skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Firstly, JavaScript is hardly a trainwreck of a language, considering how successful it has been with respect to adoption and having such an incredible ecosystem for developers to work in.

Quality != popularity. Look at Hollywood. JS is only popular because it got built into every browser, not because there is anything "quality" about it. Thus, attempts to fix it.

> In TypeScript, the type system is Turing Complete.

Ok, I'm afraid the only thing I can think of now is the metastasis that C++ is in. But that's again a philosophical point of view, and I'm drifting on another tangent too.
Some tools you can do this with:

The perf command line utility, the perf_event_open system call, the libpapi high level API, pmc.h on FreeBSD (IIRC).

Now, some more clever analysis: These can tell you the why rather than the what, they collect the same information but can present it graphically and compute TMAM statistics for example (Top-down microarchitecture analysis method).

vTune, Intel Advior, AMD uProf, and a few others. vTune is the best for x86, but only supports Intel fully.
> Edit: Also, the programs in the article appear to be mostly special characters?

I assume you mean the 4 listed in the "Errata" section?

The full list is here: https://www.mcmillen.dev/sigbovik/splatters.html
Sign-up screen is completely empty when using Firefox.
>most people don't get their names on space telescopes and we don't think of them as having been erased.

Erasing is when there's something written somewhere, and then it's erased. So if you started with your name on something and ended without your name on something, that'd be an example of erasing your name.
Because their interview questions were silly?
Nice picture, but does this give anybody else an uneasy feeling? :-)

"Micro Drones Killer Arms Robots"

https://youtu.be/TlO2gcs1YvM

"Hacking Microdrones for Lethal Gain"

https://alpinesecurity.com/blog/hacking-microdrones-for-leth...

"Attack on the drones: security vulnerabilities of unmanned aerial vehicles"

https://www.virusbulletin.com/conference/vb2015/abstracts/at...

"U.S. Army’s New Drone Swarm May Be A Weapon Of Mass Destruction"

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2020/06/01/why-ne...

"New Chinese weapon launches swarm of suicide drones annihilating targets"

https://youtu.be/scTe1LUjwbo
I want to quit this stuff but I can’t seem to find anything to fill the void.

Time fillers for Five to ten minutes Of downtime where I don’t want to do any deep work since I’ll probably be interrupted. Maybe some kind of game?
Not only does it help you identify birds by sound, but it shows a list of birds in your area so you can identify by sight!
>for the world to see, possibly forever.

When I was 10 or so, I uploaded some dumb little skits with my friends to YouTube. The videos accumulated about 2k views total, and are all gone now, and no one will ever recognize me from them.
The bigger problem is that Qualcomm and Mediatek are so far behind Apple that nobody else makes an ARM chip with M1-type performance and battery life
Just some quick feedback on your mobile site with iPhone Safari:

“Send a clients” typo on home page. Client should be singular.

Pricing page: not clear I could swipe plan cards to right. When attempting to swipe, could not get second card to come into view. Recommend letting them flow beneath.
Thanks, Don. I took a class from Mark at UMCP but I can't remember which one just now. He was one of my favorite instructors and I was sad when he went to PARC, but much sadder still when he died at such a young age.
Completely unrelated: "Decreasing precipitation and rising populations could bring a perfect storm of water shortages for the United States."

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/partner-c...
Success could be many things:

* Like delivery of engines to customers.

* Getting to orbit.

* Winning large contracts.

* Putting amazons internet satellites into LEO.

etc...

Space demand will grow incredibly fast very soon as SpaceX leads the incredible prices drops in $ per KG to orbit.

I'd love for them to be successful, and its great to see so many space companies being created, testing, and launching. And it's very important for the future of civilisation. That doesn't mean that you can't ask questions about the health of a particular company.
I've been using Syncthing for the past few days and it has been working flawlessly. One thing I haven't tried is syncing between Windows and UNIXes (macOS/Linux) - does anyone have experience around this? How do permissions work?
I find this relatively recent trend of naming spacecrafts after people very unfortunate. Would be much easier to have names like in the 60's or 70's like Mariner, Pioneer, Voyager followed by a number.

Even abbreviation like OSIRIS-REx seems to far-fetched and hard to place in context, while when you see a name like Mariner-9 you know that it is a one of the small-scale planetary spacecrafts of the broader Mariner program.
Bezos should give BO to SpaceX (or maybe Rocket Lab) to run, much like Buffet gave the bulk of his money to the Gates Foundation.

It will a) put the best person on the job, b) close down an unnecessary spat and c) remove the opportunity cost and let Bezos focus on other things.

It would be a win for everyone on Earth apart from ULA.
Code combat is pretty fun
Could it be made so that only adults could opt in?
Can you share an example?
No matter how much you qualify an answer: “yes, but it’s extremely early in design, we may not be able to find the right manufacturers so it may not happen at all, but the earliest possible date would be late 2022”, there is a segment of people that will have an expectation that you will deliver the product before 2023 and will be upset if you don’t.
We bought the Firebase domain name for $15k
Facebook the company or Facebook the platform? The thing with Facebook owning Instagram is even as Facebook itself becomes less and less relevant to younger generations, the company still owns the platform those younger generations favor. And as Instagram inevitably becomes itself irrelevant, I'm sure Facebook will just buy the next social media platform.
Moreover just glancing at Giraffe physiology shows us all the compromises that a long neck entails.

For instance it's long neck traps a lot of air in it's breathing cycle, requiring larger lungs for the same oxygen capacity. It has twice the blood pressure of a human to enable pumping up the long distance, and as such a giant heart. It has a complex circulatory system to control the change of blood pressure at it's brain when it bends over, and handle the high blood pressure in it's legs. And so on and so forth.
Americans hate taxes because we see little benefit from them. Federal taxes make up the brunt, and they mainly go to the military and corporate welfare. The biggest federal benefit is social security, and people don't see that until they retire. Even the benefits that do trickle back locally (eg highways, schools) are more of an end-run around state sovereignty rather than a respected benefit.

Local taxes mainly go to the domestic military and schools. You only see the main benefit if you have kids in public school.

State taxes are the most useful - large enough scale to accomplish things, but small enough scale to remain somewhat accountable. But since people can easily move between states, these become subject to intense politicking. For example, "Taxachusetts" even though its overall income tax rate is only 1.2x that of New Hampshire (32% vs 27%, for incomes $22k-$52k).

I'd personally love to see a flip of the magnitude of state and federal tax rates, money flowing between the two in the opposite direction, and a way for individuals to earmark what their tax money goes to. Some ability to steer taxes towards things they value would go a long way to making people feel enfranchised.

edit: lots of downvotes, but no counterpoints. While there are many things government does that I do value, I don't think their costs add up to anywhere near what is being paid in. What value do you feel you personally get from your taxes, apart from longing for some sort of social contract?
When is FB buying Zombo.com?
I'm not against taxes. There are things that can only be executed as a group.

What I am against is the notion that it's not mine. That by default it belongs to the government and it's only out of the goodness of their heart they allow me to keep some.

It's the other way around. We form a government and we decide what we want to contribute to it with taxes.

We decide we need a school, a road, engage in war, etc., and we contribute to those efforts via tax contributions.

I don't want to contribute to never ending wars, I don't want to contribute to subsidizing companies that export jobs, etc. I want money to train inner city kids, rural kids, not some reconstruction in some place that has much less immediate effect on us.
Full size arrow keys, please.
Equity in Amazon is not the same as cash.
Newtonian refers to a particular model of physics. There's also Ptolematic model, the GR model and many others. But Newtonian is the most popular.
3 hours a day, everyday? Are you an athlete?
Looking at what occurred during 1950 Truman's presidency, James webb as part of the state department was likely involved in many of the decisions around the Korean war. However the outrage is not over his war activity, but rather the Lavender and Red scare. How come? Is a war that killed millions of citizens much more morally acceptable than discrimination?
I've done something similar, cutting Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and all other major social media apps out of my life over the past few years. I would agree that HN is an issue as well, and that I should probably moderate my time on it.

However, I also can't deny that I've genuinely learned a lot from links shared on HN, and I can also attribute nearly my entire push to eliminate social media from my life to HN.

Additionally, HN, like a few other "hobby forums" I belong to, doesn't try to manipulate me to spend more time on the site so it can show me more ads. It only shows me content that other users have posted and shared -- unlike Facebook or Instagram, I don't see an ad every 2-3 posts or comments. That means something to me. Right now, all of those "hobby forums" teach me more about things I care about than they stress me out or piss me off or steal my time. Toward the end, Facebook was just a thing that ate up 10-15 minutes of my time multiple times per day. I can at least point to genuinely interesting facts I've learned from browsing HN.

And most importantly, I mostly do it during work hours anyway :-).
He's said he plans to sell 1 billion of Amazon stock a year to fund Blue Origin. That seems like enough to keep it going, and as long as Amazon continues at or above its current share price, Bezos does appear to be wealthy enough to keep this going as a hobby project for at least a few decades.
We believe that socketing memory is a good tradeoff to enable greater longevity through memory upgrades, and also a more useful upgrade path by being able to keep your memory during certain mainboard upgrades.

In the DDR5 timeframe, there is less of a power delta as well between DDR5 and LPDDR5.
I think it's quite fair. You're not paying anywhere near close to the price of the infra with AWS; you're paying for the convenience, but be mindful that the cost has a break-even point and many companies may be beyond that point.

I don't have the experience to assess whether the total cost of ownership is favorable to most AWS clients or not.
Excellent idea to sync Whatsapp. Do you use any means to read your Whatsapp chat history on other devices - say your laptop?
This is awesome! Is there a way to disable the text reveal animations? I am not sure about the intended experience, but on my device they appear quite slow.
Doesn’t appear to be the case on the 16” MBP: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook+Pro+16-Inch+2019+Tea...
I hear this a lot but only from people with USB-C. Sure, on occasion you'd also hear someone who broke their mobile micro-USB or even USB-A laptop ports, but usually that was from bending the connector accidentally if I remember correctly.

As someone with zero problems finding the correct orientation (it's both tactile and visual) who is in the market for a new phone, makes me wonder if I should look for one with micro-USB again. Replacing that port sounds like hell, and I use devices at least 4 years so if C is prone to wearing I'd definitely have to.
> The problem is that by beginning his company with a focus on space tourism and flying on the very first mission himself, Bezos only plays into the hands of critics.

I'd frame it as Bezos demonstrated supreme confidence in the rocket by being personally on the first manned flight.
Is programming a purely vocational skill to you? Do you not find it fun? Exciting? Interesting?
Is 20 years an unreasonable amount of time?
Given the extremely short supply of telescopes deserving naming, it’s absurd to think that anyone who doesn’t have a telescope named after themselves has been erased from history.

What you’re defending is James Webb’s immaculate memory. Please think long and hard about whether it’s worth defending the immaculate memory of anyone.
> But not getting a vaccine is not like going to meet all people in town and hoping for the best.

Absent vaccines the disease only goes away when too many people have caught the illness; that means you can only avoid catching it with your approach (regardless of what it is!) if you are an unusual and exceptional case.

> There are alternative strategies that reduce your risk of getting COVID and risk of severe health results from COVID immensely

The best way to reduce the of risk of severe health results from COVID is literally take one of the twenty different vaccines with a variety of different operating principles behind them.
He needs to get something in orbit, anything. Once he has a single win, he can start scoring launch contracts and competing in the launch provider market. He should end up more profitable than every provider with disposable launchers.

New Glenn should be that vehicle, if they ever finish it.
ITS NOT META IF IT'S CLOSED. It's only a constellation of services.

Facebook is welcome to become whatever Zuckerverse it can be.

But they do not seem to have the play-well-with-others ability to encompass multiple different universes of possibility. They will remain distinctly within their own singular sphere, best I can tell.
Last year at the start of the pandemic, I stopped using Facebook, Youtube, Reddit and Linkedin. Just stopped, no exceptions. It took an incredible amount of discipline at first, but now it's become a habit. Its had a net positive effect on my life and I highly recommend others to try it.

Its incredible how little I'm tempted to open these apps now. Once you're properly out of the hyper-addictive ecosystem that they create, that's it, you're unlikely to want to get back in.
The program is reading perf events.

The code is at https://gist.github.com/bitonic/78887f5d3238bab5e31f3c5a41d4...
Lots of keyboards with smart card readers already, for customers like the US DoD. They're not pretty though. Don't expect to see one on display at the Apple Store.
What If an AI Told You That 2 and 2 Is 5?(2020)
> The proposed exception would only kick in during a declared national public health crisis […]

Imagine a future presidential administration with a majority in Congress declaring that the current pronounced uptick in young people declaring themselves "non-binary" (or something similar) and seeking hormone replacement therapy is evidence of a mass hysteria and, as such, represents a public health emergency; and then using this Section 230 exception as a stick to bully social media companies to take down media hosted on their platforms that allegedly encourages this recent phenomenon.

"Misinformation" is in the eye of the beholder. That's why our Constitution declares that "Congress shall make no law."
There's a passage in Alan Turing's autobiography that suggests he performed a non-consensual sexual act on a male friend.*

I would certainly not use this as cause for renaming the many things we have named after Turing.

*Alan Turing: The Enigma, page 132:

"They were ordinary people, who made Alan feel more at home than did the grand Princeton figures. In their old-fashioned country way, they put Alan and Maurice in the same double bed.
The compartments of life were fractured. Maurice was amazed - he had not had the slightest suspicion. Alan apologised and withdrew at once. Then he blazed out"
I think that's a bit hyperbolic.

I think most backlash about memorialization of historic figures is related to modern social issues.

Discrimination towards LGBT people is still a problem that society is coming to grips with. Webb was alive and working recently enough that it's almost certain there are still people alive who were directly harmed by his actions.

This is not to say I necessarily agree with renaming the telescope, but that I do think you're drawing a false equivalence.
> I never said his sexual orientation or actions justify an invasion of privacy. I am not sure where you came to the conclusion I was stating anything like that.

> That is a public concern (at least to the Catholic public).

The reason why I came to that conclusion is because you said it clearly.
It's "a place where all IP can live together, where all kinds of experiences can happen."

https://twitter.com/juliey4/status/1205393085145874433
So design it like a CPU socket? Laptops usually don't have socketed CPUs because they also need to mount a heatsink, but RAM doesn't have that issue.
Facebook is IOI. There are no Gregarious Games in reality.
I believe the meta verse refers to Facebook’s efforts with VR in Oculus and their upcoming AR release

https://www.oculus.com/facebook-horizon/

I know the article mentions that it goes “beyond AR and VR”, but all that means is that Facebook will have flat pancake screen versions of their meta verse apps
I know what you are talking about, despite being on the opposite end of that spectrum. Snow Crash / Diamond Age are cyberpunk/post-cyberpunk ala Gibson and completely different from Stephenson's other books.

I couldn't even get through Cryptonomicon, and Jack Shaftoe did not strike me as a believable genius, nor his story. Anathem kind of strafed the line - it had SOME character development, and SOME action, but was mainly world-building / intellectual exploration. Stephenson's other books fall too far on that spectrum for me.
If it means nothing then why change it?

Disagreements about cultural norms have to be fleshed out and argued on some front. Let's be glad we live in a society where it's as trivial as naming telescopes.
Exactly. And "space" itself isn't a great place for industry, it has solar radiation for power, vacuum and no gravity for certain industrial processes, and lots of space to put things.

I expect heavy industry (and mining) will be on vacuum worlds like the Moon, asteroids, and Mercury, with some specialized processes and assembly done in orbit. Space is mostly for power satellites and habitats.
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THERE. ARE. FOUR. LIGHTS.
They directly address these costs in the article as "rounding error". Do you have some evidence to dispute that? Did I misunderstand them?
The Mythical Man-Month is probably older than you.
Exactly. I wrote the parent comment and recall a pretty senior Australian medical specialist friend of my wife visiting us in San Francisco at the height of the aids crisis. He was embarrassingly, virulently anti homosexual. Today the same guy has totally different views as society has evolved and probably doesn't even remember his former perspective.

He's alive and when he dies will have his reputation intact. Had he died while being negative about gay people by current social mores he would have his views frozen for all time.

Separately, also never underestimate people's life experiences shaping their views. We can all learn from events in other people's lives that shaped their perspective. Not healthy to rinse that away.
Indeed, the 'abstract' linear algebra does not include the notion of (ir)reducibility that is crucial to representation theory and its applications.
Huh? I'm not sure what you're asking for here. I don't tend to record conversations I have with people, and me trying to reconstruct conversations isn't really any more of an example that just saying I had the conversation.
I mean look at the world. Evolutionarily we've all failed.
Performance difference between system RAM and VRAM is an order of magnitude.
Specifically, DDR4-3200 peaks at 25.6 GB/second per channel, modern high-end GPUs peak at 500-900 GB/second depending on the GPU model.

VRAM consumes substantial power to deliver that performance. On many GPUs, VRAM chips are actively cooled. System RAM doesn’t even need passive heatsinks, uses too little electricity to care.
The free market is allowing a company like this one to exist because they're banking on there being enough people that care about this sort of thing to buy into their device rather than buying from a well established brand. That assumption will be put to the test very soon and advocates for this sort of device have a great opportunity to do so. The bitter reality though is that there might be a market large enough to sustain a company like this, but it won't make any big waves in the industry as a whole. Because people generally don't care.

> Seems I have less and less choices in that department these days, especially at the flagship tier

You're making a conscious decision about what sort of compromises you're willing to make with regards to your devices, just as everyone else is that buys electronic devices. There are plenty of phones with headphone jacks that have premium hardware specs. Sure, Apple doesn't have it. Samsung doesn't. But plenty of other manufacturers do, and people aren't buying them. Sony's top of the line smart phones have a headphone jack. LG's Vx0 line had headphone jacks and a fancy DAC built into them. ASUS's RoG phones have a headphone jack too. There's plenty of choice if it's actually that important to you. Buy those devices and hope that you can convince enough other people that the feature is as important to them as it is to you.

You don't need to shit on other people's choices nor assume that they aren't informed about the choices they make to want for the things that you do.
Are you familiar with Donald Knuth's "Dancing Links" ??

Its a covering-problem solver (NP-complete) that uses linked lists highly-efficiently. All nodes are "statically allocated" (at least, with respect to the algorithm), because the covering-problem takes up a constant amount of space.

The linked-list "Dances", pointing at other nodes to represent which combination of covers are attempted. So any link could potentially point to any other link later in its list. However, the number of nodes themselves is constant and set before the algorithm runs.

As such, the linked-list is fully X1->X2->X3->X4... at the start of the algorithm. (where X1, X2, X3 are contiguously allocated in memory). If X3 is proven to "not be a good guess" for our covering problem, then it is cut out of the linked list (X1->X2->X4).

All links remain in order, and are ordered on a 2-dimensions (So not only X1->X2->X3... but also X1->Y1->Z1...). Where X, Y and Z are the compound-elements trying to cover locations 1, 2, 3, ...

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Most simple malloc implementations also have the free-list as a simple linked-list that is in fact, ordered in memory. (The first node in the free-list is the lowest numbered RAM spot, while the final node in the free-list is in the highest-numbered RAM spot).

The FAT32 linked-list across a hard drive is also nicely ordered (and when it isn't, the user will perform "defragmentation" to reorder the list and optimize the hard drive).

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IMO, the "nicely ordered Linked List" is uncommon, but... common enough that its worth discussion. And sure, maybe we don't use FAT32 filesystems today very often, but that's the technology I used growing up lol. I know the methodology works!!