skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why does it seem strange to suggest one can't generalize across countries? What does the life of the average American have in common with the life of the average Saudi Arabian or Chinese person, for instance?

As far as poverty goes, I don't see any reason at all that absolute poverty should mean anything. Again, my buying power isn't materially affected by that of people in Europe, for instance, but my buying power certainly has a huge absolute effect on my quality of life. I would expect the effect of poverty on suicide rates to be stronger per country than worldwide for this reason, and also that what is considered poor in the United States would be unimaginably rich in some countries.

And, those cultural factors are precisely what makes it difficult to compare across countries. The amount of statistical adjustment you'd have to do to compare across even 10 countries would probably swamp most of the non-cultural effects is my guess.
> but there are enough plausible reasons why they can't find the money

There is a strange presumption in here. It is true that lack of evidence doesn't always means there's evidence that there was no crime. But that shouldn't matter. A crime should only be prosecutable if it is demonstrable. We shouldn't say "oh, well the prosecution had a really hard case, we should just convict this person anyway because it wasn't fair to those lawyers." That's such a perverse way of reasoning about it.
I think you should keep it simple but flexible. For example I loathe Jira because their model doesn't mesh with how I work at all. I end up trying to map my processes into their tool mostly for reporting.

The things that I would really like to see are:

1. First class support for dependencies. I want to easily see what a particular issue blocks and what blocks it. I want easy buttons to add a blocking issue or a blocked-by issue. (Also make it super easy to create new blockers which is great for breaking down tasks). I would also love a tool that can tell me what I can work on now, where I can make progress. Basically I want to be able to make a search for my open issues which don't have any open blockers.

2. Performance is very important. It can be fake (do everything in the background and confirm when it is done syncing to the server) but I want to dump things down so I remember them and I can sort them out later.

3. Keep everything flexible. For example I see issue types as an anti-pattern as they restrict what you can do. I often transition issues between types in Jira and end up losing half of the info because it isn't allowed in that schema. I want to track an issue of time so and requirements/plans/priority change over time so I need to be able to change everything about the ticket without losing valuable history.

4. Some sort of simple scriptability. I often have a situation where I run ls, grep or some other quick tool to generate a list then want to file issues for all of the results so I can then work my way through them. So I want an easy way to dump these into the bug tracker (probably as blockers of some other issue).

5. An email interface. I work out of my inbox and the ability to read and respond to issues from my inbox is sooooo convenient. Bonus points if I can do actions such as open/close/add blockers with an email response as well.

6. I also think the concept of "projects" is largely a mistake. Issues switch between project or cut across all of the time. I think tags are generally a more flexible option that satisfies most of the use cases. (A really nice approach that I saw was the ability for anyone to create "lists" which were used a lot as tags. So you can have a "project:foobar" list and a "backlog" list and manage those. This is also more flexible because a ticket can be in as many lists as you want.

7. An amazing feature that I have only seen from launchpad is integration with other bug tracker. My work often depends on other projects which run their own issue trackers. It would be amazing if I could depend on external issues just like internal ones.
Right! And imagine the number of ELECTRONS whey would save from moving! That's also a big number.
How long does recharging take? And what infrastructure is required at the airport?
https://ustreama.com/2021/04/23/ufc-261-live-stream-how-to-w...
Obviously. If the docs are garbage then you are going to have to find alternatives. However these days devs have never had it better.
I am grateful for this map. I used it to scout out Mojave desert as a place to do some stargazing. I was surprised that Las Vegas is still very clearly visible on the horizon, despite this being a very dark "hole" in the map.

You gotta go really far out to get dark skies all the way to the horizon.
> Isn’t it then your obligation to never visit that site again?

Not really. As long as your site is public, I can enter. If you don't want that, make it private, or subscription only.

> It’s like if you found out a restaurant didn’t accept cash and still kept going to eat there when you only had a credit card, knowing in advance you can’t and won’t pay.

It's more like going to a public museum that accepts donations and not making a donation. The place is public, and I decide if I pay or not.
Out of curiosity, how do batteries behave in the cold temperature you can experience in altitude (or by cold weather)? The plane will not have a combustion engine to heat everything up.
Awesome!!! Those initial test results are darn impressive. Good to see they are working directly with Intel, AMD and Nvidia.
> How is any of this specific to Intel?

As of right now, there are 6 different Intel processor brands and close to 100 different SKUs.

Source: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/pro...

Currently, there is one M1.
Desire Paths Can Influence Design Choices
Well, you've demonstrated that memory addresses aren't that hard. But you've also demonstrated how easy it is to get undefined behavior in C programs.

C's pointers aren't memory addresses. Ok, they tend to be represented as such at run time, but that's not what the spec actually says the are. And as far as compiler authors are concerned, they can do anything they want as long as it's within spec. Further, the spec even requires some additional behaviors pure memory addresses aren't capable of. See https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2020/12/14/provenance.html for examples of the extra requirements.

Compared to that mess, lambdas are trivial. They're just functions.
This is pretty common, oftentimes cars with parts restricted to VIN (special editions, etc.) or online manual or software download portals will ask for a VIN. Sometimes this is to verify parts fitment and sometimes it is to attempt to rate-limit parts purchase (i.e. - to keep a dealer from buying 100 sets of "special edition" wheels and reselling them, they need to supply a unique VIN for each).

The difference is that these are usually an extremely basic (and ultimately pointless) authentication test, not a way to download PII.
At least when my wife hit that in the Shanghai/Pudong airport (residue from a heart scan, not cancer) they resolved it in a few minutes of talking.

On the other hand, I think Shanghai didn't check well enough--there was one simple test they could have done but didn't: Hand held geiger counter, see what's hot. Body equally hot, baggage not hot, it's medical.

Why couldn't the US cops do the same thing?
I've kept an eye on Blender for the last 15 years and tried it again recently after having almost exclusively used Maya. It's continually improved in just about every way, is relatively easy to use with just a trackpad, and it performs really well.

In contrast, Maya is has more features overall but is... a piece of shit in many ways. It doesn't matter what hardware I've used; it's a rule that Maya has to crash randomly when doing basic things. I used to be able to just open the Hypershade, but with Maya 2020 merely opening it causes the entire application to crash.

So I've decided to ditch it for Blender. I'm not doing character animation anymore, but I still enjoy modeling and rigging some things I want to conceptualize in 3D space, as well as create 3D printables, and Blender is absolutely up to the task.

It kind of baffles me how little interest the motion picture and television industries have had in Blender. Big studios are still using Maya, which I know also crashes for them and has performance issues. They could pour all their money into improving Blender and eventually not have to pay Autodesk anymore for licenses for poorly managed software that seems to rarely receive bug fixes.
I think using an alphabet of length 4 is probably a specialized enough use case that it deserves its own analysis from whole cloth if your goal is maximal performance.

I work on text search where the alphabet size is 256. If someone told me to work on text search where the alphabet size is 4, a lot of what I'd do would change, starting with my benchmark inputs.

So I kind of think responding to general claims about substring performance with, "well in DNA searching..." is kind of reframing the discussion to a specialized use case with very different priors. That is, I'm not sure anyone ever said running BM on DNA was a good idea. But maybe it's convenient, so that's what folks do. :-)
Please make it as ugly as Bugzilla so the project mangler types don't spend all day trawling through it and reprioritizing bugs we've already started working on.

More seriously, how about multiple sets of priorities? And a way to reconcile them. God knows the programmers usually have a second set of priorities based on how much things are at risk of falling apart at any given time and how irritating the problems are to live with. That's not usually aligned with the PM's list of priorities.

Also: the quip list! That's a feature that always brings a smile to my face!
There's a great documentary about this subculture called "California Typewriter". And the book "The Typewriter Revolution" (as well as the accompanying website) are also great!
Are any of the mosquito extinction approaches being seriously tried? Genetic engineering, etc.?
Engineered coronavirus stirs debate over risky research (2015)
> I did, but if at some point they will have to add some ad

Why? Plenty of sites are able to survive solely on a donation model, even large ones. Look at Wikipedia.
Watching Blender become more and more prominent over the last several years has been extremely satisfying. This looks like another great step.
Thank you, me too.
The current official plan is for Starship to take astronauts from the Gateway to the surface of the moon and back. That plan is ridiculously complex and expensive when you could skip the Gateway and ride Starship all the way to the moon instead. At some point Starship will be ready and SLS and the Gateway will still not be ready and then NASA can decide to bypass the bullshit.
Most of this seems pretty explainable except for the offshore spots near South Korea, both east of Busan and near Jeju. Fishing related?
For now. As mentioned above, it will trickle down. It's pretty embarrassing these days to be German tbh. Especially after what has happened in the last 12 months. Feels a lot like the country as a whole just gave itself up and stopped caring. Now people just decided to enjoy the decline as it doesn't really matter anymore. Especially since we're about to elect a party to govern is that will drastically increase state intervention. And we all know how that ends, I guess.
As a kid, I heard people say the phrase “legos my eggos”, (since the “leggo” had lost al of its association with “let go”).
Yes, yes and yes. :-)

https://github.com/rust-lang/regex/blob/3db8722d0b204a85380f...
I agree, but I don't see a selection bias in something as large and diverse in all dimensions as Los Angeles County. It's bigger than Honduras.

Anyway I just don't see the data from which the original conclusion is made. According to CDC WISQARS the suicide rate in Baltimore MD was 9 per 100k, whereas in nearby rural Cecil County MD it was 24 per 100k.
Most light pollution laws limit outdoor lighting fixtures and require them to only emit downwards and not upwards.
Safari vs. Chrome (or Firefox) is one part of why I can get so much more mileage out of a Mac's memory than I can under Linux or Windows. It's wildly more respectful of system resources, across the board—memory, processor cycles, and battery.

The rest of their software's mostly like that, too, with the possible exception of Xcode. I often forget Preview with a half-dozen PDFs is open, and Pages with a document, and Numbers. I wouldn't forget a single tab of Google Docs under Chrome, left open for weeks, because it would make itself known in system responsiveness and battery use. Ditto MS Office. Mac Terminal's got notably lower input latency than most other terminal emulators, especially featureful ones.

Apple, seemingly almost uniquely among major software vendors, gives a shit about performance, and it shows. I really, really wish they had competitors, but in so many ways they're the only ones doing what they do, to the point that they can make periodic serious blunders and I'm left going, "yeah, but what else am I gonna buy, that won't have a 'normal' that's overall-worse than Apple's 'broken'?"
> The postmaster general is the second-highest paid U.S. government official,
> based on publicly available salary information, after the President of the
> United States.[13]

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

PmG is a very powerful position.
The return of NUMA!
Looks fun! But I'd already be happy with 100 free users :] Best of luck to anyone getting in.
I get where you are coming from but I don’t really care what you buy movies for and I don’t really understand what that has to do with this topic. This isn’t a wishy washy political or abstract technical topic. Its a legal interpretation.

Did you really need to reiterate yourself three times? Are you even really trying to participate in the conversation here are you trying to derail?
As far as I am aware that capture card won't capture HDCP content? So anything that uses Widevine or similar DRM will not work. There are options for capture cards designed to bypass HDCP but it's a bit more involved.

Are you saying you haven't had any issues with HDCP?
Not sure why parent is getting downvoted, unless this really does not happen in Germany. Regulators getting jobs at the very companies they were supposed to regulate is common enough that it has a name:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolving_door_(politics)
They implemented the system without even thinking of the false positives. Eventually they added that to the procedures, but they harassed quite a few people before that happened. Cancer patients on top of that, many of whom were probably half dead already.
Apple Stole My Idea for AirTags
Never hold much faith in any proposed new GA aircraft this early in the development process. This announcement basically is a group of people saying "Wouldn't it be cool if we..."
Controlling CX with Headless CMS
So this is wework for kitchens?
A real estate company pretending to be a tech startup, getting showered with "stupid" money, with a wonky unproven business model?

Gee, what could go wrong....
Wanting 1500 nm range if 500 is sufficient is the airborne version of unnecessary range anxiety.
Your opinion on convenience is not relevant to this case.
No but a street full of posters and billboards definitely is.
Even though taking out a few million dollars in cash is suspicious, withdrawing a few million dollars to a cryptocurrency exchange is even more suspicious.
My understanding is they were an equivalent and competition of businesses like Neteller, Skrill, (Transfer)Wise, Paypal. Not sure how clients would directly withdraw cash from them? These could be valid "cash transfers" to various subsidaries avoiding banking system for whatever reason. BTW there was an interesting "cash fever" months before outbreak of COVID, even Deutsche Bank in Germany was putting in their ATM areas messages "for withdrawals exceeding 10k eur notice us in advance", hadn't seen them ever before.
> "Apple didn’t do black magic. [...] Other ARM manufacturers could equal or exceed the M1 if they wanted."

I see lots of people saying "If only $company had an ARM device", and I don't understand it. My experience of ARM device is slow laggy janky products - from competing smartphones, tablets, router and network device management interfaces, year on year, the pairing is always (arm + fucking slow).

It's only Apple who have managed to get "desktop class" performance, and at this point I'm more willing to attribute that to Apple doing black magic than to ARM being inherently superior.

Microsoft have piles of money, thousands of developers, they make hardware, they've been working with ARM since the likes of the Compaq IPAQ PDA and Windows CE 21 years ago, and the Surface RT in 2012, their ARM devices are nothing to speak of. Google, industry gorilla of tech with the finances to match - see the famous Gruber/DaringFireball about iPhones far ahead in single core JavaScript performance year after year after year. Tech giants like Samsung, Qualcomm, Sony, who have been designing and building chips for decades, with their own drivers, firmware, and customized Android builds, and building their own flagship products.

Apple whomps in from "nowhere" with the fastest ARM device anyone has ever seen, and the critics response is "anyone could do that if they wanted to".

Then why don't they want to?

[Edit: Consider also that Apple spent $278M on acquiring PA Semi chip design company in 2008, and $600M on Dialog Semiconductor in 2018, and Microsoft spent $2.5BN on Minecraft. I say these companies "are tech giants with finances to match", but it's not like Apple had to lean hard into their hundreds of billions cash pile to do what they've done. Instead they had to do something that appears to be "black magic" (i.e. desire + leadership + execution + long term planning + ???)].
Oil rigs?
> Microsoft is working on the ARM transition.

And has been for years. Unlike Apple they don’t have the ability (or the courage) to tell their partners to get on the train or get out of their way.

It’s not obvious they’ll ever be able to leave x86 behind.
I don't get it. 4 years without food an electricity? No Payment? What did he eat?

"was able to swim ashore every few days". Ok, swim ashore, hitchhike to the next city, try to cross a border.
Border to Israel looks tricky:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt%E2%80%93Israel_barrier

Worst case, go to Sudan or something. Apply for Asylum, get deported.
That feels like an extraordinary claim that calls for extraordinary detail and proof. Electric cars have lower operating and maintenance costs than ICE cars, but nothing huge like that...not even "half"...perhaps "3/4". I get that the spread would be larger for aircraft but "1/5" is a big claim. Maybe they are cherry picking the shortish time period before the aircraft needs its first major maintenance event?

Edit: It's not the lower cost I'm disputing. It's the 1/5th bit. That's a huge claim that should come with some detail. How much of that is fuel cost, maintenance...over what time period?
"Many farmers in North Dakota can't prevent drillers from drilling — even if they'd like to. Decades ago, the rights to the minerals below those farms were separated from the rights to the land itself — which is why today, energy companies can move in, create drilling pads where they please, move in trucks and workers, without the farmers' consent."

Am I reading this right? A company can just plop drilling operations on a farmer's land?
Haiku is okay.

Gives me a funny feeling.

Not as fun as rhymes.
One step closer to getting 10 gigabit at home
Amazing app! I’ve been a beta tester for the past few months and I honestly use this every day. Great for organizing workspaces.
Basically, yes.

Gateway is smaller, doesn't have two airlocks, etc. If you want to build a station in LLO, just build it from a few starship hulls.

Also, the stupid polar orbit around the moon isn't necessary if you have moon starlink (no comm loss on dark side). This saves energy otherwise needed for inclination changes.
I tend to agree. If you are a storage company, I’d think that part of your secret sauce should be how to store tens or hundreds of petabytes of customer backups economically.

Maybe I’m wrong though. Perhaps the real secret sauce is the end user experience and the kind of storage you use on the backend doesn’t matter at all.

However I bet that the “cloud storage space” is pretty crowded and lots of people shop on price more than anything. If your business model is all about price, then finding economical storage is critical to your company and needs to be part of your core competency.

If price isn’t that important, perhaps it doesn’t matter... the “winners” would win no matter how expensive their storage solution is.

But honestly.... I feel like part of your core competency needs to be managing the storage system.
There’s a lovely shop in Manhattan called Gramercy typewriter repair, they do an amazing job.
> and a unified memory architecture (less unnecessary copying on the bus).

So does every other Intel & AMD laptop CPU from the last 5+ years. So does every Qualcomm SoC from the last 5+ years. This has been incredibly common for years and years now.

This does a lot less than you think it does, particularly since there's very few consumer workloads that switch between CPU & GPU.
In college (undergrad and grad school) I did a lot of graphics programming and color lost all meaning on many occasions. It wasn't the whole variable name (well, typically, maybe on occasion but not normally) but often things like BackgroundColor or ForegroundColor and so on. On many busy coding days at some point I'd just see this word scattered about the screen and have to convince myself that it was in fact the correct word and used correctly and spelled correctly (though perhaps British English speakers would disagree on the spelling).

I haven't experienced it in quite a while, though. And I don't do any graphics programming anymore anyways so when that word shows up in my code it's usually in the very minimal bit of GUI programming I touch anymore. I'm not sure any other word ever gave me quite as much trouble.
You could use an autohotkey script to remap the keys. It's not elegant and is frustrating, but it can make a game playable. AHK by default suppresses the keystroke itself, which means that all you have to do is create a mapping of the keys to other keys in a script and run it.

I use it to bind caps lock to a windows-wide microphone mute toggle and it works great.
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