skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Flexibility and affordability. As a guitar player, if I walked into a room and on one side there’s a perfect digital emulation of a Marshall stack, and on the other side there’s and actual Marshall stack, I’d go for the real thing every time. But the reality for most musicians, myself included, is that I wouldn't be able to or wouldn’t be willing to pay that much for one. Now if I had a whole library of digital amps/pedals to try, then I could find something I like best and go get the real thing. I don’t see digital as replacing analog, only enhancing it. It’s also nice to be able to plug in headphones, and from a laptop or pedal that takes up much less space.

But as an engineer I just nerd out over all of it. Analog. Digital. If it makes good music it’s all cool to me.
Waking just one hour earlier cuts depression risk by double digits
Isn't >50% of mining happening in China? So I can go from being at the mercy of a government I can at least vote for to being a the mercy of a dictatorial government I can't have any influence on at all. Doesn't seem like an improvement to me.
https://www.microsemi.com/product-directory/soc-fpgas/5498-p...

Microsemi not lattice, my apologies
> They're also not edited to fit the page well, nor with much care for typography or anything else.

What does any of this have to do with printing? Those are formatting and typesetting issues. For the same final PDF it shouldn't matter how it's printed.
I personally couldn’t care less. The cost way outweighs any benefits.
No one here really cares about VCs. It's hacker news, not, faker news.
I think it tends to come up more in fields, such as aeronautical engineering, where there is a safety tradeoff. If you make the plane heavier, it may be safer from material failure, but now there may be less margin for error by the pilot because the plane does not respond the same. You have traded one kind of risk against another. I remember being present when a friend who was a civil engineer heard that they used a safety factor of only 1.5 in aeronautical engineering, and she was kind of shocked it was so low; when you don't have to fly the thing, you can afford to make the factor significantly higher.
I think that is to say nature had a waste problem. Nowadays things all get eaten and recycled back in
I think it really depends what part of math and what part of computer science you're talking about. Certainly foundations of computation use finite objects from countable sets... But there is more to CS than turing machines and encodings of numbers.

For example: Computer vision, machine learning, data science, cryptography, etc are all rife with infinite objects!
Proof assistant software and SMT solvers can also prove things about infinite mathematical structures from number theory, ZFC, topology, etc.

Pure mathematics also cares about finite algorithms. Every proof is a finite sequence of deductions on finite objects from a countable set... eg a computer program!
Other examples include: computing bounds, integrals, roots of polynomials, divisors, bases, fundamental groups, etc. Pure math is full of computation!

tl;dr the line between math and cs is extremely fuzzy.
https://lkyspp.nus.edu.sg/gia/article/what-did-china's-one-c...

> When the policy was implemented, 26 [out of 31] Chinese provinces allowed ethnic minorities to have an additional child.

There were other exemptions too - for example, rural farmers could often also be exempted, particularly if their first child was a daughter.
> In late January 2020, China: Announced there was human-to-human transmission.

China announced it way too late.

https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-health-ap-top-news...

> Throughout January, the World Health Organization publicly praised China for what it called a speedy response to the new coronavirus. It repeatedly thanked the Chinese government for sharing the genetic map of the virus “immediately,” and said its work and commitment to transparency were “very impressive, and beyond words.”

> But behind the scenes, it was a much different story, one of significant delays by China and considerable frustration among WHO officials over not getting the information they needed to fight the spread of the deadly virus, The Associated Press has found.

To actually praise China for announcing human-to-human in late Januray 2020, while blaming most countries for doing next to nothing, is extremely ugly to me. I won't attack that (common) viewpoint, as it riles me up too much.
That's one specific example, yes.

You can find the 36 page report here:

https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/ad-aspi/2021-05/Fami...

Edit: via this summary from ASPI (in case the AWS link above breaks in the future)

https://www.aspi.org.au/report/family-deplanning-birthrates-...
The Devastation of the Tulsa Race Massacre
BTC has a marketcap today of 690B.
Ethereum 302B
Cardana 53B
Binance Coin: 52B
XRP: 45B
Doge: 40B
Polkadot: 20B
Uniswap: 15B
Polygon: 11B
Marketcap dominance: Dominance: BTC: 42.6% ETH: 18.7%

Yes there is a lot of money in BTC, but its not more than half, and doge coin is not #2.
WAL-G 1.0: unified backup tool for PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, MongoDB, Redis
I see you got downvoted, but I created this throwaway because I wanted to respond, because salary is not the same depending on where you live. Mine is an extreme case, but it is a real case:

I am a software engineer who used to live in the Bay Area but now live in Europe. In my country, my family is living off of a salary of 30000 (Euros, or about 36k USD). (This is my wife's salary, I'm not currently working). Our income officially puts us below the poverty line, so we pay 0% in income taxes.

With this 30k, about 50% goes to housing, about 1/6 goes to special needs schooling for one of my two children (they both need it, but the younger one's school is currently free), and the remaining 1/3 is for food and bills and misc. expenses.

We own a small, fuel efficient car that my wife drives while I bike or take public transportation. Our entire apartment runs on an average of 250W (servers, laptops, cell phones, electric stove) because everything is energy efficient. (LED lighting, double-pane windows, good applicances) We pay 10 euros a month for gigabit internet, 200+ channels, and unlimited calling to 150+ countries.

We live comfortably in a large (100 m^2) four bedroom apartment in a safe neighborhood (working class, but nice). We eat well, we can afford to go to restaurants occasionally, and even take the occasional vacation.

While we're not currently saving any money, because we have money saved up, we're not living hand to mouth, even though "technically" we are.

If we wanted to return to San Francisco, the budget would look something like this:

* 60k Schooling for both kids
* 60k Four bedroom apartment or split home
* 30k Food, car, bills

Once you convert that to pre-tax in SF, you're looking at about 300,000 USD gross, just to maintain the same standard of living. That's a greater than 8x disparity in cost of living, mainly because of the social net here.
> Whereas now we have free and triviably cloneable software (embedded OSs, drone flight and guidance s/w, ML and image recognition stacks, global mapping data) and a massive range (compared to event ten years ago) of dirt-cheap cots hardware...

If you look at the current tactics of insurgency, software is not a part of it. Enemies of the US (Al Qaeda, etc) already had tremendous success with the current insurgency tactics (IEDs, etc) which were low tech solutions, and were vastly hard for the US to overcome.

Why would they go to software when there's plenty of tried and tested low-tech solutions already to kill your enemies?
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Overhead that saves lives isn’t really overhead
We've been slowly refactoring our products to offer more contextual possibilities (building more aggregations by domains, keywords, etc. instead of audiences). No one is interested in buying.
"drug dealer" ... "bottom of the barrel"...

The obvious implication is that drug dealers are low-status individuals who deserve this kind of treatment.
It's all one system. If you supplied aspirin at cost+10%, other prices would swing wildly to offset the change. Ultimately, the real expense in health care is health care professionals delivering health care services, and no matter what you think aspirin should cost, the hospital won't run at a deficit; some combination of line-items on your bill is going to add up to the cost of all the professionals delivering the work.

It's not good that "hospital aspirin" has a price disconnected with the economics of aspirin. But it's a sideshow issue. You can't make health care cost effective for consumers by fixing the aspirin problems.
Microsemi have the PolarFireSOC which has 4x RISC-V hard cores in the FPGA. I have an eval board on my desk
As long as we're bringing up historical facts that are only tangentially relevant to the topic at hand, let's also remind ourselves of the rape of Nanking, the Burma death railway, Unit 731, the tens of thousands of PoWs that Imperial Japan murdered in its camps and the twenty million people who were killed (many of them by chemical and biological warfare) in Japan's genocidal campaign against China.
The Art of Balancing Stones
I read a suggestion recently that there was a higher probability of sinking IJN carriers during the Indian Ocean raid [1] than at Midway. Any attacks on them would have been done by radar equipped aircraft at night with no Zeros flying.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Ocean_raid
Visualizing the Snowball of Government Debt in 2021
I think the issues with traditional packages all boil down to the fact that packages are not files. Packages are some transformed instance of some code, operating over a computer's resources in some way. Sure, eventually you get down to the fundamental file abstraction, but it can take a bit: all the variations of building from a single code base. What I like about Nix is that it stops representing packages as files and has its own declarative syntax. The OP observed what really is a side effect of that change, and it's great! Sometimes, though, I wish it went a bit farther than it does - there's room for a few more useful transformations between a package's code base, a package, and a file. If the nix program itself took a bit more control over the system, I think it would end up in a really cool place. The specifics of that, though, I do not know.
In some places, police officers are required to document all such events, using on-body cameras.
It looks like someone else transcribed it and brought it out as a cheapie self-published book on B&N's platform.

There's also a version on Lulu.[1]

Both of those went on sale within the past 5 years, and I put the first seven chapters on Github 5 years ago. Hm.

[1] https://www.lulu.com/shop/garrett-p-serviss/the-sky-pirate/e...
Social Capital vs. Berkshire Hathway: A Twitter Thread
Just for clarity you mean this feature is something you can separately enable/disable in the Coway Air filters?
A lot of games used more than 32/64 colours using the copper too though. E.g. things like background fades. Interestingly quite a few of the games with the most colours did not use the 5 bitplane 32 colour mode or the 64 bitplane Extra HalfBrite mode, but a combination of "dirty tricks" with sprites + copper.

E.g. Shadow of the Beast used 120+ colours, but used dual playfields, which gives only 8 colours per playfield without anything else. But then it overlays sprites, and uses the copper to change palette repeatedly:

https://codetapper.com/amiga/sprite-tricks/shadow-of-the-bea...
It's trying to protect its western border. There are no mountains there. It's flat terrain leading right up to their heartland that has been invaded multiple times throughout history. The vulnerability they feel on this border is so intense it has shaped the national psyche.

Two countries (Latvia and Estonia) have already flipped to the west (NATO members). Ukraine is torn between Russia and the west (that's what Maidan morphed into after starting off as an anti corruption protest). Lukashenko was engaged in a struggle with pro western opponents.

There's a proxy war going on on its borders. I don't think this is about Russia trying to dominate the world. I think it's about Russia wanting to buffer its most exposed border.

If Western Canada joined in an alliance with Russia and Eastern Canada was run by a pro American dictator do you think America would behave differently?
I don't think I've ever seen this mentioned anywhere, but if
you need a unique ID for an entity with not a lot of records
planned (≤10,000,000), why not use a random int64 with
a simple for loop on the application side to catch
the occasional collisions? Are there any downsides besides
making the application side a tiny bit more complex?
The blanket statement "Advertisement does not work", which I really hope is a strawman, is trivially wrong. If you start a new B2C business the only way to do inbound sales is advertisement, as by definition no one knows about your company/brand/products/services. Outbound sales is (usually) impossible in B2C for cost reasons. Almost every successful B2C company is evidence that advertisement works. There are some exceptions like banking and utilities, where the LTV of a retail customer is high enough to do outbound sales, but most B2C companies can't afford this.
The law is not necessarily rational. A court must follow the law, not justice nor rationality. Sorry.
The SmallAndProductive configuration can be found here: https://github.com/SpinalHDL/VexRiscv/blob/master/src/main/s....

It’s a basic R32I configuration, without traps or branch prediction enabled, but with 5 pipeline stages and all bypass paths included, so it executes straight code at 1 instruction per clock.

The VexRiscv also comes with a bunch of full featured SOCs.

The VexRiscv is configurable to the extreme and it’s extremely easy to do so. There are tons of other configurations in the same directory, from even smaller to full Linux SMP configs. It’d be trivial to create one that has the same configuration as this one and compare.

SpinalHDL supports both Verilog and VHDL output, so you’re covered there as well.

It’s not native VHDL, of course, so if you want to understand the code at the VHDL level instead of just wanting to use a soft core CPU, it’s probably not for you.

Those who just need a CPU for a non-Scala environment (e.g. Litex) just pre-generate a whole bunch of configurations and then pick what they need for a certain use case.

The VexRiscv design methodology is pretty amazing as well. I wrote about it here:
https://tomverbeure.github.io/rtl/2018/12/06/The-VexRiscV-CP....
Correction. "1897 War of the Worlds".
> What do you think we need to do?

Work.

What is the difference in between 10 people making less than 1 ton on an acre and starving, and 10000 people making less than 1000 tons on 1000 acres, and starving?

The difference is just the number of starving people.

And add to that that all land was, and still is nationalised in China.

> I can only imagine how Chinese peoples did projections and saw that by the end of the century they would be half the world population

And communists knew it being 100% bullshit for masses. Just like Mao very well know how "4 pests," and other mass actions been complete bonkers.

They were not stupid to the point of drinking their own coolaid.
I don't get how that's tribalism but with everyone in the same tribe.
The app stores are the gardens, and Facebook is ultimately at the whim of the gardener.

Also, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_platform
‘Lost’ Charles Schulz strips have been rediscovered. Do they show an adult Lucy?
Tsoa – OpenAPI-Compliant REST APIs Using TypeScript and Node
Can see why this is valauble and why people would do it. Mentoring is the hard problem to both generalize and scale. A world in which that problem is solved would have a means to take in arbitrary people and return successful ones who can do well by themselves and teach others.

It doesn't scale well because a mentor requires support infrastructure to be present and available with opportunity, and it is only as successful as the mentees openness to change. I was made a member of a private mentoring organization some years ago, and it's hard to stop indexing on mentoring as making others more like you. First it's having the relevant experience to share, and then being present to share it, and even then, just at the right moment on someones path. That makes mentoring a rare confluence of factors. Even if you sign up for skill lessons of some sort with someone, the mentoring that happens is a higher order effect of the practice and time together, and not just the tangible work in the lessons, that can be arbitrary. It's not therapy either, as that's a very specific kind of relationship that is separate from mentoring as well.

I would be surprised to see how it works on a transactional basis at all. There's a lot I don't know about it (most of it really) but what a difficult and important problem!
> you keep talking but you have nothing to say, no evident, just cruelty & cynicism & pissing.

Listen, apologies. I came across harder than I should have. We want the same thing. We're both on the same side. We're arguing weapons, not the war.

> say something worth talking about.

I gave a presentation in San Francisco a little while ago to the Future of Programming meetup specifically about a better UI approach. I'm sorry you couldn't make it. My email is in my profile.

> none of the other [software paradigms] have had any impact.

How do you measure impact? Popularity? The Velvet Underground only sold "30,000 records but everyone who bought one started a band." Saying we can do better musically doesn't mean using Beyonce as a foundation.
They never said that she was bottom of the barrel.
> sure, but can it model my amp? i doubt they will ever add it!

This is very different and more narrow use-case.

Also they have tone match like forever, you build signal chain close to your amp, then add tone match block, which applies ML to voice your digital signal chain close to recording.

Here is example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZnZ1nJODLo

Also in this example he didn't profile actual amp, but actual AC/DC recording, and result is very good I think.

> how many presets do you really need (average guitarist probably uses 5?)

But how you find this preset for your signal chain (guitar + speakers)? That's one of big points of frustration with kemper: one needs to go through hundreds profiles (not necessary good quality) to find one which will sound good with his signal chain.

With fractal: you take some basic preset, and change knobs to your tastes and goal as with real amp.
Material variances are included where the capacity is calculated. materials with hIgher variance like concrete (implementation variance) and wood (material variance) get their capacity lowered more than more consistent materials like steel.

The factor of safety is above and beyond material variance. You calculate the worst case load combinations for that component, then you check your factor of safety. Civil engineering is relatively conservative in its estimations for everyone's safety.

In my experience serviceability requirements (like reducing uncomfortable deflections that dont threaten the safety of the structure) often govern, rather than the ultimate capacity.
To be fair Gentoo has /etc/portage/pqtches so that you can patch software from official packages instead of having to create a new one
Thoughts on the Future of Cryptocurrency – Phaetere
> UK is the country that has mangle EU rules the most.

Can you explain what you mean by this? To me, it's always seemed that Germany and France benefit most from EU integration at the expense of the southern nations which have less industrialized export economies. I'm American, but my two cofounders are British and Swiss, so European politics is a pretty common topic of discussion.
Recent and related, though without specifics:

Unreal Engine 5 enters Early Access - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27290854 - May 2021 (151 comments)
This title is something up with which, I cannot, put
> if Facebook can't afford to operate without tricks like that, smaller sites have even less chance.

It could be the opposite.

The ambitions of social media operators need to be downsized. One of the most salient data points is that WhatsApp served a half billion users with 50 employees when they were acquired by Facebook. And reportedly they were profitable at that point by charging $1 per user per year after the first year. By 2018 Signal had already made a substantial entry into the messaging market with [only 2.3 FTE engineers on average](https://signal.org/blog/signal-foundation/) (I'm not sure on the current headcount but I'm guessing it's still on the order of magnitude of the WhatsApp numbers), and it is self-sustaining based largely on a $50m endowment provided by one individual (Brian Acton, not ironically the co-founder of WhatsApp).

It's totally conceivable that for the type of social media that people prefer (no algorithm in the timeline, no tracking, etc.) a very small organization could provide it.

Could the Signal foundation develop a competitor to Twitter or Facebook, or could the social features and groups in apps like Signal or Telegram (also a relatively small team) continue to chip away at the jobs that people hire Facebook for? I don't see a strong argument against this.

Andrew Carnegie decided to put libraries in cities all across America because he thought he could make a major contribution to the needs of the day through improving access to literacy and self-education to those who otherwise couldn't afford it. From what I can tell [Brian Acton](https://www.forbesindia.com/article/special/i-am-the-david-g...) is doing the same by ensuring that private communication is free and available to even the least amongst us. Why would we assume that we'll see less and not more of this sort of thing?

> Acton: In some ways, I'm the David going against the Goliath that I created. I think that I stand on my principles the most, having been in the industry and seeing how the industry has developed around advertising and behaviour-tracking and user-tracking, I’m here to stand on my principles and present alternatives. I’m not going to just say the world should be a different place. I’m actually going to try and build the world a better place and that’s why I wake up every morning. That’s why I go to work every morning and that’s why I don't sit on a beach and sip cocktails.
AWS Free Tier, where's your spending limit?
That's just a visa, not immigration which would require permanent residency status.
Unlikely. You make more money by breaking a beef into multiple cuts for different customers than grinding the whole thing and selling burgers only.
Also, Japan brutalised and terrorised every nation it occupied during the war (and before). If Japan brought no harm upon the "occupied" Hawaiians it certainly wasn't out of any ethnic good will towards them. Does anyone seriously thank that, had Japan won the war and occupied Hawaii, it would have treated the natives any better than it treated the Chinese or Vietnamese?
Ah, cool! Thanks. Come to think of it, I also like the green as the second highlight color. It's just a slight derivation from the default orange but very tastefully done.