skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand why I would care about the median national voter. Shouldn't political parties focus on winning specific state-level races, both for congress and president? The national popular vote is meaningless.
Of those, the one that is most decoupled from the popular vote is the Senate. For that the best thing to do is to weight the stats inversely proportional to the state population. I think you'll find that the median voter in that case is a very 50-something very white person who really didn't go to college.
I was in the market for a single GPU about 6 months ago, it shipped in a week and didn't break the bank. Buying a billion GPUs is an entirely different question. I'd look into buying fab equipment and doing a custom architecture. Given the length of the computation we're talking about, even a decade of lead time wouldn't significant. But as I understand it, current lead times are still less than a year.
It seems like the amount it will hurt Google is directly proportional to the amount it will hurt the owner of the site (assuming they want people to read their message).

I'm sure someone at Google is pretty happy that they don't have to show this page in their search results. Nobody can accuse them of bias against anti-Google pages -- the site owner did it to themselves.

Seems like as perfect an example of "cutting off nose to spite face" as I can imagine. (ok, refusing the vax and dying of COVID to get back at the left might be a better example, but this one is close)
So I should have to buy a bigger house to subsidize my company not having an office with no pay raise? Nah, I’ll pass.
Sure, but your job isnt Astronaut and the "office" isnt meant to be Space rather than what used to be the guest bedroom and is now the "home office".
> that you might not need high-quality targeting information

I don't see how this would work, unless of course you're talking about nuclear weapons. With a conventional warhead you still need to hit your target.
> once you manage to make significant net thrust making a bit more isn't that big of deal

You’re still limited by your fuel and flight envelope. The latter which bleeds the former.

Hypersonic missiles will be harder to intercept than cruise missiles. Due to their novelty, they’ll also be harder than ballistics. (Ballistic projectiles don’t continuously illuminate their flight path. That permits for subterfuge options an air-breathing missile forfeits.)
May be C# somehow “better” than java, but .NET framework is a burning garbage truck from hell. In all terms.
The interesting thing for me is that I deal with group 2, but I work in a place with multiple head offices, and they've been like that since the early 90s.

Remote working, in the sense that very few medium or large businesses have a single location, is the norm. It always has been. What has also been the norm is shitty ways of dealing with that - creating a de facto priveleged class of decision makers in one location, flying people around, and the like.

I agree there's not going to be a reconciliation between people who mostly want to work where-ever suits them (whether that's home or a satellite office) but a rational response to reality would be to do a better job of dealing with what was already there before COVID.
> 2,000 years ago people born into wealth and power fought amongst each other for leadership and control while the population simply learned to live with the results.

2,000 years ago even the plebeians had the right to vote.

> We're living in a plutocracy.

Agreed.
Doesn't mean it's morally wrong. Robin Hood was taking back and returning what was stolen from peasants by the Sheriff (and other nobles) by overtaxation and straight up "this is mine now" antics. These were people that had no right to what they were taking. If beat the crap out of the guy I ran down after he stole my garden gnome that's justice of a sort.
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Functions for Documentation Instead of Comments
Creating a VDSO: The Colonel's Other Chicken (2012)
They’re different companies overseas.
> US pursue hypersonic weapons for different purpose - fast global much less than nuclear strike capability

Ballistic missiles fly much, much faster than hypersonics. Speed is not their advantage.
Why not use a raspberry pi connected to an hdtv to display this, weather, news, etc.? You could make one HDMI port the "what's happening" channel.

Plus run pinhole.
Yes, I don’t understand why they still do it.

The story is about a company in turmoil over this issue and someone posts a big long thing about how much they love being around their family all day. What is the point?! It has basically nothing to do with the rocket company.
Android and iOS data collection
The B5 cast become quite "slim" in last years indeed but then, Claudia Christian can be heard in lots of places - she's for example recording for Arena.net's Guild Wars 2 as default voice of Norn female player character, as game develops its content.

If JMS aims at BSG-like reboot then I wonder how different it will be from the original series... Galactica run really far away from the TOS show (tho, creators had a brief wicked idea of bringing original Starbuck character at some point, to connect two universes).
Some people like driving cars and having lunch with their coworkers.
> I think economists neglect to include an obvious factor

In general, if you ever find yourself thinking that an entire discipline is neglecting an obvious factor, you should check whether that's actually true. I am pretty sure that your phenomenon of opportunistic price-hikes at reports of irrelevant inflation is either

1. Well-understood to not happen.

or

2. Somebody's PhD thesis.
> relatively modest supersonic passenger flight has proven to be a commercial failure

Tried it once in the 70s. Didn’t work. Everyone go home.
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I scoured the wave share site for all the other e-ink screens and there're many cheaper ones.

You can get small e-ink screens (without a HAT, requires adapter ~10$ and dev board which is necessary anyway) for much cheaper.

5.8 inch is 40$

800×480, 7.5inch 50$

400x300, 4.2inch E-Ink raw display, three-color 26$

The cheaper ones are cheap because:

1) Each size comes in a low res and a high res variant, the low res ones are a lot cheaper

2) No HAT, so no built-in dev board for the PI. You do need to somehow connect it to your dev board. An adapter with SPI costs 10$, a dev board with esp8266 that has built-in adapter costs ~18$. Both are officially from wave share available on their site as well

3) All boards below 7 inch are relatively affordable. After that the price increases are huge

4) Not sure why, but price difference between black/white and 3-color is negligible. So feel free to pick a 5 inch tricolor screen for like 40$!
To provide some contemporary evidence to support your hypothesis that there were "luxury rocks" and that humans would be interested in such things, here is a gallery of various skins for a handheld rock in the videogame Rust. One of them costs $68

https://rust.esportinfo.gg/skins/tools/rock

Humans haven't changed all that much since the Neolithic...
Well, many companies do actually take employer feedback. So it’s not unreasonable that people who want to come into the office regularly and may in fact want to live or have already moved somewhere they can’t do so, at least react to pushes for environments that don’t accommodate them.
I think in a lot of cases, it's partly a question of where the material was (on paper, not necessarily in libraries, possibly at obscure conferences). That's the case for a various things I'd like to refer to, and the system I used for physics research was never written up anyway.
In this context and example is information on Logica's RAPPORT, allegedly the first commercial, portable RDB, which had some significance in UK research support.
>Operational complexity is orthogonal, and tends to be inversely proportional to simplicity in implementation ...

I'm not sure what your point is with this. All complexity is operational complexity.
This is going to be the tech version of The Dress[0]. We're all seeing the same thing, yet half the population sees it one way and the other half sees it the other, and no one can understand why anyone wouldn't see it that way.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dress

(It's white and gold, I don't care what reality has to say about the matter)
Reminds me of how important individual rights are, the smallest and weakest group is yourself.
The Great Leverer is indeed historically only achieved by violent means.

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691183251/th...
This is a nice pat answer, but truthfully I need two studies if I really expect working from home not to affect my home life. One will have my work in it and one will be filled with my personal projects (raspberry pi, small wood projects, electronics, music instruments, etc). My current house is sized for not having a dedicated workspace from home, and you could argue that that’s “too small” but the fact of the matter is buying a house with one more bedroom around here is no small bump in price, so I get by with my work life encroaching on my personal life. For now. If I want to continue working from home, my choices are to buy an even bigger house or accept that I will never have that separation.
Improving DRAM Performance, Security, Reliability by Understanding DRAM Timing
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.14520.pdf
So you're fine with your private correspondence being public long after your death. Does it matter that von Fersen clearly wasnt? He knew his letters would be public and purposely blacked out parts.
ESP32 is a very generic synthesized chip, not particularly ULP oriented.

On other hand, it's the most developer friendly company out there.

I've been unsuccessful getting any proper reaction from Innophase about SDK support. Their sales seem to not even understand what we are wanting from them, and keep sending us "enter these AT commands through USB-TTL"

ESP32 is also pretty much the one, and only wireless MCU you can buy on the open market, in any quantity, on a short notice. Nothing else comes with the supply chain security like this.
While not being based on C DirectX actually has a C API, even for D3D12. For example to call device->CreateRootSignature(...) from C you call ID3D12Device_CreateRootSignature(device, ...).
No, I heard this in 2002 by our marketing guy who was in communication with people in the military bureaucracy (of course to sell them our products).
That doesn't in any way mean the title is wrong. Any group will look like a minority if you narrow it down enough, regardless of how close that group is to the average of the population.

By analogy, it's accurate to say that the US median household income is $67,521, even though the number of people who make exactly that many dollars per year is probably quite small.
I cannot say anything wrt tinnitus, but I do own some aftershockz headphones as well.

They're extremely interesting, mainly because they're so different but there are a few caveats... The sound quality is pretty lack lustre if you don't plug your ears somehow, especially the base is very shallow otherwise. It's a very entertaining experience when you literally plug you ears with your fingers and the sound quality as well as loudness increases, because the sound waves get reflected back by whatever you plugged your ears with.
I generally use significantly more expensive headphones though, so maybe I'm just spoiled.

It really doesn't cut through ambient noise in my experience, it's more like background sound unless your ears are plugged, so noisy surroundings will make it impossible to listen to the headphones as well.
How is an individual offering goods and services to one another not a business?
>What you're describing is not a matter of kinetic energy (clearly if it were about kinetic energy, this would be defeated by making the interceptor weigh 30 tonnes) but a matter of transverse acceleration. On that matter, as far as I understand it, current AAMs/SAMs are somewhere in the 50g region. I strongly suspect that hypersonic vehicles due to their lower L/D are nowhere near that -- hell, many of them seem to have a hard enough time flying straight, if US military's experience is of any relevance here.

Not so. AAMs/SAM can only pull anywhere close to 50g at gigantic cost in drag and can only do that once and briefly. It is a question of kinetic energy because the missile that can regenerate kinetic energy and that loses the least kinetic energy relative to it's mass is at a massive advantage.

>Also, due to low L/D ratio in the high Mach region, if your missile is zig-zagging randomly, it won't stay fast for long. And if it's not zig-zagging randomly, then the question is how it gets the information how to zig-zag, since the nose of a hypersonic vehicle seems to be an extremely poor sensor platform -- which you admitted yourself. It's virtually certain that it won't be able to see the interceptor.

Traditional aerodynamic designs suffer from poor L/D ratios, yes. Waverider designs probably have much fewer issues. Given the advent of HGVs, which are made to turn multiple times without any engine to back them up, we can be fairly confident that this is not the case.

As far as being a poor sensor, this is an oversimplification of a complex mechanism. Plasmas block radar up to a certain frequecy depending on their temperature. So you make it so that the radar is somewhere where the air is slightly colder and make its frequency higher. You don't even have to put the radar in the nose if the target you're trying to hit is sluggish and large enough.

It doesn't need to maneuver in response to the interceptor. The missile knows when it is in LOS to the target, and knows that the interceptor will be fired soon after. So it already knows when the missile will be fired and thus when the missile would hit. The window for interception is pretty short. It would have to do evasive maneuvers at maybe 4G for maybe 30 seconds, all the while gaining back Ke from reducing in altitude in combination with engines.

>It would seem that the easiest way to distinguish a flare would be to look if it's in a controlled flight? Unlike a flare, the hypersonic vehicle will continue flying, and the difference is readily apparent. Besides, you can't have that many flares on it, so you can't keep firing them continuously -- again, the only thing that's available to you if you can't see the incoming interceptor.

This is a REALLY hard problem, and it's the reason why imaging infrared guidance was invented. It takes a lot of time to be certain that a flare in a ballistic trajectory at high speed is different from a missile coming towards you! Those are precious seconds you can't afford. Remember that you have no way of estimating distance.
Is e-ink fundamentally more expensive to produce, or is the quantity produced just not enough right now?
Ask HN: Any interesting STEM content for 13-18yo students on offer these days?
One middle school headmaster is pestering me informally for online offers of good / reliable STEM written content for young students. He remembers too well the great, non repeatable Springer Books free availability from the Spring 2020 lockdown. Anything similar, albeit at a lesser level? Say, something from the IEEE or the Make! circuit? Thanks.
Why is animation for multiplayer first person shooters so challenging?
Relational Memory: Native In-Memory Accesses on Rows and Columns
"Analytical database systems are typically designed to use a column-first data layout that maps better to analytical queries of access patterns. This choice is premised on the assumption that storing data in a row-first format leads to accessing unwanted fields; moreover, transforming rows to columns at runtime is expensive. On the other hand, new data items are constantly ingested in row-first form and transformed in the background to columns to facilitate future analytical queries. How will this design change if we can always access only the desired set of columns? In this paper, to address this question, we present a radically new approach to data transformation from rows to columns. We build upon recent advancements in commercial embedded platforms with tightly-coupled re-programmable logic to design native in-memory access on rows and columns.

We propose a new database management system (DBMS) architecture that is the first hardware/software co-design. It relies on an FPGA-based accelerator to transparently transform base data to any group of columns with minimal overhead at runtime. This design allows the DBMS to access any group of columns as if it already exists in memory. Our method, termed relational memory, currently implements projection, and offers the groundwork for implementing selection, group by, aggregation, and supporting joins in hardware, thus, vastly simplifying the software logic and accelerating the query execution.

We present a detailed analysis of relational memory using both synthetic benchmarks and realistic workloads. Our relational memory implementation can convert on the fly rows to arbitrary groups of columns without any latency penalty. Essentially, relational memory can load in cache the desired columns from a row-oriented base data layout as fast as reading from column-oriented base data layout by outsourcing data transformation to the hardware."

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.14349.pdf
> It's about making the country a better place by enacting laws and making sure everything runs correctly.

That is a pretty subjective statement, "better" and "correctly" all have different definitions to different people.
> Please don't make bullshit assumptions like this when I've already said I didn't want to go into personal circumstances. In my case, the problem is medical, not motivational. And that's all I want to discuss because it's personal and, frankly put, none of your fucking business why I'm tired on an evening.

It sounds like you need a nap.
In Gratitude for mRNA Vaccines
This. I don't know any senior engineers who want to work in an office. They know that the second they go back it is going to suck one way or other. I watched office space last night and was reminded of all the little tics and annoyances of being in an office. I had some good times in the office, but they will remain just good memories.
I've been using murex as my primary shell for years.

Why do I use it? Because Bash (et al) syntax sucked for solving common modern day problems (like iterating through anything that isn't just a list of words, like the way variables are expanded in a dumb way (resulting in problems like spaces in file names breaking scripts), like how working with tables, json or other structured data requires inlining another language (aws, sed, jq, Perl, etc). and so on and so forth)

So I created my own shell to fix these problems

And while I was at it, I took influences from IDE to build out a better interactive terminal too.

(I should probably write a blog post about some of the design decisions behind my shell)
> And I look around and not only don't see any riots;

Portland. Minnesota. Missouri. Berkeley. There are riots, currently about social justice, but the fight for a living wage is brewing because homelessness and poverty is on the rise. People need to have less to lose, and we're gettin' there.
The problem with this, I think, is that it can always be used to justify volatility.

E.g. economic policy after the Great Depression has kept such an event from happening again at that scale. Was there too much volatility in the early half of the 20th century, or is the economic policy that moderated the cycles just setting us up for an extreme crash to come?

Any reduction of volatility could be argued to be a step away from antifragility, toward systems that can't survive on their own. But not all are; and even when they are, there may be other benefits that compensate for the loss.
That will stop the crawlers but you could still show up in the search results, because of other web pages. From GP:

> If other pages point to your page with descriptive text, Google could still index the URL without visiting the page
The article is proscriptive. Would someone please tell me as a civilian, what these things actually mean and why they are important.
The Moneyball Effect: Our Fetishization of Data
I'm in group 1.

I'm ok with people wanting to go to office. Just let me work from home.

I'm also ok with people saying "I'm ok with WFH. Just let me work in the office".

I'm not ok with people saying "everyone needs to WFH" or "everyone needs to go to the office".
The price of displays has come down. Color e-ink is new tech, and as such is more expensive.
I'll go out on a limb and say this is pretty much most popular threads on HN. All interesting discussion is either 1) downvoted for going against the grain 2) disappeared as people see this place being diluted to nothing more than rehashing same points over and over.

This place is dying.
Michael Crichton's “State of Fear” Predicted the Climate Change Hysteria
Fusion Energy: Research at the Crossroads
> the main things I miss are the water cooler talk that greased a lot of wheels and filled in a lot of gaps

I hear that because informal stuff can solve a lot of problems, or prevent it even arising, but at the same time, it papers over a lot of cracks that should probably be exposed.

I've taken to virtual coffees during the week with people on a semi-regular basis to try and keep that sort of stuff going.
Is that why the other side is disenfranchising the existing voters?
Actual research paper - 25th March, 2021: https://www.scss.tcd.ie/doug.leith/apple_google.pdf
The sooner we wake up to the fact that the world, collectively, has a one party system of people that own everything (including the presidents and prime ministers that run their day to day operations), the better.

Who you vote for has no bearing on who is elected. The runners are appointed, everything else is entertainment for the sake of introducing a new team member into an existing structure, not much different than your corporate job.

You are living in a world of misdirections and distractions. The news programme is chosen ahead of time, and very few things are accidental from there on out.

Tune in, or tune out, it makes no difference.
He wanted to get rid of choice altogether. Hostile bias enforced by institutional power...not a sustainable position these days. Go back to Honeywell or GE.