skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is communication masterclass level, already back then. How the heck did he get to there, so early?

1) luck,

2) living in Silicon Valley.

“Place Silicon Valley in its proper historical context and you see that, despite its mythology, it’s far from unique. Rather, it fits into a pattern of rapid technological change which has shaped recent centuries. In this case, advances in information technology have unleashed a wave of new capabilities. Just as the internal combustion engine and the growth of the railroads created Rockefeller, and the telecommunications boom created AT&T, this breakthrough enabled a few well-placed corporations to reap the rewards. By capitalising on network effects, early mover advantage, and near-zero marginal costs of production, they have positioned themselves as gateways to information, giving them the power to extract rent from every transaction.

Undergirding this state of affairs is a set of intellectual property rights explicitly designed to favour corporations. This system — the flip side of globalisation — is propagated by various trade agreements and global institutions at the behest of the nation states who benefit from it the most. It’s no accident that Silicon Valley is a uniquely American phenomenon; not only does it owe its success to the United States’ exceptionally high defence spending — the source of its research funding and foundational technological breakthroughs — that very military might is itself what implicitly secures the intellectual property regime.“

Source: https://tribunemag.co.uk/2019/01/abolish-silicon-valley
Ha of course. Looks like I still haven't internalized it.
Regardless of whether it is or isn't part of the calculator's UI, the presence of a loading screen for a calculator is a symptom of a deeply-rooted problem.
Are you familiar with the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists and its associated clubs?

https://www.improbable.com/hair-club/

"When working on her doctoral dissertation in psychology, Robin Abrahams dreamed one night that she was asked to be the editor of a prestigious psychology journal with a singular editorial policy: all articles must mention Steven Pinker's luxuriant, flowing hair. ...She told Marc Abrahams about this dream and the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists was born.

The first member, chosen by acclamation, was psychologist Steven Pinker, whose hair has long been the object of admiration, and envy, and intense study. From that lone, Pinkerian seed, there has grown a spreading chestnut, black, blond, and red-haired membership tree. ...

The public loves to see and applaud scientists who have luxuriant flowing hair, a luxuriant head of former hair, or luxuriant flowing facial hair. Therefore, all LFHCfS members who come to Improbable Research events are invited to take a bow, allowing the audience to shower them and their hair with applause."

Maybe check out their blog featuring new members, with their pics and them talking about their life and hair:

https://www.improbable.com/category/lfhcfs-hair-club/
Seems like a shitty move, but I don't think there is some right employees have to things like this. In fact I would encourage union organizers to avoid communicating on company owned hardware and/or software. Chances are they know or can know what you're saying and to whom.
agreed. but lets be honest to operate an elasticsearch for instance. You need a sizeable team. its not a one man job.
You can use FF Developer Edition for work. I would do that, but I use FF for home and Edge at work.
Simple but clever idea
This is wonderful.

As a related thought, what I really want is a point and click legend on what all the pieces of vscode's UI are called.

Many times I've had to guess wildly in google at what they call "that bar to the side|top|bottom" when I go looking for settings or plugins or bugs etc.
ext4 has a default "Reserved block count" of 5%, only usable by root.
Yeah it’s crazy. If someone does this on their homelab server it’s probably fine but if they run it in production I really want to know because Im not buying jack from them.
To be clear, 200,000 tons is the weight of the cargo+fuel this ship carries, not counting the structure of the ship itself. I haven't found a good number for the displacement (the total weight, including the ship), and would be curious to know what it is.
The Suez Canal Experience: Ship Transit Southbound [video]
That's piracy. You wouldn't download a car [seat]!
Very cool video, I enjoyed how even then he was thinking about "intelligent devices" when he talks about intelligent ATMs and intelligent video games.

I wonder if this was always present in his mind and helped lead to the term "smart phone".
I'm saying that techniques that are easy to parallelize will become more popular.

Of course he's right, that if you can make a serial technique faster, you should do that.

I see a way to support his position: in past decades we got free speedups from silicon - then we hit a kind of "Peak Silicon". Just as for Peak Oil, it makes sense to try techniques that weren't worth it before.

Personally, I think the first step should be to give up all the horrific layers of bloat-on-bloat; but instead we got (e.g.) faster JVMs and JIT JS compilation.

But what about the step after that? He thinks we should mine the tailings (and he's surely right there's a lot to be found there).

I think multi-core seems the only extendable solution (til I guess computers are the size of houses again). But because it's so difficult to parallelize code, we'll instead change our approach, and favour techniques that are easy to parallelize. Arguably, this is currently happening with DL.

I've only skimmed the links you gave, so I don't have a deep appreciation of his position.
Published 11 months ago and 7 views... I'm surprised but did you make that video?
Keep in mind that sysadmins are essentially babysitting software that they do not develop. The hacks that we come up with are to work around responsible party and help us get a good night's sleep instead of a 2am wakeup call. I try to cut you guys some slack, usually this proliferates when management decides they are willing to accept some inefficiency in favor of getting new features out the door. I get it, really.

My org is in the middle of a SRE introduction and for some reason I'm getting a lot of pushback on the topic of 'error budgets' and what to do with alerts when they are exceeded. Can't imagine why.
I Photoshopped Something Glorious
Yeah, let's do it guys.
I know how to cook, but when you suddenly have to cook 2x as often because you can't eat out anymore your are going to cook a lot more of everything, including pasta. Suddenly the supply chain was out of whack - it was built for people that eat out a lot.
In Serbian, we have "babe i zabe" - grandmas and frogs :D
The net direction of subsidy from rural to suburban to urban is complex to calculate and subject to dispute.

For example, urban centers are net importers (of food, processed goods, building materials, etc.), and benefit disproportionately from heavy freight on roads.

An example of a serious but less obvious negative externality imposed by urban centers is the bulk import of population, since urban centers always reproduce below replacement rate. The urban centers basically take most of the intelligent people from non-urban areas and then ensure they don't reproduce.
Any timeline for the swift client? I use Firebase currently and would strongly consider switching to Supabase as soon as a Swift client is available.
My flip phone isn't a source of distraction.
Besides you can multiply for free, just add N number of times. Multiplication is a quality of life improvement, not a necessity
"Many programs exist for them"

If an individual is unwilling to accept involuntary medication, there are not many/any choices of programs.

In my opinion there is a distinct lack of mental health treatment options that treat patients with dignity. Those that have existed or still exist generally struggle to get funding.

If such programs do exist, I was unable to find any after weeks spent frantically searching for options for my medication resistant schizoaffective friend.
"But given its importance and that i0S 14 already has a similar feature, it's more likely to ship than not. What could make Google's implementation better than Apple's is how easy it is to access more information requires you to head to the settings to see exactly what's going"

https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/03/22/android-12-isnt-sim...
Not sure what to take of it. At first, I assumed that they mean that NN learned to divide color plane similarly to how humans do, without learning on human provided data, which would be absolutely incredible, but no, no wonders here, the actual vocabulary was pre-defined. The actual result is that when you task NN with making up discrete words (and being discrete is pretty much the defining feature of any human language, quite naturally) and measure their "efficiency" by some information-theoretic metric, you get a distribution similar to what human languages have. And, again, that could have been interesting, except it turns out to be right on the border of what is "theoretical limit". Well then, if there is only 1 theoretical limit, so it's no big surprise that when you train the system like that, penalizing inefficiency by any related metric (let alone the same one), you'll get the same distribution.

I'm cautious not to say that it has nothing to do with linguistics, because half of linguistics is math because of the nature of what is language. But that's about it. That is like setting up an actual physical experiment with the Galton Board, to "discover" that you'll get a normal-distribution looking pattern with aluminium balls the same way as you'll get with wooden balls. That's all about math involved in some information-theoretical concept, not about human laguages per se.
Solar geoengineering [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26588364
I don't really understand the kernel module process/policy - it was a lot of trying random things and seeing what worked. But I think you shouldn't need permission, as long as you're building it and running it on your own machine. But I do have an Apple developer account that costs money to let you develop on iOS, so that might have been a factor. You do need to disable some security features to run kernel modules.

I'd rather be running this kind of instrumentation on Linux (or without a kernel, e.g. using m1n1), but I haven't set that up yet. (It'd be nice to lock the CPU to a frequency, and pin threads to cores, etc.)
Pretty much everyone already uses git and some kind of issue tracker so the question is more if it's so much better to justify learning a new thing, not if it is slightly better in the abstract. It is not immediately obvious to me that bundling all these things into one tool is going to give better results, especially when you have non-developer users in the mix.
Just dragging the ship across the sand risks damaging the hull and making the situation worse
Please don't use URL redirects when posting. Also, videos should have [video] appended to the title. Thanks!

Direct link: https://youtu.be/nLTV_eOGG7g&t=120s
Nope! It's all running client-side, so it uses a bit more bandwidth, but there's no way a serverless platform can compete with the cost :)

If the tool is popular long term, we might do a serverless option to make it accessible to Safari users or something though.
You should probably delete it.
Anonybit – Where personal privacy meets digital security
I think the better way to pose that brain teaser is to say "you make the rope three feet longer, now how high off the ground will the rope be"
It is at least possible (if not likely) that Apple has a special deal with ARM that lets them get away with all this.

Which may mean that ARM wants them to be quiet about. Not because Apple is breaking the rules, but because ARM doesn't want to rub into its other customers the fact that Apple has a special deal that other customers aren't being offered.
Another reference is that the ship is as long as the empire state building is tall.
We spend far more money on widely prescribed drugs like statins.

The most expensive drugs are rarely needed by many people. The big one recently is a drug to treat Hep C, at about A$22000 a patient (but possibly saving years of dialysis) and a macular degeneration treatment (what price do you put in vision?).

https://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2020-12-01/australias-mos...

From someone on the PBSAC:
https://www.nps.org.au/australian-prescriber/articles/the-ch...

It isn't so much the cost, but whether they actually work, or are any better than other treatments.
I've stuck with the flip phone all along with no regrets. Pictures can be forwarded to your email for later viewing (though at a reduced resolution). There seems to be no way to see emojis, though, as they all appear as little squares (whether you perceive this as a benefit or a drawback).
What about a huge vacuum cleaner that can suck out all the sand under the ship. Is such an thing an option?
Kind of like geohot fixing covid
An interview prep guide for Class vs. Struct in Swift
Includes how memory allocation works for both, explanation on copy-on-write semantics and when to use what.
Some grocery items actually went into scarcity.

Why? Because the channel mix changed, and distribution and packaging are channel-specific.

For example, toilet paper is shipped to commercial customers in cardboard boxes, while retail customers by it in plastic-wrapped, branded, and SKU’d blocks of 4, 8, 12, etc. When everyone suddenly stopped going to offices and restaurants, demand plummeted in the commercial channel and soared in the retail channel. It took time for factories and distributors to adjust to that. The same thing happened to a bunch of food staples too.

Since a lot of manufacturing is regional, different areas of the nation and world experienced different impacts.
Sorry for not responding sooner.

That sounds like a great use case for us to handle! Although I think ffmpeg in the browser loses some efficiency over the command line.

I think we added cropping as a possible future feature. I'll bet ffmpeg makes that really easy to do.

I think we should also work on optimizing the output size. I think we use a pretty high (err, low) -crf, which can result in ridiculous file sizes.

Thanks for the comment! Appreciate hearing use cases :)
EU exported 77M Covid-19 vaccines since December
May want to use two of those bad boys then
Going to the park with my kids with no mobile device
That's going to either snap the cable or damage the propeller. Probably both.
> There is no such "do wtf you want" license

How do you know? ARM's license agreements with Apple are confidential and just about nobody knows what's actually in them (and the few who have seen them aren't allowed to talk about it.)

The standard terms which ARM offers to its other customers may be quite different from the terms it has negotiated with Apple. Apple is a customer with unique clout and leverage, which means they can extract terms in negotiations which other customers may not be able to.

If ARM offers Apple (or any other customer) "special terms", it wants to keep that fact confidential, so that other customers who have the (less generous) standard terms don't start pressuring for special terms for them as well.
It sounds like you are claiming that it's easier for a javascript Dev to learn react than svelte.

Sure, there's more devs who currently know react.

But "easier to learn react" is crazy. The svelte tutorial is short and awesome.
Permission.site
What's your stack? Mostly C++?
https://archive.is/9cssR

Deal valuing chat app at $10 billion or more could be completed next month

Microsoft Corp. is in advanced talks to acquire messaging platform Discord Inc. for $10 billion or more, according to people familiar with the matter, as the software giant seeks to deepen its consumer offerings.
Microsoft and Discord are in exclusive talks and could complete a deal next month, assuming the negotiations don’t fall apart, the people said.
Originally favored by gamers, San Francisco-based Discord offers voice, text and video chatting. The platform’s popularity has surged since the pandemic took hold as people stay home and connect online—as have those of other chat services like Facebook Inc.’s WhatsApp and Signal Messenger LLC.
Microsoft, which has a market value of over $1.7 trillion, has been on the hunt for an acquisition that would help it reach more consumers. Last summer, it held talks to buy the popular video-sharing app TikTok amid a high-profile geopolitical standoff prompted by the Trump administration, before abandoning the effort.
VentureBeat reported this week that Discord was exploring a sale and had entered exclusive discussions with an unnamed suitor.

(More to come.)
hm.. nice! I made one theme for myself (github[1], vscode[2]) and wanted to try to upload my json to see how it looks like in your interface... (for a screenshot proposes).

cheers! nice project!

[2] https://github.com/butuzov/vscode-theme-acid
[3] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=butuzov....
About the height of the empire state building
Multimodal Neurons in Artificial Neural Networks [video]
My headset, for taking calls. Being able to hear people clearly, and know they can hear me clearly, made a significant improvement to my quality of life.
Well it's more that these sorts of library _can_ live on its own and not be coupled to a core business. Not to mention that in the article they talk about how other open source libraries had some pitfalls.
This is a new development in farsi. ha is from the middle person iha, which ultimately derives from the indo-iranian plus -s (same as in english). s->h is characteristic of indo iranian in general and iranian in particular. an in middle person (which comes from another indo-iranian plural an) means this particular thing in middle person. In farsi this converted into general vs. living.
There's some internal debate about this in the Jewish community. Many Russian Jews were actively speaking Hebrew and publishing, for instance, Hebrew newspapers while western European Jews were mostly speaking Yiddish. Regardless I think my point is that language is a really important part of culture and saying "only 3 people speak this" doesn't ring true to me as a good reason not to treat any language as culturally important or relevant.
And that would be another issue that should be addressed.
Ant and Slime Simulations
How does liability work in a situation like this? Can other shipping companies sue the at fault company for damages?
docker-compose down ?
Apple or iPod? Easy Fix for Adversarial Textual Attacks on OpenAI's Clip Model
How do they load and unload these things in a port in only a couple of days?! Do the cranes take off several containers at a time? It's hard for me to imagine they can move a container off the ship and get back to another container in less than a minute.
How long do you think it takes to fish a 20 ton container up from the bottom of a canal and load it onto a barge? There are ~10,000 containers.
Why not? Shade continues to function the same.

If placed at the Lagrange point between Earth and the Sun (supposing that's not too close to said red giant), you wouldn't even need that much.
Okay, bring Mi-26 then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mil_Mi-26
I'd think that rather than dredge enough sand/dirt to create a completely new channel, it'd be easier to dredge out enough next to the ship to free it. They should only need to dredge out the bow and stern, the middle of the ship is already in deeper water.
Because if there's one thing we all know about the Soviet Union, it's that they had no farms, factories, harbors, or military bases.
TSMC:  How a Taiwanese chipmaker became a linchpin of the global economy
You're making a... very tenuous argument, to say the least.

For starters, your entire premise was "you don't have the run the build again". But now that I ask what you're going to do, you tell me you're... going to run the build again. So you've basically proven my point... you're going to waste that time sitting around anyway, and you'll need to reproduce it anyway, so just kick off an extra build or two in parallel if you need to correlate offsets. It's not like the 2nd one was going to be your last build anyway.

Now re: diagnosing networks by looking at the byte offsets... so you correlate it (2 builds sufficed apparently?) and then... what exactly are you going to do now? This is GitHub Actions we're talking about, with dependencies downloaded from third-party servers. You're not managing either party's network or storage infrastructure to try to diagnose intermittent "network troubles". All you see is, for whatever reason, ubuntu/pypi/nuget/whatever isn't returning the full file. Maybe it fails in the same spot every time, maybe it doesn't. What exactly are you going to do differently based on what # byte it's failing to return? Either you can increase some timeout or switch to another server or whatever, or you can't. It's not like you're going to pull half the file and just use that. All the progress information does is satisfy idle curiosity and make you go "oh, that's funny...", and then you're left with the same options you had anyway.

And honestly, how often does this even happen that you can't afford to tweak the build and increase the verbosity or whatever? These messages are just as useful as garbage >99.9% for the time, for the entire team... you really encounter these issues often enough (and find 2 builds sufficient for fixing them) to warrant that? To say I have a hard time swallowing this is quite the understatement.
> I can't imagine how this isn't exactly me or someone else thinks about a car.

I think it's more likely that you think this is how you think about the car because you think it makes sense to think about a car that way. In reality if I recall correctly when we have a goal of "going somewhere" we don't see "objects" we see "obstacles and tools which overcome obstacles". Specifically you don't see what a car is (a lump of metal which moves with you inside) but rather you see what a car means (a tool which can be used to overcome the obstacle of distance).

Although honestly I can't come up with what to look for on the net to source this information and I currently don't have time to do it.

> The only reason you don't think you think about that, is because your self-conception apparently delegates the process to your reflexes. But if you have explain to someone how this happens, you reflexively dive and give some English equivalent to your narative above.

Even if that is the case, I don't see how an English explanation can map onto an object model. It more closely approximates a procedural model.

To point directly at the problem: Does the car contain me or am I riding the car? How do you describe this concept using objects? When you think of the car as a tool rather than a thing it becomes obvious: The car is a function which transforms some data <me> by changing the position from one place to another. With this approach I am no longer stuck trying to work out if I the car object has to have a add_driver() method or if I should have an ride_car() method.
Its absolutely true that the best doesn't always rise to the top, but not for the reasons cited in this article. The best chef isn't necessarily the best Youtube video maker, or even the best (or most entertaining) instructional cook. However, it is true that even if you were the best Youtube video maker and the best, most entertaining chef in the world, there's no guarantee you'd be at the top (or even ahead of whatever cooking video Youtube's algorithm is suggesting to the masses).
Why not just CUT IT APART and clean up the mess after?

Like this: https://jalopnik.com/a-chain-just-cut-through-a-capsized-car...
I was using lotus at one of the largest banks in 2015... So no. Not pre sox.