skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was recently doing some randomised testing, and for some reason the software I was working with chose to use the getrandom() system call for every random number. This completely swamped the performance measurement I was trying to make, more than half the time wasted on random numbers.

I switched to PCG with Lemire’s nearly divisionless modular reduction, and the performance numbers were sensible again.
As much as ARM is associated with efficiency, the instruction set itself is largely irrelevant to the performance of modern CPUs. x86s CPUs are translating x86 instructions into the CPU's native instruction set, and while that used to impose some non-trivial overhead, it's been trivial for quite some time.
> time-based deletion of messages? That is on their public roadmap,

How can deletion of a sent message be enforced? I realize that some messaging services offer this feature, but aren't they all misleading at best? Even on a centralized service with a trustworthy admin, the recipient can always copy/paste or take a screen shot.
Thought this was a new form of philosophy by @naval
Yes; a simple example is Norton's dome. It is possible to construct a frictionless curve such that a particle that is pushed up the curve with correct initial velocity will reach the top and halt in finite time. Observing a particle sitting at the top of the dome, there is no way to tell when it reached that point or from which direction.
As with any asset that's hard to lock down, if the scrap value is high enough relative to salary of employees then they can't estimate how many phones can be exploited before the next "steal stuff from work" event.

As such the NSO Group would end up limiting its clients to fit its pipeline and have trouble buying exploits since most other market participants have a single workforce with a drastically lower rate of loss.

I think that would devolve to countries needing to pay liability pricing per attack on possible honeypot phone's, etc, and more countries being cut off like Morocco, so no more using it like an unlimited plan. Sure these countries have unlimited budgets relative to their own GDPs, but when they can't find stability acting as a group they are all back to bidding for unique vulnerabilities, and there probably aren't 212 great ones on every platform at all times.
In short, %80 return means that if you spend 1.0, you only get back 0.8. You forever lose the $1 spent, but get more sales and worth $0.8 after costs.

Here are more details (repeated for clarity)

Assumptions:
20% corporate tax rate (assessed on total profit)
80% Marginal rate of return for advertising (next dollar you can spend)

1) You have $2 profit (before taxes). You can take it and pay $0.4 in taxes, leaving $1.6 after taxes.

OR

You have $2 profit (before taxes), You spend an extra $1 on marketing with 80% return. The $1 spent on advertising returns you $0.8. You now have 1.8 total profit. You pay 20% ($0.36) in taxes, leaving 1.46

You will always loose money if the marketing ROI is less than 100%
Honestly, it should be a dedicated iPad like device that's weather resistant that Apple can sell that you can mount as a head end. BT speakers support would be great - we do that all the time for our old minivan that has crap builtin system.

However, that doesn't give Apple a cut of the new vehicle margin.
These were my exact thoughts about CS vs Quake back in the days. Quake had no downtime, all action while CS had time between rounds or just tense moments without anything actually happening. I think this dynamic was an important point behind the success of battle royal games too. An all action game is like an action movie without a moment's pause - it just doesn't work for most people.
the numbers are already priced in. look how well the stock has done over the past month.
That's a neat way to compare! I've spend a couple of months in countries in that 25k GDP range. I could tell the difference in some ways, but there's so much more I don't know.

However, that gave me the idea to see what that same math was like using historical U.S. inflation adjusted per-capita GDP numbers [0].

That $25k number is what U.S. per-capita GDP was in 1991/1992.

[0] https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/gdp-...
Bathroom business being a normal life activity. Risking your life in a reckless activity, when you were warned? Yeah, such idiots should pay for the full cost of their own rescue.
Not true. In the early American colonies, the colonists used charcoal and bog iron to supply local blacksmiths. The Iron Age in particular enabled widespread metal use precisely because sources of iron ore and charcoal are very broadly distributed geographically. Ironically (heh), it was the Bronze Age which relied more heavily on trade as you needed both copper and tin (which was especially rare geographically) to make bronze, which meant you had to have fairly vast trading networks. The development of iron smelting was a pretty important invention that vastly simplified and diversified availability of weapons-quality metal.

(Although to make hardenable steel—probably essential for industrialization—is harder than mere iron and requires better process control… but charcoal can still be the fuel source. And it was, for ancient steelmaking.)

EDIT: in fact, even in the first Industrial Revolution, water power was more important economically for motive power in Britain than coal driven steam power. Globally, coal didn’t start to exceed traditional biomass for prime energy until around 1900.
Yeah, there's some sparseness to it all that simplifies, but that's also offset by most abilities having a geometric component to how they're targeted or have area of effect.

Respectfully, OP doesn't know the game. You can indeed have fun playing casually like that, but your win rate will reflect the lack of what you don't know. You can't even see the game until you get some months under your belt, imo. Sound is another underrated aspect: you need to know exactly what spells are going off, how your allies or enemies will position them, based on nothing but hearing it and knowledge of the game.

There's no way I would have learned Dota without a friend to pull me along. It's a big problem with the genre as a whole. LoL is a bit more forgiving and ability spammy, but has all the same issues. And I say this as someone that got near the top of the 2v2 ladder in LoL beta (RIP original twitch malphite combo).
In my opinion the best app similar to Slack but organised around the thread communication is Twist (https://twistapp.com/).

It's disappointing that it's so hard to convince the companies "management" to switch from chaotic Slack communication to something better for async and organised communication because clients are used to Slack...

The same applies to Discord as it's just the most accessible way, everyone uses and it's just largest common denominator regardless of the chaos in most of the channels, hope the threads will clear some things up when people use them, and not like in the Slack where everyone just paste response in the channel instead of the threads.
That $52B doesn't sound a lot considering that Samsung and TSMC are spending ~$27B and ~$25B in capex this year alone.
Yes, in fact visual snow has quite an overlap in symptoms with HPPD experienced by some chronic users of psychedelics! It was even sometimes misdiagnosed as HPPD in the past, although that theory was discounted as the vast majority of visual snow patients don't have a history of psychedelic use (I was far too much of a nerd to be dropping acid aged 14/15 when I contracted the disorder!). For me the appearance of these visuals is triggered by closely repeating patterns such as bricks, tiles, striped or chequered shirts, chessboards, that sort of thing. It makes reading a bit difficult sometimes too, I really struggle with dense typography like newsprint for example so I usually read on a Kindle with the line spacing and font size set quite high.

I definitely think psychedelics have a role to play in understanding these dysfunctions of the visual system, although unfortunately my country (the UK) has a very unenlightened view when it comes to banning things and firing chief scientific advisors when they point out that there's no real scientific justification for prohibitionism. Vernon Dursley is apparently the target voter for both major parties!
Swappable batteries aren't viable without a new business model. If you buy an EV today, it comes with a battery with a ~10 year warranty, and replacing that battery after the warranty ends is a pretty expensive affair.

Nobody with a new battery is going to want to swap it out for a old, potentially degraded battery. But everyone with an old battery would be happy to try to swap their way into a new battery.

Instead, I think you'd need a model where the battery isn't included in the price of the car, and you have a monthly subscription to rent a battery from either the dealer or a third-party. That way you aren't attached to the specific battery you're using, and the subscription fees go towards replacing old batteries as needed. The subscription would either be a base fee + price per replacement, or a base fee for rental + unlimited replacements.
But they aren’t. Most companies have no direct influence from the government (outside of regulation). Just the big ones… which is pretty similar to the US.
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Actually, yours is not such a great explanation, since a stack of quarters would manifest greater pressure than a stack of pennies. Whereas, a fluid column would manifest the same pressure no matter the diameter.
The point is that it should behave like an automatic mechanism. This is a metaphor for reducing bias as much as possible.
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If a competitive alternative cool electric car appears, and they use advertising to steer the opinion of the public of being the best electric cars on the market ... I think Tesla will start advertising!
This is just hungry hungry hippos.
NSO's clients are all organizations with effectively unlimited budgets. That's the premise. Even the shadier companies in NSO's space sell principally to state actors. It's unlikely that Google can drive the price of an exploit past the level that any country can pay for. These are petty cash figures.

NSO builds implant technology, so they add some value of their own, but NSO is essentially a middleman in this market. Driving up the prices of the underlying asset, when buyers aren't price sensitive, helps the middleman.
I didn't find any explanation other than it's well-accepted. That's true, however if it doesn't bring any new capabilities I think using just the standard library would make the tutorial more helpful and universal.
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This is not actually "indisputable" evidence.

First, do we know that the date cherry trees blossom is controlled by temperature? This question isn't addressed in the linked post, or in the document it links to with the data. They seem to just assume it must be the case.

However, the fact that the dates show very little change until the late 19th century is reason to doubt that temperature controls the date, since there is other evidence that temperatures (globally, at least) varied significantly over that time.

An alternative is that the date is primarily controlled by amount of sunlight, whose seasonal variation has of course not changed over the last thousand years. Presumably, one could resolve this question by looking at actual temperatures in Kyoto versus flowering date, in recent years.

Second, the variability in the date seems to decrease quite markedly in the late 19th century. That happens to be when the Meiji restoration occurred, accompanied by huge changes in Japanese society, including industrialization. It's also when the source of the dates starts to be mostly newspaper reports.

The initial change in the late 19th century is a narrowing of the spread in dates, with no change in mean. Then the mean date starts to get earlier, declining about linearly starting around 1900. One should note that it is generally accepted that CO2 didn't start to have a substantial effect on climate until about 1950, so a decline starting in 1900 is not obviously attributable to global climate change.

Alternative explanations for the decline include local climate change (unrelated to CO2 levels, but perhaps due to industrialization), changes in reporting, and changes in which cherry trees are being looked at.
Since anecdotes and all

> The tech industry is strongly biased in the favor of white men

Who cares?

I'm a black man, have been gaming since 6 years old, and never once in my circle of friends or family questioned silly things like potential political implications of 3D cartoons that I can manipulate. If I want a black, yoked mofo with a giant sword and a colourful pony sidekick with a red peacock feather in a video game - I know what I have to do.

Start my own gaming company to build games to do just that.

> It's still common for men to talk down to women on video games, to the point where the overwhelming...

Ofcourse, it's video games not nobel prizes, not civil engineering projects, not...
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Sustainability is about doing good. It’s about balance and believing in respecting others equally. The wake-up call is here to save the world from ourselves.
It's IBM's homeopathic AI.
Note that it was hardly “delayed” since all initial predictions for the vaccine to be approved were around 12 months, in the end it only took about 10 months.

Reports last year indicated Trump’s own FDA was responsible for setting out the needed time for data gathering and review that pushed it into mid-November. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/white-house-okays-fda-months...

Meanwhile other countries including China and Russia didn’t approve their own vaccines faster, seeming to indicate the timeline had little to do with U.S. politics.
Ah, some whataboutism too. Delightful. I suppose the financial regulators who caught him committing gross violations of the law should really be doing the street beat in Chicago.

This method of argument is embarrassing and ridiculous. It has no place on a venue like HN.

Whatever mod flagged this comment (seconds after posting) needs to seriously reassess their life.
> nor any talk about "bulge physics"

https://old.reddit.com/r/GirlGamers/comments/adbb5b/devil_ma...
Only some companies… logically assess what you are saying: for all business, government has board representation!? How would that scale? Where would the government get that kind is workforce?
And not just more so - but more so with worse tools to do it with. There are really hard problems in development these days that we all deal with - and we only deal with them because we're standing on the shoulders of giants - most of whom were women.
Also Orpheus, which IMO has a better usage/retention policy, awarding bonus points (which can be used to purchase freeleech tokens) for one's seeding torrents: https://interview.orpheus.network/
Why am I leaving ConsenSys?
Wait, Slavery Is Our “Original Sin”?
buses take an unpredictable amount of time to get to their destination. I've tried location based alarms and they failed me.
I always thought this was weird, considering you can run Android Auto and get 99% of the experience without ever owning a car.
In Zulip you can make a "general" topic thread, and then move messages to a new topic when you feel like it's warranted. The normal stream (channel) view shows all threads simultaneously. There's also a view of all streams combined. The UI would be more confusing if Zulip had to display un-threaded messages, because then you wouldn't have a way to view only un-threaded messages without threads being interspersed. If you use the "general" topic method you can just focus on that.
Uninstall it with adb.
> several cross-country trips

Which country?
I'm not too greedy. Give me enough money I won't feel too guilty spending a half million on a Lagoon 40 catamaran and a quarter million on a Lamborghini Huracan and enough for a single-family beach house on Lake Michigan or Lake Superior, (and enough investments I can 4% withdraw about 70k a year) and I'll be satisfied.
That isn't a valid reason. The infection fatality rate for most people who keep the Internet running is way less than 1%.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scena...
> he complained about a manikin that got dressed up at special occasions because it was immodest

Uhhhh... dare I ask to explain what was going on with said mannequin? What kind of “special occasion” requires this... ritual?

Also, I can’t tell whether you are implying that it would have been better for your coworker to have been filtered out because you think they are too sensitive, or if you are implying that your office asks weird things of people. What is the “double-edged sword”?
Sounds nice. I would encourage you to build a Mattermost integration too; it should be similar to Slack.
There are definitely groups out there pushing a religious or prudish agenda.

I'd like to offer my own anecdote, as a completely secular person whose lifestyle would probably invite condemnation, if not horror, from e.g. LDS. I won't describe exactly why they might feel that way, but let it suffice to say that I have spent non-trivial time around people who have done what some call victimless crimes, among other and more legal behaviors.

I find that I feel better emotionally and perform better professionally (and academically, when I was in school) when I refrain completely from this vice. I also find that I have much less intrusive thoughts of the sexual variety, especially at inappropriate times about inappropriate people.

I understand your concern that pseudoscientific and/or religious groups might be exerting this influence. I just wanted to give an example of the opposite.

See these videos [0] [1] where people in the gaming community (which in my experience is very often agnostic, if not atheist) have essentially a group coaching session with a psychologist for their undesired relationships to porn. Very rarely do they mention religion, but quite often do they mention emotional distress, life difficulties, social struggles, and difficulty stopping a behavior they find distressing. Whether or not it's an "addiction" (and scientific discussions related to the debate) I find irrelevant -- they personally wish they could stop and have trouble doing so.

I appreciate your efforts to, as I perceive it, point out potential sources of bias or misinformation. I just wanted to offer a totally secular view of the benefit of and reason why an app like this might have funding and a market.

[0] https://youtu.be/e1ndqAkiQZo

[1] https://youtu.be/lUVeUSIlQiI
We haven't had rain in a hilarious amount of time for the PNW, and getting more heat warnings. We're used to summers with a fairly consistent ~20° and some rain here and there. What we've been getting since mid-June is 26°+ (outside of the crazy week of over 40°). In some cases, people are literally needing to water the rainforest.
What about the 50k people/day being both 13 years ago? Will they register earlier than they would have done, seeing August as a deadline?
> This has been a possibility for decades but only for those with large budgets.

Yep. You don't need CGI if you can search a large population for someone who looks like insert-public-figure-here and make up the difference with makeup.
Interesting I have been thinking about the same thing in the past few months. At least for Web Apps.

But I cant read the article on Medium. Why is everyone putting their blog on Medium anyway?
The iPhone 12 and newest iOS versions are a significant leap up. And Android has really stumbled lately.
On top of that each Gradle release changes a couple of DSL stuff, and the Android plugin is an hopeless case.
> 100 requests per second? That is not too impressive. Yes, I know Python is their tool of choice, but it is probably the wrong tool for the problem at hand.

I would imagine that even with Python, a fully asynchronous framework would be far better at requests-per-second than Django, but would require sacrificing features, since nothing async is yet at feature parity.
A more scary vertically integrated monopoly?

Services revenue increasing is just scary. A single company owning everything from the silicon to the device to the OS to the app gateway, web browser and software services is going to backfire for users in the long run I think.
Yes. But then hiring itself is discriminatory unless it's random.. The whole point of interviews is to discriminate.

Back to the spirit of your question; it is legal discrimination. Frankly I support your ability to hire who you want at your company within legal bounds. I also support teams hiring people who will go to the pub so shrug.
The point is we have no way to distinguish what is "genuine" in this case. Compounding that problem is the current massive Chinese propaganda offensive, which makes it even harder to believe any positive opinions. Especially when at the same time we can see what is happening in HK, for example.
The idea that "No-code" means what it says, or can deliver what it promises (without kicking the can down the road... in a VERY major way) -- or that even if it did, it magically eliminates the need to have, if not a technical co-founder, or at least a highly clueful technical person on board, at some point in the early stages (before too much damage is done) --

Is something that only a non-technical "technology writer" could put serious stake in.
The difference between 15 and 20 on just age discrimination seems very arbitrary. How did they even come up with that instead of just putting it together with the rest of the stuff?
Ehh, and to think that I sold all my Apple stocks just last week....
It's not quite true that advertising is a zero-sum game. There are economic benefits from increased competition, and from improvements in presented choice.

It is definitely true that the economic benefits don't accrue to the advertiser! And it's also true that the economic benefits decrease as advertising saturates. But it's still not zero.
Rather than speculate why didn’t you just do a google search? A quick google and check of archive.org finds the document released in December with an archive date of dec 16.

https://web.archive.org/web/20201216033740/https://www.news-...
Curious, could one apply fancy control theory and modern computing at the problem and fix most of the accuracy and flex problem? Position feedback with integrated sensors can be very compact and highly accurate, and human muscle seem to also use feedback control for holding position..
> The fire creates the storm, and then the storm creates lightning, which can cause more fires

> That runaway feedback is the dangerous part.

This is the second year I've heard the term pyrocumulus/pyrocumulonimbus so prominently in relation to the Sierras in California. If this happens more frequently, we might lose a lot of forest. It seems like that would accelerate the effects of climate change... which would also amplify the frequency of these events.
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Being a heavy whatsapp user (Brazilian) I use Slack's forward function, inside the same conversation window (group or DM) as a "reference keeper" to what message I'm replying to, pretty much like whatsapp's "reply" feature.

I understand the "also send as direct message/to group" mimics this. This, for me, is a good thread implementation for a chat tool.