skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet non-White groups (specifically Indian and Taiwanese) are the top earners in the USA by median household income:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_U...

Culture and genetics are a substantially bigger factor than skin colour.

Ghanaiain-American and Nigerian-American migrant households earn more than median White households.

If there is anything systematically racist against African-Americans, its a welfare system that encourages single motherhood, and a drug law system that locks up fathers for petty drug dealing, possibly in addition to a culture which glorifies thuggishness and disdain for education ('acting white').
Do you listen to anything while working or just use it as noise cancelling?
Sam - check your spam folder. I self host my email lol.
The part about the qubes dom0 being 'outdated' is worrying, because one of the important things to think about for good Xen linux-on-linux (PV) performance is to use a recent kernel on the dom0, and recent version of xen.

Even ultra conservative debian stable (buster, right now) uses something fairly up to date, and xen 4.11. I'd be concerned about using anything older than that.
Meanwhile, you can fit 100 20MB apps into 2GB. I've never seen a normal desktop user use more than 10 graphical applications at once. I've never used more than 20 at once myself.

It's pretty clear that 2O MB of RAM as baseline memory consumption for a graphical application (we're not talking about a runtime that might be used for a bunch of background processes - that would be an issue) is a non-issue for the vast majority of users of such programs.
Iot device makers aren't going to be better just out of the goodness of their hearts - regulation / litigation is needed.
> The slogan itself is blatantly self-conscious - an acknowledgement of the insane power that would inevitably accumulate as a result of the business model they were pioneering.

I think that's historically false. At the time, "Don't be evil" seemed like, more than anything, an acknowledgement that Google wanted to have a corporate culture that was different from Microsoft, which at the time was the 800 pound gorilla in tech and was widely seen as being "evil" (I may be dating myself, but does anyone else remember the Bill Gates/Borg avatar that was the standard for Microsoft stories on Slashdot back in the day?) Google was founded in 1998, right when the US v Microsoft antitrust suit was filed.

One could certainly argue Google now engages in some of the monopolistic tactics that originally got Microsoft in hot water (with MS is "everything is part of the OS", with Google it's "everything can be part of the search results page"), but I think you're reading too much into what was originally behind the "Don't be evil" slogan.
I got the privilege of having lunch with Mr. McDonald when I was an IEEE officer during college. He gave a lecture at my university on ethics, and the IEEE council got to take him for lunch afterwards.

He was not shy at all about saying whatever was on his mind. It was pretty awesome to hear him dunk on his VP, right in the middle of lying to the Rogers commission's face. He was also really open about the fact that nobody at Morton Thiokol trusted him for the better part of a decade after he did that. He said something to the effect of, "It definitely made my career harder, but on the bright side, I never had any major crises of conscience for lying about it.

He also didn't give a single fuck about getting a lunch beer at a student gathering. I wish I'd joined him in drinking beer at noon on a Tuesday on IEEE dime.
> Almost all of their IDE's can for example integrate with the javascript ecosystem.

That’s mainly because they don’t have a Javascript specific editor. I cannot even syntax highlight groovy files in PhpStorm, even though I’m paying for the full pack.

But I think that is literally my only gripe with Jetbrains :)
Google and Urban Dictionary ban meme term “Blue Anon”
??? Life expectancy, birth rates, net migration are the factors of an overall nation, not not of any city.

Nobody has been able to put forth a single reasonable argument for why SF must tear down their homes and put up apartment buildings other that 'because it should'.

And FYI there is no housing shortage in the US overall, there never has been, housing has expanded commensurate with population.

Not only that - housing is relatively cheap in the US.

Of course there is a lot of demand to live in SF vis-a-vis Sacramento, there always will be, but otherwise, there isn't any reason to build a single home unless the residents want that.
I'm around 1050 on chess.com, I could beat it in the very first attempt.
It missed pinned checks and lost Queen and almost all of its material.

I may say its chess.com rating might be around 600-700.
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The caption under the photograph at the top of the article reads "The government has called for joint efforts to push ahead with digitalisation despite voters' rejection of the eID on Sunday."

So much for the will of the people.
You should never let the risk of losing your organization stop you from doing the right thing.
Yep it's definitely a cultural thing. I think it really is mostly to suppress women and not as a way one shows their religion which one does by living and not by clothing.
I don't understand how you can say this. Is it not your experience that in almost any work context there will be a few individuals who will produce far more valuable work in far less time than others? It certainly is mine.
That’s correct! You could call it a brown tax and it still holds universal truth. A really good book on that subject is The Divide: Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets.
I don't really get your point, but it may be relevant that when I edit launch texts for YC startups [1], I tell founders not to refer to themselves by company name. As in: don't say "FooCo lets you bar your baz"—that's a trope of marketing language. Put it some other way, such as "We let you bar your baz". Perhaps that advice is pushing things too far towards "we"? I don't know; I didn't notice it yet, but there must be some reason it triggered an adverse reaction.

[1] and non-YC startups! anyone is welcome to ask for help with this at hn@ycombinator.com, as long as you remember that the worst-case latency for response times may be astonishingly terrible. You can see the advice we give to YC startups here: https://news.ycombinator.com/yli.html. The logistical bits don't apply to non-YC cos, but the communication bits emphatically do.
I found the presentation quite useful, and have a few thoughts on the points I found.

First, my thoughts on Design Patterns as defined by the GoF.

As recurring concepts which have been identified, named, and allow for higher-level discussion and solving of software architecture and design problems (I think this view of mine might be a bit short-sighted), they are great tools and vocabulary.

However, they are known to reflect shortcomings, specially in object-oriented languages as opposed to functional ones (haven't read much about them, and I don't know much about functional programming and haven't yet read my copy of SICP, so I probably lack some fundamentals on the subject).

I like the point about design patterns not being "patterny" enough, I think that was one point in the presentation.

Although design patterns sure aren't too be taken simply as implementation recipes (is it too far a stretch if I think of them as a kind of "framework" or "frameworks"? Not sure about the inversion of control aspect, though) and there is no fixed Observer, or name-your-pattern implementation, it certainly would be more useful if they could be implemented only once instead of repeatedly for each new project.

This is not "human", and that sounds fair enough to me.

Some are actually reusable, such as certain library implementations or language constructs (I'm thinking of Java's foreach, I'm not familiar with Perl).

I think that depends a lot on what constructs or building blocks the language provides. The first few pages of SICP make such a point about powerful languages.

So it would be great if design patterns could be provided and reasoned upon as powerful language constructs (i.e. which are provided by the syntax). The higher level we can reason upon and solve problems, the better.

So many things are patterns beyond the GoF ones. Paradigms, for one thing. Variables.

The other point I found is about how Christopher Alexander wanted the clients of the building to reason upon architectural issues at various levels and how this also applies to software development. This could map either to the developers or to the end-users in my opinion (not to mention the hardware designers). Either way, I think this emphasizes the importance/need of higher-level constructs (such as the concept of information hiding applied to higher-level building blocks) than we usually reason upon when developing software.

These were the useful points I could find.

I'm afraid, though, that I don't have enough conceptual building blocks myself to reason further upon it.

Finally, sorry about the lots of "reasoning upon".
I'm curious about this video but certainly don't have over an hour to watch it without knowing in advance if it's worthwhile.

The description (abstract) merely says:

"I will show address some popular misconceptions about what quantum mechanics means, and explain what we can currently say about what it does mean."

Can whoever submitted or watched this give a tl;dw for what the main takeaways are? I.e. how is this different from any other "quantum mechanics for the layperson" overview? What's new or notable about this one in particular?
The build massive numbers of apartment buildings that totally changed the nature of the city. And it's still unaffordable.
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For a professional, jetbrains basically pays for itself within a day of starting to use it (in my opinion). I know a lot of people prefer VS code, but I frankly cannot imagine why.
They’ve always been solid and cheaper than aws/etc. How do they do it? Do they just not offer the reliability and instead just efficiently offer dedicated instances that crash like real servers?
The laws of religion should not override those of the state. To do so would lead to a theocracy and that has been shown to be almost universally bad on any large scale.
I think I've seen it start blundering more when the prospects are otherwise very bleak - if the best available move (with a depth-4 search) leads to a mate, who cares if you sacrifice a rook? I wonder if there was a quicker route to a mate you'd missed...
No more pins in the new versions. I played with them in the late 60s. We had pins.
Interesting, thanks for the benchmark.

Assuming none of us screwed up too badly, that gives us about 10% profit from AVX512 compared to AVX2. Not sure that’s a good enough win to justify vendor lock-in to Intel.

P.S. int8_t is a typedef for char, that change was stylistic and should not affect performance whatsoever. I tend to avoid char data type for numbers, as opposed to characters.

Update: you can try to make another AVX512 version with _mm512_sad_epu8 like I did for AVX2, instead of that integer dot product. I won’t be surprised to find out vpsadbw is faster than vpdpbusd, fundamentally addition is simpler than multiplication.
Dude, WTF, Egyptians have been living in Italy four thousand years before USA existed.
Same here. Diagnosed last year at 32 years old after a lifetime of struggle.

20mg instant release Methylphenidate makes an incredible difference. I can actually prioritize things properly and take care of family, housework, my body, and long term goals and all that before bedtime!

It used to be night after night doing the housework dead last at 2am or not doing it at all and experiencing marital strain.

Pretty life changing.
And to prevent criticality problems while manufacturing them.

You're machining a perfectly spherical plutonium core out of a LARGER chunk of plutonium.
You don't really need 10 years. Each researcher at UC might be confounded by their local network, but you could argue that is just a casual variable anyway. As for statistical power, UC has >30 researchers and each one of those researchers would access several papers a week. Take the ratio of sci-hub vs non-sci-hub papers accessed per week or month and compare to the month before UC's contract with elsevier ran out. Take the mean and do a t-test. Don't even need timeseries!

I suspect plotting sci-hub/non-sci-hub papers accessed per week for several weeks before and after the contract expiry would dispense with the need for any statistical analysis.
Eminem is white, and grew up with a crack addicted single mother on welfare.

I’m an Iranian refugee. I grew up in poverty and I had to help my mom with basic tasks (interpretting gov letters, making calls etc). I was isolated from all my extended family.

I think this is more a class tax, than it is a black tax.
NASA's Perseverance is running on the same processor as the '98 Apple iMac G3
It's pretty much the norm for most of history. Even medieval farmers did the same thing[1]. It's a very rational risk mitigation strategy.

[1] https://acoup.blog/2020/07/24/collections-bread-how-did-they...
You can see the Math.random call in the source code: https://nanochess.org/chess4.html#sour
Can anyone locate the photo from Gene Smith he mentioned towards the end?
I did too the first several times I read through it -- until I read every word individually. Most of the "r's" are on words at the beginning of a word group, but two of them are on words right next to each other.
I feel for you. My wife and I had a hard time in the first months and our kids are much older. I do not think it can be done with infants.
The tiny swiss were the last to delink its currency to gold. They tried really hard, under enormous pressure, but finally relented in 2000 with the new constitution, where the delink was tied to a bunch of other constitutional directives..

So in summary - The country can only do so much before the big guns aimed at it take their pound of flesh.

I am not sure the central bank is faultless in the example you cite, however, appreciate that we live in a world where other powerful people are not interested in the well being of swiss banking customers.
The punch device itself can be clearly seen at https://collection.maas.museum/object/372769#&gid=1&pid=4
I would usually read HN or Reddit whilst eating lunch (typically finger food like a sandwich or pie).
The 27 inch layout looks a lot like my typical Xcode layout & the XDR looks a lot like my Xcode layout with my own pro display (except instead of a char its simulator). The XDR is truly a wonderful monitor. It’s size is perfect and resolution decent. Multiple monitors become tiring to move my neck to look at, and the curved monitors only get utilized in the middle (nothing really on the sides for me)
I’m a refugee from the Middle East and I agree with you. Though the socio-economic class people grow up in seems at least as important as “culture and genetics”.
I don’t get this level of cynicism. Like they’re a delivery company. People give them monies for someone to deliver food, restaurants give them monies for lead generation and delivery, both parties are happy enough with the transaction to actually do it. Yeah they’re middlemen squeezing customers, drivers, and restaurants but that’s basically all business.

I really enjoy using these services. I went from having pizza and American-Chinese food delivery to having every restaurant in a 15 mile radius. It’s so nice when I’m low energy, having people over, whatever to order better food than chain pizza.
I'm not sure why you were modded down. Here's a link: https://pwg.gsfc.nasa.gov/Education/wtether.html
A litmus test is "is harm coming to the individual?"

I'm diagnosed and experience exactly what you describe, but there is also a decade of severe underemployment, risky impulse behaviour, big financial hits, marital strain and a litany of health problems.

The harm can be pretty subtle despite being obvious in retrospect.
Unfortunately, Linode have been reportedly hacked many times over the last decade. :(

From a super quick online search for "Linode Hacked", there were incidents in 2012, 2013, and 2016. Didn't really look further.
Increase the gain, you will increase the signal, and some of the noise as well.

I would not be as extreme, wiki* (data, pedia,...) and Internet made a lot of research possible. Internet enhanced collaborations across the globe (no need to be a big name so people talk to you) and openly accessible data I believe facilitates understanding (ok not deep understanding, but enough for creating common bases for communication).
Personally, I assume that these kinds of people, by and large, do get away with it (although I guess that's just a way of restating the original assumption).
Agree with this counterpoint. Sewall Wright for one (and his father) are given great credit. It is RA Fisher who comes in for well deserved flak for his infamous obstinance.
Same idea but with a full UI so it works like youtube where you can scroll through suggested content and subscribe to things
Trade-offs in response to Covid-19: the case for inclusive decision making
>Police get so much money for equipment that they can’t spend it all, while public defenders go unfunded.

Isn't that true today?
A worrying example of private corporations hamstringing a huge government department. That such a state of affairs can exist, especially in such a sensetive area like defence sounds concerning.
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> Those who left SF Bay Area, do you regret it?

Fuck no.

> Why or why not?

Even during the pandemic, NYC is an infinitely better city. Cheaper, too.
> You are assuming that there are no bad actors in the network who might not want to transfer a block in a fraction of a second,

No, you are assuming that it matters if people try this. Who cares if someone sends slow? No one waits for them. They send a block slow, someone else mines the block and sends it out fast. You have hallucinated this attack, it doesn't happen. Show me evidence of this having any effect if you can.

> bitcoin's 30 day average block size has been above 900KB since 2018-10-24

This is not true. 900KB is where the MAX size of the blocks. The average is much lower from variance. This is not difficult to see:

https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/size-btc.html#3y

> But why would you harp on bitcoin's block size when you are advocating for a max block size that could accommodate all of Visa's transactions?

Where did I say any of that? All I've done is point out that the things you say have no evidence and don't even make sense.

> Ah yes, that has worked out great for several exchanges and various other cryptocurrency related services. The cloud has been great, fill it with all the things.

This is just vapid sarcasm. There are no problems with exchanges. If you have evidence, show it.

> You don't seem to understand how packet switched networks function either. Go lookup "MTU", I look forward to hearing how even the most modest internet connection enjoys IPV6 with a 300MB jumboframe policy spanning the entire network path!

Focus please, confront the topic at hand, stop with irrelevant nonsense.

> It isn't that it'd take them 10 minutes to download the entire block... it is that they are at a 0.92 second disadvantage to their competition - this drives the physical centralization.

Show evidence that this happens and is a problem to anyone.

> lol, the salty salty tears.

This is not evidence of anything. Ethereum and bitcoin cash do have more transactions going through them than bitcoin. I will show you the actual information:

https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/transactions-btc-eth-bc...

> And yet they do it, because it has been mathematically demonstrated to be a winning strategy - even before block bloat induced propagation delay. The rest of the statement is simply nonsensical.

It isn't a winning strategy, it is a mild attack that accomplishes very little and loses money from not including transactions. Bitcoin cash does not have capacity problems so people don't even notice. Sitting on blocks accomplishes very little since the rest of the network is more likely to out mine you as time goes on.

> If you can consistently verify the newest announced block 1 second before every other miner - then your average solve rate is guaranteed to be 1 second faster than their average solve rate.

The time it takes to verify a block is trivial. If it was so important, why aren't all the blocks empty?
Goal is to have a working brain every waking hour.
I’m 700 or so at chess.com. It took me a few tries but I managed to beat it by exploiting its “appetite” for free pieces! nice !
I love stories like this. As the article shows, stealing very low frequency mains power (60Hz) this way is highly inefficient as practical considerations would reduce the coupling efficiency to ridiculously low levels.

However, I do recall a method that was apparently 'much' more efficient (at least from a theoretical perspective). That said, it was still inefficient in absolute terms.

Some decades ago I read a report that someone who lived very nearby to a Navy high power (~1MW) low-frequency RF transmitter used to communicate with submarines stole power by building a suitable antenna to pick up RF energy broadcast from the transmitter (I think he put the antenna coil in his roof but that may just be hearsay).

Note: I used 'low frequency' twice here so I must clarify, the RF TX was indeed very low frequency by radio standards (needed to communicate through seawater) but it was still many times higher than mains frequency. Assuming the transmitter's frequency was somewhere between say 12kHz and 35kHz then it would be between ~200 and 500 times higher than mains frequency, thus coupling the energy would be that much easier. This combined with both an antenna especially built to radiate as well as having a proper ground counterpoise/earthing system would have provided the transmitting station's neighbor with a much better opportunity to steal power.

The report was so long ago I've forgotten most of the pertinent details but it seems that the guy got caught because they discovered an unexpected notch in the antenna's radiation pattern.

If I recall this happened in Florida sometime in the 1960s. Seems the guy powered all his fluorescent lights from the RF.

Would someone with a much better recollection of the facts please clean up the details. Thanks.
The number of Chrome extensions available for sale is scary: most buyers of extensions "monetize" in user-hostile ways, earlier this week, I had Bing ads being injected into Google search results - fortunately, I only had 2 extensions installed so it wasn't hard to find which one was responsible. Extensions that are granted access to all sites are a security nightmare.
There is a lot of crap on arXiv as well... So I respect the position of Wikipedia editors to have someone vet the information before them. To be fair many editors of Wikipedia have a better understanding of their fields than reviewers (at least in my domain)
Looks like it's rated around 1225:

https://ccrl.chessdom.com/ccrl/404/cgi/engine_details.cgi?pr...
Did the title change because from the article I see it as “ Digital identity scheme shot down by voters over data privacy concerns” ... which is much different than HN “Switzerland bites against electronic ID systems provided by private companies”
You read on and find it wasn't a normal sample of cats, but 2/3 of cats from cat cafes, so possibly not very useful at understanding house cats.
> As a long-time former banker, Instacart is 100% the right candidate for a direct listing

Can you say more about why?