skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. Myself:

1) I am definitely more productive than in an office, almost by an order of magnitude. That is in a large part because of my specific personality idiosyncrasies (I get anxious in shared working environmens), so it doesn't generalize.

2) Meetings I'm in are exactly the opposite - they're much more focused and productive. Probably because everyone has more interesting things to do than waste time on chit-chat over a videocall, so there's this constant pressure to either do something useful, or cancel the meeting.

3) This one matches my experience too. With no ability to just bump into people or notice they're there, I do feel as if my team is the entire company.

4) No change.

5) Sort of the same, except I consider it to be a feature more than a draw.

> All in all, I don’t see why techies are so eager to isolate themselves at home.

To this, the answer is simple: autonomy. You get to choose your own environment, your own pace; you can protect your personal space. And, you reclaim the time you wasted on commute, which you get to spend on what you want. In my case, I'm getting 2 hours of my life back every day. Some people are getting more.
SingleFile and SingleFileZ are chrome extensions that export full web pages pretty effectively.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/singlefile/mpiodij...

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/singlefilez/offkdf...
I really like Julia, and also get the sense that the community is a little young and unsettled in some ways. The biggest way I've seen this manifest is in terms of a total lack of decent documentation for reputable, well known projects. For example, there's this trend in the Julia community of putting little clever puns in the github package description. Okay I'm not trying to rain on anyone's parade and I appreciate humor but when I'm looking for packages that little github description area is critical. Maybe save the puns for the readme doc? Beyond that, it's frustrating to find core libraries with absolutely zero API documentation or with totally outdated/incomplete/misleading docs.

I'm not all that mad about it or anything so I won't point fingers. I just find it to be out of touch and mostly just a buzzkill. In the past when considering investing my time and energy in building a project in Julia, I've found it frustrating to have to do all this guesswork to get a sense for where critical packages are at and what their limitations are.

So from an optimistic angle, I think this probably reflects the fact that there are quite a few researchers writing Julia packages, which is really cool. There are some awesome cutting edge techniques implemented as Julia packages. I don't think researchers should be off the hook for maintaining crappy packages, but I do think it takes some higher level thinking to cultivate good tools and collective habits around this stuff. For whatever reason, this is evidently challenging for the Julia community.

I hope that some of the culture and tooling around documentation and package maintenance gets more mature over the next few years. If anyone knows about efforts to improve documentation in the Julia ecosystem, I'd love to hear about them.
I plan to write another post on that with some images to show the steps, but the process differs a bit between our black+white and our satellite+hillshade images.

For the black and white, we pull in the relevant elevation models, merging various sources as necessary, compose the map (rotate if it helps), choose hillshade angle to highlight desired terrain, then export to photoshop.

Having been doing this for a while now we spend most of our time in Photoshop, adjusting color curves and healing irregularities (there seem to be more for LiDAR than for the standard 1/3 arc second DEM).

For our satellite + hillshade maps the process is a bit more involved. We actually remove the natural hillshade from the source image and add our own. This helps with perception of terrain (humans tend to perceive terrain as inverted if the sunlight is coming from the bottom of the image) and allows us to really play off the metallic print and get some pop. Even more photoshopping for these "maps."
Bezos' $2bn offer to get back in race to the Moon
> I found it to be ghastly, sitting closer to a coworker I detested than I lay next to my own spouse in bed. I could smell him.

The only thing worse than working in an open office environment is having to sit next to someone who stopped showering and regularly smokes.

Smokers/Alcoholics/drug users/the unwashed are the worst, followed closely by people that wear heavy musky scents.
So cool they are past nanometre now, Ångström!
My experience is that you spend lots of time producing and reviewing documents. Most of these documents, in my experience, aren't really used or consulted much. Sometimes the feature gets completely shelved, often changed so much that the document is out of date, and if the document disagrees with the decision makers then the document loses so it's better to just track what they say rather than what's in the document.
Another interaction before 3. is the Edge / SmartScreen integration where it won't download files thought to be unsafe "This is unsafe to download and was blocked by SmartScreen Filter" and you need to explicitly download them, e.g. screenshot in this blog:

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-download-blocked-files-sm...
Then there's this:

"I’m a Parkland Shooting Survivor. QAnon Convinced My Dad It Was All a Hoax."

https://www.vice.com/en/article/epnq84/im-a-parkland-shootin...
I am constantly connected to cellular internet, so I probably do.
NB: this excludes robotaxi, so any revenues from an autonomous fleet would be cherry on top (it could double the profit, still).
Intel details comeback plan to leapfrog chipmaking rivals by 2025
Aaah! I didn't know they were cousins. Thanks.
USDC is audited monthly https://www.centre.io/usdc-transparency
Interesting... I wonder if these moves (using mRNA for malaria and creating a mRNA lab/factory on the African continent) can be seen as Biontech doing something for poorer countries after Biden said he would release the patents for the J&J COVID vaccine if Biontech would do the same.
Because the leverage extended to customers is greater than the value of collateral the exchange holds. It is certainly possible if Tether dropped to 0.8 or something this would cause even automated liquidation and margining engines to fail then causing a systemic shock across all posted liquidity on the venue.
> callipygian

I love that there's a word for "well-shaped buttocks".
That's true, we could be separated by millions of people but at the same time only, say, a year's worth of two-hours-a-week practice.

But in the absence of a reliable way to measure absolute skill, the z score one does seem about as good as we can get, though it can't truly answer something like "Lebron vs Jordan" - and you also would get different numbers depending on which population you picked. Population of the world, population of the US, population of the basketball-playing world, population of people who play basketball at least once a month? That's gonna change the denominator for the percentiles for the Scalabrines and Lebrons both.
> because doxxing does not exist outside of some particular very online spaces

Journalism very much has the idea of protecting their sources. The NYT, for whatever reason, didn't feel like protecting Scott.
>> electricity is usually produced by burning coal

> This is highly location-dependent.

It really isn’t. Electricity moves through a network: for example using more electricity in France might cause a coal power station to be started in Poland. The same occurs for any network.

Additionally, when you add an EXTRA kWh of load, what really matters is where that extra kWh is generated. Think of it that all the electricity on the network is already being used (all the green electricity is virtually guaranteed to be used).

When you add one marginal kWh of usage, that kWh is often genersted 100% from gas or coal.

Obviously there are a lot of different situations where the above points are not relevant, and where an efficient coal station might be better than an ICE. I am just saying that many people are ignorant of how the electricity networks work.
Fair. I agree Arrow is still more of a vision than anything else.

> it didn't even provide a shape attribute

I suspect this has to do with the project's focus. I think they aspire to be a back-end to DataFrame libraries, which are generally 2d. I think they (correctly) are ceding the "n-dimensional tensor computation" space to the current incumbents.
If you specify a distribution using, say, Float32s, you'll get a distribution in Float32s. I'm guessing the machine learning example used Float32s so they would better take advantage of a GPU. It's almost always true in Julia that you can combine your choice of numeric type with other neat packages without the author of either one being aware of the other. Want to simulate ODEs in Float32 for speed on GPU, in Float64 for GPU, or if you have an exotic need for high accuracy use something bigger but slower, you can do it.
Everything that is premium in the Plaid is included in the new Model S. The whole line has been refreshed (and the X will too, soon).
earlyoom is enable on Fedora 32 and 33 Workstation edition; and 33 KDE spin. On Fedora 34, all editions and spins have systemd-oomd enabled. It does take some initial configuration of systemd service units since oomd works by cgroupsv2 based accounting and killing of entire cgroups, not PIDs. This work is still a work in progress, with uresourced setting up the initial resource allocations (with planned obsolescence). It should be safe to run uresourced on any edition or spin but right now it's only enabled by default on Workstation edition.

If the results you're getting aren't expected, there's still some chance it's a bug somewhere, so you should report it against systemd, attach `journalctl -b -o short-monotonic --no-hostname` or at least ~10 minutes of logging prior to the unexpected behavior you're reporting.
LLVM holds the keys to Exascale supercomputing
But none work with Apple Watches, nor do they work with iMessage.
Ask HN: Is there any evidence that compliance audits improve security?
Given the huge amount of work that goes into something like a SOC 2 audit, I'm just curious if there is any data that this process actually improves security. For example, some of the largest security breaches in recent history, like the supply chain attacks with SolarWinds, were in part due to following "best practices" required by things like SOC 2. Plenty of the items in SOC 2 seem like good recommendations, but there is a ton of "box-ticking". I'm just curious if there have ever been any studies on SOC 2 audits, for example are data breaches less likely to occur in audited companies.
Lol, way to play the game I guess. It's not Intel 4nm, but 'Intel 4', which was Intel 7nm and Intel 7nm+ is now Intel 3. Retconning Intel 10nm+ as Intel 7.

Makes you wonder if the same thing with the initial 10nm failures where a lot of management bonuses were tied to a specific number in the release is happening here too, or if it's just them trying to recalibrate those marketing literature when the competition is a node worse for the equivalent nm value.

Edit: It literally says this in the article:

2021 H2, Intel 7: Previously known as 10nm Enhanced Super Fin or 10ESF

2022 H2, Intel 4: Previously known as Intel 7nm.

2023 H2, Intel 3: Previously known as Intel 7+

2024, Intel 20A: Previously known as Intel 5nm.
This was a fantastic read. He did a very good job explaining the very complex US finance industry. I wasn't even aware that stablecoin is a thing.
This is one of those comments that’s so instructive I’m going to save it, because I’ll probably want to refer to it in the future. Thanks for taking the trouble.
How do you know the results are basically made up? Have you compared AlphaFold's predictions to your experimental data.

I think you are right that most of the predictive power derives from super-enhanced multiple sequence alignments, but I think you underestimate AlphaFold's ability to generalize to novel cases
How to avoid the “local elevator” problem?
Europe has so many great countries. Street reading the comments about Germany and it's internal policies, why not choose elsewhere?
Finland, Sweden, Poland, etc etc etc
The headline misspelled "bribe".
Great and enlightening article. Thank you.
The party in question that might object is the person being recorded, not the officer.
The affect of piracy is generally overstated and commonly bundled with the (incorrect) belief that a pirate would instead be a paying customer if the piracy option was not available.
The naming structure consists of "Intel" followed by a nanometer-style number down to 3 nm (i.e. "Intel 3"), followed by switching to Anstrom (1 nm = 10 Å), which they will name e.g. "Intel 20A" for what previously would be called 2 nm.

As has been repeatedly pointed out, these numbers have long stopped actually being a measurement of structure sizes and should be seen more as abstract marketing labels.

There doesn't seem to be a change to the confusing something-lake codenaming that makes it hard to know which of two CPUs is newer if you don't constantly follow the development closely and memorize dozens of codenames.
New york will just continue to become a store for capital like Miami, or the chinese ghost cities, no one will really live there. Just a place to park ill gotten cash.
Primary frequency reserve kicks in to automatically throttle back dynamic sources. Typical throttle rate is 100% throttle response per 5% frequency deviation. Inertia (both real and virtual) just slows down the system response enough that PFR will be effective. Just about every steam plant, combined-cycle plant, and gas-turbine plant participates in PFR. There have been proposals for inverter-connected systems to participate as well, but I don't know how common it is in practice.

Once upon a time the rated load-step response for a sub-grid in the US was a step-off transient of a nuclear power site going off-line.
An exploit like Pegasus could just fill up the storage on the device which would prevent updates from working. Why does this 14.7.1 fix require almost 2gb of storage?
In individual "offices' taking designs inspiration from the Japanese so called "coffin hotel" these of offices are stacked three high.

At our company we realize the problem of open office floor plans was the distraction created by coworkers so all of our offices have sound proof doors that will unlock to let you out for your legal mandated 2 10 minute breaks and half hour lunch as require by state law.
Thouhg your are allowed and even encouraged to eat in your "office" as there is no cafeteria and you are not allowed off premise during your shift, though we do provide water vending machines and affordably priced vanilla soylent.
I don't know if he is "full of shit."

What I do know is that if you accept the role of expert, spokesperson, face of the crisis, whatever, your Prevarication Budget is zero. Once one thing you say is caught out as not being true, people wonder about everything else you have said.
Sure, the oppurtunity cost is big. And I'm not saying it is the best way to put out value in the world.

Two PhDs sounds like a lot. After all, most GMs get the title before their twenties. But such comparisons are very hard anyway. But it is also possible to get the title while pursuing another career path, you don't have to focus 100% on chess.

As you say, the wasted life part is way too harsh and based on only some madly crazy examples in chess history.
No it is not generally understood, the symptoms are quite different. There is no evidence that the thousands of people who suffered from vape-related lung issues in 2019 had a concomitant coronavirus infection.

The incidence of vape-related lung issues has been in decline since the issue was first raised, and black market manufacturers stopped using vitamin E acetate.
Found the Windows Defender dev
This may be the better link - "What is Mobian" / Mobian FAQ:

https://blog.mobian-project.org/posts/2021/02/18/what_is_mob...

And the basic answer is:

"Mobian aims to integrate the standard Debian distribution with Phone-specific projects and modifications in a distribution that works on certain mobile phones and tablets, such as the Pinephone, the Pinetab and the Librem 5. The idea is to minimize the Mobian specific pieces by “upstreaming” changes to the original projects as much as possible."
It’s easy to write slow code in any language. I wrote some slow Fortran before I learned how not to. Generally you need to know a good amount about not only the language, but about the machine you’re targeting, to write really efficient code.
Clueless. Awful. This belongs in the dustbin.
How the Groundhog Day grind of lockdown scrambles your memory and sense of time
I think the distinction is pretty clear.

But if it needs to be clearer: in censorship the harm is in the ideas themselves, the perspectives they spread.

In prohibitions that are non-censorship, it doesn't have anything to do with ideas. You aren't locking your door to prevent the idea of burglars entering your house.
I'd buy that argument if it was still around 2017.

I get to own my own reaction to the language and after I did "julia mytest.jl" on a script that plotted a differential equation I thought to myself "oh well its just a new language", then I looked up that it was nearly 10 years old and I thought it was a bad joke.
Coal dust is still very cheap, also old stoves have a wide opening, so trash can and is burned along with it.

Poor insulation is a problem as well.
There's evidence around how the majority of gunshots in most cities are not followed by 911 calls.

For instance, the murder of Seth Rich in my home city (ignore the stupid conspiracy theories) was not followed by a call but was found by shotspotter which is how it was responded to.
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that's a special case not covered in that tool, all zeros in exponent and mantissa is defined to be 0. (it distinguishes between 0 and -0, so the sign bit still applies)
Can you elaborate on where the hole is? Jeff Bezanson's thesis work on Julia was undoubtedly PLT, as were some of the other folks at the Julia Lab now (e.g. Shuhei Kadowaki). Keno Fischer is very much into all things PLT, as can be evidenced by his work on Diffractor (see this ACM SIGPLAN presentation [1]). Ditto for James Fairbanks and all the people working on Catlab.jl's [2] ecosystem.

Where I do agree with you is that PLT awareness has not permeated the entire community as much as I'd like to see. Certainly one feels a need sometimes to push back against increased "Matlab-ification" of the language. However, it is also nice to see a direct line between rather theoretical concepts like abstract interpretation and very practical use cases like GPU computation.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQnSRfseu0c
[2] https://github.com/AlgebraicJulia/Catlab.jl
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_interpretation
I believe California does some of this in the really complex interchanges in the Bay Area, but I don't remember for certain and it's been years since I've been there.
The thing is no one is saying that starting a process every time isn't a valid way to work — it works great in most scripting languages. What people are saying is that since it's slow and annoying in Julia currently, you might want to consider a REPL-based workflow with Revise. If the response to that is "But I don't wanna use the REPL!!" then what can one do? Ok, don't use the REPL. But as everyone has agreed, it's going to be a bit annoying. If that's a dealbreaker for you then you may not want to use Julia just yet — which is totally ok!

That interaction unfortunately seems to often get characterized as "The Julia devs don't care about startup time! They insist on REPL-driven development and refuse to work on it." Never mind that improving startup time and package loading has been the number one priority of the compiler team since Julia 1.0 and that it's gotten about 10x faster. There's also ongoing work to make it even faster using system images.
Documentation and roadmap are the 2 make-or-break things I look for in a language/framework/tool. If one of these things is not satisfied, I have an incredibly hard time convincing myself to invest time.

I have taken a look at the Rust documentation, and I just can't see myself participating at this point because of it. The roadmap is also unclear to me. I google 'Rust Roadmap', and guess what the first result is?

https://rust.nolt.io/roadmap

So far a video game's roadmap is ranked above that of this language. I had to search for 'rust-lang roadmap' to get a good top hit... Which brought me here:

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2020/09/03/Planning-2021-Roadmap....

> The core team is beginning to think about the 2021 Roadmap, and we want to hear from the community. We’re going to be running two parallel efforts over the next several weeks: the 2020 Rust Survey, to be announced next week, and a call for blog posts.

A call for blog posts. Beginning to think about...

As a .NET developer, this honestly sounds like a dumpster fire to me. Who is actually in charge? What is the vision for 2025? How do you explain your software technology roadmap to your customers when you are using Rust and have to operate in contract lifetimes of 5+ years?

Clearly, I don't know the first goddamn thing about the Rust ecosystem or why I would want to use it. I am just a dirty .NET plebian looking in from the outside. It doesn't look very compelling right now. Can someone correct my perspective on this? I am open to it. There must be some value I am missing. Maybe Rust just isn't for the "enterprise", or whatever boring niche box I seem to be stuck living in these days.

There are obviously use cases and happy developers out there. Don't let me get in your way.
Holy shit Excel! Don't get me started on that... I would like to know who are the idiots at my company that decided that making complex forms with pictures and shit in Excel is a good idea. Like they don't know Word exists for a reason?
Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
Does this means that Russian will stop attacking other countries with Ransomware, or does it only block in one direction?
Like the distinction between 'hard tech' and consumption driven service sector tech, and the quote by Dan Wang about the necessity of industrialization.

Reminds me of the article about the Metaverse a few days ago. Of course consumer tech also produces hard technological innovation in the sense that it creates demand for that tech, but I don't see at all how a lot of the stuff we're currently calling tech is actually driving innovation in the sense of improving the scientific or productive capacity of a society in and of itself.

There's lots of sectors like quantum physics, AI, bioengineering, geoengineering, construction, communications tech, semiconductors, space, and even social sciences in a way where it's trivial to see how we could advance society in a direct way, yet instead so much energy is spent on crypto currency or games, entertainment and stuff that basically looks like the logical endpoint is the Wall-E society.
Japanese keyboards aren't mere standard Latin keyboards. They have several additional keys which make them physically a distinct layout to what the rest of the world uses.