skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I would say, therefore, that an individual's earning power in the market is overwhelmingly a function of luck.

Complete and utter bullshit. There are vast amounts of information available on what incomes are for jobs. Unless people have a mental or physical disability, they can put in the effort to train for something more than a trivial minimum wage job.

The average amount of hours spent on watching tv shows, movies, playing video games, etc means that time to improve is not in short supply. As a society we shouldn’t encourage people who want to just coast and contribute very little of what society wants (labor demand).

> to demand that they receive multiple times more money than the normal citizen lest they deny society their talents and leave

The entitlement is palpable here. Nobody is a heart surgeon by by birth. It takes decades of sacrifice and hard work. Very few people are willing to do that and talent only plays a small part. That’s why doctors still make a multiple in the UK of “the normal citizen”: https://www.erieri.com/salary/job/cardiac-surgeon/united-kin...

> and to discard the rest as losers that are best forgotten, condemned to low-pay, casualised and insecure work.

False dichotomy. The rest should be spending time training for skilled jobs. We should absolutely discourage people from getting a BA in Political Science and then spending their life making coffee and shitposting on Twitter. It’s an incredible waste of personal and societal potential.

> I note that the NHS pays doctors markedly less than they would receive in North America, though it is still a considerable amount. Yet we have no real brain drain.

See above. Your doctors make way more than even US software engineers (the thing I’m saying Canadian SWEs should aspire to). You don’t have brain drain because you pay them many multiples of “normal people”.
Could you say that being a Pole makes you feel insecure about yourself? Or is it rather that you’re just better than most of people leaving in your country?
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Thanks! So the paper that the other commenter linked is a good deep dive. The basic answer to your question is that we have multiple variants but the simplest is that phones using PGPP would have the same IMSI; once you do that, you hide who's who but create a new problem of how to make sure users are valid paying subscribers. We solve that new problem by developing a new oblivious authentication protocol that can verify someone is a valid user (i.e. someone who has authentication tokens that are not linked to them but are issued by the network).
macOS doesn't work on non-apple hardware, including under VMs. Unless you've patched it somehow?
No. The racism came after what I’m talking about from a different population of whites.

Despite driving a devastating genocide of native peoples, it failed to wipe away the Indian influence completely from American and world culture, which we trace back to Squanto’s collaboration with the Pilgrims to found the Plymouth colony.
Well done. I've started compiling a list of resources for those new to PWA:

https://thescottkrause.com/emerging_tech/curated-pwa-links/
I don't know if you're being deliberately obtuse but that is some ridiculous hyperbole. If it makes it easier for you imagine that all university education is state subsidised via loans that are not repayable so long as you are working in the country but must be repayed otherwise in proportion to the amount of time you spend working in another country. Alternatively you could be required to work for a minimum number of years in your native country in order to pay back the loan. I know of many schemes for educational loans that do just that.
Not having a startup to sell doesn't mean you have to be a slave all your life. You could find a job you enjoy, or save up some money and retire. Look up "financial independence/retiring early" - it's not suitable for everyone, but if you're here, you probably qualify :)
It's scary how incompetent or willfully ignorant these people are. Not a single word about the fact that all governments and individuals don't have money.

But they predict moar solar, new energy efficient transportation, people building energy efficient houses because they have too much money on heir hands, etc.
Hey, more than cut up! Crumpled! :-D
Sunny/Cypress Cove had lots of other area growth than just AVX-512 [1]. The better comparison is Skylake vs Skylake-SP, from which AVX512 is estimated to cost about 5% of the tile area [2]. So that’s the area cost of about 2 cores in the 28 core chip.

[1] https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/microarchitectures/sunny_...

[2] https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=193291&curpost...
Could also be the absolute futility that "contact your representative" represents now? I think more and more people are realizing that change can't happen that way anymore, particularly as you can't even organize grass roots movements without media and social-media approval these days. The only things that can get critical mass now to enact change from a citizen perspective are popular causes that are essentially "approved". Good to guard against bad movements like say commies or nazis, but absolutely horrible for popular but "not in the right direction" movements.
It's entirely possible that for some of those marriages, the additional strain of the project simple accelerated the divorce timing (versus causing it).
And this is why companies still fail because the founders think that "If you build it, they will come"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/10/hang-mike-pe...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/nancy-pelosi-...

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/19/977879589/yes-capitol-rioters...

If it's "over the top", it's because what happened was over the top. The language I used is literal and accurate.
> Ok ... so where is the evidence that they don't work?

I provided you with the link to the WHO meta-analysis of all research literature surrounding masks prior to the pandemic. Here it is again:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

This covers 172 publications on masks and disease leading up to the pandemic. It is far more comprehensive than any particular paper or editorial you cherry-pick to support your arguments.

The best you can possibly say is that there is poor evidence supporting a small marginal effect. And that's if you combine all of the data in an illogical way and ignore that cloth masks and respirators are not the same, and that n95 masks in hospitals are not at all the same as bandanas in the subway. If you limit the argument to the question of non-respirator masks outside hospitals, there's no supporting evidence at all.

Spamming the comments with links to the same two papers from 2020 -- neither of which are good (see my other response) -- is not a rebuttal. The only high-quality paper on masks in 2020 was the Danish mask study, which was a well-controlled, high-quality RCT, and failed to find evidence for a protective effect:

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817

Despite exasperating claims to the contrary, it is unlikely to be true that masks are magical one-way valves, with protective effect in one direction but not the other -- particularly if the virus is spread by aerosols, which are not blocked by poorly fitting masks.
Thanks. I will dig further and see what I can build.
> No, architecturally there's no reason to do it on the client side.

The architectural reason is to do things the server couldn’t.

> You're uploading a photo to iCloud, encrypted with a key that Apple controls.

The architectural reason is so the server doesn’t have to be able to read the photo, and it need not be a key Apple controls.

Your first two sentences are the exact reason to do it on the client instead of on the server, such that it’s possible to have e2e encryption opaque to the server.
Yep, when you're looking at relatively low concentrations that are constantly falling (each generation) then looking at an island to find a higher concentration makes a lot of sense long after concentrations were actually high.
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Have you tried creating a .pkg file instead of .dmg? Much better user experience, in my opinion. The developer controls where the .app goes, and there’s nothing for the user to unmount when finished.
It it isnt lost on people.

Many try and fail to moderate due to mental health issues.

For some substitution is the answer. For other strict elimination.

Different strokes for different folks.
I don't share that view. While there are things that I'd really miss in 2000 era Internet today like Wikipedia, GitHub and maybe YouTube, the only thing that really sucked was the IE monopoly (almost like Chrome today) and the Internet connections themselves. Only a few years after that DSL/cable became commonplace and since then the only thing different today is that websites became a lot more bloated and slow.

If you told me in 2000 about the things you listed I'd tell you you're a slowpoke, that's obviously coming and most things were actually already there like SIP, ICQ, IRC, translator software, browsers, etc. existed on the smartphones of the day. What wasn't there was the adoption by the masses, but the tech was there.
Heat index or humidex is not the same as wet bulb temperature. You still fail to see this. A wet bulb of 32°C is equivalent to a heat index of 55°C. I can’t find anything to indicate the recent heat wave in British Columbia was even above 50°C humidex (highest I can find is 46°C humidex). The Canadian humidex record appears to be 52°C. So, again: the wet bulb temperature described in the article is higher than any Canada has seen.
Part of prepping would be location selection. Nothing says they have to stay in an urban area. In fact, I believe most of the northern hemisphere would be unsurvivable in a "full scale" nuclear war. Places like south America and Africa might fair better, but that is highly dependent on distribution of the radioactive fallout.

I'm not sure about your highly stereotyped example. It seems pretty unlikely that there would be many navy seals left after a full scale nuclear attack (their installations would be on the target lists and remaining ones would be deployed), not that there are that many to start with. But yeah, people who are not accustomed to a more primitive way of life will be at a disadvantage. The other thing to point out is that many of the people trained for great violence also have strict moral codes, making it more likely that they would help organize their communities rather than going around pillaging (although there will be some minority of any group participating in that).
i hated emacs at first for this reason. ctrl-v should be paste, ctrl-c should be copy, right !? now though i have emacs bindings system wide

what brought me to emacs first was intrigue - why do people keep saying that this little shitty-looking weird editor is the most powerful program on my computer :) they weren't wrong
It is a fantastic idea.
Next step will be wires on the head and some ai to guess what each worker is thinking.
And fire those with non compliant thoughts must go.
What a wonderful company /s
Java is the Java of the Java world.
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The non-flat toolbars had each button separate, with its own border. IE 3 did away with the borders. (Also seen in Office 97 vs 95, for example.)

Compare the screenshots:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c5/Internet_Expl...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b3/Internet_Expl...

or in Office:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4a/Office_97_on_...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/92/Office_95_on_...
Ugh... that term, "broken families". I divorced when my sons were 10 and 7, and the divorce actually healed our family.
Studies have not shown any link between aspartame and insulin levels. Artificial sweeteners have shown an increase in blood sugar over long periods of time in mice, but not humans.

Studies haven't found a causal relationship between diet soda and weight gain.

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/artificial-sweeteners-b...

https://www.webmd.com/diet/features/diet-sodas-and-weight-ga...
Thanks. I haven’t yet decided how (or even whether) I’ll try to monetize any of these apps. For now I simply want to get them published somewhere permanently. When I do I’ll try to remember to post them on some cataloging sites.
The thing is that they have brought this onto us. Beginning with Rockefellers 'gaslighting' up to EXXONs fully understanding in the 1980ies, and doing nothing about it.

Why should one trust such entities? Greenwashing? Astroturfing? For all I care they can wash themselves with their own green vomit, because of all the divestement :-)

F-U-C-K T-H-E-M A-L-L!
I believe a DSL-done-right doesnt care about the issues you mention. The important thing about DSLs is the DS, Domain-specific. The domain experts care about a nice language fitted for their specific domain. But they dont care about evaluation order, macros, lazyness, and whatnot. If the DSL fits the domain, these are non-issues.
Keeping it in the client SDK means it’s possible to implement storage the server can never see into, in a manner that can be verified by red teams.
Battery swapping was a bet against battery energy density improving to the point that battery swapping wasn't needed. Turned out to be a losing bet.

For how Better Place blew it, see the Wikipedia article.
Note that larger oceangoing ships were not invented until about 25,000+ years later.

Transporting humans against their will is a non-sequitur when considering the mode of transit. It would be canoes, rafts, or swimming. Whether voluntarily or not.
This was the passage that turned me to Google to check if it was reciting something from memory.
> I think YAML is even worse as a serialization format than a configuration format.

This. I find YAML to be the least offensive option for configuration and one of the worst for serialization.

I might be misinformed, but I find it absurd that in 2021 we still don't have a default, universally available tool that supports the basic table stakes without headache:

1. core data types (number, string, etc)

2. lists, maps, and arbitrary nesting

3. comments

4. multiline strings

5. is acceptably readable

6. Just Works everywhere

YAML does get 1-5 right (specifically 3 and 4 that JSON doesn't and IMO better in 5). But then it adds a ton of complexity that has left us without a standard, safe, and sane parser implementation: anchors and references (& and *) , casting (via !!), custom data types (via !), loads of other things I don't understand.
The Perl community has always had a core group of arrogant jerks bickering with each other and blasting users they considered beneath their status.

When MacOS X was first released I asked a question about that on the MacPerl list and was told to "fuck off" because my question was "off topic".

I ended up requesting a new mailing list for MacOS X be created and it was. For the first year or two it grew very fast and it was a pleasure to be a part of it, but then some of the Perl "elite" started joining it. Randal Schwartz was among those who did and he was a complete jerk. He started trashing members on that list who'd been there helping others, including me. There were even developers who worked for Apple there, and Randal trashed them too.

I finally told Randal to "fuck off" and to my surprise there were a lot of members who stood up with me, and off Randal did fuck. It wasn't too long afterwards Randal screwed himself but good with his own arrogance.

It was around 2006 that I started using prototype.js to handle a lot of the things I was doing with Perl and not long after I unsubscribed from all the Perl mailing list I'd been on.

Nowadays all those Perl mailing lists are pretty much silent and I'm pretty sure the MacOS X perl list is dead.

I still admire Larry Wall though. He stayed far above that bullshit and remained friendly and humble when Perl was at it's pinnacle back around 2000-2005 and .cgi scripts were pretty much the backbone of web work.
Fantastic articles, thanks for sharing them here!
> I'm wondering if marketing/trying to appeal to new people has ever been effective for an established programming language.

I'm not sure if this counts as "trying to appeal to new people" (or "an established language", for that matter) but the Rust community has made a big push towards creating more teaching materials that make the language more broadly accessible for the past ~5 years, and I think that's been effective.
Here’s my reading of it: when speaking about dynamical systems with several interdependent moving parts, humans are fond of asking “why” questions and looking for simple narratives in such systems where satisfying answers may not exist.

For example, imagine a three-body planetary system which exists in a pseudo-stable configuration for millions of years, until suddenly one of the planets gets slung off on a wild orbit and ejected from the system. A layman might be inclined to ask, “whoa, that’s weird, why did that happen?!” while the physicist will reply “All I can say is that planet A is where it is because of planets B & C, and B & C are where they are because of A.”
Amdahl's law. JPEG decoding especially - the majority of the decode time these days is entropy decoding that cannot be parallelized by either SIMD or threads.
One of the frustrating things about political discourse is that, when conducted among a large enough audience, topics lose most of their nuance. Things tend to get reduced to A vs B. It's disappointing to see that when it comes to the subject of misinformation and propaganda in social media, for some people it seems, efforts to understand and reduce the spread of misinformation have become the enemy of freedom of speech and expression.

I don't understand why academics trying to understand the spread of misinformation on Facebook draws comparisons to the authoritarian government in 1984. Since when do we fear university researchers the same way we do oppressive governments? I get it, censorship is a problem, but seriously guys, "Ministry of Truth"? What the fuck.
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Latest stable macOS release is in the 11.x range. But it's likely that macOS 12 will be released before Windows 11, so GP's magical moment might not come to be.
Ditto. I just switched from linux to Mac because of Google Meet being too slow, and it turns out Docs and Sheets are now usable again too.

I wish I could break into Google HQ and replace all the devs' laptops with an older linux models.
Yeah, this is my conclusion too. I moved from the Oracle platform to embedded, scientific stuff like reading out custom electronics for IR cameras. And now I'm into iOS apps. It's more a question of what part of the stack feels interesting and doable to you, at a certain period in your professional life.
Thats... not.
Why not have AI propose to your would-be spouse, because you find it too hard? Or have AI give the "I want a divorce" speech?

The eulogy isn't "supposed" to be anything, and you can't do it wrong. No one, and nothing, can do yours better than you can. If someone criticizes it, they're not a person you want in your life.
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Well, he is bar bar bar.
> I asked what happened when you got an error, and both instructors had never been asked that question, and both had ZERO clue about it.

No comprendo. Did you mean, what was supposed to happen?

Sounds very context-dependent to me. Sometimes you'll pause and show the user the error, sometimes you'll log it and move on, and if it is fatal you'll shutdown immediately to prevent further harm.
Rejecting accepted definitions is fine if you have a purpose for doing it. The problem with Chapman is more that he's very sloppy with his langauge. If you read his blog, you might be left with the impression that Nietzsche is just some simple pseudo-mystical bullshitter, because Chapman doesn't explain Nietzsche's double movement from knowing to unknowing and vice versa. To use Chapman's own taxonomy, what Chapman thinks he's doing is dwelling in the space between meaningfulness and meaninglessness, but he's just being meaningless while expecting Nietzsche to somehow do the heavy lifting. Nietzsche probably would've hated this guy.
Linus feels similarly, which is why this feature was mandatory to land Rust-for-Linux and why C++ in Linux was never likely to go anywhere.
A guy in a viking suit with bear spray was out to take over the government? NPR and Washington Post say so (after 4 years of claiming Trump was the antichrist).

They are grasping at straws trying to build an (unreasonable) narrative.

Where are the insurrection charges in court?

No, what happened was a bunch of people were upset about an election they perceived as fraudulent and wanted certification stopped until an investigation was performed (also not reasonable, the electors had been certified at that point and it was done deal). Also Trump didn't help matters. Once the state electors were in it was over for him, fraud or no fraud. There wasn't reasonable time to audit anything and he did no one any favors by getting the crowd whipped into a frenzy.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_capitalism
Have you been living under a rock? Do you know what a hackintosh is?
It's been going for so long that ccurrent bootloaders allow to run it completely unmodified, working updates etc.
macOS also runs under some VMs, with some config tweaks
Or they are trying to get rid of having encryption keys…
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You don't, at least not on purpose. At 390 C you're filling your kitchen with smoke, and if you're cooking on gas you probably already have a grease fire on your stove.

However, it is shockingly easy to get a pan this hot by accident, with no more than a few minutes of inattention. I've seen people burn the non-stick coating off their pans on a couple of occasions after getting distracted by the phone.

It's risky to use nonstick cookware the same way you use bare metal pans, by heating the pan up to searing temperature before adding oil and food. I tell people to treat nonstick as though the food is already in the pan before they turn the heat on: don't turn the heat up high enough to burn the food, and the coating will stay safe.

It's worth pointing out that there isn't really any good evidence that fumes from burning PTFE cause permanent damage. There have been very few cases of verifiable PTFE "fume fever", in spite of the fact that lots of people burn up their nonstick cookware, and lasting effects haven't been obvious as far as I know.
Being an idiot in a viking suit justifies attempting to assassinate multiple acting government officials for the purpose of interrupting the certification of the election. OK.
Tesla beta tested this in California a few years ago - between LA and Santa Barbara. I received an invite to try it out but never did. They shut it down a year or two later.

I think they are making good strides on fast charging and decided not to lean into the swap.
Hello! I'm a fan of Money Stuff and I wanted to see how the topics in it change over time, so I made a heatmap of the top topics.

I also sent this to Matt Levine and he actually included it in an issue of the newsletter: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-08-10/spend-...
Totally agree software uptake is the pain point.

Not even all gamer CPUs have SSE4 (https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey), so it seems that runtime dispatch is unavoidable.

Given that, if we can afford to generate code for new instruction sets and bundle it all into one slightly larger binary/library, the problem is solved, right?

Highway makes it much easier to do that - no need to rewrite code for each new instruction set. As to Intel's market segmentation, we target 'clusters' of features, e.g. Haswell-like (AVX2, BMI2); Skylake (AVX-512 F/BW/DQ/VL), and Icelake (VNNI, VBMI2, VAES etc) instead of all the possible combinations.
Comments from a previous appearance here:
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