skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bell curves. When you look at the distributions, it becomes pretty clear that as you add lots of particles you approach classical physics pretty quickly, because the likelyhood of the average behavior to differ from the expected behavior falls towards zero very fast.
How is this better than keeping a drive full of mp3s?
Can't we just replace this standard by WiFi? That would be one less standard to deal with. And much better bandwidth.
What about the "Twilight Moms", are mom's not mainstream?
For that matter, I'm not sure what mainstream is if an entire generation of children doesn't fall into it.
Great article. Why does the compiler emit Obj-C metadata for non-@objc Swift types? Is this metadata actually used at runtime?
> I think in hindsight it's become evident that it isn't really a market segment that they're particularly interested in.

Really? The volume may not be there, but I think Apple has always cherished the prestige associated with being the platform of choice for studio mixing rooms, cinema production, etc. People argued that that's why those ridiculous $20k+ configurations of the Mac Pro even exist— as something for auteurs to demand as a status signal.
Schwab, the 120 billion dollar financial institution, famously had this problem for years.

Until relatively recently, they silently truncated the password that literally protected your bank account to 8 characters.
> a PhD is not an investment. It is an expense.

I... don’t see how one could make this statement and actually believe it. Food and housing are an expense. Healthcare is an expense. A PhD is an arduous and deeply personal journey to push the limits of your field and your own intellectual capabilities. If you see it as an “expense” then I believe you are doing it wrong.
> it is easier for all market players to recognize it.

What advantage do they have for doing so?
How does that work, mathematically? If you bought an asset and it appreciated you are liable for a tax on capital gains. If you donate this asset that simply eliminates the gain and the associated tax. But this is obviously a thing. Where am I wrong?
Aren't references closer to what you earlier described as inane content? Don't get me wrong, I appreciate them too, but they bring nothing other than a jolt of dopamine from the recognition. An auteur making a reference to another auteur is not really that different in terms of depth from Marvel Movie №32 making a reference to Marvel Movie №55. Or at least it is not qualitatively different. As far as I can tell, the whole point of art is to be confronted with new ideas. 500 films/year sounds like it would dull the senses for that and not allow you enough time to digest a film's ideas before the next meal
What does “literally” indicate or emphasize in this context?

You used it above, and here, in a way I can’t tell if the sentence is different without the word or if I should take some meaning from it.
I found my current and my previous job through it, and I've been extremely happy in both places. So... almost five years of employment by now I guess?
The medium of exchange has to be something everyone, or at least most people, have access to. That's not the case with gold. If the financial system tanked tomorrow, assuming you could still access a brokerage account to trade gold, you'd have an extremely hard time finding enough people that already have gold in order to be paid for things.

No, people would have to converge on something else, something more accessible. The clear choice would be bottle caps.
Actually, the rounding for basic add/multiply are strictly defined and configurable (some algorithms need other rounding rules than the default "round to nearest even").

If you only use those (maybe including division, I'm not sure), and don't rely on hardware support for sqrt, sin/cos/tan, approximate-inverse, etc., you can totally use them deterministically between different architectures.
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> MacBook 16" has the distinctive advantage of a better screen.

Even the MacBook Pro 16" base models have too many ports and too much graphic performance for the original M1 to replace them. The base 13" already had enough limitations that they could replace it without making any of its specs worse (and leave the existing Intel 13" in the range with no changes for the 4-port model)
> The big thing about Unsplash is the license guarantee.

How strong is the guarantee? What happens if someone uploads an infringing photo or one without model release to Unsplash then you use it and get sued?
> These days, at most performance tiers, Intel+mobo combo are slightly cheaper than AMD's equivalent.

> Of course, Intel's CPUs have [...] lessor upgrade path

One big + for AMD is their socket system, and keeping it the same for multiple generations via a roadmap so people can plan. Contrast that with intel, who comes up with a new socket every generation forcing you to buy a new motherboard and likely new ram if you want to upgrade. AMD's Socket AM4 was released in 2016 and works with Zen+, Zen 2, Zen 3 and Excavator microarchitectures. If you upgraded every 2 years, that's 3 motherboards and memory sets you would have had to purchase if you went with Intel vs a single motherboard/memory and upgrading only the cpu with AMD. That's quite a premium.
He was on an Economist podcast recently discussing the same topic: https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2021/03/04/is-ai-capable-...
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A painting in a museum is a physical object, it cannot be hung on two different walls simultaneously. This is why we need private property. Private property simply means that the owner of a good has the right to prevent others from consuming it or, in the case of a painting, from taking it and hanging it in their living room. None of this applies to tweets, which are not physical objects. You could theoretically exclude other people from reading certain tweets, limiting their freedoms gratuitously, but this is not what NFT art is about either. NFT art apparently is about selling "property rights" on something that doesn't really exist and that consequently don't confer the owner any actual right. The crypto-scammers have truly outdone themselves with this one.
I sense some bitterness in the comment. What makes or doesn't make the front page depends on a lot of things and it will not be the same every time. It will, for example, depend on other competing stories. There is a steady influx of new members. So stories that are old hat may not be so for a large section of HN visitors.

Yes, this was a Wikipedia link and Kalman filters has been discussed here many times, that said I found the discussion and commentary quite delightful.
What's discouraged here is the content-free dunk. Making a substantive point about why sanctions exist, or how Venezuela would be doing great without sanctions, or an argument for lifting sanctions unilaterally, would be received much better.
Seriously, it's basically a 700$ barbecue at this point. What's the Tj on this CPU ? 140 ?
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https://twitter.com/FundacionNanoVE
https://nano.org.ve/

There is a strong Venezuelan presence in the Nano community.

Gold vs. cryptocurrency is somewhat controversial. Gold is stable and has a long history of value. Cryptocurrencies are volatile and speculative in comparison. Gold is secure, but a private key or seed is easier to cross borders with.

Both have their advantages. Be wary of absolutists.
https://archive.is/GSVyf
Wouldn't want to be part of a club that would have me either.
A short read and should give enough examples and descriptions of the strategy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...

Once you've killed off the competition, a lot of other things don't really matter much any more. From the money perspective, it's a well known strategy to loose money to kill off the competition. It's just about who has the deeper pockets/better stomach for it. Microsoft has traditionally been able to do it and I have no doubts that they would still have the stomach for it. I don't know if their pockets are still as deep as they used to be. Windows (and Office etc.) used to be so dominant and such a cash cow that it enabled a lot of the other strategies, but then again they also had to get Windows to that point first. The landscape looks a bit different nowadays I'd wager, given Apple's and Google's footholds on mobile but then again, I wasn't really old enough back in the day, to really compare from my own experience, what the landscape looked like back then with Apple, Amiga, Atari, SGI, Sun etc. in the mix.
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i consider all tech - all forums, social media, etc. - to be similar to a special forces group (or pick your favorite non-violent elite group). it's best deployed with a clear objective in mind - learn more about Haskell from gurus, see how S.V. is reacting to tech workers/wages changing, get a job or work from monthly threads - until either the effort is a success, more time/energy can/should be brought to bear, or it can be easily aborted without much fanfare.

so, what do you want? if it's to network, connect, learn, debate, get a new job - do that, and avoid the addictive type stuff like refreshing every 10 mins, etc. if it's to avoid boredom, well... tread carefully.
>It’s also because of that school and their influence on art education that we can enjoy things designed by people with an artistic sensibility. Rather than only having things designed by engineers.

So that's who to blame for my Macbook running so hot!

I intensely dislike the fact that all modern machines look the same. All cars look the same. All computers look the same. All gadgets look the same. We'd be better off if we fired every designer and gave creative control to a team of engineers and six-year-olds. They wouldn't know what they're doing, but at least they wouldn't chase trends and churn out dozens of identical designs.
Before people rush to defend Venezuela's honor or whatever, government officials aren't even blaming foreign debt or sanctions (which would have been terrible excuses anyway).

They've repeatedly reprimanded businesses for raising prices or increasing pay, and have already tried passing weird consumer laws to try to curb prices. These are 19th century understandings of inflation - it's pretty clear that either the powers in charge reject reality or frankly don't care enough about their citizens to even lie believably.
Part of currency's value derives from social consensus that the 'thing' is of value in general to everyone..

'USB C' why you obsessing over a bunch of wires man, who cares...? The value is of the consensus..

The value of facebook is not it's software. It is it's user base.

If you can point me in the direction of a better metal that is as widely accepted across all countries as a store of value, I would be happy to learn about it...

Valuable things are equally valuable when things go south.. a home, jewelry, nice things don't suddenly lose value.. for example, your family may not have enough to eat but a guy next door that has too much food that's going to rot will happily trade with you, because he needs to buy a bunch of stuff from someone and that other guy will probably not take payment in food but may trade it with gold...

You need social consensus of value and there is a very real need to be able to abstract value into 'x' valuable thing. So you can freely buy and sell without having to worry about if the guy will accept/need what you want to give him..

Gold sucks in being able to make precise payments and swings madly in value relative to currency, that's why it's only insurance for things going super south..
As I explained to you recently, you can't post flamewar comments like this to HN. This is not because of what you happen to be for or against. It's because we don't want this site to descend into internet forum hell.

I don't think this is hard to understand—the bulk of the community understands it and supports it, including the portions of the community who may agree with you politically. I also don't think it's hard to do, if you've read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and actually want to use HN as intended. If you keep posting like this, that must mean that you're choosing not to use HN as intended, and we ban that sort of account.

Edit: there is a second issue. Your account is clearly using HN primarily for political and ideological flamewar. That's also not allowed, as I've explained many times [1]. The primary use of this site needs to be for intellectual curiosity. Since those two modes don't work together, we ban accounts that violate this rule, regardless of which politics or ideology they're battling for.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
> It isn't a modern book by any means and there might be much better alternatives

It allowed me to buy value stocks around March 2020, because I believed they were undervalued. So I'd say his methodology is as relevant as ever during market crashes.
There is nothing inherently wrong with solving a problem multiple ways. While it's usually good for smaller players in a space to work together, I'm always happy to see others that trod their own path. They can make different choices/tradeoffs, and learn from each other. This usually leads to better outcomes for both of their user bases.
If you don’t want your family to starve in a crisis, invest in non-perishable food.
Same actually. I haven't had those type of conversations, and moments of inspiration/motivation in a year now, with everything.
That’s your opinion. What if others disagree and view their investments in cryptocurrency tech to be investments in a future where individuals are liberated from banks and legacy money systems? That’s how I view it. Personally, it’s enough to remember how these people exploited the system to crash the economy during the “housing bubble” to sign up for that future. Disparage it all you want.
Why not offer to collaborate with them if you're interested in doing something too?
Can someone ELI5 why this hyperinflation happened?
Can't say I'm against for-profit education as long as there is a government funded affordable option.
Cuba has been under sanctions for over 50 years.

Sanctions affect your level of wealth, sanctions have nothing to do with the mismanagement of the economy.
> Every container that cannot be unloaded in one place is a container that cannot be loaded somewhere else.

Never thought of it in this sense as a zero-sum game — but it does make a lot of sense why this is pushing the stock up for companies like Triton International.
It is welcome to hear that Google is working on this because sound latency is critical for visually impaired users using text to speech on their phones. The TTS latency is on top of the sound latency and can be significant, to the point where the UI is unresponsive or falls behind. Any improvements they can make will be greatly appreciated.
Are you saying that the demand for developers is greater than the supply ? Where exactly?
Bonus Answer: Some of us live in countries we want to get the fuck out of :(

I am actively trying to relocate, and found this site useful. Existing sites (say LinkedIn) don't have a way to filter for "open for visa sponsorship" jobs. (Stack Overflow job listing is the only other site I found which allows you to look for only visa sponsorship jobs.)
>Not to mention that the 10900 has a 65W TDP vs 105W for the Ryzens.

TDP is lie these days .The 65W intel chips will use over 200W in most motherboards.[1] The 10 core you're using will use even more. The 5900X would use 130W max.

Watch your temps, your passive thermal solution may not be up to the task and your CPUs may be throttling or dying prematurely.

[1] https://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph16343/120661.png
McEwan says so much with so few words. I was at an event (the machines like us book tour author talks) where he told the audience he attributed his success not so much to being good at writing as he was at not-writing, a kind of play on essentially only writing the good stuff.

That miasmic ambiguity on the edge of humour, conceit, and arresting clarity all felt like experiencing a classic McEwan moment. He's become a bit of a national treasure now and I think his readers would benefit from braver editors who don't treat his stuff as so precious, but his book, The Innocent made me want to write.
I would be pretty surprised if it becomes impossible for a historian using these six books as primary sources to get long-term access to the original material. This can be a little more difficult with family archives since family archives do tend to paper over the colorful stuff in their history, but if people are truly concerned here about family archives limiting access to unsavory parts of their history for historians (which I don't believe is the reason for this outrage) then there's centuries of other examples to complain about.
> or Kotlin, because its language support is really good.

I've been using Kotlin for about a year now at work. I feel that "IDEA has good Kotlin support" isn't quite the right way to say it. It's become clear to me that the language is explicitly designed to be read and written in IDEA. Receivers (changing `this` per-scope) and `it` (to a lesser degree) are really poor syntax features to read in plaintext. But IDEA automatically adds the plaintext for you so you don't notice.

Genius business move by JetBrains. Get some corporations hooked on some sugar on top of Java, and now they have to pay that fat license forever.
took out puts on intel twice on bad news about their processors. Made a ton of money, though the second one was an accident. The bad news went unnoticed but i was still sitting on the position a week later when it was announced the CEO was fired for diddling his underling; and then the stock tanked 30%.

The market can become irrational in time to put $ into dnautics' pocket (this sort of thing has happened to me more than a few times now).
> If this is just random images you found elsewhere, then this is just Google Images or imgur.

Just to amplify this: Every company I've ever worked for is pro-creator and anti-risk, so the provenance and license for all content must be front and center.
Im literally with you on both your reason to leave tech and to go do farming. As a tip, permaculture is more sustainable than monoculture. Make sure to pick a good, warm environment to make your life easier. Dont name your chickens... makes it harder to kill them for harvest.
Qt supports this! so you should be covered.
Because sometimes you do need to type it. I'm reminded of signing into a Kindle e-reader with shared (family) account and a long randomly-generated password with lots of symbols (I could not change the password). The Kindle has a terrible keyboard and obscures the password input, so what could have taken ten seconds took ten minutes and many attempts.

I use “correct horse battery staple”-style[1] passphrases now because they're still long and secure, but also memorable, so I don't have to enter passwords character-by-character, and I've memorized all of my most-used accounts now and don't need to look them up. 1Password can even generate these types of passwords automatically.

The only annoying bit is when services have arbitrary restrictions like “no spaces”, or “mix of capitals, lower-case, numbers, and symbols”. In those cases I use hyphens instead of spaces, or stick “A1!” on the end.

[1]: https://xkcd.com/936/
https://fritz.substack.com/p/protecting-your-capital-during-... might contain some interesting hints.

The HN discussion is relevant as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26062255 .

My significant other and I have consciously invested in a remote countryside property with adjacent agricultural land. Great holiday house. Decent returns as a holiday rental. Comfortable to live in if everything goes poof.
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The link seems to be dead but here's my thought anyway.

People in this thread mentioned brilliant factors among those IDE/editors, but the 2 cents I want to add is their difference is related to the way they work, or how people work on them.

VSCode: LSP reflects the mentality of VSCode - it's extensible, it's working but it usually doesn't offer first-class experiences. It usually aims to serve the intersection or the common part of languages first, then the specific language.

The idea is very akin to Emacs, in which the community tries to find the abstraction of functionality, and then people can work on different implementations at the same time - there's Helm for completion, and Flycheck for checking in the first place, then there's a whole bunch of implementations. The good is it solves the m*n problem, but the bad is the experience is not good as tailored for specific languages. Actually, one specific struggle in the Emacs community right now is choosing between LSP and language-specific plugins.

Intellij: It is on the other side of the spectrum. It's polished, feels pragmatic for major languages they're targeting. Unlike LSP and VSCode, It was aimed to be the best Java IDE, and it did it. Now you can see the inheritance panel for a lot of languages that don't even really care about inheritance.

So IMO it's like Conway's law. The key difference between VSCode and Intellij is because of the way they work - VSCode was built on community, and Microsoft is more like a facilitator. While IntelliJ is driven by a single company, and the plugins and communities are supplement features.
>“Bitcoin and Ethereum don’t have organizations behind them let alone marketing budgets, yet are used, owned, and loved by tens of millions of people.”

This is an extremely inaccurate statement by them, wow. I feel like if nothing else it's impossible to have anything to do with Ethereum without hearing about the Ethereum Foundation. The majority of projects built on top also have their own organizations. There's also most definitely marketing.

I even like the idea of NFTs and think there's a lot of cool things to be built on the blockchain, some of which already have working early versions. This, however, is clearly a puff piece by a16z that doesn't even try to present an accurate picture.
You would think that (oh the curse of knowledge!), but there is still something that muddies the waters here. It is the missing relation between the physical electric field which is what the free charges actually generate and the (still mysterious) displacement field. This makes your explanation more abstract that it needs to be. The "D = E epsilon" that you mention in passing is in fact another source of confusion, because it is not clear whether E is what the free charges ("q1") generate or it is what acts on the probe ("q2").
Your tone detracts from the intrigue of this comment I for one, have no problem with it at all. I only bring it up to make an accessory complaint about how the bland enforcement of "civility" online can stifle people who express themselves in a certain way. You could've easily disregarded the first two lines of your comment and began with the "Poser of tech?" line, but without, it's just mundane input void of any association with a human being that actually feels something about the topic at hand instead of just having a thought about it.

Anyway, I loved your critique. With all of this being said, from at least a visual perspective, how do you feel about the work inspired by Bauhaus? What sort of design do you feel appreciates the human psychology of the issues/environment it intends to involve itself with?
You’re also more likely to encounter gross incompetence in industry, unfortunately. Harder to get away with that and find a job as an academic (in math and hard sciences, to be clear).