skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Covid zero is an ideological pipe dream unless NZ wants to permanently ban international travel

The goal of eliminating COVID there is to reduce the burden on the healthcare system during an active global pandemic. Until recently NZ had very low vaccination rates - zero COVID as a policy was closely tied to this and few (none?) of their mitigation measures will be permanent.

I'm a dual US/NZ citizen with family on both sides of the Pacific. It's almost comical how much negativity there is outside of NZ towards their COVID strategy, especially when you consider how minimal the disruption had been until this most recent outbreak.
I think the confusion might stem from C++'s templates.

Those templates can be used to do something like generics, but they are also basically duck typing at compile time.

In Haskell terms, C++'s generics are like typeclass-instances without typeclasses themselves. (I think in Java terms they would be similar to not providing interfaces. But I don't know enough about Java to see whether that's actually true.)
Everyone joining a lower ranked institution thinks the same - they’ll simply go to one of the top labs! But then turns out so does everyone and a lot of times the top labs don’t even take that many students! This is like saying every med student can choose to become exactly what specialist they want.
Why'd you put a leading 0 on every year?
shame it's bsdtar

I guess shipping gnutar would be... problematic
It would be interesting to find an objective way to measure that.

Not that there is anything wrong with subjective impressions like this.
Moving too fast to react isn't an excuse for a human driver; that's just driving too fast. Applying the same standard to Autopilot, if the Tesla was going so fast that it didn't have time to stop for an obstacle as far away as that deer was at 3:53, it was going too fast.

But she says the Tesla didn't brake at all, which suggests it just didn't recognize the deer or doesn't have a rule saying that an animal walking toward the road might be dangerous.
Godot use "Servers"[0] to implement the game loop, which is async by design.

[0] - https://godotengine.org/article/why-does-godot-use-servers-a...
Thanks! His active years as a programmer coincide with the FIG F-83 Mike Perry, which was a time when there weren't very many programmers. So it's quite a coincidence!
Unfortunately this is a very common problem with basically all modern high-end laptops that have a macbook-like form factor (e.g. not bulky gaming laptops with lots of cooling & ventilation). It's just not physically possible to make a machine that combines high end power hungry hardware, adequate cooling for that hardware, and a compact form factor. It's very sad that this is such a widespread problem and that there is so little public awareness about it - most of the machines like your macbook are indeed defective.

The only solution unfortunately is to do some more research & read reviews which cover throttling & thermal management before you buy your next laptop to make sure you're not buying something that is defective. On my previous Dell XPS laptop the CPU and GPU shared one heatpipe & heatsink. It could handle 100% CPU with an external monitor, but the GPU was much more power hungry and placing any significant load on the GPU made the CPU throttle significantly. Each manufacturer & product has different thermal management solutions and you need to do research before buying to see if a laptop will work for you. You'll also want to see whether external displays are always driven by the discrete GPU instead of the integrated GPU on the CPU - even if not being heavily used, just turning on the discrete GPU creates a fair bit of heat.

Or just buy a gaming laptop if you can accept with the added size & heft - they're often cheaper for equivalent CPU/GPU than the 'premium' laptops like MacBook, XPS, but sometimes don't get the newest features (Thunderbolt, USB-C charging, etc.) as early. One of my friends had a gaming laptop with the same specs as my XPS and when under load his laptop would blow out enormous amounts of hot air from its big vents, whereas the XPS clearly had a much lower heat removal capacity.
Comet and Ajax are competing powdered cleaning products.
I think you are quoting Bjarne Stroustrup (C++ creator).
The problem with allowing something like the internet archive is that it lets you access a cached version of essentially any website, thus defeating the filter. Obviously a motivated kid will work that out and share it with their friends, and soon enough everyone will know about it. Same reason most adult/corporate filters block proxies.

Perhaps if archive.org offered a "safe mode" of some kind that can be activated at a network level (as Google/Bing/YouTube and others do) then it would be possible for ISPs to allow access to archive while still limiting adult content.

You can, of course, unblock your children's phone if you want, and install another filter or none at all. But I think as a default configuration it's not the worst thing in the world.

Regarding the library thing, I've not been to one in decades but I'm guessing most libraries don't have porn, snuff films and ISIS recruitment videos... but sure there is collateral damage sometimes. In school, the overly aggressive filters would sometimes stop us researching anything to do with Nazis or biology.
>> Nobel Laureate Hans Bethe said "I have sometimes wondered whether a brain like von Neumann's does not indicate a species superior to that of man",[19] and later Bethe wrote that "[von Neumann's] brain indicated a new species, an evolution beyond man"

From John von Neumann's wikipedia article. Fascinating idea.
Remember, you can trade stocks without trading stocks.

What do I mean? Mark Cuban sold a collar on his Yahoo stock through Goldman for $[I forget] billion dollars. That was an off-market trade in which someone bought his entire block off of him. In today’s world, with tons of low interest (as in, single/double-digit basis points) loans and other fun weird contraptions, you have a lot more options to trade without trading.

I have no grand reveal here, but there’s probably an entire “dark dataset” regarding that activity that is missing from this conversation.
ARM and ARM China are separate companies. In software terms, while ARM China may have forked the ARM IP, they're not going to get any commits from upstream and it'll wither on the vine.
I also recently discovered that something like 12% of CPU on my 2020 macbook air is used whenever I'm in a room with anything greater than perfect silence, by 'coreaudiod', because it apparently is constantly listening to the microphone built in near the keyboard and spending cpu cycles trying to filter out background noise. Apparently running the signal desktop app in the background is enough to keep coreaudiod constantly wasting battery. Because signal is open and has been granted permissions for microphone and speakers, even if no call session is open?

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=macos+c...

meanwhile, "Slack Helper" is reporting 15% cpu usage just sitting there doing nothing. Imagine the cumulative kilowatt-hours wasted globally by all the CPU cycles spent by slack just to exist as basically a glorified IRC app.

If you really want to see slack waste CPU and battery, leave a channel open that somebody has pasted a high FPS animated GIF into, in the slack window in the background. Easily 35% usage.
Government regulation created your lack of options.

These are the people who have been giving literally trillions of dollars to the wealthy in their spending bills.

What would they have to do to convince you they are not going to help you?
I just tried tic-80 and don’t see mobile support. Am I wrong? Pico-8 is working for me on mobile.
You very well may be Jewish, I’m certainly not speaking for all Jews here, but as a Jewish hacker (in your preferred sense) I find the comparison you’re drawing and victimhood status you’re claiming (as a hacker) here both absurd and offensive.
Ask HN: Can carmakers chips be emulated by more available ARM microcontrollers?
And if so, doesn't this represent a huge opportunity for anyone who can get that job done?
To monitor throttling, you may run:

pmset -g thermlog
If they're killing them in 3 years anyway, I don't care :)
The parent describes "consistently low interest rates, quantitive [sic] easing and other central bank policies," so I'm not sure why you singled out low interest rates (which are a byproduct of the Fed actions that DO enable big government debt, and which certainly make it take longer before annual interest on government debt becomes unsustainable).

> I think the bottom 90% of the pyramid should rather welcome those losses.

Maybe my sentence wasn't clear, but X-inflation here refers to asset/property inflation as much as consumer inflation, none of which should be welcomed by those who don't have huge amounts of net worth tied up in appreciating assets.
> The reality is that all too often on this site when people say "I wish this was open source" they aren't saying that out of any interest for how that would make the project better or create a better community, but instead are saying it from a standpoint that only considers how it would benefit them personally.

Or from a philosophical standpoint
ARM China is independent from ARM, which just happens to have whatever IP it was able to run away with. To compete they're going to have to match ARM, given that nobody is going to write software for their custom fork.
Fun fact: PHP stands for "People Hate Perl"
“Look It Up, Check It Out”: REX 84 and the History of an American Conspiracy
I wear N95s in india every day and even the slight breeze can definitely start blocking the mask faster. Also even slightly increased breathing starts producing more aerosols and that starts blocking the masks as well. Unless of course even while cycling your heart is at resting rate, then kudos to your health.
Extropians had a lot of ties (and significant crossover) with the people driving the idea of molecular nanotechnology around this time. I think Ralph Merkle and Robert Freitas, both pioneers in nanotech, were advisors for the Alcor cryonics organization, which is referred to in the article.

These days, it’s a little sad to look at where those dreams went. Around the time this article was written, people thought they were making significant headway into making molecular nanotechnology a thing. And brain preservation is even more niche than it was then.

A few years ago, I got really interested in nanotech and took a bunch of notes about what happened to the field and where it is now. I should write a post about that sometime...
I could not get tic-80 games to work on my phone chrome browser. Does it work with mobile devices?
Hands on with Amazon’s Astro home robot
VHE isn't even observable for userspace code, and Apple is very quickly going to drop support for people being in the kernel, so I would argue this probably isn't even that important.
This. I didn't hate 8. I used it for several years without much trouble, and almost immediately regreted upgrading from it. I know a lot of people were put off by 8's UX changes, but they weren't that bad, especially compared to everything in your face AND under the hood that changed for the worst in 10. We even got the start menu back by 8.1 (and I never had an issue with the start screen, save issues navigating it with a mouse that were corrected IIRC).

Honestly, I even miss the charms bar/gesture; it was easy to make a larg general swipe and then choose "shutdown" to shutdown.
At one point in time I went whole-hog on a 17 inch gaming laptop that I treated as basically a folding desktop, it's this absolutely garantuan ASUS thing where the entire rear of it is one huge heatsink unit for the CPU and GPU. If you intentionally consider it from the design perspective of something that will only be relocated once every few weeks or months, and is certainly a lot lighter than a mini-ITX desktop PC and traditional monitor, it can be a good solution. Sadly, the touchpad on it is nowhere near as well refined as the apple version.

I can comfortably leave that thing spending 8-12 hours to encode a HEVC/H265 codec 4K video without worrying about it melting down.
Bill Ready - how perfect is this name for consumer finance
It's all a matter of perspective.

> Electrification

Batteries leading to mobile electronics. Fundamentally changed the nature of the industrial revolution from capital equipment to consumer products. Not to mention that all the domestic technology like clothes and dish washers, robotic vacuums, and modern AC were born in the post war period.

> long distance communication

Digital telecom (transistors, protocols, the internet, etc.). Telegraph and early radio versus the internet - IMO that's like comparing chemical rockets to a warp drive.

> automobiles

Ubiquitous air travel. What was once a months long trip for the middle class is now a day long trip for anyone who can save a thousand bucks. It's impossible to convey just how world changing that is.

> refridgeration

Biotech and genetic engineering leading to the green revolution increased our carrying capacity to over 7 billion. Globalization that allows us to have seasonal produce at any time of year.
HelloSystem
I remember an article where they interviewed someone who was 100 and asked him what was the biggest improvement in technology in his lifetime. He answered, "indoor plumbing," without hesitation.
You should've asked that question when you joined the company and learnt that he had a mansion. Of course you didn't because it's based on a stupid premise that people should be paid based on your perception of fairness.
Apple reserves certain MSRs that apply on a per-process basis, and thus must be applied on context switch.
Windows is a massive “in”, your work and home device, your gateway to the *internet*.

As an aside that is monopolistic behaviour which at least California and EU are in top of. Companies have to be careful exploiting their dominance in an area.

maybe an “in” and dominance are different, if they are it doesn’t matter
I don't think so. Doing mobile game dev is very different from going web dev + system admin work.
‘Jean Sibelius’ Review: An Early Finale
Fair point. I probably should have used his formative years...1850s, instead of 1920s.
I’ll sell it for significantly less - 200mm for all my location data
Yes it does. Rosetta includes full emulation for 32-bit instructions, allowing Crossover to continue to not have to be an emulator.

(The parent commenter also works at CodeWeavers, so he would know :P)
Isn't node.js then stand-alone server-side product?

What's the browser got to do with it?
Are there any videos like this of indigenous people from this time frame?
What year did this happen?
Let’s play apples to apples at least right? If the president you’re referring to was to do the same exact trades as Pelosi all hell would have broken loose and would have been impeached in the house for a 3rd time.
"I would see anywhere from 10 to 20, hardly ever less than 10, sailing vessels down the (Hudson) river. Now I don't see more than one in three months.

Very few steamboats. Everyone went to New York then, if they wanted to go in the new style why, they take a steamboat. If they want to go cheap they go on one our river sloops."

One of the most incredible things to note here is that this was around the time planes were being invented, the first commercial airplane trip was just made few years earlier, and this a fairly rural interview of an elder so it's sane to think this person has never even seen an airplane.
Crypto CEO threatens customers after mistakenly sending them millions
That's a tarted-up container environment, irrelevant to node.js as such.
No, it's not. Switching to TSO allows for fast, accurate emulation, but if they didn't have that they would just go the Windows route and drop barriers based on heuristics, which would work for almost all software. The primary driver behind Rosetta's speed is extremely good single-threaded performance and a good emulator design.
What does the Federal Reserve board get to do?
>I've heard TikTok described similarly compared with YouTube. Makes me wonder if there's room for a "TikTok for games"

IMO it's the remixing that makes TikTok work. The equivalent would be every game is open sourced and remixable in easy ways. Like the way you can take one TikTok's video audio and recontextualize the meaning with your own video. Or an audio track can become the format that everyone follows by using the audio.
> Central banks have managed to create an aura of science over what they do.

In the case of the US Federal Reserve (different central banks may be different), the major ideological part is done by Congress in delineating the Fed's mandate.

Which is why fairly radical ideological shifts in Fed leadership haven't significantly changed Fed approaches; that the Fed is minimally political in the partisan/ideological sense isn't an illusion they have created, its a reality.
> If we are requiring spouses of elected officials to divest their investment business, we should also require Presidents to divest from their businesses as well, not just wink-wink transfer to his children.

Of course, or some other mechanism.

> In additon there are thousands of elected officials across the country. If we need everyone to abandon/destroy their non-official form of income, nobody will join politics. It is easy to judge from that sidelines.

So you are saying that politics is inherently corrupt and that if you take away the appeal of corruption then no one will participate?
Windows 2000 was the best version of Windows ever. Windows XP and above only decreased value for the consumer... Windows-10 and 11 being exponentially worst.
RFID blocking pocket is another option, or rotate prepaid cellphones every week or so. Neither is very convenient.
> we should also require Presidents to divest from their businesses as well, not just wink-wink transfer to his children.

Absolutely, 100% agree. We should also not let children of Presidents get entangled in billion dollar investment deals with foreign powers that are hostile to US interests[1]

There are blind trusts and other vehicles that can be used. Maybe if the ability to exploit inside knowledge for personal financial gain were limited, the people who choose to get involved in politics would be doing so because they care about making the country a better place, and not to enrich themselves.

[1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/hunter-biden-holds-stak...
Even "gaming" laptops have come a decent ways in size/form factor. I picked up a Zephyrus G15 a bit ago and it's pretty portable while having the ability to sink a good amount of wattage.
Hello Intel!

Note that Apple is slowly replacing your chips with M1. MS has similar machines with Snapdragrons. Amazon is using some non-x86 on its cloud. And now Google.

Please, consider that getting rid of IME may gain some goodwill and attractiveness to your platform.
The standards for biking in Netherlands are very different... people treat it more like walking than like driving, as far as I can tell. Everyone's upright on a comfy bike and going pretty slow... the distances are shorter so you don't need to be a spandex cyborg to commute, and there are so many people it's probably hard to pass anyway. You don't wear helmets or carry poles walking, even though you could easily trip (someone I know got injured accidentally stepping off a curb).

I've only been to Amsterdam a couple times but my favorite snapshot of biking there was a lady biking hands free fiddling with her eye makeup (I think?), being passed by a hands-free dude wearing a suit, talking on his phone with one hand and other hand just kinda hanging alongside his body ;)
If you don't allow for scope creep you won't get any contracts. What I've seen in the industry is most companies will under bid hoping to make it up in change request fees. The successful companies are the ones who manage the OEM such that they keep them happy while maximizing change requests. It's a fine line to walk.
Ok you make a fair point, but that is not what I took away from your original comment. I was not intentionally misrepresenting you.
yeah I just checked and the modern version of my 17 inch laptop monster, which is about 8.1 pounds, is down to 5.95 pounds in a 17 inch version with an intel 11800 something mobile CPU, and geforce 3070 in it. Probably still has a huge external power brick.
It probably happens even more now than in the 1980s.

The speed of communication outpaces the speed of government bureaucracy so it’s easy to take advantage of a technicality to make huge profits.

It’s like university exams when a friend in a morning class would take an exam and then tell others in the afternoon class about the questions and what to expect before taking the exam. The no guarantee the exams would be the say, but even if some questions overlap it makes a big difference.

In the case of university, I’m pretty sure this would be some kind of honor policy violation with repercussions if found out, and for Wall St it’s probably not even as tough as uni.
If only they make them vendor locked and not following specification.

I guess that spareparts are harder to get and third party repairing will be almost non existent. It'll also make new competitors with good concepts harder to come into industry (steam deck, framework laptop).

Imagine if every car vendor (bmw, mercedes, toyota, etc) start making a very specific tire that can only be used by their own model.
I hate:

- the sense that I never really can be sure where the code is executing at a glace;

- the (compared to Python) cruft-laden syntax

JSON was a win. I nearly forgive JavaScript for begetting JSON.
> especially when you consider how minimal the disruption had been until this most recent outbreak.

Does your family live in Auckland? The on-again/off-again severe lockdowns there have been brutal to families and businesses alike. Simple business calculations become extremely difficult in that environment even if your employees getting severely ill isn’t one of them. The tourism industry employed ~14% of the national workforce directly or indirectly, when will that sector recover? I would hardly call the disruption minimal.
A14 is described in LLVM: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/9e4d72675f476386cf...
Oldendorf and Damadian (MRI) are great examples of Nobel blunders -- my money is on Takahashi for his significant contributions:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3258406/

Steve Webb wrote an excellent book that traces the origins of radiological tomography:

https://www.amazon.com/Watching-Shadows-Origins-Radiological...

These are some notes of mine for a presentation on the subject (relative to radiotherapy):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-2VAFzmkGu25YJM_QFLDiUB9vRv...
> When we say something is barbaric, we mean it is in its natural, unrefined, untouched-by-civilisation state.

No we don't. We generally use barbaric to describe people. Barbaric comes from barbarian. Which was originally used to describe non-greeks, non-romans, foreigners, etc. It started out as a slur. Philistine is a synonym for barbarian.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/barbarian

> Enough to have motivated our species to seek to not be subject to it.

You act like civilization was something our species strived for rather than had imposed on us. Civilization was predominantly built on slavery and exploitation. The vast majority of humanity suffered under civilization. Humanity no more clamored for civilization than livestock clamored for industrial farms.
yah, that’s what i’d dimly remembered from when i looked into it last. it’s good to wash right before eating to get rid of other contaminants too, but it won’t remove all pesticides.