skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a mud fight. Many countries have succeeded in convincing chunks of their population that China should be viewed (and by extension, treated) as an enemy. I too doubt anything major (armed conflict) will happen, but if the western world gangs up on China, there might be a trend to economically disassociate away from China - and the ensuing disruption is what people are worried about. That is a real possibility IMO.

>and not as the "US-Chinese experimental virology" hypothesis.

Because the US (the country) is not directly responsible for the 'leak' beyond providing some capital - $600,000 is the number I've seen - which is negligible in a biotech organizations' operating budget. We're a small company and we burn through that in under a month.

>Who, in particular, should retaliation be pointed at? China? China and the US? The Wuhan lab and their international collaborators? The academic-industrial complex?

Well the lab is part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences which is part of the government. So it all depends on where the buck stops in your view.
Shareware days are dead.

Also, there are diehard Libre GNU/Linux out there beside Stallman behind several projects.
I'm an obsessive idealist and I blame OO programming for my unfathomable (to most people) lack of productivity. With OO I always see, for instance, that code organization B is better than code organization A for very good reason. And C is better than B. But then A is better than C, also for good reason. After that nothing gets done.

I feel like I got more done writing assembly when I was 13 than I do today.
Here's the corresponding GitHub issue: https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data/issues/5476
That's correct, China just poaches the tech when it lands on their soil without paying a thing. At least Apple pays those they've poached a salary.
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No, but I assume that the inteviewer will elaborate if you ask them what they mean. I don't consider people who don't know what FizzBuzz is terrible developers, not knowing how to implement it after an explanation is a red flag though.
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> And here comes Apple out of the blue with a proprietary arch and hardware emulator...

Apple is designing processors and GPUs at least since iPad2's tri-core GPU. They're neither coming out of the blue, nor newbies in this game.
I've been involved in putting out a lot of production fires but disapointingly don't have m/any big ones that I recall causing. There are a few that I allowed to happen under shared team watch, e.g. rollover 31- or 32-bit ids.

Maybe some database indexing changes that performed a lot worse for lots of users that had to be reverted. Certainly deploying some protocol incompatibilities either inadvertently or out of sequence.

One surprising one was using composite primary keys for a misc table then realizing that some downstream Go service was getting { "id": [1, 2], ... } from the upstream Ruby one. We need to validate schema on write rather than waiting for them to fail to parse.

Disaster recovery stories are much more interesting like Hollywood blockbusters. One of my faves is un-f*ing an OS/2 HPFS partition on the west coast over the phone using DOS Norton Utilities 'nu'. Luckily the client was IBM and they had lots of identically configured machines, so just blast the central drive shape definitions (in specific sectors at the start and middle of the drive) from a neighbouring machine and run checkdisk with the recover anything that looks like a valid HPFS structure option.
Past discussion:

TimescaleDB vs Amazon Timestream, 6 months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25287793

Amazon Timestream is now GA, 8 months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24645416

Amazon Timestream announced, 3 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18553336
In "Further Reading" the article links to [Let's remove Quaternions from every 3D Engine](https://marctenbosch.com/quaternions/) which is about Geometric Algebra.

Many chefs are brilliant, but only Jeremiah Tower's book covers will tell you he's brilliant. Many branches of mathematics are of great utility. Geometric Algebra will breathlessly tell you this. I know few fields quite so evangelical.

If you don't know better, you should use quaternions rather than matrices. If you don't know better, stick with quaternions and avoid the generalization presented by Geometric Algebra until the benefit is clear.

This tension is probably why the field is so evangelical.

Quaternions are inevitable. In ten thousand runs of the simulation, sentient beings would come up with quaternions every time. Geometric Algebra is not so inevitable. An aesthetic awareness of the centrality of ideas guides some but not all mathematicians. Like that famous quote about taking an instant dislike to Ted Cruz, it saves time.
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Vim provides a different, more efficient modal language for talking to the editor (which Kakoune further improves). Emacs on the other hand doesn't, it just gives you some ad-hoc shortcuts. Emacs's language is no different from the one of Notepad or VS Code. It's the language of insert mode + scripted shortcuts.

Shortcuts can improve your experience, yes, but not in such a fundamental way as a new model of editing.

UPD.

For example, the Emacs way of dealing with tables in markdown/latex is to have a custom plugin which will have a separate shortcut for each action one might want. As a consequence, you need to remember the keys for each of them.

Kakoune, on the other hand, gives you a language that can express most of those operations naturally. And the language is no different than the one you use for other everyday tasks, no need to memorize new shortcuts.
If you buy a Helium hotspot you can get paid crypto (HNT token) to provide the same service Amazon is extracting from your Alexa for free
> In my 20+ year career as a web developer and software engineer, I have never ONCE had to merge two sorted arrays as part of my job.

Cool. It doesn't come up in my job either. That's not the point of the question. The point of the question is "given an algorithm specification, can you implement it" and that problem, particularly at my current work place, comes up very frequently.

> If you asked me that question in a whiteboard interview without access to my favorite IDE, a REPL, or google, there is a good possibility that I would fail to impress you.

All my coding interviews are done via hackerrank which has an OK IDE. I generally also allow googling or questions from the interviewer.

> Never mind the fact that I have been involved with the development of multiple highly successful, multi-million dollar projects where I wrote massive portions of the codebase.

> At my current company, they didn't give me a code test or anything like that. They just gave me a small project as contract work (migrating some of their infrastructure to the cloud). I knocked it out, they paid me for the work, and then they hired me full time. I've been here for two and a half years and the CEO once publicly stated that hiring me was one of the best things the previous CTO ever did.

Congratulations!

Honestly, I think you are letting this sort of question intimidate you too much. It is an easy question to answer and if you sat down for a few minutes I'm sure you could solve it. It's not a trick question. It's not one that's designed to filter someone of your qualifications. It's simply a "can you write an algorithm" question. Something that's really important in finance because a lot of what we deal with (particularly where I'm at, financial reporting) is writing code that matches financial models and algorithms. There's not a library you can reach for that computes everything we do.

Give it a shot in your favorite language and I think you'll be pleasantly surprised at how easily you can write a solution.
the pallet fit was because of the ute variant, but I think you knew that
This happens with video games too. Players hate restrictions, but if they were removed, would get board and stop.

For a recent example, look at Valheim. They explicitly block you from using portals to move metal ore, which forces you to use a cart or a boat to move it. Suddenly I was a highway engineer for a few hours and pay more attention to harbour than before and had a blast.

Yet there are mods which remove this restriction, which removes this experience. Why build a highway if I can just drop a portal down?
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Are there any benchmarks you can point to that have a similarly spec'd laptop (ideally similar size & weight too) that would show that Apple is sandbagging?
So I've had the reverse issue. With hardware encoding on and external monitors plugged into my intel macbook, everything would overheat and I would get kernel throttling of everything.

The external monitors cause the GPU to draw more power, but I'm not sure why that combined with hardware encoding in OBS caused issues. When I switched to software encoding the cpu was a bit higher but everything was fine.

Apparently this is related to VRM overheating and people have workarounds posted on reddit, but it seem like switching to software encoding made it go away for me.

https://www.reddit.com/r/macbookpro/comments/gs6bal/2019_mbp...

https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT207359
It's the "broken window fallacy", only they get to break the digital windows of millions of people all over the world instantly.
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Wild theory: for workstation-class systems, the 8/16 GB of on-package memory becomes "L3", and main memory can be expanded with standard DIMMs.
You can define capitalism that way, but I would not.
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Just because you can do something and still feed/house everyone doesn't mean it's optimal.

Plants are mostly cellulose, not sugar.
I personally like it a lot. It's my go-to at a bar when I don't feel like drinking

That said I also like plain seltzer and bitter flavors generally (dark chocolate, black coffee, IPAs), so YMMV.
Funny thing is the newest i7 from Intel (10nm) also might compile it noticeable faster then a i9 MacBook.

There are very few if any Laptops out there which handle a i9 well. And Apple is kinda well known to not do a very good job when it comes to moving heat out of their Laptops. This is often blamed on Intel due to their CPU producing to much heat, but there are other Laptops which do handle this CPUs just fine...

Anyway that doesn't change that Apples M1 are really good.
The security state is willing to do anything, up to kidnapping, torture and murder, in order to not change a thing about the current economic order.

I expect the problem to be addressed with technology, treaties, extraditions and putting a lot of people in prisons before the fragility of consolidation is addressed.
Hey, thanks for taking a look! We were also unhappy with the status quo even though the idea of game-theory-optimal poker sims has been around for a while. Glad you like it too :)

Mobile isn't something we've focused on too much, so the UI's a bit small, but you should see the legend below the action bar on the left. Let me know if it's somehow not showing up at all for you though.
To play devil’s advocate, I can buy a Corvette today that is nothing like the one from ten years ago too.

In fact, lots of things are like this.
That can definitely happen when you're focussed on something else than what you're drinking (or eating!). It's gonna be even more pronounced if you're drinking, distracted and not particularly experienced with alcohol. If you enjoy what you're drinking you just need to be conscious of when you refill and you'll be fine. If you don't and you're just doing it as a sort of health thing, maybe you made the right choice. As someone who enjoys whisk[e]y, rum, gin, wine and beer, I think it's incredibly enjoyable if you're able to keep on top of it and I feel a little bit sad that there are some who won't enjoy things like making cocktails or tasting wine due to abstinence. I don't want at-risk people to descend into alcoholism against their will, mind.
Was this a conversation with their legal department?
you can't get the VW Passat wagon in North America? I thought those things were everywhere.
Possibility 1: Apple was making do with what Intel gave them, because their profit margins didn't care and they were busy naval gazing into their post-Jobs soul

Possibility 2: Apple had a master plan to intentionally torpedo performance in order to make their future first-party chips appear more competitive
> because water used to be much harder to sanitize

They actually addressed this in the article, but sanitizing water is as simple as boiling it which is much less involved than the process of making beer.
Fixing infrastructure won't get done because the people in charge are too stupid, lazy and greedy to fix it. Most of them are so wealthy they're completely insulated from the consequences of their actions (or inaction, as the case may be). Folks need to wake up and realize they're living in a global public-private idiocracy.
> the only way to Opt-Out from Apple's broad network like this is to disable all "Find My" network tracking,

Not true. I just checked on my own phone, and the toggles for "Find My iPhone" and "Find My network" are separate. Disabling the latter only warns you you can't locate your phone "even if it's offline", i.e. if the "standard radio" is off.
For some applications that's not that much. Imagine SpaceX putting one of these in each StarLink satellite and providing their own GPS-like service.

I'm not sure if this clock would be good enough for GPS. It's 3 orders of magnitude less accurate than a cesium clock. But with so many StarLink sats overhead, and synchronizing with more accurate ground clocks, might make up for that.
Brilliant, thanks. I'm glad this ain't reddit.
Wifi hotspot asks for personal or corporate/server ID of the sender of packets coming from this new node, since it can't route the traffic any farther without that. Gets nothing. Drops that node's packets as either hostile or malfunctioning, and, regardless, useless, since it can't route them anywhere. OK, so maybe you manage to steal an ID. See how this is making attacks harder? Now you're stealing or forging identities just to get any packets routed, and if you do anything suspicious-looking you'll rapidly get your stolen ID on the automatically-managed collective shit-list and it'll stop being very useful. Because the volume of attacks is so much lower, your drop-a-radio-near-a-hotspot trick might even trip enough flags to get someone to come find the device, if you use it very much—and if you can't use it much without "burning" the hardware, then, well, sure seems like it made your job as an attacker a lot harder, right?

There is nothing that guarantees the Internet will keep working the way it does now, and if an open Internet causes enough problems, it will be reigned in. How it works now is a choice, not a law of nature. I'm not happy about it, but that's just how it is. Either these kinds of attacks won't get much worse, or they'll get a lot worse and something like that will be what happens.
Or the attackers even use the fact that you paid to blackmail you.
That is a very good point. I poked the internet about it and got this interesting information back which backs up your thought: https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2012/march/data-feature....

Maybe worth mentioning that poultry feed is grains and "mostly" edible in theory (though maybe not in today's practice), and poultry is the largest segment of meat in the US?

Also relevant are that per-capita meat consumption in the US has gone up dramatically in the last 50 years, and so has the average caloric intake. Looking at history, it seems like we have room to downsize some, right?
Instead they could have just called them i2017, i2018... going with year of manufacturing. That way it is useful to make some sense out of performance with an understanding iN is always better than i(N-1)
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My smoothbrained take is that it'll be a little bit, since optimizing it for ARM is going to take a little effort. Like GP said, it's really about the encoders slowly being updated to better support the hardware.
the random networking is one thing i miss about not smoking anymore. you get to socialize with tons of people/coworkers you wouldnt normally talk to, you all start out with a shared interest and everyones in a good mood.
Compared to other amazing Intel laptops of similar form factor ? All Intel laptops are insanely loud and generate tons of heat for any reasonable performance level. They are just generation(s) behind in process, plus they start from an architecture designed for servers and desktops and cut down, Apple went the other way so it's reasonable they will do better on thermals and power consumption.
This is a common refrain but at the same time it seems to be the one substance commonly used across most of the world since ancient times. None of the other supposedly less harmful, banned drugs are so ubiquitous. Perhaps there's a good reason for this (besides varying availability of other substances)?
How much does the top speed differ?
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Yeah; I'm not a streamer either, but it took me all of an hour to go from "what's OBS?" to enabling use of my iPhone as the video camera for Zoom calls. Haven't had time yet to do anything interesting with OBS "scenes", but it looks similarly, surprisingly straightforward. A+!
At the risk of sounding like I would want to die on this hill (I am certainly annoyed, but anybody can use any word to mean anything they want as long as a certain number of other people agree. I think I understand how natural language works), but this statment

> I would argue that it is very intuitive that an alorithm made up of smaller algorithms is still, itself, an algorithm

is very unconvincing. Here's an "Algorithm"
- compute the square root of 5
- for each number from 1 to n
do 5 times :
compute the
square root of 5 times
that number plus 19
- output the square root of 9 to the screen

Are you willing to accept this sequence of steps as an algorithm? I am not. And this sequence is even more of an algorithm than Google's products, at least it guarantees termination, correctly solves every instance of a (extremely artifical and meaningless) problem, and is effectively calculable (Google's and Facebook systems frequently need humans to decide or amend decisions, and the decisions are often arbitary and value-based). Neither of these things is guaranteed for Google's "algorithms".

>Most dictionaries appear to support OP's usage

I never said that this confusion isn't popular or documented in dictionaries and literature everywhere, the exact opposite in fact. I said I am annoyed that it is popular. Programs and Algorithms are different, and the difference is as meaningful and useful as the difference between "Writings" and "Poems".
> To state the obvious, improving your situation so you don't want to escape reality would be preferable. But that takes a hell of a lot more time, motivation, resources, and effort than just cracking open that next beer.

And sometimes when you try anyway, the universe decides to punish you for it. Some people experience this multiple times. I don't blame them for wanting to escape reality.
> If you already have an Alexa device running on your network

I don't, which is why I was installing the Alexa app on my phone.

> I wouldn't assume you can't opt-out later

ah, I was thrown by the headline "given one week to opt out".
New systems bring new implementations ready to be broken.
I do pretty demanding sport as a hobby. Even one drink during the week greatly impacts recovery and ability to perform and lessens my enjoyment considerably. It’s rather commons in my circles for people to probably average a handful of drinks per year at most.