorities, thinks hitler did nothing wrong, and has a swastika hanging in his bedroom?
Chicago's Deep Tunnel:Is it the solution to urban flooding or a cautionary tale?
Nashua is usually the last stop for packages before our local post office, and it was pretty much a black hole for November and December. Packages got arrival scanned there and then ... eventually they showed up at our post office up the Connecticut River.

Thanks for shedding some light on what was going on and what the USPS was doing to adapt!
If the "Decade" paper above is of interest, perhaps the "Lattices: Algorithms, Complexity, and Cryptography Boot Camp" series of videos from a Simons Institute workshop will also be useful:
https://simons.berkeley.edu/workshops/schedule/10563
Baron Trump's Marvelous Underground Journey. The Last American President. DJT's uncle John Trump & Tesla. John Titor. Breakaway civilization. 'UFO' sightings 1896 California. Sonora Aero Club.

'Truth' is far more fascinating than media for people who enjoy scratching that itch.
Hmm, so no floating point math ever, only use arbitrary precision? As far as I know most 3D games do correct-enough math because it'll be replaced in a couple frames anyway.
Why would they? The professionals that make up the organization benefit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection
Yes. If Yellen is so competent as she seems to be - to many, including myself - I'd like to listen to her explanations why arguments in favor of cryptocurrencies aren't good enough. After all, there are some ideas behind Bitcoin, some explanations of benefits, which apparently bring some people to cryptocurrencies even without get-rich-quick hopes.

What are Yellen's answers to those requests which led to creation of cryptocurrencies?
Internet Marketer – Are You Guilty of Neglecting 40% of the US Population?
But what about cache invalidation?
If anyone else was confused by the term "Flying shelter pets home" on the FAA graphic "GPS problems by type of aircraft affected", I think that it might have to do with the charity Dog Is My CoPilot [1], which flies unwanted dogs from areas likely to kill them to areas likely to find them homes.

Nice news story about the charity from August 2020 [2].

[1] https://dogcopilot.org/

[2] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dog-is-my-co-pilot-flying-dogs-...
Steve Jobs, already legendary for avoiding paying engineers for their contributions, organized an industry-wide cartel to hold down wages, and he never had an MBA.

It's a bad leadership thing, not an MBA thing.
In this specific case, it would be an independent audit of the procedures to determine whether they were actually necessary or not.

it's not rocket science. Poor people don't have the money required to go to the dentist and properly take care of your teeth. Since having a healthy populace is a good thing, we say "okay, we're all going to pitch in so everyone can be as healthy as possible."

If people start to take advantage of that for personal gain (which we know there are always people who are going to do that), we need to have a plan in place for dealing with those assholes.

The presence of assholes in society shouldn't mean we don't even try to take care of each other. It should mean that we have plans for recognizing when someone is an asshole and taking measures to change that behavior.
> failed to provide cryptographic proof as such

That is not entirely correct. Wright provided a forged cryptographic proof to Gavin Andresen and tricked him into accepting.
That`s how we do it in my company:

- Clone project

- Build container

- Develop

If you're in a polyglot shop there are HUGE productivity gains in not needing to setup your environment manually, or worse, risk that vital information about it is distributed as tribal knowledge.

Plus, if your project has external dependencies like DBs, S3, etc... you can use docker-compose with VS Code as well.
Correction, I think you've misinterpreted:

> We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace, and the norms and notions of what “just is” isn’t always justice.
Really appreciate the kind words on the landing page. Our designer is having a terrific day it seems :)

As far as the pricing, our hope is that we go beyond what an excel sheet can offer. First, we timed an investment banker building a model in excel versus doing it in Finmark. Doing it in Finmark was more than 10x faster.

We also integrate into your other systems to pull actuals automatically every month which should save you time each month.

Later this year we plan on then aggregating benchmarks to help you get a better understanding of how your metrics and assumptions compare to similar companies.

I could go on and on on the differences between us and a spreadsheet. That said, it is still early and value the feedback. If enough people mention price as the key reason not to use Finmark then we will listen and adjust.
I was about to post that, too, but that's "soil pear" and not apple :)
I train regularly (5 days a week), back still hurts.

It is super possible to have imbalances even with regular training. Muscles that are weak will not be engaged during compound lifts unless specifically made to engage, either through isolation exercises, or through awareness. A personal trainer or physical therapist can help with either path.
> Your country is half evil, fix it.

Death camps and pogroms for conservatives then?
Your comment is predicated on the assumption that they couldn't have worked with the other RISC-V design teams in this space for the past few years -- that they would have had to wait until products hit the shelves in order to start, which is simply not true. They could have started design collaboration with others whenever they started this project, and they would have almost certainly ended up where they are now today, except with RISC-V.

Most likely, the real issue is that it would have required them to make a really visionary choice, which does come with a significant level of risk. Hindsight is 20-20, and with perfect clarity we can see now that that RISC-V ecosystem has matured extremely quickly and is now a very compelling place to be. There is a ton of stuff in RISC-V -- it's not some void as you seem to be implying.

Instead, when they set out on this project, they chose to lean on their own internal strengths, which is certainly the ARM architecture. Back then, I'm sure things were less obvious than they are now -- but that's why I want them to do visionary things to move industry and education forward.

Espressif (the makers of ESP32) don't seem to be in nearly as comfortable of a position to try innovative things as the Raspberry Pi Foundation is, yet they managed to release a compelling RISC-V option -- because that industry trend was obvious enough to them, I guess, even if it wasn't obvious enough to the Raspberry Pi Foundation.

As I've indicated, I'm sure this product will be successful, and I'm excited to see what people do with this, but I can still wish the Pi Foundation would have done something more here. I'm not wishing them failure or anything like that at all.
Apple is a hardware vendor. How are the parts they use "non-standard"? What are the "standard" parts that Linux uses and further what consumer or business hardware has Linux indicated is standard?

It appears what should be being asked for is Apple to commit resources to natively support things like: Docker, Kubernetes, Virtualization and Linux drivers on their M1 Macs going forward.
Seagate, just call it what it is. You would not drop Seagate because their drives are >20% cheaper than competition.
> we've been tracking the Apple mobile ecosystem since iPhone 6, released in 2014 with two 64-bit cores

It sounds like they were well prepared. More and more I see preparation as make or break for engineering success, not budget or talent or tech, but silent persistence.
Are you really doing this at home, in a room converted to a lab, with actual live biology?

I did that in my garage but after having to clean up a big contamination and debug experiments due to temperature fluctations, I realized there was a reason people use real labs.
Exactly. It would be a bit of a gamble, as it may undercut their x86 lines, but as a hedge against the success of ARM/M[1,2,...], they may do themselves a favor to attempt a project to implement RISC-V.

They don't have much to lose, as AMD is already killing their x86 lines anyway.
don't improve your imaginary reality, you would get lost in whats real if done good enough. use computers/paper/materials. I mean, you can't forecast your subconscious.
Most likely oppose, as Americans of retirement age have the vast majority of their net worth allocation in their home ownership. So supporting development of places for their adult kids to live would cause them to lose significant wealth due to supply and demand.
From the top of my head, I can mention 2 (local, EU) examples:
* https://ebay-kleinanzeigen.de
* https://leboncoin.fr

Interestingly, both are platforms for individuals to sell goods to other individuals. And both internalized the feature (no apparent 3rd party involved).
Best one so far!
And in doing so it turns of SIP. Probably necessary to boot a non-Apple kernel, but it means if you do want to switch back to the Mac side you’ve got one of the main security mechanisms turned off.
chomping at the bit**
Here's one I've heard, originally in Russian

===

Why do programmers hate legacy projects, you ask?

Well, imagine yourself in a situation where you are asked to finish the construction of a nuclear power plant on a remote island that your friend started.

You arrive on the island to discover quite unusual pieces of design in the project. Among other curiosities, you find a room full of broomsticks, a 90 foot tall fan and a hot air balloon. You think to yourself - what a silly idea, who needs all those things in a power plant? - and your first steps are to remove all those unnecessary dingbats.

A few months of hard work later, you have finished the construction of the power plant. You and a few scientists gather in the control room and power the thing up for the first time for a test run. Everything seems to be working fine for a few minutes, but suddenly, everything lights up red - there is a radioactive gas leak!

You panic, because you have no idea what could have caused such an issue. You call your friend and ask for ideas. While you describe the situation to him, he is horrified.

- Have you really gotten rid of the room with the broomsticks?

- Of course! Why would you need a room full of broomsticks in a power plant?

- They were holding up the weight of the reactor core! No wonder you have a radioactive gas leak!

- My God, why did you not tell me? What should I do about the leak?

- Don't worry, everything is fine, just turn on the 90 foot tall fan and it should blow the toxic gas away from the island.

- What fan? Oh, this fan? I've gotten rid of it!

- Why would you do that?! It was an important safety measure!

- We'll argue about that later, people are dying in here! Is there anything else I can do?

- You can't stay on the island, it is not safe. Just gather everyone in the hot air balloon and get the hell out of there!
That's not what the title says. A title like they would say "New CEO attracting retired CPU architects"
I think Typescript has both a complex and expressive type system. When I say "advanced" I'm talking about expressiveness. It is more expressive than Scala and (absent a laundry list of GHC extensions) Haskell.

I agree that Typescript certainly seems like a tower of hacks next to Idris.

Yet somehow it's pulled off a reputational miracle: having a more expressive type system than Haskell but not being regarded as an "advanced" language. Unfortunately I think that's mainly due to the ways the type system can be undermined, but it's still a useful nugget I ponder from time to time.

> It doesn't even give you strong guarantees. There is a reason why Hindley-Milner type systems are called the sweet spot of static typing.

HM by itself doesn't give you strong guarantees (see e.g. the ML family of languages which have comparatively weak guarantees next to Haskell). That's really due to other language and standard library decisions acting in concert.

HM type systems are often the sweet spot for static typing not because of the guarantees they offer, but because of the global type inference it yields. More expressive extensions of HM often break global type inference in some way.
False. Getting a container in China is very difficult right now and around 2-3x the normal cost. Supply chain constraints are stretched way past just the local ports.
Is running ads on your Substack newsletter fine as per Substack's ToS though?
Can you provide screenshots or to try out the interface using a sample project before signing up? I think you are losing many people from converting because of that.
For videos I just use Youtube, Vimeo. For music I have been using Spotify app. For essays I can recommend this resource https://www.topwritersreview.com/reviews/essay-company/ . As for blogs: I don't read many of them, just a few that are worth reading on Instagram (I like travel blogs only)
I remember when that goddamn Steve Jobs book came out. For a good while every founder and CEO suddenly thought they were some kind of product wizard and started trying to imitate Jobs’s hands-on micro-detailed product design meddling.
These are fair points, and touches on what I was getting at, even if you arrive at a different conclusion - W3C is a standards body, but implementation is up to clients.

Why do you expect Firefox to go Chromium-based? It seems a large part of Firefox's success is that it is an alternative to Google code.
No, public education featuring science, and police education on how to be nice to black people. Don't resist it, just fix it.
Very appreciative of the site. thank you :). reminds me of exrx.net but much easier to navigate
It doesn't matter if a service will be around forever and hands out oral sex, some people refuse to switch tech stuff until they absolutely out of options.
Because former POTUS Trump had no plan to deal with COVID 19, aside from "wait it out."
You only need to read the first couple of sentences of the whitepaper to understand that it was primarily designed as a digital currency with a focus on spending/transacting.
As stated elsewhere, all are great. If you just want to get going with CircuitPython on some hardware, I really recommend Adafruit’s CircuitPlayground series[1]. They have things like LEDs, temp sensor, speaker, mic, gyro, buttons, switches, and touch-capacitive pads all in a tiny form factor which means you don’t have to get into breadboarding, soldering, or wiring anything up to do an amazing variety of things and get your feet wet.

[1] https://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=category&cPath=...
>The blame lay solely at the hands of left leaning entities. [...] This has been a coordinated effort to deplatform political opponents.

How many entities did they end up deplatforming? The outgoing president, and a few right-wing forums? Meanwhile all the republican congressman and PACs are untouched. If they really want to shut down the opposition, they seem to be doing a pretty bad job.