skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Everybody keeps going on about "yeah, but someone will undercut them, free market, bla bla", but it never happens in practice.

I asked about this a while back on HN. I’ve heard enough people complain about smart TV’s even outside of the sort of tech privacy bubble that I wondered why no one tried to take a dumb-TV angle or how difficult it might be to do so.

Was basically told, that consumer hardware is mostly a commodity business and that margins are super thin so it’s not really a profitable idea. So the companies turn to smart TVs where they can make up the cost by things like advertising.

FWIW in a later discussion elsewhere, I was pointed to a handful of Dumb-TVs being sold at Walmart, etc. I don’t recall whether you have options for high resolution or large sizes though. Commercial displays also get brought up in this discussion, but if my experience with other commercial hardware is any indication, general consumers may have a hard time getting their hands in those.
> Terabytes per day of swap activity is not normal, no matter how much these machines are designed to swap on purpose.

1TB is only 62.5 * 16GB. If its paging out 8GB+ apps (quite easy for chrome with a number of tabs) it only takes one memory hog to increase the TBW in a few hours of typical app switching for a mobile app developer.

This edge case is pretty extreme, sure, but its still a MINIMUM lifetime of 2 years. It doesn't mean its suddenly going to die when it hits 100%, and even if it did it should be covered by warranty. And this usage is an order of magnitude more than the vast majority of other reports that were made.

Im inclined to think its a non-issue, but totally respect your position.

As an aside, I use tab suspenders on my browsers - habit from my intel mac where chrome frequently caused memory congestion. Its probably why I get away with running 2 iOS simulators, an android emulator, xcode, intellij, 3 vscode instances, safari, firefox and chrome, and a bunch of utilities and services on an 8GB machine - but ill still be first in line for a 32GB+ 16+ core machine, because then ill be able to run VMs :D
And, in the fields which make heavy use of mathematical abstractions, “open-source” proofs written in a language amenable to automated proof assistants.
There is also a question as to the extent to which the current rules send a signal to be careful or not. Anecdotally and highly subjectively, I felt like when schools were closed here in January, everybody started being more careful generally - as though closing schools went a strong message that it was time to be cautious again, more than just announcements about virus rates would have done.
This seems like an interesting claim. One way to validate it might be to run this analysis on the same topic on different news sources and see if the relative biases of the sources matches our intuitions.

For example, I would expect to find that Fox News uses more violent descriptions of BLM protestors, and that the Washington Post uses fewer; I would expect the converse when describing the Jan 6 US Capitol riots.

This kind of comparison doesn't say whether the BLM protests are more or less violent than the Capitol riots, but it would say whether such an analysis hews to our intuition about relative bias between news sources.
Your network links supports certain throughput and latencies depending on the packet sizes. Your vendor should tell you what these are, and provide you with benchmarks to reproduce their claims (OSU reproduces these for, e.g., MPI).

The network card also has hardware limits in the BW that it can handle, its latency. It is connected with the CPU via PCI-e usually, which has also latency and bandwidths, etc.

All this go to the CPU, which has latencies and BW from the different caches and DRAM, etc.

So you should be able to model what's the theoretical maximum of request that the network can handle, and then the network interface, the PCI-e bus, etc. up to DRAM.

The amount that they can handle differs, so the bottleneck is going to be the slowest part of the chain.

For example, as an extremely simplified example, say you have a 100 GB/s network, connected to a network adapter that can handle 200GB/s, connected with PCI-e 3 to the CPU at 12GB/S, which is connected with DRAM at 200GB/s.

If each request has to receive or send 1 GB, then you can at most handle 12 req/s because that's all what your PCI-e bus can support.

If you are then delivering 1 reqs/s then either your "model" is wrong, or your app is poorly implemented.

If you are then delivering 11 req/s, then either your "model" is wrong, or your app is well implemented.

But if you are far away from your model, e.g., at 1 reqs/s, you can still validate your model, e.g., by using two PCI-e bus, which you then expect to be 2x as fast. Maybe your data about your PCI-e bw is incorrect, or you are not understanding something about how the packets get transfer, but the model guides you through the hardware bottlenecks.

The blog post lacks a "model", and focus on "what the software does" without ever putting it into the context of "what the hardware can do".

That is enough to allow you to compare whether software A is faster than software B, but if you are the fastest, it doesn't tell you how far can you go.
I have arguments with people about this fairly often. Common sense is learned, not common.

I think what happens is that if you get lucky, and learn a mental model for the underlying system that better explains the process you're following, it becomes indistinguishable from "reality" and appears "common sense". If you get really really lucky, someone teaches you (or you spot it), really young.
Another approach would be to have capacitors with little leds on them which show charge, leads with little leds which show current, etc.
github too: actions runners were teetering for us on 10, and then fell over on 11
I'm convinced that who ever came up with this valve was inspired by anuses. Its a clever way to dispense honey without making a mess.

Anus inspired honey dispenser https://imgur.com/a/jmQUSYr
There is actual research in the domain of language complexity! (Which, to be fair, is still a somewhat more niche topic in linguistics)

What little I know of it does suggest a couple of things (but my knowledge might be slightly outdated):

- It's true that no language is fundamentally unlearnable, not even as an adult (although you can of course always debate what "fluency" means exactly - to this date, I'm fairly certain that there are certain kinds of mistakes I make in English which native speakers don't make).

- A lot of the complexity does come from things like vocab and usage patterns, so even for a language where the grammar is "easy" (whatever that means - suppose we have a definition for that) it's not like it would be "easy" to speak properly. English in particular seems to have this "easy to learn, hard to master" problem.

- when we talk about grammar, there are definite differences in complexity, at least when we focus on certain areas (such as complexity of words). English is really just very simple in that regard, so is e.g. Chinese.

- contrary to GP's assumption, there is some evidence to believe that the causality goes in the opposite direction: English is not widely spoken because it's easy, it has become easier as part of being widely spoken as a second language.[1]

- relatedly, it appears that languages with very few non-native speakers (such as indigenous languages spoken only by a couple hundred of people) tend to have rather complicated grammatical features

[1] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
Bust myths with science. Than people can point to bro.science/mythical-topic
while there are merits to "harm reduction", none of its proponents think through logical consequences.

you may argue a heroin addict has a right to heroin, but does a pangolin scale juicer have that right also and is the government now responsible for supplying them with safe pangolin scales?

what is the "correct" amount of heroin a person should be able to get from a pharmacy? how much should that cost? what if the "correct" amount for me is just under lethal dose and im essentially comatose between hits? is that society's responsibility to nurture my addiction. why is a single state-issued dose compassionate care, when many addicts need 4 or 5 doses per day to feel good? when i can longer afford the pharmaceutical dose, won't i just go back to street heroin?

if it's blindingly obvious that no state should seek to ensure that a "just-under-lethal-comatose-all-day" type of habit is supported and funded by the state, why would the state think it has some obligation to fund and support any habit at all. people get hooked on gambling and sky-diving too, but no reasonable people think it's the state's responsibility to maintain those.
You are correct, although I wouldn't call this a study. It's a science paper, yes, but it doesn't contain any new data that has been studied, just some fancy formulas and graphs and conjecture by a couple of people with a science degree.
> I don't remember the specifics, but I recall reading there's an actual IBM 7000 series mainframe still in government service. It has some kind of wrapper implemented to allow it to be called by more modern systems.

My understanding is some US government agency still has some apps written in 7074 assembly language. But it doesn't have a physical 7074 series mainframe, it uses a 7074 emulator which runs under z/OS on modern System z hardware.

That 7074 emulator isn't some secret sauce, it is actually just a very old IBM product. When IBM released the S/360 in the 1960s, they also released a 7074 emulator to help customers port their apps from 7074 to S/360. And this US government agency used that emulator to port some of their 7074 apps to S/360, and are still running the emulator on modern z/OS. It is probably no longer officially supported by IBM, but due to z/OS's excellent backward compatibility it still runs.

(The idea that the US government still has a physical 7074, as opposed to just an emulator for it, is in part due to US government employees who have spoken about this topic publicly being deliberately vague due to "security reasons".)
I think you are right in your critique, but you cannot then draw your own conclusions without providing some data that at least partially supports it.

Yes, we need to have a ground truth with regard to violence committed. But that data is already published elsewhere

https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-208380/
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Thing that always confused me is why in so many languages peppers are named the same or very similar to pepper?
Vines is difficult to run these days because of the hardware license tokens which were used until near their end. By the time Banyan allowed soft tokens almost all remaining users were upgrade users who already had hardware tokens. Not many soft tokens were ever issued.

The hardware token requirement hasn't been worked around yet and sets of Vines disks with hardware tokens can be hard to find. They also sell for hundreds of dollars.
All operations have to be defined, and learned first. That's like saying that you can't multiply two matrices... (Though it does annoy me when a symmetric symbol is used for non-commutative operations !)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_number#/media/File:Com...

See also geometric/Clifford Algebra :
http://www.av8n.com/physics/clifford-intro.htm
(Though note that it does require TWO different "multiplication" operations to make sense !)
Long pepper isn't European either, it came from India and South East Asia as well.
Absolutely. Complexity in our own system pretty much exploded when we wanted to serve stats at near "real-time" (a couple of seconds delay). If business could just chill out and wait until next day, or even like an hour, we could have saved countless engineering hours. Such is life.
Wow that's a good point! bro.science/TOPIC is an interesting way to have a laugh at some common bro-sciency ideas out there :)
Handling request response isn’t just about packet count. I might as well claim it’s all just electric current and short some wires for max throughput /s
Seems like a good opportunity for some enterprising young individuals in China to being producing dumb TVs, or at least dumb TV screens that can take a variety of inputs...
It's totally possible to have good job postings. Just state a realistic salary range rather than "competitive", explicitly list benefits, and throw some quantifiable statements about work culture into the mix.

It should be possible to know what a role is really about before the second interview, but honestly most companies do a awful job at describing their roles and so you have to drag it out of them during interviews.
If I remember rightly, what they actually claimed is that none of the doctors sent in were infected in the hospitals. That is, there were doctors sent to Wuhan who caught Covid, but the Chinese government blamed it on them becoming infected from contact with people outside of their work.
That's very good news. That was my only pain point with ST3.
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English isn't my native tongue, but I don't really understand the bias conclusion.

After trying to look it up I found this article (2003):

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000236.h...

I thought that funny.

But I think it remains true, that you cannot infer bias by only observing language.
Are you up for selling it? I would love to do some powerlifting humour on it, or make it re-direct to a buddy's domain (he's a personal trainer and it would make it awesome birthday gift).
That's a very native English speaker-centric point of view... Here in Europe we learn English to be able to function in the world, nothing much else. Not many people are interested in any other languages, and Russian was dropped as soon as it got out of importance.
The Western diet is horrible in all honesty. Eliminate carbs and red meats (the core of Western diets) and it creates a world of a difference for many folks, from people trying to achieve ketosis to people suffering from Crohns. Incidentally my Crohns was latent for quite a few years and only flared up when I moved West.
Took me some time to realize that this is a trading bot. Seems relavant to specify that.
Why David Allen Sibley became the pandemic’s unlikeliest celebrity
> Unfortunately, we got stuck on the "wear masks to protect others" narrative

Why is that "unfortunate"? Surely discomfort is less important than actually protecting life?
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Haven't they "just" taken the above explanation, and made a video about it ?
A lower initial load leading to less severe disease makes intuitive sense (less opportunity for the infection to outpace the immune response) and whilst not proved, a lot of virology experts think it's plausible.

There is at least some evidence for it, e.g. a military base study that found less severe disease cases once masks started being worn.
No it was about other persons. I remember one specific instance where a friend explained to me what a neighbor asked of us for a property we manage together and I complain that these demands are really annoying especially after we had spent some money and time satisfying other demands that I personally did not find grounded. My friend then asked "why are you so angry at me?". "I am not! I am complaining!"
shooting ourselves in the foot with cryptocurrencies might not be worth the environmental impact it undeniably causes.

if you want to gamble, go to Las Vegas!
Ask HN: How many kids do you have and how did you manage it?
Pregnancy is really tough on women. For the couples on HN, how did you manage having kids while holding down jobs ? I know that companies provide maternity leaves for the first child but its only for the woman not the husband. How did you manage to have more than one kid ? I know that most companies are lunatics when it comes to maternity benefits. Did one of you quit your job and start consulting or something ? If you did take a break how did it affect your career ? After the ordeal how is the mother doing and how much care was needed for the baby ? I have known people who quit their jobs to start their own small or medium business.
No, however, please note the following:

Companies, like customers, have requirements for their needs. If a company needs a potential employee to know how to invert a binary tree then it's in their right to find one.

In Google's case, as you're probably alluding to[0], although I might be mistaken, they've always had the reputation for seeking the best qualified people[1] for their work. I mean look at who's working for them - there's a lot of well-known people in their respective fields that are working for them.

Moreover, I think that the point of these tests is to help assess a potential employee's abstract thinking. And, probably, to understand one's thought process behind the solution - if there's one - to the given problem. (Which, by the way, might be helpful if you're trying to solve AI - something that's right up in Google's alley ;).

Despite the backlash over this, I believe companies will keep doing these types of tests for a long, long time. I don't think this is going away that easily. And I also think that, in the future, these tests might be done in a way you won't even know you're being tested for.

[0] - https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768

[1] - I understand that "best qualified" here might mean different things for different people, but you should take it literally, that is, people who are above the average in terms of abstract thinking. I suggest you read How Google Works[2], they've coined the term Smart Creative which is kind of(?) related to this.

[2] - https://www.howgoogleworks.net/
From personal experience, it's because not everywhere I want to share a video inline supports proper video files, but they more-often-than-not support gifs. Github was once such example; but now that they support rendering videos in PRs, I've stopped uploading gifs.
The life expectancy for a 1-year old has gone something along the line of +40%. That's significant but not doubled. Infant mortality is by very large margin the most important factor in the changes to life expectancy at birth. And you can get most of the way there with just basic hygiene rules. Full on modern medicine only helps with the hedge cases.

One interesting data point is that the age at which people transition economically from accumulating wealth to transferring it has remained about the same (around 64), at least as far as Western European inheritance records prior to demographic transition show. Ie. people retire at the same age. They just spend more time being old. I'm not sure it's all that much progress. I wish we found ways of making people useful longer, rather than just trying to keep them from dying.
Interesting.

I would have guessed it's the other way around.

Since VCs have usually more money on their hand, they can diversify more and take bets.
The way I see it it's software that does something that a human is "supposed to do".

Eg chat is for humans but a chat bot will use the chat's interface for automating some tasks. Or bots in a multiplayer game take place of other players etc.

Bot ~ robot ~ humanoid? I guess?
That mounting point for that screen is probably a 2DIN slot. You can install random Chinese $60 Android stuff from Amazon there if you so insist.
I heard about this on the radio and was surprised I hadn't heard of Atomic Gardening before. Basically, farmers and gardeners would expose large quantities of seeds and plants to varying degrees of radiation, and look for useful mutations.

Rio Red grapefruits, accounting for 3/4 of Texan-produced grapefruit, were originally created by Atomic Gardening! From the Grapefruit wiki, which links to the Atomic Gardening one :

"Using radiation to trigger mutations, new varieties were developed to retain the red tones that typically faded to pink. The 'Rio Red' variety is a 2007 Texas grapefruit with registered trademarks Rio Star and Ruby-Sweet, also sometimes promoted as Reddest and Texas Choice. The 'Rio Red' is a mutation-bred variety that was developed by treatment of bud sticks with thermal neutrons. Its improved attributes of mutant variety are fruit and juice color, deeper red, and wide adaptation.[21]"

[20] https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/28/science/28crop.html?_r=1&...

[21] https://mvd.iaea.org/
And too few people will buy them because users don't really care and this business will just die off. That's what happen in practice. How many security and privacy focused smartphones, laptops, etc. do you know? All the ones I know are Kickststarter types which generally have been in more or less the same stage for years and years and from the get go their hardware was at least 1 generation (if not more) behind the latest ones.
Would make sense for classics like these !
There is an argument that free chess service benefits chess community (and society in general) in a way that a paid service doesn't.
Every ARM licensee does this though; they license the core designs from ARM and add features (including additional instructions) around it to package into an SOC. It’s just that Apple has the scale to design their own SOCs instead of buying one from Qualcomm or Samsung.
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Google Unit DeepMind Tried–and Failed–To Win AI Autonomy from Parent
Country? I bet you are not Danish, but knowing exactly where would help.
I mean sure why not, as long as the price is crazy enough :) Do you wanna send me an email at sam@bro.science and say what kinda price range you have in mind?
Bell's Theorem Refuted
> I prove a history of disproportionate bias against Palestinians in the New York Times.

This is a really bold statement for any analysis and seems odd to come put of academic work that’s supervised.

This preprint is submitted to the Journal of Palestinian Studies so it will be interesting to see how their peer review checks this out.

I don’t quite understand this conclusion based on the paper as it seems like the author looked for existence of some words and for use of active vs passive voice.

I don’t understand how active vs passive voice is a sign of bias unless you control for many other factors not mentioned. Are specific authors more likely, is time period affected, are other topics similar, etc etc. I don’t get the logic that this shows a bias in general and don’t see anything presented about why these 33k articles are different.

Similarly, I’m not sure how tracking the mention of Palestinian or Israeli people just by word count means anything. Wouldn’t this be impacted by events, this isn’t addressed in the paper. Are there more deaths or attacks in different groups. This seems important to address, but I couldn’t find anything. I’m also not sure how the 33k articles were selected so whether articles were included or excluded would impact these results.

Similarly not sure if the sentiment analysis of the NLP kits she used is similar or dissimilar from NYT in general.

And the determination of violent language seems like a manual exercise with no validation and would like to know more about the methods used to create the set of violent words. I don’t see the actual training_data.csv that the author created and would be interested to see what was actually made since that file seems to be the output of a manual process to sample 500 articles and pick words.