skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OS/2 is one of the only operating systems that I know of where a version successor actually had lower hardware requirements (assuming you already had a 386. If you were on a 286 then not much changed) than the version it replaced. You could upgrade from OS/2 2.1 to OS/2 Warp without upgrading hardware and it would run faster. By that time though, it was too little, too late. It speaks to how inefficient OS/2 2.1 was.
The biggest issue I've seen is developers making business decisions knowingly, but without saying it to the business people. I was on a team that literally sat around saying "if we tell them it will take 18 months to do this then they'll just cancel it, but we want to do it, so let's say 6 months and then we'll just be late but they never cancel stuff in progress". I quit that team for many reasons, but they got started under that 6 month estimate and four years later the project is still going.
Farms are wasting 1B tons of food. That's a disaster for the climate
If you look closely, you can see the engineers nervously rolling out changes to production, which is where the vibrations in the .gif come from.
When this kind of thing has come up before ("pot causes mental illness"), IIRC it turns out more that people with schizoid disorders are self-medicating with pot before getting diagnosed, rather than having taken harder drugs, alcohol, etc. The classic reversed-arrow of causation.
The year is 2077, the omega surge has pushed Covid hospitalizations in the US to the highest since August 2042, from 1 to 2.
HP Paid 70& premium on the share price. Bit of a hint HP paid too much.
art is often a political choice to prioritize something above money. so its entirely antithetical to lots of people to do what your suggesting. though there's always the urge to sell out to some degree. but this kinda shit comes off like a religious person telling you to join their religion. "tech" in its modern conception is more about money than anything, which often results in extremely lame stuff. you feel sorry for artists who are poor, but they might feel sorry for you because what you do is so lame.
> That is, bad engineering may be a more likely culprit than a sonic weapon.

hanlon's razor!
> Whereas with the TPM the only "user" with the right to break the seal is a 3rd party that has completely different--and often conflicting--interests to the end user (and owner of the device).

This is completely false, and is in fact contradicted by the Lenovo PDF that we're discussing.
Full disclosure: I've not been down this road, so I'm talking through my hat here.

Posting a project to ProductHunt is unlikely to get it in front of your target demographic, but that doesn't mean it's worthless. People will download your app and if all goes well some of those people will leave you a positive review.

That matters for ranking, which gets your app in front of people. If you get some good reviews, that matters for conversion because it lends some social credit.
Thanks for the history of the usage. I found an article that refers to some notable authors using it in a hyperbolic sort of way, maybe I'll do some digging there.

My argument isn't really based in etymology, though, and I don't really care about the history of the words I quibble over - I'm fine with language changing in general. My issue is that making "literally" an alias to "very very" and/or "figuratively" leaves a gap where I liked the word to be and may leave it ambiguous. If I were to write about a guy who heard a joke so funny that his heart gave out, I'd be in a real pickle. A real pickle.

So the history of the word doesn't really change my opinion, and doesn't make my opinion based in some sort of ignorance. It's sort of fun to argue against the history-based argument that's usually used to support "my side" (invalidly, it seems), though.
Lmao FB is on mySQL? Someone fucked up
Here is another example of de-mathematizing math:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/california-backtracks-woke-math-c...

"The move comes after hundreds of former and current professionals working in science, math, and engineering fields, as well as educators and venture capitalists, signed an open letter denouncing the plan as one that will "de-mathematize math" and instead insert "environmental and social justice" teachings into curriculum."

Now, the other side makes it seem "reasonable"; however, I have seen this tactic many, many times. There's a hidden agenda. For sure. Some may say that this is paranoid thinking, but again, I've seen it too many times in my life.
>It took a couple of years to complete porting all of these features. By the time we got to the end, we had evaluated more than 2,300 patches and ported 1,500 of those to 8.0.

This is some tremendous effort as I see. I wonder how many people work on these evaluations.
I find the comments in this article very accurate:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15160149

> ORA is the elephant's graveyard of software.

> Once something gets bought by them, you know it is done. Slowly, but surely.

> They perform a function akin to the maggots that destroy cadavers in nature. Part of the overall ecosystem.

> ORA stopped being a tech co a while ago, now it is a finance play. Use cash to buy a business for its locked in customers, gut it to squeeze max money out of it until last customer is gone. Rinse, repeat.
Maybe conservatives worrying about death panels in 2008 weren't so crazy...
Anecdotally, half a joint of weed purchased from a legal, recreational shop is enough to get a dozen people stoned into the ground, unless they are regular users of the stuff.
The common denominator here seems to be that it happens in secure US Government buildings. I have to wonder whether it’s related to the security technology itself, like some noise cancellation tech incorporated into the standard SCIF security system interferes badly with the ultrasound sensors of the intruder alarms to create these noise artifacts…
Also unbelievably and unfortunately true. The arrogance of a statement has no bearing on truth. Keep your biases in check and examine the truth behind a statement rather then perceived arrogance. Look at https://www.google.com/.

It looks clean, and nice and well arranged.

Does it look like a work of pure talent and skill and a work of incredible skill and artistry? No. No it does not.

Sure google is probably paying some designer 200k to come up with that front page but seriously let's take a look at it from the perspective of reality. How much effort and talent is required to come up with that search page versus painting a still life painting? Let's face it: Not much talent, and not much effort either.

You can take it a notch up further and talk about complicated interfaces like gmail or outlook. For that I have to say that there's a lot of TIME involved in thinking through the placement and color coding of the interfaces. But is there talent? No. Anybody can spend the time to think about that stuff.

As for painting still life? Or the human figure from thin air? That's raw talent. Not many people can do that no matter how much time you give them. I also bet a good chunk of UI designers don't have the ability to even draw at that level.

Have you seen the netflix show Love, death, robots? The artistry in that show is amazing. I respect the people who work on those episodes. That is an example of modern artistry displaying pure talent and raw skill. UI designers in comparison? Imposters, most of them, and I'm not referring to the syndrome.

Also I'm not the one claiming I'm good at UI design. I'm calling out the imposters. Why don't you show me your portfolio and I'll give you my honest opinion on it. Good UI design is good UI but man you guys are not "artists" to the degree the people on that netflix show are actual artists.
I 100% agree your point is valid. The counterargument is "Yes, people can do bad things with protein data, just as they can do bad things with a telephone, like use it to discuss a bank robbery."
Like everyone else?
the next 10 years or so evidence will be clear that at least some of these therapies work.

I think you forgot an extra zero
The Due Diligence HP did on Autonomy sounds like an absolute shambles if this article is anything to go by:
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/mar/28/hewlett-pac...

6 hours of cursory 'scrutiny' before they decided to blow £8bn on the acquisition... I wonder if the (now ex-) CEO would be interested in buying my house?

And what was the rest of the board doing when the CEO decoded to trample on due process to get the deal over the line in a hurry?

Cathie Lesjak, the HP CFO, never even read KPMG's preliminary DD report (https://www.accountingweb.co.uk/business/finance-strategy/hp...).

Interestingly, the KPMG report itself can be downloaded from the above site and I have given it a brief glance (thus surpassing Ms Lesjak's pre-purchase attention).

It is pretty clear from the caveats and predicating statements in the report (e.g. 'We make no representation for the sufficiency of your purposes of the procedures you selected, and those procedures will not necessarily disclose all significant matters about Target or reveal errors in the underlying information, instances of fraud, or illegal acts, if any.') that KPMG was saying 'Look, bud - you hired us in a very limited capacity, knowing the data was bad: the consequences of this going belly-up are gonna be your problem, not ours'. To be fair, this is probably par for the course in many transactions.

What is interesting is that the report does look at revenue recognition, which is supposedly a major contributor to the eventual SNAFU (out by 38%!!! - see https://www.itpro.com/strategy/24554/hp-says-autonomy-revenu...).

Page 26 even says 'We understand that your auditors may provide a grace period post acquisition to perform a more rigorous analysis using the industry accepted calculation methodology.' (Did they do this?)

HP was determined to buy without looking under the hood because it was afraid it would be pipped to the post by Oracle.

Subsequently, the Serious Fraud Office dropped an investigation against Lynch and Hussain (CFO) because of insufficient evidence.

38% is material enough to not just be a 'to-mah-toe / to-may-toe' difference of opinion, so maybe there are grounds for a further grilling of Mr Lynch.

However, given the clear incompetence of HP's board and the shoddy DD they did, and the fact that the SFO could not find grounds to pursue the case, I would have thought that handing over a UK citizen to the US when he was at the time of the deal managing a UK co listed on the London Stock Exchange seems to indicate undue pressure has been brought to bear on the junior partner in the 'special relationship'.

I won't have much sympathy for either the incompetent or the shady (if this is the case) if they wind up in a relationship that has gotten messy, but this does not reflect well on the extradition reciprocity of US and UK.
Makes sense. I don't use TF Eager, but I do use Jax, and Jax lets you arbitrarily compose JITed and non-JITed code, which made me think that might be a viable pattern. I guess I wondered if there might be something like "nonstatic_jit(foo)" that would do "julia style" compiling on function foo, in addition to "jit(foo)" that compiles foo to optimized XLA ops. Probably impractical. Thanks.
Artists I know don't want to be shacked by corporate structures rather than thinking that they are not smart/capable enough.
Totally off topic, but I found it funny that in the offical oracle cloud intro video the robot arm in the background misses the box, right as the narrator mentions the advantages of automation at 1:10: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_BDfMdGn3M&t=61s
"I feel like these kinds of papers only exist to be cited in support of cheap rhetoric."

Agreed. The authors already made up their mind regarding the conclusion before writing the paper. This is an analysis that should be done by a group not involved in aging research so it's 'unbiased'.
Would you be willing to elaborate on why you think it’s a research problem rather than an engineering problem?
The hair on my neck still stands up when thinking about dealing with Oracle (and Sun) contracting, purchasing, and sales teams in the 90's.
I'd say the same about Facebook.
when I think IoT, I think small single purpose devices: a ring door bell, a "smart" thermostat or fire alarm, a security camera. There at most a couple of processes running, what is there to orchestrate on an IoT doorbell?

Exactly!
CIA officer from bin Laden hunt to lead Havana Syndrome probe as cases rise
Ask HN: Experience with Commissioning a Product Video
Long time reader and contributor.

I am curious to hear from people who have commissioned videos for product explanations and such.

If it is possible to share costs, any insights, or talent you recommend, please do.
I guess one could dream of the remote possibility that Facebook outright acquires Oracle. It seems like a weird match, but it'd give FB a toehold in a lot of verticals that it currently has no presence in. Whatever criticisms you have of FB, it's at least a pretty open source friendly company.
https://archive.is/AqGQB
I tried looking for the conclusion, but I think the journal article preview does not show it.

AI being used for something doesn't mean it will be used to "transform" something. Lots of things can block the adoption of new technology due to the bias of practitioners or entrenched policy of "that's the way things are done". Healthcare doesn't switch from using fax machines for lots of reasons.

If BBC makes a giant leap that AI will "transform" biology, the burden is on them to hint at why biologists would find it reliable and accessible enough to warrant inserting it into their toolkits. How easy is the adoption of ML models in the hard sciences today?

Lastly, I don't read many ML papers but as an outsider, the "Code Availability" section seems odd. It may be cut off from the article preview I saw, but is it possible to get access to a singular code base that the research used to generate results? The section's first few paragraphs are "here are the libraries we used"
I know we don't have to wait for the merge but having an operation that is syncronous and takes <1s on my comptuer but being asyncronous and taking 30 seconds to five minutes on Bitbucket is quite infuriating. Often I want to merge a PR, then switch to my term, pull master, and start branching from the new head. Now I cannot do this. Also I want to merge a bunch of PRs it gets even more confusing.

I suggest you up the capacity on the queue so it feels syncronous and snappy like GitHub, as this is now a pain point.
Even philosophy can age badly, so I'm not sure that holds. But I think of Jaynes's book as if not science, at least science-adjacent. It's definitely on the wild, fuzzy, not-even-proper-hypotheses end of the scale. Maybe we can compromise on the old term "natural philosophy".

Which is fine, honestly. Somebody else here compared him with Freud. Exploratory thinking about the natural world can still be worth reading even if much of it later turns out to be incorrect.
It has ?w=1024 causing resizing effects:

Shaking: https://engineering.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/CD21_3...

Not shaking: https://engineering.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/CD21_3...
Can’t confirm. It works exactly as expected in Firefox (private mode because FB links open in the FB container otherwise), so maybe it’s some extension you have installed? FB Engineering links are usually pretty clean, and they don’t even have a reason to try and keep you there.
That’s not whataboutism — that’s pointing out that your definition of violent uprising is ridiculously broad; it captures everything from the protests you don’t agree with (Capitol Hill) to protests you presumably agree with (BLM, Stonewall, ‘68 Chicago), under the same flag, all of which are far and away from a “real” uprising — e.g. Arab spring.

What about X is a perfectly valid question when you’re trying to characterize the category of an event; you’re talking about a group of events.

It’s invalid when your point is simply “Y is bad and should be stopped”; because you’re talking about only one element.
Appreciate the feedback, glad to hear our approach resonates with you :)
Greener Days Are Coming – Reasons to Be Optimistic About Bitcoin
I've never considered this question before, but if people did live forever, requiring people in certain positions of power to be subject to some sort of incurable, debilitating disease or guaranteed death seems like a pretty reasonable safeguard to me.
Please don't do this on HN. I don't want to ban you and we can't have this kind of thing here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I always see people asking about this. But why? Are you making schema changes that frequently?
on-prem is not edge IMO. Edge is something small, far away from datacenters, close to customers with limited compute and storage capacity. Did I get this wrong?

For example, SQLite advertise itself as "database on edge".
> Sen. Amy Klobuchar introduced a bill Thursday that would strip online platforms such as Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. of liability protections if their technology spreads misinformation about coronavirus vaccines or other public-health emergencies.

I am a little worried about the scope of such an exception. These days "emergencies" are declared for virtually any worthwhile political issue. Such declarations are used to manage public opinion, to exercise special emergency powers (bypassing legislative processes like executive orders do), and more. I've seen public health officials declare racism as a "health emergency" for example. Does that mean speaking against the excesses of social justice could also be treated as misinformation?

The darker side of this story is that this is a gentle way to coerce censorship from private organizations that provide telecommunications services. Since we don't have a public social media service where government censorship would not be permitted, it seems optimal for those who seek to suppress free speech to rely on large private companies who are willing to police speech on their behalf. Matt Taibbi recently wrote about how Jen Psaki admitted that the Biden administration is flagging posts for Facebook to suppress, which seemed like it violates free speech principles, and this new proposed legislation seems to codify it more explicitly.
Mass hysteria combined with nocebo effect? Triggered by an encounter with cicada trapped in a hotel room.

Similar example, the Pokemon Panic of 1997: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Radford#Pok%C3%A9mon_...

A few legit cases of seizure triggered thousands of "false" cases.
No I didn't mean blanket 5k to everyone. It could very well be dependent on the place you live. 1k - 5k might be an acceptable range. If you live in NYC you get more, rural Alabama may be not so much. But you get the idea.

Assuming that not everyone can be successful in life (in spite of having boatloads of IQ + work ethic) UBI might be one of the few ways left to reduce generational in-equality. Don't get me wrong - I am no fan of socialism/communism and I understand the problems that come with a collectivist mindset. But I am also practical. I certainly don't want to live in a dystopia where a select few "masters of the universe" type rule over vast swathe of humanity.
Most obvious schizophrenics i have come across were not drug users and were just frightened supicious people who couldnt navigate a social interaction including but not limited to food deliveries, drug deliveries, buying batteries etc. I think the uptick in noticed drug user psychosis is Related to something Big Bill Orielly warned us about: the confluence of drugs and technology, esp social media, implying not taking care of sleep hygiene at the least, but at the most you are seeing what can only be described as “cyber torture” in which subjects are persuaded by those without hands to become retarded. Thats what this weapon is
When it comes to password managers, 1password is the one to beat. Much better experience in every regard.
Was there always strong weed though? Modern strains go up to 20% THC and 0% CBD.

At least when I were lad (in UK), we only got brick weed (which I remember was a good bit less strong than hash), but it was almost exclusively Moroccan hash we got, and even though that is a "concentrate", THC levels have traditionally[0] been lower, and CBD levels significantly higher, than much of today's modern cannabis flower.

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303871898_The_main_...
This is not so with Java. They have moved Java along a lot since they bought it; they released 1.8 finally, and have introduced lots of new features such as type inference since then.

MySQL is also going strong after the acquisition. Lots of new features.
Completely disagree: building side projects that you can ship quickly is just a more fun way of doing side projects.

Coincidentally I wrote some notes about resume building a few days ago: https://simonwillison.net/2021/Jul/17/standing-out/
I dealt with them in 2016. I assure you, not much has changed.
There are many more decades of research to be done before there will be any kind of need for quantum computation programmers. Right now the field needs quantum physicists and computer science mathematicians to actually develop the physical computers and basic operation concepts, not programmers per se.

There is also a good chance that QC will remain a small niche in the computing landscape even with fully functional QCs, similarly to DSP programming or hardware or real-time code. QCs algorithms have classical parts that run on classical computers, very little of the actual logic of the program is related to quantum effects, even for something like Shor's algorithm.
Any action you take to preserve life has the side effect of putting an economic value on life.

You invest some amount of effort into the action and the action has some amount of efficacy, so you can always divide the two to find a valuation. I agree that this exercise usually winds up as cheap rhetoric, but I'm not fully convinced it's the fault of the exercise.

Refusing to calculate a value doesn't mean the value doesn't exist, it just means we are letting our instincts decide the value for us, and our instincts are prone to doing silly things like spending the wrong amount of attention on anti-terrorism vs heart disease.
The crazy part is a bioweapons program is really cheap compared to a nuclear weapons program, and now with these new tools it's even cheaper. Before, it was vastly more expensive to do the cycle of creating a new viral protein and testing a bioweapon on human cell culture. Now that process is speeded up millions of times with this technology because that can all take place inside a computer.

This is similar to the change with drone weaponry. Before, you had to have large cruise missiles to get pinpoint strikes. Now small countries like Azerbaijan can buy a whole fleet of drone weapons and get the benefits of having a modern air force with pinpoint strikes and even stealth for vastly less money.
Don't forget IBM
Also the rocket used to launch each satellite has ejected more than 20x the mass of its payload as burnt rocket fuel by the time it reaches orbit.
From the article:

> We also found electronics stores that carry high- power ultrasonic jammers that cause microphones to malfunction
Just curious, why is this comment being heavily downvoted? edit: why was, since it's now back up
I see the main difference being that good UI design should be invisible (i.e. less is more, take away everything superfluous) whereas Art is all about helping people to see things.