skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the data doesn't fit the preconceptions, then it's either something wrong with the data or with the preconceptions.

At this point doubt is healthy, especially since similar data from different sources shows different results.

I would really like to see an attempt to critically examine all the available data and try to give a plausible scientifical explanation, leaving aside political prejudices and sides.
Now that I've finished reading, I'm curious why the Chrome team didn't optimize GetLinkedFonts since it's the obvious culprit to my eye. Querying the registry is slow. Really slow. . The Chrome code appears to always read it on a missing value. If you have a missing value in your already populated cache, then every miss is going to reach out to the infrequently changing registry. It makes far more sense to only invalidate your in-process cache when the registry actually changes
In that case it has a safe failure mode. In the Tesla case it doesn't--it's relying on those lines for guidance. The car suddenly has no idea where the road is. The choices are basically turn off, or turn off and engage the brakes.

With a human able to take control the former is the better choice.
I personally think we haven't seen the aftermath of the pandemic yet when it comes to mental health.
Except the US Capitol.
> I don't think we take software reliability seriously enough, most of our focus is on speed of release, ever quicker cycles and it being OK to break things. This culture ruined these peoples lives.

I think people see a false dichotomy between making things quickly and making them safe. The fact is in the development of any complex thing, you're going to have bugs, and generally that's okay. But things should be designed to fail safe. Making something that throws errors when something unexpected happens is actually faster and easier than trying (and possibly failing) to handle edge cases; had Fujistu taken that simpler, easier approach then all this pain and suffering would have been avoided.
The difference is the advantage Apple has with their HW+SW vertical integration. Its as simple as that.

Intel sells CPUs, so it creates the ranges of CPUs to make money. They advertise clock speed and put the higher ones on a pedestal, that is how they can charge more money. The OEMs just used that playbook and developed their own marketing stories on top of Intel's marketing. Either no one tried to differentiate or they just didn't have the power to fight it.

Apple has a lot going for it in that scenario. They never had proliferation of models and always kept the number of options to a minimum. They also don't deal with volume, so they didn't have to do 20 variations of mac mini or the iMac. They kind of did their own thing even with the intel macs. Now with their own processor they were in a position to double down and make the whole product line even more efficient.

Like the article said, they couldn't have done if the M1 is not clearly better than the competition.
Why should this be the only year; why not join the 2020s and do the later classes online in the future too? If the students did their first year remotely they've already learnt to learn that way, so it should work even better with second- and third-year students AFAICS.
Shades of the Jamaican Bobsled Team of 1988.
JWK is a good option for representing public keys, for an Ed25519 key you would have something like this:

{
"kty":"OKP",
"crv":"Ed25519",
"x":"oF0a6lgwrJplzfs4RmDUl-NpfEa0Gc8s7IXei9JFRZ0"
}
>reports that the design of the network is still only in draft form

last updated 2016

>(those pesky details like routing, which are a difficult problem, are mostly elided in the documents so far)

Can you elaborate on why routing is a difficult problem? Pathfinding and flowgraphs are solved problems in computer science.

>I'm sure people use it, but the developers are very clear that it it is not to be trusted: https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/blob/master/docs/saf... says that it is 'considered reckless to put any life altering amounts of BTC into the network' -

it's considered reckless to put any life altering amounts of money into a volatile cryptocurrency (or for that matter, even a single stock)

>how can anyone consider this to be production quality?

it's considered production quality because merchants are willing to put hundreds of thousands of dollars into it.

>Not your keys/monitor, not your coins!

watchtowers don't require your keys.
I think it definitely matters whether they succeed or not, not much more to say on that other than I disagree and your approach misses important policy changes that could dramatically reduce suicide by reducing the deadliness of attempts (failed attempts make it less likely you will try again).

I don't think an increase in suicides a priori means the pandemic is handled poorly if it is the best we could do while stopping the 600k virus deaths from becoming 1.2 mill or whatever.
> What your talking about is something completely different.

I wonder if farmers felt the same way when tractors first started coming onto the scene replacing ox/horses and a plow, or combines, or grain carts, or seed drills, or...

Did you grow up using any of that at-the-time "high tech" equipment? It was high tech at some point, now just common tech. At what point is something considered "high tech?" If you were born in the age of cell phones, are they considered high tech, or just common tech you can find on any street corner like gumball machines? If you were born in the 1950's, does your opinion differ on cell phones from someone currently in their 20's who grew up with it and knew no other way?

Technology fueled the Agricultural Revolution. https://www.thoughtco.com/agricultural-revolution-1991931
Even an Earth stripped of resources, with no fresh water or farmable land, hot and wrecked by global warming, and covered in radiation from nuclear fallout is more habitable than Mars. I'm a big fan of human space exploration, but let's not kid ourselves: Mars will not be even remotely habitable (without fully-enclosed structures and mostly dependent on resources shipped from Earth) for dozens of generations, best case scenario.

Let's try a test run first: Set up a fully independent and self-sustaining habitat of 100K people somewhere in the middle of Antarctica. If we can't even make that work, what makes us think we can inhabit Mars?
It tickles me when people say things like "completely impractical".

Reminds me of a man named Columbus something who once went on a trip that was totally, completely, utterly impractical.

And as we all know, he died en-route and was never heard from again.
ksqlDB (http://ksqldb.io/) does exactly this out of the box. You write SQL queries whose results you can subscribe to with a client connection. Today these subscriptions are somewhat expensive, but we're actively working on making them lightweight and scalable. I'm really looking forward to seeing the end result, I think it opens up whole new use cases.
I think they mean "we have code that sets a flag whenever the UI blocks for more than 100 milliseconds. We clear that flag every 30 seconds. We see it set 1% of the times that we clear it."
C99 I would imagine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C99
It seems strange that the fan blades are not protected in any way. Isn't this likely to batter marine life and capture floating fish nets? In contrast seafaring impellers are usually ensconced in a large housing that protects the blades and directs flow.
I'm also from Melbourne, and have lived in California for fifteen years. I put what you describe down to how often people move in America vs Australia.

In Australia, many people tend to stay in the same city for most of their lives, whereas America is full of people who go to high school in one state, university in another, and work in more - even those who stay in the same state often move cities (America has way more cities with way fewer people) they are constantly making new friends.

This means things like: in my 20s in Melbourne, parties tended to consist of friends who've known each other for a long time. In America, the host often didn't know everyone at the party because the invitation is open.

Canberra is actually a little more similar to America - most who live there came from somewhere else, so the social situation is much more open.
I built my own gaming pc back in Nov 2010 with an i7-970 24g ram. While I have upgraded the GPU twice and upgraded to larger SSD's as prices have come down, I am still using the same machine for gaming. Not that what I am doing is very intense or hardcore intense graphics. I can comfortably play all the Blizzard titles, modern FPS like whatever COD is newest, etc. Maybe not on max settings anymore.

Still, I am impressed by how much I have gotten out of my machine.
30s frequency buckets wouldn't be phrased as "every 30s" though, no?
To add more anecdata, I've heard of an increase in people seeking help for addiction issues (alcohol, weed). I imagine many of them perhaps were problematic in their use already, but the pandemic made things bad enough to seek help.
Is there no legal support for challenging the source code of the product in the UK?
Thanks for the insights!

Still I think ebooks are a different product. At least in my head. I have a different emotional relationship with a physical book. The information within isn't in competition with the endless a "wealth" of information available legally or not.

For text books piracy is a victimless "crime" in my case, as having a digital copy or not, is independent from financial loss above a certain price tag. That is, I can't afford most text books, so I won't buy them; piracy does not influence the income of the publisher. On the other hand, if I really need/want to buy a book, I am likely gonna get much more intimate with it. Let's face it, digital copies are much more likely not to be read. Maybe only indexed and searched as part of a collection. Digital has a different value. (Although, I ofc understand the superficial dilemma here.)

This is the situation we got IMO.

Side note: You, as someone from the industry, I assume we can both agree that at the very least, a free digital copy should be included with every physical one, right? That just silly and artificial to separate, if you make an argument for the value of content and presentation.
What’s not misleading about offering a “Buy” option and a lower-priced “Rent” option?
> If we heard that deaths from car accidents was down but the number of accidents was way up, we'd want to do something to address it because clearly there's a problem.

Yes, but it would be much better than the flip side scenario of way more people dying but fewer accidents, no?

Indeed, I would argue it's better than the same number of people dying as before and the same number of accidents.
Is the upvote button in the wrong place?
New to HN here. Reading for a long time but just recently created an account. Also recently I started collapsing the first comment to see if anyone else decided to add something instead of replying to the first one. However I find myself almost always upvoting the comment instead of collapsing it.

Am I the only one who finds the upvote button misplaced and expects that arrow to collapse the comment?
I would like to see the same happening to Amazon, which also "sells" Films, instead of clearly noting they are just renting it for as long as you have an account with them.
The blockchain only solves the trust problem ON THE CHAIN itself. However, everything useful is going to involve something off chain, at which point we are back to having a trust problem.

Take, for example, the simplest use of currency... I want to buy an item that someone else is selling. The blockchain can verify that the buyer has sent the seller money, but it can’t verify that the thing the person bought isn’t defective. It can’t even verify that that person even delivers the item to me. It can’t verify that the item isn’t stolen.

Credit cards can help remedy the situation for all of those things.
And back before then, the developers were REALLY hardcore, having stacks of cuniform etched clay tablets strewn about their caves. Occasionally a stack was knocked over, and a developer was crushed. Yes, development has become not only easier over the years, but safer as well.
That's fair, those are indeed hard to do right or impossible (although I hope we can collectively solve the "people use crypto keys properly" problem at some point).
We are not deeply connected to the natural world at all. Otherwise we’d have panicked about the mass extinction we are causing already and we’d do more than talking about addressing climate change.

We are profiting off nature, turning it into a domesticated version we hope will be sustainable (but have no proof it will be, quite the contrary).

And yet it’s true that we never understood the world around us so well. This is fantastic if you are interested in sciences. Overwhelming evidence shows that most people don’t care.
I think that would be a difficult conclusion to make. As several people have pointed out, suicidal ideation reports have spike higher during the same time. There are a ton of possible reasons people aren't dying from suicide, but there were more attempts during this time suggesting that your thesis isn't super strongly supported.
Isn't suicide anti-correlated with urban living? In California urban counties like San Francisco, Alameda, and Los Angeles are clustered around 7 suicides per 100k, while rural counties like Shasta, Siskiyou, and Lake are 25-30.
Maybe this is your point, but race and wealth seem to have a correlation and I think it’s reasonable to say systemic racism impacts outcomes (wealth).

I would also like to see this broken down by income.
I'm sure the victims from TFA don't see it as a feature, and as such: If crypto-enthousiasts have the right to victim-blaming, I certainly have the right to point out what's going on, no?
The parent comment talked about the implications he thought this had about the architecture. Like half of the thread seemingly ignoring that a) there are x86 processors that are more than competitive and b) that the big leap he described is more likely coming from the faster storage and from comparing it with the very much older and weaker processors most people that bought an upgrade now had in their old laptops.

Heck, he might have used an old dual core with an HDD from all we know. Of course the new M1 models would make a big difference then. So would all other modern laptops.

But in that context of x86 and ARM Zen3 is absolutely the only sound comparison.
My sister plays a lot of scrabble so I am happy to be able to share your site with her.

If I can be so bold as to offer one criticism of your site though, it was a bit confusing when I first clicked to look at it. The first page is a barrage of information none of which seemed relevant for my first visit. I clicked the links at the top of the page and ended up on completely different web sites with equally confusing first pages.

Eventually I did click and watch a scrabble game being played, which looked great!
It should be noted that the study the article is covering only looked at people in Maryland, so the findings don't necessarily apply to the rest of the country.

I also think it is interesting that the article doesn't mention what the actual suicide rates are/were. Prior to the pandemic white suicide rates were more than twice that of black suicide rates.

In 2017 suicide rates were:

- White Men: 28.2 per 100,000

- Black Men: 11.4 per 100,000

- White Women: 8 per 100,000

- Black Women: 3 per 100,000

https://www.usnews.com/news/healthiest-communities/articles/...
Not to mention instant loading and the sheer bliss of being offline if you want.
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Well if you were using something like protobuf/gRPC, you could evolve the API.
Studies like this makes me realize that it's impossible to predict trends in society by using logic alone. At the start of Covid pandemic I heard arguments that birth rates would go up (couples at home with plenty of time for sex) or that they would go down (not a good time to have a baby with hospitals overflowing and an uncertain future). Which was right? And what about murders: Would it go down because people have to stay home and bars were closed so less chance for drunken fights? Would it go up because people are frustrated and desperate with no jobs and no money?

We now know the answers to the above (both births and murders went down during the past year), but as far as I know we can't prove the precise reason it happened the way it did.

It reminds me of the big debates we had right here on Hacker News about why Americans were slim in the 1950s -- just look at photos of crowds from the 1950s -- but are overweight today. We know what happened but we can't prove the precise reason.
Seems simpler just to use extensions or magic #s. Most normal users don't understand metadata.
Your idealistic vision sounds well and good. But what if you refuse to conform to cisgender- and heteronormativity, but your neighbour is a bigot? What if you are a politically active citizen, but your neighbor’s politics are hostile to yours? (Note that the rise of the Nordic welfare states in fact helped to smooth out some political polarization that was hurting those societies in the early 20th century.) In the past, neighbourly help often was refused to people like that. And what if you are a very introverted person who simply doesn’t want to interact with people outside your comfort zone?

Also, “bored and depressed bureaucrats” and “Kafkaesque rules” is a caricature, it may not be how others perceive their country’s welfare state. Satisfaction in fact may run high.
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I suspect they didn't think they became thieves overnight, but that the new system caught existing thieves.
Which part of "[sic]" did you find obtuse?

On those questions I put the slider at 50%.
In a past life, I was tasked with localization support for a product we were working on.

One of the major challenges was localizing error messages. Since the system was heterogeneous and packed with legacy code, there wasn't really a good way to get the org to adopt a framework for localizing the error strings that myriad backends would emit. So any localization we'd do would end up being some form of "heuristic-match the plain English representation of the error (the only representation we could assume every error supported) and transform it into a localized string."

But we eventually abandoned the task for a simple and very specific reason: someone brought us data that showed that most of our users figured out what to do about our error messages by querying StackOverflow, and we were therefore doing the users a disservice... Since SO can't language-translate one topic to another, we'd undesirably balkanize the aggregated knowledge space if we vended different users different error strings to plug in as search queries!

So for maximum usability, we settled on the surprising solution where much of our UI was localized, except for the error messages, which were intentionally kept in English for maximum concentration of search results.

If you want to avoid this problem in your org, my recommendation (from the position of pretending I was working in an ideal greenfield project with zero legacy code) would be to take the Microsoft-style approach of maintaining a global namespace of unique error code identifiers and emit those identifiers to the user along with ther plain-language error description. It's ugly and "computer-y," so you might get pushback from your UX team, but if you're going to support multiple languages, it provides a hook for services like StackOverflow (and other fora) to aggregate knowledge of an error across different human languages via a language-agnostic representation. At least until StackOverflow solves the hard problem of translating search queries so it can vend answers in a language-agnostic way, and I'm not going to hold my breath on that happening.
This is the proof that how we write software is inherently wrong, if we allow innocent lives to be destroyed because we don't want to write it differently.

Imagine not doing inspections of new building construction because it would be costly.
There’s a time honored solution for this - bond. You’re not allowed in port until you post a bond that would cover whatever - crew repatriation, port fees, whatever. This could be formalized, eg through a holding company (Lloyds?) that the port could verify the bond with, etc. I don’t have any knowledge of the shipping industry but from hearing this and other stories it sounds like a cluster f*k.
you'll get used to this.
Currently I have 32GB & used a machine with 96GB. How much RAM do browsers need? FWIW Firefox doesn't do too much better.
It's not the end product itself that eats huge amounts of RAM or CPU. It's the dev tooling.
Web searching is one of the most important skills for everyone. The world today seems to me like a place with abundance of tools. More tools than one can imagine. Seems like the frontier separating one from solving any problem, is search. Search for the right tools that surely exist. So tool-searching tool would be a heck of a tool
> I don't think we take software reliability seriously enough, most of our focus is on speed of release, ever quicker cycles and it being OK to break things.

This is extremely domain dependent, and should be handled as such. And in some cases it already is - look at the testing / verification space shuttle code goes through vs your friends cat video side project website.
that implies it's possible to waste time.
I got it all figured out but I don't think it's easy. I have a stack of discs awaiting the ambition to start swapping and ripping and converting again.
Would M1 scale up with 64GB or even 1.5TB of RAM? It's not possible to have that much memory integrated; what would be the performance difference in that case?
> A subset of Canary users who have opted in to sharing anonymized metrics have circular-buffer tracing enabled

Where is that setting? I'm pretty sure it asks on install, but what about after that?

Update: Seems to be in settings -> Sync and Google Services -> Help improve Chrome's features and performance
What impacts what you consider "plausible" is your political preference.

Can I see the source of data indicating that there has been an increase in suicide deaths in the US? So far, nobody in the thread has actually posted such "similar data."

Nebulous references to what is "plausible" and "similar data" that never appears is, of course, exactly what we don't want.