skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe someone here knows with something I've been struggling with lately. In modern systems when running a java created binary, I find it runs much slower on a mac, then on a PC especially. Not sure, but I find the ui jitters and stalls (imagine running heavy app in a vm container) when there is a lot of data pulling from a remote site.

Is there a way to drive performance to the JVM, or shed light to what might be the cause? Thoughts to why a much older pc with less memory, worst memory card, seems to perform flawlessly.

Here to look for any other solutions I could try. I love to be working on the mac, but like to have the performance I find when running the java app (with ui elements) on a pc. Something that comes to mind at the moment is maybe trying here a remote desktop to a windows machine to see if performance is better than running natively on the mac.

Sorry in advanced for the slight vagueness on the specific app running and lack of specs provided.
It would be great if their ratings included whether the pen worked reliably well in freezing temps i.e. a pen that I can leave in the car when temps are below zero and still have it able to write immediately.

Anyone have a recommendation?
I also noticed it being more common with offshore (ESL) coworkers.
One could also do due diligence when looking for residential property to live in.

The neighborhood in question has 1 bedrooms starting at $2.6k a month, even after COVID depressed rental prices. People are by no means being forced to live there because they have no place left to go.
My use of the words secret and conspiracy was, at least in part, in response to the parent comment:

> everyone else is loosing their minds and ushering an authoritarian pseudo-communist state in the United States. Glenn sees it, and is trying desperately to warn us.

This is conspiratorial thinking. The whole "wake up, sheeple" mode of political argument is based in the paranoid belief that clandestine groups and powerful actors have a certain degree of control and agency over the world, and that there are those in possession of awareness or knowledge who can "reveal" the truth to the masses.

Rather than making more political-sounding quips, and in the interest of providing something more substantial to this forum, I will recommend a web series called "This is Not a Conspiracy Theory," which is a great overview of the history of conspiracy theories through to the modern day, and how the best conspiracy theories are often rooted in the kinds of facts, uncertainty, and paranoia that resonate with the zeitgeist of their respective eras.

http://www.thisisnotaconspiracytheory.com/series
I believe this ecosystem is simply an extension of the prior systray ecosystem wherein small, sometimes free windows applications would bundle a "helper" app that would basically spy on, and advertise to, the end user.

This resulted, among other things, in an almost universal degradation of performance and usability of Windows XP/Vista for ... our parents and grandparents, basically.
Bernie and Trump were also both anti-war during the preliminaries, each for different reasons. I prefer Bernie's reason of defunding the military in order to put the money into more social benefiting areas, but Trump goal on focus more on internal US interests could have some of the same effects.

The outcome naturally has a lot to desire.
Yes, but application layer "weapons" are very democratic. Everyone can have one.
Kudos for bringing back to life dead electronics. This is an example for the world. Hold on - back in 1996 the world was still spinning and doing business with simpler devices. So many uses that these can be put to. No matter whether selling or donating, that’s not the point here really.
Restoring metabolism of myeloid cells reverses cognitive decline
I guess it depends on if you're worried about having international series to watch on TV that happen to come to the US, or if you're interested in driving on the track yourself or spectating in person. For the latter two, obviously, having a track nearby is more important than the fact that it exists within the borders of their country.

I was at COTA for the inaugural F1 race, and had a fantastic time, and also traveled there to see Aussie V8 Supercars there.

That said, I'm not sure I'd want to drive the track in a street car. I've driven it in sims I'm not sure it's great at typical road car speeds.
I've had that experience, too. I couldn't write reliably on Moleskine paper with my Waterman, regardless of what ink I used.
Talk to Ives and Bas at CodeSandbox. Very similar situation — Dutch college students whose side project took off. They raised venture funding.
Repressive authorities probably don't view Better Call Saul as a threat to their authority as much as citizens actively sharing difficult truths, organizing protests, and communicating with the outside world.

(I'm aware of Radio Free Europe role's as soft power, but skeptical of today's sitcoms providing a strong critique against these regimes.)
>State health officials said they rely on a very complex set of measurements that would confuse and potentially mislead the public if they were made public.

Or would it be an embarrassment for some reason.

For whatever reason, this is public data and should be released.
https://dibizglobal.com would be an alternative
But they may not be able to do it well enough that it will be notably better than an AI. Scaling manual labor can't work indefinitely due to the scarcity of talent.

Keep in mind that while a human being is very good at categorizing things, they're terrible at doing it over and over again, so the scarce talents are likely consistency and conscientiousness.

You should expect that, overall, the (n+1)th person you hire is marginally less talented than the nth. And while people are constantly entering and exiting the labor pool, this is negated by the fact that you're trying to expand your share of it.

So while there's a lot of randomness in recruiting, if you enforce any kind of standard, you'll hit a point where not enough candidates meet that standard, so you have to drop it. Once it is below the threshold of "better than AI" you have no reason to hire more people.

And you'll try to expand your eligible pool by raising wages, but everyone else wants consistent, conscientious people, too, so you're liable to run into the economic constraint: the amount you have to pay someone will exceed the value they're adding as a moderator.
Thank you for the recommendation. I'm ordering some now!
When I use my IDE, I use its code navigation features to my profit.
Just ignoring those who die is one option, however long covid is a thing. A huge portion of those who get covid are still very sick a long time later. A majority have symptoms 6 months later, and some are very significant and life changing. This needs to be considered when suggesting letting the disease run rampant.

You may actually be limiting lives more by not locking down.

My view is very coloured by living in New Zealand where aggressive lockdown has lead to normality (with limited international travel and mandatory managed isolation).

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
In my case, I've also just forgotten a lot of my script as I've switched from writing for others to read to my own notes. I never had good handwriting--as I recall it was consistently my worst grade in elementary school but I did know how to make the Palmer script letterforms even if I didn't execute them elegantly. Today I don't really even know them except vaguely.
I use one for driving a ILI9341 TFT display.

It uses a 433mhz receiver and picks up temperatures from a couple of commercial temperature sensors, uses pygame to display them to the screen, plus a few bits of other info.

Pretty basic, but it works. It struggles with timings though, which I've discovered is pretty important when receiving and decoding 433 signals. Looking to use a Rasberry Pico instead shortly.
Those conditions & pay for a software engineer with similar experience seem comparable (after currency conversion between USD & AUD) to working a large bank in one of australia's major cities

> We get 4 weeks of vacation, health insurance, 4 months parental leave, and other benefits

As any permanent full time employee in Australia working for any employer, you'd get a minimum of 2 weeks of public holidays (depends on state), 20 days of annual leave, 10 days of personal leave (carer's & sick leave), and 12 months parental leave. There's health insurance funded through the public system decoupled from employment.

Compared to US this probably seems relatively socialist, compared to europe things are relatively neoliberal.
It seems that like with Stephen King that the more famous the author gets, the less power the editors get to push back.

In the case of Stephenson, this is counteracted a bit by Stephenson improving his craft somewhat over the years. His earlier novels all had very weak endings in my opinion, and that improved somewhat. But his never novels could use tightening.
Sure, but the spread will slow down. Discovery is everything, distribution is commodity.

Edit: And when Putin does shut down access to Youtube, I bet he'll reference how US tech companies shut down "hostiles" after the Capitol Building incident. And it will seem like he has a has a reason for shutting down Youtube in Russia, to his dwindling group of supporters.
Dye vs Pigment

Oil carrier vs Water carrier

(a serious concern if you are signing a long lived document like your passport, is: how durable is this signature?)
Isn't that the "open core" model? Frankly, I encounter many projects that claim to be open source, based on the license, that sell a cloud version while having difficult or impossible to install/update/maintain community versions. And then there is the old gimmick where the community version is broken, but the cloud version isn't (presumably because the developers know how to fix what's broken).
> Remember that some people thought that government borrowing ... facilitated by quantitative easing (Fed bond-buying) ... was going to lead to substantial inflation. But it didn’t.

Every time someone says "but where's the inflation" I sigh. Look at literally any financial asset, SP500, stocks, real estate, even bond values (the inverse of interest rates). There is your inflation.

Maybe we like asset inflation, maybe we don't, but that's where it is. When the author claimed to be unable to find it, I stopped reading.
I myself is an unfortunate owner of a russian passport, and my spend childhood there.

> The police there don’t mess around, are very violent

Of course! That's rather obvious. You will not be able to resist any much bigger force than just police with puny handguns you can buy on the black market, but that's the point!

Have that militarised special police busy! Have them expending resources, have them running armour around cities at a great material cost. Not to say disruption of everyday life, and seeing armour on the streets will contribute greatly to galvanising the population, and demoralising the ordinary police.

Simple math tells that 1 million men strong police force will quickly exhaust itself being either split on 100+ major cities, or being constantly relocated from one city, to another.

The ratio of military age men, to police force in Russia is 21 to 1, and you very much expect that a bigger portion of population has to be counted, and not all mancount of police, and 3 letter services account for military like units.
> Theres no free lunch, you don't get to just print unlimited money and have no consequences.

I think you're arguing the opposite. We are printing money, yet inflation stays stubbornly low. We borrow money, but don't have to offer any interest; in fact, in some circumstances people pay us to loan us money. That's the definition of a free lunch.
I think I feel generally about the national Republican party (and about state Republican parties when they deal with nationalized issues, or issues of inter-party partisan conflict and of norms) the way you do, but, living in Illinois and being even a little bit politically conscious, it's hard to miss the problems that come from single-party states. The Illinois Democratic party is a mess, and their control over the state drives state Republicans to weird places.
Everyone tries to reason correctly when they reason (just as no-one deliberately performs arithmetic incorrectly). Self-identifying rationalists are often simply people who are too quick to jump to the conclusion that people who disagree with them are irrational.
RTFA.

This clearly is not a position that Bloomberg as a publication is taking. It’s a report on interindustry shittalk - not the highest form of reporting but not even comparable to the story you’re referencing.
> The practice of science nowadays really sucks. For sure, science-deniers suck even more, but that's no excuse.

People trust engineers (airplanes, bridges, elevators, etc) because engineers test their work before putting it into production. When Production breaks [0], engineers make every effort to figure out what went wrong so they can fix the problem.

Science advances one funeral at a time.

> but it's honestly hard to believe the lack of quality in the discussion of scientific controversies like this one about VitD.

There is a political agenda too. Now that the orange president has been removed, maybe the seasonality of COVID-19 [1] can be acknowledged.

But fear is a powerful drug, and the panic-pushers can't let up...

[0] Apollo 1, for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25884042

[1] https://twitter.com/OBusybody/status/1352699709475987456
Actually I typically say “when do you have some time discussing X?” And sent it to one or two people. Personally I don’t like the phone and it works bad with urls... I find it rather common for techies not to like the phone too much.
Folks like to talk about what really keeps the world at peace (relatively speaking compared to pre-ww2), and while I think nukes are a large part of it, another huge part is dollar based settlement and the absolute devestating sanctoning power the US derives from it. That isn't to say sanctions are morally pure: they exact a huge cost on the regular people who live in the countries subject to them. However, they're still probably better than being bombed.

The more things that are not settled in dollars means the reduced effectiveness of sanctions and the higher likelyhood conflicts will escalate into hot wars.

On the other hand, the US not being able to dictate to everyone else is probably a good thing itself, so I'm not sure on net what the best outcome is.
If you owe the bank $100, that's your problem. If you owe the bank $1000 billion, that's the bank's problem.
We don't actually know what would happen if I went and cursed my boss out on monday morning and asked for a raise. The data simply isn't there!

Therefor we should conclude this is a reasonable course of action.

Do we know every specific outcome in the complex system of our world and economy from elevating debt to 200 or 500 or 1000% of GDP? Of course not.

That doesn't mean we cannot predict most of the core mechanics of what will play out.
Your characterization is self serving and false. Kavanaugh was fairly and democratically appointed. The number of participants in that riot was more than double this recent one. There was no justification for it based on your own expectations.

Your claims about biased policing are also false - the allegations of bias in police-involved deaths doesn’t normalize for the amount of crime perpetrated by each racial group. This matters because those who commit crimes at a higher rate are more likely to be engaged with the police and place themselves at higher risk as a result, especially if they try to resist or evade the law. Such allegations of bias also don’t adjust for the fact that almost all people killed by the police were engaging in a crime actively at the time, refusing police orders, and placing others in danger. Commonly quoted metrics don’t account for those who resist arrest versus those who don’t. There are exceptions, and actual incidents of unjust or incorrect policing, but they are incredibly rare. This entire narrative is built on hyperbole and lies like “Hands up Don’t Shoot” (https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2015/0...).

But leaving all that aside, you’re explicitly arguing for different laws for different people even though they are all breaking the law as it is written. You believe your causes are completely just and the other side’s causes are unjust - in other words you believe you’re above the law. This unequal application of laws amounts to not believing in the rule of law, fundamentally. And if that’s what you believe in why bother having one country? Why should the political center or political right be part of a “union” that denies them basic justice?
I have a small website that can get a surprising amount of traffic. Every other day I get an email from some "SEO expert" wanting to redesign my site or offer some partnership so I get more traffic.

Which is slightly amusing because I must be getting enough traffic for them to want to find me.
You have to click the page to even see anything at first? That's neat
True. But if it's a PCB drill as (s)he said, then it's likely either solid carbide or has a carbide tip. Hold everything rigidly enough and run that drill at the right speed and feed rate, and there's a good chance that it will drill armor plate.
In fact it looks like the film was uploaded to IA by Brian Springer (the filmmaker) himself, along with many of the source tapes:

https://archive.org/details/@brnspring
You can make member variables public, but that means that changes to how you handle access become compatibility-breaking.

If you use getters and setters, you have more future options without breaking backward compatibility. When you are making libraries that lots of other projects might depend on, this is probably more important than when making apps, especially relatively small apps.

“Getter/setter from the start” optimizes for induced maintenance cost on dependent code.

Now, in some other languages, access via getters/setters is at least source-compatible with field access, which makes this less of (or not at all, for dynamic languages, or if it is object and not just source compatibility) an issue. But that's not the case with Java.
Obviously... What else do the conspirationists think it mean?
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One thing I've seen smart developers do on multiple occasions is unknowingly throw out their ability to reason about their code while adding caching ( https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/3512... ). Then when some weird bugs start showing up it's like "Ummm... this shouldn't be happening" and then end up having to restart _everything_ because the interplay between layers of caching and the rest of the program no longer make any sense.
Well it depends on how you define mainstream internet.

If you define it in the same way that it was when that quote was originally stated, then protestors can still just as easily interconnect networks as they could back then. It might even be easier than back then if you consider using mesh wireless technology.

Smartphones aren't the internet. They're regulated endpoints within a restricted network which is itself connected to the internet. Just because these extremely limited little devices we carry in our pockets had their access cut off, and just because a lot of home users can't just open a browser and start browsing without talking to their neighbors, doesn't mean the internet can't successfully route around it. It just takes time and effort.

I still believe the quote to be true.
I think you're missing a bigger issue: if the data is in America, nothing needs to be hacked. Your data can be obtained through legal means.

Plus, if you're not an American citizen, you have no rights so far as three-letter agencies are concerned, whether your data is stored in the US or elsewhere.

The choice is between data stored in the US, where data can be obtained through legal means or hacking, and data stored elsewhere, where it can only be obtained through hacking.
The End of Economic Growth? Unintended Consequences of a Declining Population
Quantum Field Theory has a lot of strong evidence, as does the Copenhagen interpretation of QM, but it might be more suitable not to speak of these things as if they are 100% fact. It's theory, and it's likely that the eventual bridge between QM and classical physics will usher in an entirely new model unlike either individual model.
Other good suggestions here, but here’s another: you tripped the New Bot Account detector.

As your account ages there will be more information about whether you are real or not. Stopping the influx of bots before they do damage is important. Therefore it’s quite likely that Twitter ban accounts early if they look like bots based on not much info (and potentially if they look low value).

You followed a few people who are popular account (not friends, fairly anonymous) but not mainstream accounts (so you’re a little more atypical) and then you post once with, sorry to say it, not particularly inspired/original/specific/human content. Perhaps there were other factors. I’d guess you didn’t go through and fill out your profile much if you weren’t that invested in the idea? No birthday or avatar maybe? Not following the easy setup steps that Twitter encourage you to do?

Combine this looking a little like a bot with the likelihood that you’re going to be low value because you’re not that engaged (debatable I know), and it kinda makes sense.

All speculation, but a possibility. Should Twitter be doing this? I don’t think it’s the worst thing, but it’s a trade off. If this is it then it would imply that your marketing efforts for your game would probably not be affected at all.
Woah, this is super cool!

I've maintained a training log in a spreadsheet for the last two years that's become a horrible mess that never really quite matches my mental model.

This strongly reminds me of another of my favorite text projects: ledger. Similar to that project, I can imagine a bunch of immediately useful processing commands on the data for things like listing PRs, estimating current maximal effort performance, or showing a quick progress report.
are you saying that it's illegal to regulate facebook?
Inflation is not low, have you checked stock market lately? Have you seen home prices up 15% yoy? Education costs rising, auto, etc. There is a left and right tail of the inflation bell curve. High impact items are increasing in price rapidly while things like flat screen tv's stay low from certain market dynamics. Also because wages are not rising, inflation is rising faster than people understand even on left tail items.
I don't want to create machines that feel. I'm saying that if it is possible, then it becomes a profoundly important ethical question.

It's a matter of debate in philosophy of mind as to whether it's plausible that hardware can possibly have qualia, or whether that's a property that's exclusive to wetware. I personally think it's quite likely that they will be able to, I don't see anything intrinsically special about wetware that's necessary for the generation of qualia.
Bitcoin: The Double-Spend Never Happened
"Put another way, no bitcoin was 'double-spent' because no new coins were added to Bitcoin’s supply. Instead, the same coins from the same wallet were registered in two different blocks during a typical split in Bitcoin’s blockchain."