skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Global Shortage in Computer Chips 'Reaches Crisis Point'
I really appreciate this comment - when I was working on my old startup, I felt exactly the same way.

I quit my old job and was working on what I wanted to, and yet felt this resistance that I couldn't explain. The nagging doubts that I was doing the right thing, that it wouldn't be good enough, and the fact that it would be all o n me if things didn't work out.

It's definitely one of those mental roadblocks that's hard to explain until you've been through it.
similar to "feature not a bug" happened here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26468421 the dev said its not a bug visual impaired users cant see things in his app and went full agressive on people reporting. so hard he blocked any new people from reporting issues too and hid comments/discussion about imrpoving the situation

someone else said "this is how you get forked" and they are right for foss things, but docker isnt so trickier
Quantam is a scam. Repeat, it's a bullshit. Read Scott Locklin blog post.
This covers the bases. There isn't a huge mystery here, although there are some unknowns that need more research.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03519-3

R0 rates are just an indicative estimates. They don't account for different modes or vectors of transmission.

So it's not a given that mask wearing, social distancing, temperature, UV, humidity, and hand washing would necessarily all have identical effects on Covid, flu, and the various virus families that cause colds.
It probably helps that it sounds like you mostly use it as a dumb terminal. If you had a compute-intensive workload, it would make sense to upgrade, since even a quite powerful 12-year-old desktop is likely outperformed by a current-model smartphone for many types of work.
No. Turing machines are universal. All Turing-complete models of computation are equivalent. The representation is irrelevant. That is the whole point of TMs. A TM can do the same computation as a prism, or any other physical system. The converse is not true. That is the reason TMs are a thing.
r/confidentlyincorrect

complexity is wrt a particular model of computation - a turing machine. turing machines are sequential (NTMs aren't). run time on a parallel model is not necessarily a constant off from run time on a sequential model.
Agreed. It's also concise and easy to screenshot. This CLI tool is less so.
I think before UNIX there weren't nice APIs for different types of file access. It was more like getting a raw block device and being told "fill your boots".

stream-of-bytes was the right idea then. It doesn't mean it is still right.
The term "broadband" is defined by the FCC as connections of 25/3 or better. My phone is on low band 5G and gets 4x that. So your 4G/5G connection would presumably still be "broadband."

https://www.theverge.com/2015/1/29/7932653/fcc-changed-defin...
People in Oklahoma are not a homogenous group. Lots of people are born in Oklahoma and would prefer to live elsewhere, but they can't afford to move (or aren't old enough yet).

> Don't force other people to live how it suits you.

That's exactly what I'm advocating for. "Live and let live" is something that has to actively be enforced.

For example: I live in Georgia and voted by mail. There are people in other states who are trying to pass federal laws that make it harder for me to vote by mail.

Another example: there are people trying to take away women's rights to reproductive care (and I'm talking about contraceptives too, not just abortion).

"Live and let live" implies a passive state, but it's actually a very active state. The constant and vigorous legal activity of the ACLU is proof of that.
Polls in WhatsApp are now possible?
Right now the world's most used messenger lacks the function of polls, unlike Viber, Facebook Messenger or Telegram. But there is a way to create a poll directly in WhatsApp, not using other apps or bots.
Polls are made on the basis of the number +48 735 062 996. Open WhatsApp and add this number to your contacts. Start the dialog with the word "Create" and follow the instructions.
What are the advantages of these polls?
Polls are made easily in 4 steps;
Multiple choice is possible;
No external app is needed;
Polls are free.
You can find more information about polls here https://chat2desk.com/en/polls
Among my friends who were big into Ravelry circa 2010, the experience seemed to be: Come for the patterns, stay for the community.
You now mentioned something important: older generations have left behind journals, magazines, books, all kinds of documents that represent their generation. When our generation is gone, there will be very little physical traces left. Someone will have to search archive.org or similar to find anything.
Didn’t happen for GitHub or LinkedIn
there's not much you can say about zoning in america as a whole. every locality has its own set of complicated rules. some places make a hard distinction between residential (and even types of homes) and commercial zones. some allow certain types of businesses in an otherwise residential area. some are actually pretty lax about zoning.
HTTPS Everywhere[1] has a setting for that.

[1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/https-everywhere/g...
So one mental model of what YC does is that it has social capital (e.g. prestige, connections). It gives some of that to its portfolio companies so they'll be more successful and so YC gets better yields.

If social capital is mostly fixed, then this is a zero-sum situation and increasing batch sizes is bad for each company, even if it's better for YC as a whole.

Another mental model is that social capital is generated by YC companies themselves, as they e.g. network with one another, trade advice and other resources, and otherwise collectively learn how to build better startups.

I'm not sure which mental model is correct, but if you think the value of the YC ecosystem scales at Θ(N²), then a bigger batch can better for each YC company, even if they're get less 'direct' support from YC itself.
Bill Gates tells Reddit why he’s bought so much farmland
Right, can it please stop hiding it though? URLs aren't prose
> For GPUs, it's actually much faster than O(n^3) because computing each entry in the result matrix is independent. Hence, the problem is embarrassingly parallel in a way.

That's not how you do big-O with parallel systems.

When talking a parallel algorithm, you often perform two different big-O calculations:

* Breadth: "If a single-processor" executed the parallel algorithm, how long would it take? (If the best sequential algorithm and best parallel algorithm are both within a constant-factor of breadth, its called "work-efficient"). Also called "Total Work"

* Depth: "If an infinite number of processors" executed the parallel algorithm, how long would it take? Also called "Length of the longest dependency chain".

A naive matrix-multiplication would be O(n^3) breadth. I don't know the depth calculation unfortunately...

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For example, Bitonic Sort is one of the best GPU-sorting algorithms, but its O(n * log^2(n)) Breadth... asymptotically slower than sequential's O(n*log(n)) time.

But Bitonic Sort is often used because its Depth is O(log^2(n)). Which means that "with enough processors", you approach O(log^2(n)) sorting time, which is pretty amazing.

Note: "GPU Mergepath" is pretty damn amazing if you've never seen it before. O(n) breadth to perform a merge operation (part of merge-sort), so for large arrays, Mergesort wins as long as you use the GPU Mergepath algorithm to perform the individual merge steps.

But if you have more processors than data (lol, it happens: Vega64 supports 163,840 threads of execution: Occupancy 10 x 4096 physical cores x innate hardware parallelism over 4 clock ticks), Bitonic sort is an obvious choice.
descript is the only thing I’ve seen that turns video editing into something resembling word processing - it gets very jump cut-y and
jerky but most people are used to it in the TikTok/YT era.

It’s terrifically buggy right now but as a PoC it’s amazing.
YC Winter 2021 Batch Stats
Inventor of the audio casette tape, Lou Ottens dies at 94
Unless someone spoils it out before you read it right?
UFOs exist. Jumping to the conclusion that they must be controlled by sentinel beings from someplace else in the universe is a rather giant leap though. Sometimes they are simply "unidentified" flying objects.
> so it should be great all the time right?

For me at least, I think most of my "suffering" has come from expectations like this that are incongruent with reality. Who said it should be great all the time? I'm right there with you. I have add all sorts of expectations like this in life that when put to the test via my own experience, and the experiences of others, just don't add up.
I wasn’t talking about Turing machines, I was talking about a hypothetical analog photonic computer.
> HTTPS adoption is now very high[1]

This is simply because they told SEO's that HTTPs takes precedent and effects ranking - if you want mass adoption of anything then just tell a bunch of SEOs that rankings will be effected (AMP is one that has thankfully not won the fight).

Google passed it off as security but I cannot believe this to be the case when you see the shit that litters the Play Store.
I take part in a decent number of game jams. A jam with 10-60 people is fun. A jam with 1000 people isn’t any different than just programming on your own, there are too many people to get a nice community vibe going. In small jams you make friends and chat constantly
The details of copyright law depend on the jurisdiction and the contract.

If it matters, hire an attorney.

If it doesn't matter...well, it doesn't matter.

If you can't afford an attorney, the business is not viable.
Orwell wasn't wrong, that's for sure. It was always obvious that centralizing web middlemen were going to end up as totalitarian failures, but seeing it actually play out is chilling.

Does anybody have pointers to forums where this topic can be freely discussed, just on principle?

edit: if I click on the two bitly links in this reddit post, I get articles about a specific person. Is she the Voldemort, or is it someone else?
What an empathetic and thoughtful comment. I completely sympathize with your point.
The particle beam being applicable for radar spoofing seems like it potentially fit nicely with the hard to explain Nimitz carrier group sightings. Specifically the carrier group at the time being out to test it's fancy new integrated targeting and control systems, showing up on several different scopes at the same time with several different targets, and moving to the investigating squad of jets' rally point after being detected. Anecdotally supposedly retired f-117s are flying in a somewhat similar role with the carrier group still in order to test new sensors.[1]

The 76' Tehran UFO incident seems like it potentially fits as well. I'm no physicist but a F-4 flying too close to a mass of protons/plasma sure seems like it could cause failures.

[1]https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/33593/f-117s-flew-dire...
Well, half a day
It's weird to think that there's such a thing as "cross-cultural psychology". I'd have thought you'd just call that "psychology", and within that an over-represented discipline called "the psychology of undergrad volunteers" that's a lot easier and cheaper to perform.
You really aren’t in the land of lookup tables no.
Using a Smartphone? Nokia collecting patent royalty on 4G/5G as we speak.

On a Mobile Network? You can bet with very high chance some part of the network are running on Nokia. Broadly speaking carriers like to use every vendor they have in part of their network just to have vendors competing on price.

Using DSL or Fttx Fibre at at home, you can bet somewhere along that fibre there is an Nokia or your DSL Modem is Nokia.

They might not be a household name, but they are still everywhere.
I'm not sure everyone would agree with you that "made for managers, not engineers" is a positive in the Jira column. I'd really like, as an engineer, to be able to use work tracking software that helped me and my manager do our jobs effectively.
https link timing out for me http://p9f.org/
What are some of the applications of this technology?

Edit: I'm also wondering if anyone has any idea as to the estimated cost of such a technology? Thousands, tens/hundred of thousands, millions? A quick search of lidar sensors seem to be in the range of $2500 - ~$10000 for ranges of sub 30 meters.

This technology seems similar(?) to lidar from what I can tell.
and there goes another great service and vanishes within a few month from beeing great to unsupported to lost entirely ..
Prism is not a Turing machine however. i.e. it's not a generalised computer.

By that definition computers have AI because humans can communicate through them (i.e. connect a prism to do O(1) Furrier transform vs connect a human for computer to behave like human).
Believe it or not, engineers were heavy users of BASIC in the first few years. And FORTRAN was created with the notion of matrix multiplication, so it was just natural that BASIC implementations supported matrix multiplication.
It’s like the banner ad economy of the late 90’s. Every startup making money by selling banner ads to other startups. What could go wrong?
It's a main reason why Fortran still has such a hold on the SciComp/HPC community.
Kudos to Nokia on a great move.
Dang you are right. My bad
Meanwhile, here is the state of certbot support on shared hosting:

https://certbot.eff.org/hosting_providers

Yellow means you have to jump through hoops as a user. Even though the whole point of managed/shared hosting is that you don't.

So either all those companies whose primary business is to provide hosting are incompetent, or "Let's Encrypt is super easy" narrative is false.
The Battery That Will Finally Unlock Massless Energy Storage
Anyone remember Microsoft Passport?
In March, we see Firefox 87
"Building better Heroku"

... mmmkay
Yep, the problem is with WebView.

https://twitter.com/vponamariov/status/1374366785252724743
I think you're conflating "republic" with "federal system". The US is still very much a republic, in the sense that we vote almost exclusively for representatives, not for policies.

> If it was still a [federal system] people across the country would have little effect on you since a weak federal government would be ineffective in enforcing their mandates if it was able to at all.

The US had a system like that early on and it failed.
does anyone know if they released any technical details? isn't webview open source?
For a backup use case, I haven't been able to beat the value of a Microsoft premium-whatever family plan. Routinely on sale for $60/yr, it gets you 1TB of backup plus an Office license for 6 users. Obviously you don't have as much control over it as "bare" cloud storage but it's hard to match the price.
True. But they're stealth enough, can operate with a snorkel without completely surfacing and modern li-ion battery tech allows them to operate underwater for weeks.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/navy-ships/a281849...
Can. As opposed to both can't and must.

So you can bundle your own web view, if you want. You don't have to. You have the option.
I would say most items in quantum computing are not theoretical. They’ve been demonstrated. Moreover, quantum physics is by far our most accurate theory of physics we have

What is still hypothesized is whether these elements, which have been demonstrated to work in small numbers (<100), will work in large numbers.
I've been surprised how many (copywrited) old movies I can find on YouTube. Individuals upload whole movies in lower resolutions and YouTube Movies itself has full length films in 720p and 1080p, many free with (easily blocked) ads.

You can also find full length public domain movies on archive.org.
Another issue of both practical and theoretical importance is whether these asymptoticaly-faster algorithms are numerically stable. Skimming the article very quickly (and not having looked at any original sources), this doesn't seem to be addressed (yet).
> I think the difference being is that you don't have to get in the car just to leave it.

Again there is an innuendo that this is fundamental bad.

In my experience (having lived in London for decades), for most people who live within 5 minutes of a major train station, which is not most Londoners, it’s not even practical to have a car at all, and even if you do, just getting out of the city can take an hour.

London is great if you like urban environments and don’t like cars. But I don’t see why that should be a universally held preference.
No, not silly, but potentially justified, in the case of a pandemic. However, these changes obviously increase the risk to the recipient of the vaccine. There's a higher chance of something going wrong with the actual injection, as a broader spectrum of people are administering it (where I live, there was a call for volunteer vaccinators in the local paper), and also very little legal recourse if something is found to be harmful with the vaccine itself.

For those reasons, along with the lack of any information as to whether the vaccine has a meaningful effect on reducing transmission, I have decided that the risk (relative to the reward) to me is too high.
A great pick BTW by Kurosawa.
I don't think they're talking about total operations here, as pointed out in the article this is just about the number of multiplications.

Every matrix multiplication can be boiled down to multiplying rows by columns. This is definitionally required for matrix multiplication, so that is the lower bound for how many multiplications are required. One multiplication for every final element in the n x n matrix, or n^2.
EAPM still includes a lot of pointless clicking by pros. Just look at periods of the game when there is nothing productive to do. By comparison a throttled Aplphastar has no need for any pointless actions and can get timings inhumanly precise which games EAPM in the other direction.
may be wrong here, but the evidence seems overwhelming based on usage. Diesel subs are for homeland defense purpose

AIP technology means non-nuclear subs still have lots of uses. They can get closer in shore to gather signals intelligence or drop off/pick up SF.
I'm not sure I've seen the difference described so clearly and succinctly! How would you describe the seasonal flu in this same regard to receptors?
That link appears to be about the flu, not the common cold. They're different, but something I've learned over the past year is that most people think of the flu as another name for the common cold.
Sorry, I don’t actually use Qubes, just know by reputation that they have worked on WSL2-style VMs for Linux.

I assume IOMMU passthrough works pretty well, when available. Also, I’ve been pleasantly surprised by how well Steam’s proton works even with applications that aren’t officially supported.
Is there a way to get exactly this new Chrome address bar behavior in Firefox? I.e. I want Firefox to follow plain http links same as before, but if I type in example.com it should expand to https://example.com
Well, if I borrow from Wikipedia (and the definition is heavily attributed), it's more the private ownership of the means of production, and the operation of that means for profit. Blind worship, no. But profit is definitely bundled into the concept of capitalism.

And corporations throughout America are definitely leaning into the "profit at any cost" and "shareholder value at any cost" mantras.

EDIT: Disliking something doesn't make it go away, folks.
Strassen's algorithm is still the fastest to be widely implemented. The Coppersmith-Winograd variants that have achieved better asymptotic complexity are all galactic algorithms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_algorithm.
He never had a rough patch running the Buffett partnerships, or changed structure. He made money every year and his returns were roughly 40% annualized. Source: I’ve read the partnership letters.

And I’m pretty sure 2/20 was already a common fee structure on Wall Street before Buffett started his partnership.
Aborts loading of the page, JS usually comes last - cańt execute what wasnˋt loaded.
There's some neat info in these blog posts but the guy's writing is insufferably melodramatic, sarcastic, and self-referential. So, a blog, basically. I'm glad that craze is mostly over.
Why is so much in this article contradictory? It opens by saying viruses allow or inhibit other viruses by way of differing methods of entering cells but only a few paragraphs later says the difference is entirely due to triggering an immune response.

Further experiments showed rhinovirus was triggering an immune response inside the infected cells, which blocked the ability of Sars-CoV-2 to make copies of itself.

What? What defenses do cells have after already being infected with viral RNA?

"We could see surges in flu. We could see surges in other respiratory viruses and other respiratory pathogens," she said,

Why? Why does covid mean we're going to see unusual winter surges in non-covid diseases?
How does it behave when the site nominally supports https but only uses a self signed cert? Many local network items are like this. in most cases it might be better to fallback to http but I am not sure.
Scott’s content is great. He’s my second favorite[1] Scottish technology YouTube channel.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCtM5z2gkrGRuWd0JQMx76qA
How is this not a blatant violation of FERPA?
If p == np, then interger factorization can be reduced to k-sat, which is solvable in p time

https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/6650/how-can-p-np-enh...
Adding to that, sbt also supports incremental compilation with zinc.
Crap. I should have refreshed the page. Didn't see you already posted what I did.
It doesn't guarantee mutual annihilation at all. We've already used nuclear weapons, and there's certainly the possibility they will be used again in future conflicts in a limited scale that doesn't end civilization.

My point is: if you do a good enough job pretending that an alien has already come and gave us a stern warning, you can potentially influence your adversary's thinking.
I actually find his colour films to be incredibly charming. Really Tokyo Story is the only green tea on rice film of his. still excellent but one could be in for bit of a surprise if they only watched that by Ozu.
Sure, but this not known at time of conception
Not really, though vendors of Android can provide alternative web views (of course). Samsung used to (may still) which was a giant pain in the ass, since you'd see different behavior out of web views on Samsung versus almost any other Android device, but Samsung was too common to ignore, so if you did cross-platform apps that included web views you ended up with platform specific bugs for iOS, then for two flavors of web view on Android—and then multiply that by the many versions of Android you'd have to support, for Samsung and everyone else, versus maybe 2 versions for iOS for non-super-huge-userbase applications (where those sub-1% users not on the two most recent versions are worth spending money to support, because you have so many users that 0.5% or whatever is still a ton of people)

If anyone could provide web views they'd be practically useless, as they'd just be a constant source of bugs, and everyone would simply start embedding a browser engine instead.
I don't know how many Americans have lived only in suburbs. Between being a kid, a student, a young carefree professional and a parent I've lived in any combination of big, small, cheap, expensive, old, new, busy, quiet neighborhoods.

Right now my "American style" suburban house is perfect. When I'm an empty-nester I might go somewhere else, but I'm not here because I'm unaware of other options.