skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
America certainly has the engineering talent, it's really the manufacturing base that has been decimated. In some sense this migration was necessary for the iPhone and web app revolutions, Web 2.0. Perhaps we'll see embedded engineering and manufacturing return to America once web and mobile application development becomes over saturated. Already there seems to be a struggle for normal new grads to enter these fields.
I wouldn't be wrong if you just charged me for carbon. I'm sure there's plenty of things people are wrong about carbon emissions and have no idea, because no one pays for the negative effects of pollution and therefor everyone does.
I do wonder where all the mathematicians / academics hang out online. Now that I'm out of (compsci) grad school, I find myself without like-minded peers to study math with. Currently working my way through Riehl's category theory book, but it's a bit tough without anyone to talk to!

I know there's MathOverflow, and some people in the FP community hang out on IRC. What's the academic equivalent of HN? GitHub? I'm guessing there must be quite a few hard-to-find Discords for specific research communities.
Both you and the person you are replying to are correct. I don't know if you were trying to refute their claim.
You're not hooking that up to a cellular network, are you?
"Scalability! But at what COST?" is another classic in the category (though it's not precisely about on-box parallelism if I recall; the authors' acronym "COST" is the "Configuration that Outperforms a Single Thread").

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/hotos15/hotos...

http://www.frankmcsherry.org/graph/scalability/cost/2015/01/...
This seems contradictory: "Tomato fruits inform the mother plant when they are being eaten by caterpillars, shows a new study. Little is known about whether a fruit can communicate with the plant to which it’s attached"

Didn't the first sentence indicate that YES, it can?
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Seems like it would make a lot more sense to focus on things that really use lots of energy. Focusing on sleeping computers is like a certain wise man said a couple thousand years ago: straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel.
I think for that use case, you have to suffer the performance penalty of a third-party password manager (original post was looking for the fastest password manager, which will almost always be the first-party one, and be tied to the one platform).
Why doesn’t anyone see death as a feature not a bug?

Our environment is always changing so is it wise to throw away the opportunity to adapt?
Can someone educate me as to a/the use case for this?

Does this mean you are providing cell service to others? or is there another purpose for it?
Wow! I'm glad someone heard the snoring. What a terrible way to go!
Mortality is absolutely a feature of evolution. Sticking around after you reproduce and helping your offspring is great, but beyond some point you've done what you can to improve the viability of your offspring and are just competing with them for resources.
You should absolutely find a way to do that. This regulation is a ridiculous feel-good.
Towards L5 Autonomous Flying Cars, a Robust Framework Extends GAAS with Lidars
I share the same feeling. I am a PhD student with working knowledge of application development. My skills have been quite useful to the rest of the lab as they transitioned to using HPC systems.

> * "I need a terabyte of RAM"

A lot of our work involve running algorithms such as PCA and ICA on thousands of biomedical imaging data. It is totally normal for us to allocation 1TB RAM. We have 3 nodes with 1.5TB RAM in our cluster. Aapproximation algorithms do exist and are used for resource optimization though.
> Why do you think they are cancelling AP classes in San Francisco and California under the guise of social justice?

Can you document this? I'm a southern California resident, and I keep hearing stuff like this from people online, but I know no local examples of this at all.
Heuristics for Effective Software Development: A continuously evolving list
I don't cross paths with a lot of C or C++ where profiling is a concern. I use gprof for that, but I haven't needed it in a few years. None of the folks I work with reach for C or C++ as a weapon in their quiver.

I do cross paths with a fair bit of FORTRAN, but in my experience, generally if someone's writing FORTRAN, they already know the deal with performance.

Fun fact: When I interviewed for my job [12 years ago], I interviewed with a guy using SQLite and FLTK in a C++ model. I'd been using SQLite and FLTK for some recent personal projects; in the interview, I solved a bunch of performance problems he'd been having for a couple years. I interviewed on Monday, and started working there two days later.
> How could you control code quality if you let randos write your stuff? You can't.

Huh? You use the pull request mechanism on Github. That's what it's there for. If people want to contribute, the PR needs to be up to standards. Just to pick one example, Elastic uses this method for ElasticSearch. [1] ES gets PRs from hundreds of unique contributors each year.

[1] https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pulls
So, I'm interested.

There is a clear link between Benadryl and dementia. Many say that you shouldn't take it as a result.

I've posited that people with 'broken sleep' due to overactive thoughts or anxiety may raise the risk of dementia and benadryl is caught in the crossfire of suffering folks.

Do you have any opinion?
I can't think of any examples off-hand right now, but I remember reading an analysis of English where it was talking about using only a subset of its phonetic inventory/phonotactics for foreign words (a bunch being reserved for native words). So even in cases that the English has all the sounds for a word it may not always render them because of the 'foreign word' register.

English-speakers like to struggle with issues of pronounciation of non-native words. Some other languages are just hardcore "naturalize the hell out of foreign words". I personally don't see much of a moral component in English approach. Though I understand that many people are super big on it as indicating respect, for me, I'd never be so arrogant as to judge people of random language X too harshly for only getting a rough approximation of my name, or mapping it to the nearest common name in their language.
This is something that is often reported but seems to have little research. I remember that Dave Letterman had a guy on his show in the 80s(?) that invented the casket alarm for the folks that seem to be buried alive. The inventor came up with it because as memory (dis)serves it happened more than once to him. IIRC he was largely just made fun of by Dave but that fit with that style of late night tv of the time. I am curious if there is well documented cases of extended periods of “death like symptoms” that reverse as in this case. Is it poisoning? Drugs? Unexplainable? Negligence on the Dr?
Efficiency standards also impact UPSes, which is why a lot of them are listed as "not for sale in Washington, Colorado and Vermont."

More details on this reddit discussion, but it's not just APC affected. https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/ijmgnm/apc_ups_no...
I was in Boy Scouts in the early to mid-80s. I didn’t see anything like these types of activities.

But just because I didn’t see it, doesn’t mean it wasn’t there.

I am surprised here at the scale of the problem, but not that this kind of thing happened as a whole.
I don't known how boosting works or what is it exactly, but judging by its name, one could assume that boosting is a zero sum game. Namely, if Facebook, for one reason or another, boosts your content, this would come at a cost to other relevant blogs that also compete for the same screen real-estate on Facebook. So it sounds natural to ask you to pay money for ads service to promote your content, that's what ads are for. It's just that reading you post it looks like, in retrospective, the anecdotal evidence that you provided, gives the impression that facebook ads actually might have worked well for you.
Most human beings don’t experience growth in childhood as cancer.
https://gcc.godbolt.org/ might make things more manageable.
I have my mining rigs going 24 seven. Luckily we have very cheap electricity and it’s proving to be quite profitable.
One common trope I've heard for the reason why PC gaming never took off in Japan (vs. Korea) is that the PC became home for erotic games so PC gaming was viewed as rather obscene. This explanation however makes more sense.
> we still don't have enough data to prove whether it is safer or more dangerous then an average human driver.

I would point out that given the dangers involved with accidentally turning over a million vehicles into autonomous 5000 lbs missile, erroring on the side of caution seems fine. The benefits are quite low: if the autopilot had been on since inception between 20 and 100 lives would have been saved (I accept your "several billion miles" number and point out that that the average fatality rate is 1.1 per 100 million miles driven, but that is based on averaging in 40 year old cars with fewer safety features and shrinks ever year.). The costs could be astronomical: a simultaneous failure (security, mistraining, date bug, whatever) could result in hundreds of thousands or millions of deaths.

Which means there are three errors to consider. (1) Obviously, some things (bugs, exploits) are unknowns and there will always be an inherit risk there. I would say that these risks may forever make self-driving cars too risky. (2) It is difficult to come up with any actual test of driving skills. This is especially true because any test will suddenly become the target so we have to have the test cover everything. (3) Actual driving errors: Both of the above assume that the AI can drive as well as a person. That's obviously difficult to do. And we would need to see a huge improvement to justify adding a new risk factor.
"A is a serial liar, dont believe him! A says he didn't do it, believe him!"

A is always lying but he is not lying when he says the things we believe.
What about audiobooks. There is something called "booksonic" but that didnt work for me.
How to Make a Chatbot Multi-Lingual
Just because it's a feature of evolution doesn't mean we shouldn't try to stop it. Evolution does not care about how you or your offspring feel. Literally the only thing evolution cares about is achieving cancerous growth at all costs. I don't think that's a worthy goal.
To me it's not interesring because it suffers from the same issue all the alternatives have.

Getting a domain is not prohibitively expensive if you have low standards for the url (which presumably you do if "93736474.xyz" works)

So the inevitable result is that a large number of applications using these will be so low effort they couldn't get a much better domain for barely more money, and that will probably end up being a mix of spam, malicious applications, and questionable content.

And the end result is everyone blocking traffic from .xyz. Just like someurl@extracheaphosting.com is.
Neoliberalism: conformity and obedience.
Like a civet.
To be clear, sometimes a terabyte of RAM is the right solution. But it's pretty common to find someone needing that simply needs a better algorithm. [or, recently, a mathematical identity that meant the task could be done streamed from disk]
I doubt the engineers can do a significantly better job, given the technology they have to work with; it's not their fault. Everyone could be tooling around in 60mpg Priuses, but they--the drivers--choose not to. (Disclaimer, I drive a Prius.) And if Ford, Chevy, Toyota, Hyundai, Kia and all but one of the other car companies announced that they'd only make Prius-equivalents starting next year, the one remaining ordinary car company would eat their lunches.
Terracotta: Serverless GeoTiff Tile Server
Just because a company may have an elevator pitch, doesn't mean that's the best way to explain their business given more time, right? The elevator pitch may be less detailed, or less nuanced, or simply less convincing—but it's useful because of it's brevity.

A lot of topics are like this. So you need to figure out how to do what you can in the space alloted.
Can you elaborate on this? To me over-the-counter just sounds like a shoe store.
This is quite interesting, especially since one of the major objections to computer-aided proofs has that they are more difficult for humans to understand.

Common wisdom has been that proof techniques matter more than the results, but if human-authored proofs are no longer being inspected, it seems like it's just a matter of time before computer-aided proofs take over. I wonder how long it will be before proof assistants (like Lean, Coq, etc.) become ergonomic enough that the average non-technical math researcher will feel social pressure to publish a computer-aided proof along with their result.
Well, there’s nothing in their marketing copy that says that any of this is in doubt - it’s all in terms of what the car will do, not what it might do someday. This is all associated with Tesla’s $10k “full self driving” package that they are selling today with the promise of future capabilities.

Put another way, there are a lot of people who are going to be really pissed when they realize that their car will never do those things, and they paid $10k for practically nothing (ok, technically they get autopilot and the ability for the car to stop at red lights today).
> construction materials and wood just normalized back to where they were

Huh? Wood prices have corrected some, but they’re still >2x what the were pre-pandemic.
Free version of BeOS rewritten from scratch using the API levels for compatibility. One step closer to public release.
I bought a monitor a few years ago and out of the box it had a dead pixel in a pretty annoying spot. I looked up the manufacturer's replacement policy and they wouldn't take it back for just a single pixel.
Sweet Recollections – A Science Micro Fiction
tl;dr - Language (kanji are hard) and culture (electronic devices as standalone devices, not a digital hub).

The iPod was a triumph of consumer-friendly embedded systems.

I got interested in iPodLinux, having a computer more powerful than my Mac Plus in my pocket that I could program! Now I'm an embedded software engineer at a medical device manufacturer. If I saw embedded engineering as boilers and fridges, I doubt that my teenage self would have been excited about it (not to insult those working in those essential industries!)

Culture in the west has changed since 2008, though. The "digital hub" model has shifted to a cloud-based SaaS subscription model. This is more profitable for service providers, especially phone companies.

But it's not because people like the cloud! It's because the iPod had no data input, no social experience. The music community was separate at the time (on MySpace). The iPhone came, threw music to the side, and pushed everyone towards cameras, screens, and sharing photos with each other (Facebook, Instagram). The network effects of community were stronger than the technical superiority of the iPod (larger storage, reliable software, USB disk mode).

I believe that these things go in cycles, and personal music will become popular again. Probably in some open-source, decentralised way, which can leverage that community effect. It won't happen until concert tours can restart, but it could be powerful enough to displace the major players (Apple, Google, Spotify) who seem to be neglecting the music community that brought them their market in the first place.
A more likely explanation is simply that the average age of a nuclear plant has been increasing because the build rate is so low.
The Japanese corporation Toshiba created the drive formfactor that made it possible, and Apple bought exclusive music player rights to it.

The Nomad etc. maybe didn't actually lose because of lacking wheel as popularly mythologized, its successors were stuck with a bulkier more power hungry laptop drive because Apple owned exclusivity.
I've never heard of any power regulation like that in the EU. Any idea what directive that might even be from?

Edit: looks like 617/2013. Weird that I've never heard about this. This is about total power consumption per year though, so that thing would probably either be inefficient as hell or misclassified for some reason. None of the sleep mode regulations should apply to your case.
No, that's the point; the previous algorithm was O(1) [a simple queue] but that led to doing a huge amount of extra work. By using a smarter queue that "cost" an extra O(log(n)), we could skip work that didn't need doing in the first place.
San Francisco can change! But only if people demand more housing to be built and stop the nonsense linked by previous comment. Its up to the people of SF to fix this.
I'd say that was a pretty clear rhetorical question
xkcd layman version

https://xkcd.com/1732/
There was a documentary in the UK which I just cannot remember the name of anymore. They have an African tribe (father and mother) exchange places with a middle class father and mother in a UK suburb. One interesting element was how the Africans were appalled that they put their mother into a care home, this was just unacceptable in their view.
This is more of an artifact of Western society's relatively new and absurdly antisocial aversion to extended family, along the complete and utter failure of modern public planners, who design cities optimized for cars as opposed to walking and public transit, preventing the formation of close-knit communities.
When an app first requests access to photos, it’s one of the options listed in the system permissions dialog, so it’s virtually the default. The problem isn’t that, it’s that once you’ve picked the “selected photos only”, apps can choose to make it a pain to pick additional photos if they don’t add a UI element for it. Given that Instagram had it before and then removed it, I can only assume that the real reason is to try to coerce users into granting all access (nice try FB, but not going to happen for me!).
Yeah, calling it a "white" paper is a bit of a stretch. I kind of want to try printing it, but toner isn't cheap.
I refuse to use it, and even the cruise control is down right annoying. Braking at the entrance of a corner, in a 55 zone, that could easily be taken in this model y at 90-100.

Of course, it’s not my 2010 4Runner that would hit the brakes in a corner if it detected a wheel slipping, which would pitch me in to an outside lane. I bout had three head ons before I got rid of it.
As a counter feedback, I found your post an enjoyably clear read. Different cognitive styles perhaps.
Arguably even Bezos doesn't really need 500 years, unless some magic happy pills pop up I can't see how that won't turn into a miserable existence eventually.
You don't have to be in the US for it to be easy to initially target just the US market though.
>And glad the research suggests it.

The article is actually arguing against aging being inevitable (in the article, "My answer may be right or wrong" and below).

The author also links to a blog titled "Age reduction breakthrough"~[1].

[1] https://joshmitteldorf.scienceblog.com/2020/05/11/age-reduct...
I did a Ph.D. in number theory, published a few dozen research papers, and have programmed a lot and this post sounds about right to me. I did CS as an undergrad, before doing a math Ph.D., and remember being very surprised that math papers weren't a lot more wrong than they actually are (since computer software is so often full of bugs, and all it takes is one single bug to completely invalidate an entire paper). When I was a grad student at Berkeley, I once asked Serge Lang (who I think wrote the most advanced math textbooks of anybody who ever lived) why mathematics research papers don't have a lot more incorrect results in them. He responded that it was because people secretly "proved" everything to themselves in multiple ways, but only wrote up one proof, and it was unlikely that multiple very different reasons for something being true would all be wrong. Of course, there are serious mistakes and gaps in the literature, though what one person considers a gap, somebody else who knows more might not consider a gap. For example, I remember once that Ernst Kani was complaining to me about a big gap in a paper by Ribet; I didn't believe it, so I read the relevant section and was able to fill in the gap in a few hours sufficiently to satisfy him. In any case, I've spent decades both programming and doing number theory, and despite some similarities, they are very different things. Another related way these threads come together is with Kevin Buzzard's big project to formalize mathematics using LEAN; he's another number theorist, and he told me that a few years ago he started really worrying about the correctness of a lot of number theory papers, and that strongly motivated his interest in LEAN.
Hmm, don’t know what school you went to, but in my American public school they certainly covered the Spanish-American war, and the consequent status of the Philippines. Spanish colony, turned over to the U.S., taken over by Japan, independant after WWII ended.
I was also raised in Southern California, and both my sisters and I—all born in the 1950s—have had complete cot/caught merger since childhood. The local friends our age whom I surveyed informally about the distinction in 1975 or so, after I learned about it in a linguistics class in college, also had the merger.

Our parents, who were born in the 1920s, both made the cot/caught distinction. Our mother was from the midwest, but our father grew up in the same Southern California city as we did. This suggested to me that, with respect to at least this one phonemic distinction, our language acquisition was influenced more by our peers than by our parents.

I should note that my sisters and I were initially flabbergasted that anyone pronounced those words differently and had trouble hearing the difference, while our parents were upset to learn that we pronounced them the same.
The TikTok Spiral
I'm Vietnamese, but I never figured out a good way to teach people pronouncing "ng" until a recent vocal lesson, so I'll give it a try here. When you say "Go", you'll find the back of your tongue make a quick contact with the roof of your mouth to make the "k" consonant. If you try to gradually slow that down, keeping your tongue touching the roof for longer, and tone down the edge in "k", and you'll get "ng". And hopefully you'll be saying "Ngo" after a few tries.
> "Don't be anti-Axis-powers. Be pro something else."

Pro: Allies, peace.

> "Don't be anti-HIV. Be pro something else."

Pro: Science, research, vaccines, health equality, etc...

> "Don't be anti-crime. Be pro something else."

Pro: Social security/welfare, Mental Healthcare for all, drug legalization, rehabilitation, etc...

> "Don't be anti-(house|city|wild)-fire. Be pro something else."

Pro: Ecological Forest Management, Public Services, Firefighers & Funding, etc...

> "Don't be anti-discrimination. Be pro something else."

Pro: Social Justice, Black Lives Matter, Equality, etc...

> "Don't be anti-software-defect. Be pro something else."

Pro: Unit Tests, End-to-End Testing, User Testing, Fuzzing, Documentation, etc...
It’s not looking like a mild climate anymore, if that offers any comfort.
> AFAIK it also leaks the list of all your logins (or rather the sites) through their favicon caching server. To turn this off you first have to login (wtf?).

Do you have more info on this?
I’ve never dreamed (to the best of my knowledge, but I doubt it, I’m 50 years old and I think by now I’d have some inkling if I dreamed at night). Do you have any data on longevity of non-dreamers?
The customers for Zillow are the realtors themselves (and not buyers or speculators).
I'm pretty sure California has yet to ban AMD CPUs and NVIDIA graphics cards, though it would be pretty funny, of course.