skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that terawatts seem pathetic when you're thinking about even Kardashev Type I, but I would hate to see those zettajoules of energy spent on zero-sum competitions instead of goods and services that improve our standard of living. That's still true even if the competition consists of Bitcoin instead of the nuclear arms race, Wheel of Fortune, Democrats vs. Republicans, World War II, and NASCAR. I mean, at least Bitcoin and NASCAR don't burn cities, but they aren't building space habs either.

0.1% of our energy being spent on Bitcoin mining is fine, 1% might be a little worrisome, 10% would be a real wakeup call, 50% would be a crisis, and 90% would be ruinous. Is there a natural limit? Competition from alternative currency systems with cheaper transaction costs, maybe?
In my version of English, a router that passes packets rhymes with root, and a router that carves wood rhymes with out.
Methane Detector Data via Public APIs at JPL
Polish orthography is pretty good about following its rules, and while there's a few more of them than (say) Spanish it's pretty approachable. I can do a fair job turning text to sound (or vice-versa, although there's a little more ambiguity that way) but for my presumably terrible accent.

Polish grammar is terrifying.
SoftBank enlists ex-Mossad chief as investment adviser
I’ve had a basic influxdb/grafana setup going for a year or so. Despite having worked with it for a while, I always am left with the feeling that I’m missing something.

The sql-like language is similar enough that it’s confusing. And I’m still not sure why a dedicated time series database is supposed to be better than using standard mysql/postgres with inserts. At least the you get a wider range of options for data types, indexing, and querying.

I’m likely still not in the correct mindset but not sure what I’m missing.
Web of Connections: Can one tell the story of a country through one family?
This is very true. Hopefully the Boring company can be successful in reducing tunneling costs by a factor of 10 or 100. Then cities will just have to fined the political will to allow them to be built. Maybe public, self-driving taxies can be made to travel close enough together so that they look like and can be called "trains". Then all the public transport supporters might not try and block them even if the tunnels are open to people's individually owned vehicles also.
> The claims of election fraud are simply lies. It's not a matter of opinion. It's about as well documented as anything can conceivably be. Audit after audit has turned up nothing.

I believe you believe you're telling the truth. I can think of no better proof that conversation about it should not be censored.

Also, the election fraud issue is not the only issue Twitter routinely censors about. I think it's also censored people about Hunter Biden's laptop, climate change issues, COVID, etc.
I've upgraded a few of my systems from 20.04 to 21.04 without an issue. If you take a btrfs snapshot before upgrading, you can roll back the changes if it turns out there's an issue with them.
You’ve correctly observed that success can bring unpleasant side effects. I think it’s too late to save Linux from this. It is used by all manner of parasites. The tracking bugs that slow down the web and invade our privacy? They are quite often backed by Linux. The Android OS that allows Google to follow users’ every last movement, web search, and email? Linux. Database servers at Facebook, Google, and any number of data brokers? Linux.

I am not saying this makes Linux bad. What I am saying is, making it easier to charge for software is not going to “spoil” Linux with commercial parasites. If anything, paid software could help undermine the surveillance economy by providing a more direct way to support the creation of good software that doesn’t spy on you, like the default Google Android apps or the Google web apps many people use on Linux desktops. All that stuff is commercial too, you just don’t pay for it in money, and maybe the source code is open, but you darn sure pay with your personal data.
I love everything about this project, but I am fairly skeptical of their benchmarking. In particular, they use a _lot_ of polynomial intervals for some of these functions, it's easy to accidentally construct microbenchmarks that miss the cache effects that fall out of that (the full set of coefficients for one of these math functions can easily take up a substantial fraction of your L1; for some use cases that won't matter, for some other scenarios it will be catastrophic).

Historically, high-performance libm implementations have gone to great pains in their internal benchmarking projects to avoid accidentally ignoring these effects and shipping functions that are significantly slower in real use. None of this is to say that they have necessarily fallen into this trap, but historically most "fast" math function implementations that use piecewise polynomials with high segment counts do (and none of it should take away from the accomplishment--even if they're really 2x slower than claimed, they're fast enough for most code to simply use it unconditionally and get the portability benefits).
The democracy is more of an illusion, because the biggest factor in a particular policy being implemented is whether or not the wealth class supports it. If a bill has 70% support from the poor/middle class but 70% of the upper class oppose it...it's pretty likely to never pass. Reverse the numbers where 70% of the commoners don't support the bill, but 70% of the upper class do...well it's pretty likely to pass.

https://represent.us/action/no-the-problem/
School Mask Mandates Mean Trauma for Millions of Children
And Intel just sold their SSD business to SK Hynix, so soon there will only be 3!
Nightingale rose diagram

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_chart#Polar_area_diagram
But most people wouldn't get a rate based on excellent driving habits, they'd get a rate based on their actual performance.
Most people who use Bitcoin here in Argentina seem to be sending remittances to their families in Venezuela.
It's a real hazard that is well known in the trades, but might not be appreciated by people who are attracted to the idea of an exotic metal ring but are not in situations where they will be warned about it. The warnings here seem reasonable to me.
JIRA is better than ZOHO pain I had to endure for few months. Still probably worst software out there. A well structured spreadsheet might even be better for a small tightly knit team.
Mainly not having to worry about reliability of my connection to youtube. I get loading-spinners and changes in resolution fairly regularly on YT.
That's the exact argument they make for those drive tracking apps, isn't it? I don't think many people are buying that one, either.
If you change cookie settings and want them to remain next time (instead of another popup) that is stored in an essential cookie

They're (supposed to be) the ones you can't get rid of, sessions and that. Stuff that would break the site if you couldn't track state across requests
> Desktop Linux in 2021 is nothing like it was 20 years ago.

True, it's now significantly more complicated and there at least 300 more distros worth of fragmentation. But at least sound finally works!... usually...
The hard one is continuity’s copy paste. I can copy & paste images and text seamlessly between my laptop and phone. I can’t think of a way to set that up myself any other way - maybe a custom app with a content box?

It’s insanely useful, and such a drag when I don’t have it. (Eg when working from my Linux workstation)
I think I pronounce the first and last a's the same (specifically, as /ə/)... it must be a dialectical difference (mine is General American English).
Act an idiot and break it every few days. Eventually he'll be sick of it.
I’m in the same boat. A 9-5, 3 kids and several responsibilities, and trying to work on some side project ideas. What are some tips for finding time, energy, and motivation for working on this.
Love those verge comments hating on Kanye, probably the most influential, talented and unique artist of the 21st century. Somebody thought it would be clever to say "maybe this will improve his music." Obviously never listened to "Runaway" or a hundred other tracks.

This looks like a cool toy, priced for fun, and could get some people into music production, who knows.

If you look at Yeezy clothes your can see why it's beige, it fits right into that weird but popular flesh pastel apocalypse thing going on there.

Love or hate, Kanye has achieved a huge marketing coup by delaying his album, having multiple listening parties, and hyping his other business ventures while the spotlight is stuck on him. I bet he makes hundreds of millions this summer off of the album nonsense, before the album even drops.
That seems like a fault of the language/compiler, not the 80but float. There are operations for storing the 80bit float in full precision, and I think Pascal even used real=80bit.
Yah, Apple’s recent decision to pilfer my files has given me the final push to purchase a System76 Linux machine for my daily driver.
Not common by any metric in California, nope.
I love that they have an implementation for posits too.
Melted gold is just as valuable as gold jewelry, since they melt it down anyway when you sell it. It might be worth marginally less than an intact piece of gold bullion that can be resold without processing.

Diamonds don't have resale value anyway. They're literally a scam.
Bike lanes keep people safe.

Not everyone can drive: We still have roads. And honestly, I've met a few folks that couldn't drive but could bike if it had 3 wheels (physical limitations) and with the electric bicycles, the folks that cannot do it are becoming less and less. In any case, it is nearly impossible to include everyone in everything: Without this, more people are in harms way OR excluded.

Bicycle lanes are great for powered wheelchairs, and folks can go faster than foot traffic then. You can get such things covered for winter (I see it here in town). So long as you maintain them like you do roads, they can be available all year.

Around here, bicycle lanes are generally alongside foot traffic and have shortcuts. Busses are available, though.
WSL2 is just a VM. It's nothing new. WSL was actually an interesting concept but it couldn't be implemented right sadly.
I think I broke it while my keyboard (iOS) auto filled a word or two and then I just see white and a spinner.
> you can see the post in your history and have no way of knowing it was deleted without signing out or using a different account, other than a suspicious lack of votes or replies.

Reveddit [1] or its accompanying extension [2] can alert you when this happens. I'm the author. You can see the behavior yourself on r/CantSayAnything [3] or read more in the FAQ [4].

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1k USD in Bali, Indonesia is very doable with decent housing & a good internet connection.
Per Napoleon quote:

'Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.'

in this case we could say

'Never ascribe to incompetence that which is adequately explained by insanity'
Thanks for the MakeMKV suggestion, I'll look into it.

VLC isn't an option at the moment, because we've hooked up a 60€ player to her television.

Something with a remote with physical buttons that boots up in two seconds flat, never updates, always works the same and needs zero network connections.

A pretty high bar to beat.
“Chart hacking” is a great term, thanks. I’m gonna start using that.
Since the language is based on JavaScript, you can also concatenate strings together with “”+”” as part of your output, eg ‘.Name + “(“ + .Email + “)”
Sweden is a much richer country than the UK
Access modern GPU features with WebGPU
Live Latency Comparison Among Serverless Databases
Serverless Battleground - DynamoDB vs Firestore vs MongoDB vs Cassandra vs Redis vs FaunaDB
You can do LSW. That is, just use a Windows VM for those software. You make the same tradeoffs except less often.
Low corruption is not a reasonable description of any of the Balkan countries. Croatia is a little bit better than Serbia, Montenegro and Albania, but on corruption indexes is still considered to be one of the most corrupt countries in Europe.
Would happily live there! Great country, people, and the 4 to 1 exchange range is amazing. Just outside of Krakow would be great. :)
Uhh yeah my i9 MBP can last a 'complete business day' full of long Zoom calls and active churning Electron apps too. That is a pretty low bar imo
My config isn’t open-source just because it’s pretty personal information. You would be able to see every database in my local Postgres instance for example. And every one of my servers. But I do plan on making a open-source version as an example soon. And some blog posts. On twitter I’m https://twitter.com/stelstuff. The blog posts will be on https://stel.codes. GitHub I’m https://github.com/stelcodes
It’s doesn’t take a genius to see see that being a landlord in SF is an ugly prospect.
I noticed Reddit videos are sometimes mp4 iso5, which is an unusual format and refused by WhatsApp status.
That... makes no sense. A default macOS setup should not have issues with cursor movement due to anything in launchctl. Where are you even pulling the T2 bit from...?

Are you using stock Terminal.app or iTerm2? The latter is notably improved and might benefit you if you haven't tried it.
The official name for the country is 中華民國, or in English, "Republic of China". Its national anthem is called 中華民國國歌. "Taiwan" 臺灣/台灣 is not found in the official name of the country. Sometimes it uses the name "Chinese Taipei" in international organizations.
Twenty years ago, the Mac version of Photoshop was just better than the Windows version. That hasn't been true in a while. And then you don't have to choose between a Mini which doesn't have enough cores, an iMac which tops out at a 27" monitor when you can get a PC with a 32" monitor (or a 40" or 80" or 17" or whatever you want), or a Mac Pro which starts at $6000.

Developers used to prefer Mac because it was Unix when the UI on every other Unix-like was bad. Now the UI on Linux is better than it used to be, and Windows has WSL et al, and Mac is full of "pay for a license annually and deal with code signing nonsense" that developers hate.
Greyed -> great ;-)
Corpse Capitalism
Both Korea and Georgia would fit the bill here, except maybe the midsummer months, which are pretty hot & sweaty in Seoul. You may be able to take the edge off by living at higher altitude or by the sea.
"Manufacturing has always printed the money"

Not really, it's usually the least profitable part of the supply chain.

That American businesses would gladly hand over their profits to poorer countries is irrational at face value.

TSMC is more than a manufacturer, they are a provider of very sophisticated in-demand tech for which the manufacturing process itself - is high tech, high stakes, high barriers to entry.

They are a little bit like Boeing in that the 'making' part is really hard. Less so like Flextronics.

Depending on how countries react to this, we could very well be in the opposite situation in 3 years, where we have a vast glut of chips and parts of every kind.

TSMC is not going to charge their customers 'prevailing market value' i.e. they could spot price at 5x their current prices, because it'd be gauging and the supply change would react long term to that 'bad behaviour' by TSMC. Big supply chain relationships are longer term so those things matter.

Because of the huge players involved with enough cash do influence (i.e. Auto, Apple, Samgsung) maybe we're in for a strategic alignment beyond just a fab shop in Texas.

One big caveat to all of this is that though manufacturing itself is low profit, a lot of things around that can become profitable. Making moulds, adjusting designs, managing supply chains, optimizing designs etc. - all of this becomes 'know how' that moves over to the manufacturing side and if they are smart about it, they'll leverage it.

Also, manufacturers can possibly develop some market power which they can try to flex as well.

Hopefully we see a shift to more high quality intelligent manufacturing in the Western world by leveraging tech, robots etc. and convincing consumers to pay higher prices for some things.
> There are a lot more people who don't own capital than there are people who do

This attitude explains, at least in part, why they live in a place with the shoddy rule of law and a deficiency of capital. (The track record of revolutions which violently re-allocate property is terrible, mostly for the people who originally lacked capital, moreso in the last century.)
I see no reason to downvote, I agree,

>You do need both

This has been proven to me over and over.

>therein lies the problem.

But I see no problem.

>If you don't have the IQ, your hard work is meaningless.

I don't think meaningless if it's well guided, it can still get each person further if they do go there.
How pessimistic to think they can't!
The article itself claimed a lack of new housing being built...

I know the Spanish economy is weak, but it's concerning when a working family cannot afford rent and clearly changes need to be made to ensure that they can.
It really depends on what you’re working on. It seems fine for most of what I do. (Intellij / vscode and a compiler). I have 32 gigs because it’s cheap but I could get away with 8 gigs if I wanted to. I probably wouldn’t even notice.
With remote work being so common, I regularly think about this section:

Another trait, it took me a while to notice.
I noticed the following facts about people
who work with the door open or the door closed.
I notice that if you have the door to your
office closed, you get more work done today
and tomorrow, and you are more productive than
most. But 10 years later somehow you don't
know quite know what problems are worth working
on; all the hard work you do is sort of
tangential in importance. He who works with
the door open gets all kinds of interruptions,
but he also occasionally gets clues as to what
the world is and what might be important. Now
I cannot prove the cause and effect sequence
because you might say, ``The closed door is
symbolic of a closed mind.'' I don't know. But
I can say there is a pretty good correlation
between those who work with the doors open and
those who ultimately do important things,
although people who work with doors closed
often work harder. Somehow they seem to work
on slightly the wrong thing - not much, but
enough that they miss fame.

Possibly the best essay in the Stripe book of Richard Hamming's essays/articles.
Governments are all 100% kayfabe. They only exist in people's imaginations, same as a game of chess.
These requirements are nuts. Masks at this point are a social submission test, and children are the most vulnerable.
Who's not?
Opening argument was about robustness of immune response from exposure to the whole virus. GP implied infection was the only way to be exposed to the whole virus. I pointed out such exposure can also be achieved through inactivated virus.
There's a limited supply of housing in those high demand locations, not everyone who wants to live in London can live in London because there just isn't enough units, with that limited supply, housing should go to the people who need it the most, like the people who have jobs in those locations.
When WhatsApp got acquired, it was huge news due to the small size of their team, and that their backend was mostly Erlang.

It created a massive wave of interest in Erlang.
I've no doubt the totality of the database contains a lot of photos, but only photos tagged as A1, A2, B1, or B2 would be considered illegal to possess. And then only the absolute worst of the worst (images categorised as "A1") are being included in the hash set on iOS. The category definitions are:

A = prepubescent minor
B = pubescent minor
1 = sex act
2 = "lascivious exhibition"

The categories are described in further detail (ugh) in this PDF, page 22: https://www.prosecutingattorneys.org/wp-content/uploads/Pres...
Thank you for the kind reply!

It's on my list to eventually compile those links and the principles they explain into some sort of commentary on the site guidelines. There's too much material to put into the guidelines themselves; if those get too long, no one will read them. They're probably already too long :)
What locations would you recommend that are safe?
Although the direction-finding and passive radar software are both open source, the hardware is not (so no schematics, layout, BOM). Just wanted to clarify that for you and anyone else reading this thread.
It hasn't been that way for years. You can generate and share invite links now. The idea that you had to set up custom software to do those invites only existed for a period of about 18 months when they were trying to foster organic growth.
In practice the low-order bits of transcendental functions are pretty much indistinguishable from random for _most_ inputs. You do have to be very careful close to especially nice values though, because this falls apart catastrophically there (e.g. logarithms close to 1)--it should be pretty obvious from the Taylor expansions why this happens. The good news is that when this does happen, almost by construction you usually don't end up very close to an exact halfway point for rounding.
It’s unfair to consider electric bikes as most bike lanes are explicitly not designed for them. They operate at a higher speed than regular pedal bikes and are more dangerous to pedestrians and cyclists. We may as well suggest that everyone use electric motorbikes and then car lanes will carry much more traffic.

Also, obviously children are not driving cars. But they still use the road as passengers. It is much less common and mostly not possible to have children too large for a baby seat but too young to travel on their own (4-12 years old or so) using a high traffic bike lane.
That's the dream isn't it? Take all the high paying silicon valley jobs, and move it to some cheap city like detroit.
I use Timing for macOS, pretty good: https://timingapp.com/ (available also from Setapp)
For scalar computations 32 bit floats are not going to be faster except maybe divisions. There are second order effects due the reduced memory usage.

For anything that is vectorizable or otherwise amenable to SIMD optimizations you can get up to 2x speedup.
I thought most landlords won't even take those deposit based deals from foreigners?

If I was going to live in a Major city anywhere,Seoul would be in the top 2 along with Tokyo
I’m with you. I’ve had some pretty terrible experiences with this in the past as well.

I haven’t had many issues over the last 6-12 months, though, and as far as I can tell, they continue to improve.

Don’t get me wrong - I’m not a fan of MS products and as I said, I think Google still has the edge in collaboration. But they’ve come far, and it wasn’t that long ago that those collaboration features were unusable or non-existent.
I think that's only true if you never update your FOSS software, which the FOSS community in general seems to think is akin to skinning puppies. Otherwise it seems to me that FOSS developers are just as prone to changing interfaces for the sake of change as everyone else.
I thought we agreed that playing violent video games doesn't make people more violent. Isn't this the same thing?
>Discoveries are rarely made by lone scientists

Any more.

Because they are not in the mainstream.

To overcome this you better not be intimidated by however hard the work is.
What is China’s appetite for dealing with Muslims? It seemed quite intolerant (chuckles).

I doubt anyone seriously takes up a foothold in this area other than strong handed Arabs (and even then, seems somehow they splinter off and fight each other - Isis/Taliban).