skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After listening to the JSON episode, I've been spending the last few days coding up a SIMD implementation of LZ77 substring matching, for use in DEFLATE.

I used Zig, which has first-class SIMD support. As in, no need to go down to the assembly or use intrinsics, or even use a library. I just got it working and haven't had time to profile it, however (I'm new to profiling code).
Thanks, Makes sense.
It doesn't use any "code" from nimbo. The documentation and the design simplicity of the tool were the things that was appealing to us and adopted.
The project itself was forked from spotty which has an MIT license.

The biggest advantage which was missing in the Open source options was monitoring on the training job and auto recovery from spot interruptions which spotML does.
Great point on the mobile layout.

I've modified the site to make better use of space on smaller screens.

Have a great weekend!
> Ditto. I’ve been doing a lot of managery stuff during the pandemic and the main things I miss are the water cooler talk that greased a lot of wheels and filled in a lot of gaps (...)

I'm sure mileages vary, but between wasting a significant portion of my life commutting to be able to experience water cooler talks, and hugging my wife and children once I step out of my home office, you can keep all the water coolers in the world to yourself.

Work/life balance shouldn't fall all the way to the work side of the scale just because some managers struggle with remote work.
> is real and accurate just as most of the reporting is on Russia

Except when it turn out to be fake news as it usually happens. For instance, linked malware research paper doesn't mentions alleged keyboard layout probe and never reveal how this probe to be performed. So, bogus.

> workarounds e.g. adding an additional keyboard

Just as bogus as placing succulent plant to "protect from computer radiation"
Maybe it's just me, but...

When you're writing anything non-trivial, you ought to have something new and/or interesting to say, otherwise you're just adding noise to the environment.

I can see this being useful in finding ways to rephrase things, improving the structure or flow of a document. But this seems to be suggesting content rather than form or format. Adding content to your writing because it commonly appears in writing similar to yours seems to go against the idea of new and interesting.

That may be good for politicians, but I can see this being misused to 'bulk-up' a small number of ideas or facts into a full paper. On balance, this could easily do far more harm than good.
> You can always convert JS to TS later.

Caveat, you kinda have to already be thinking about types while writing JS for this to work. Highly dynamic code can be much easier to write in TS from scratch than rewrite from JS.
I find the ESP32 much easier to develop for, you don't need to install any toolchains, just plug in and drop code into the virtual USB drive that shows up! I wish all microcontrollers were like that these days.
I wanted to try their Espressif ESP32 low power 802.11 part back in March but it wasn't shipping yet. Their website isn't clear but I'll poke around and see if it has been released yet.
Is there a phrase coined for responding to the title of a post, while ignoring all content?
I sold mine for the same reason.
Echopraxia will not disappoint you, then.

And along the lines of good portrayal of non-human intelligence, I can also recommend Children of Time, and its sequel, Children of Ruin. Both deal with Earth animal species getting uplifted and left to create their own civilizations.
Can you keep RPi most of the time hibernated? Does it still draw a lot of power in sleep?
Use QT, with no web views, and native context menus and tooltips that can be shown and modified outside of the DOM.
The Association for Computing Machinery[1] (usually "ACM") seems to be nearly invisible now. It was the forum for advancing the state of the art in those days.

Its archives are primary sources for this history. The database debate was carried out mostly in ACM SIGMOD, the "Special Interest Group for Management of Data".

1. https://www.acm.org/
As a former aerospace engineer, I’m sceptical of the strategic value of hypersonics. Tactical? Sure. They’d have a better chance of taking out SAMs, light radar, et cetera. But the talk about these being carrier killers is, based on everything we’ve seen, off the mark. (Spending the cost of one hypersonic on a swarming attack would probably do more damage.)
Sorry, I was talking generally. I try to avoid being personal in posts.
I wasn't and thanks! It was an interesting read
is Tesla’s self driving stuff also just a boring neural network?
As a big supporter of wfh for others, I’m personally not a fan.

My home is my sanctuary. It’s for sleep, rest, family and pleasure. It is modeled entirely around being comfortable.

I don’t want to hear my coworkers voices in my home. Or my manager. Or anything else work related. It gives me great anxiety and pain to hear my work in my apartment, and the feeling like I can never truly “leave” work. And I love my work and my team and the company.

To me there is nothing more alarming than the corporate overlords invading my home. And yet this is being applauded by many of my peers. Time will tell.

I think the work from home obsession is the “open office space” debate of our generation.
Also, I'd like to point out: "Median" is relative to the scale you're plotting against. You can't combine multiple scales and treat them as one. The median voter may be white on the scale of race, may be 50 on the scale of age, may not be college educated on the scale of education, but that doesn't mean half the voting population is white, over 50, and not college educated. If you naively combine the statistics for instance, you wind up with that representing ~26% of voters (.74 * .56 *.63).
That's what I did when prices started to get nuts earlier this summer. I got offers from Carmax, Carvana, and Vroom. One was >$1k higher than the others for whatever reason and since we didn't need to be paying insurance, taxes, and maintenance on two cars while working from home we got rid of one of them.

The car sold for $3k less than we paid for it 5 years ago and with twice the mileage now. My plan was to buy again when prices calmed down but at this point I have no idea when that will be.
Thanks. I’ll be messing with this for sure!
Without meaning insult, I think you should review the outcome of the Panama papers leak again – it may have been a while. There has been a staggering amount of legal and financial recourse from the leak in countries spanning the globe.

Frankly, I don't know of much else like that leak in history in terms of its global impact.
Sold a 4-year old car to CarMax for $22k, (bought at MSRP @$27k in 2017). Didn't need another car immediately, so I was comfortable placing an order for a new car at MSRP (with ~3 months needed for delivery). As unfavorable as the housing market is for wfh-ers looking to upgrade, the car market is a different story.

Was suprised to see Carmax omitted from the title, though it was mentioned in the article.
I disagree with you, strongly, but I'll just note this -- you appear to espouse the view (in you last sentence) that utility is the only value something can have. There are many things to know that lack utility but still hold value somehow. Useless does not mean worthless; but science really is about prediction.
According to David Niekerk, "Jeff Bezos believes people are inherently lazy."

I assume this is a huge factor in him wanting everyone back in the office.
Does it matter? There will people raiding through the Capitol with slip knots and plastic binders, ready to have a kangaroo court. I don't know how much of the footage you've watched, but it was anything but a peaceful protest. It was a violent uprising. It's just that the mob was mostly comprised of a bunch of fuckups, so they were fortunately unsuccessful in their attempt at insurrection.
Sign up for Google AdWords and use the keyword planner tool. Punch in an exact match / phrase match keyword.

You don’t need to actually run an ad campaign to make use of this. Many SEOs use this method to find similar phrases.
There are 31" and 42" e-ink displays available, but they cost a few thousand dollars. The 42" is pretty close to 2ft by 3ft, 25" x 33".
>My view on the problem with politics today is that people have started to view it as sport

The average person is simply unable to evaluate competence, especially from news clips and "debates". The median voter is not a highly competitive white collar knowledge worker with a background in STEM necessary to evaluate complex topics with objectivity. Instead its the fry cook, the retail worker, the warehouse stocker, blue collar tradesman, liberal arts graduate, etc.

What really happened was that the pool of politically active citizens expanded, and now because of the shape of the normal distribution we are dealing with a sort of political endless summer - which media in particular are all too eager to take advantage of for political power.
Supercapacitor E-Bike with DIY Motor
No one even knows how to make a pencil:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Pencil
Falsifiability applies to the big bang theory because the big bang theory is not about the general concept of "a" big bang, but about specific models of how exactly the events very shortly after the big bang happened, which make testable predictions about all the consequences of those very early events - the distribution of matter and energy in the universe, properties of cosmic microwave background, etc; such models can predict observations/measurements (of ancients events) that we have not yet made, and be falsified if those observations disagree with the model predictions.
The US government isn't supposed to be efficient. Quite the opposite, really.
Employees are just other businesses providing a service in exchange for money with a strict contact regulating that supply of service (and tons of regulations)
I mean, the title is often the most important part of a post. It's a boiled down version of what the creator wants to present to the world. In this case, it's a very badly boiled down idea.
> Rule 1: Think of the economy as being more like a cat than a washing machine.

> We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run by wonks. In other words, like a home appliance, not like the human body. If this were so, our institutions would have no self-healing properties and would need someone to run and micromanage them, to protect their safety, because they cannot survive on their own.

> By contrast, natural or organic systems are antifragile: They need some dose of disorder in order to develop. Deprive your bones of stress and they become brittle. This denial of the antifragility of living or complex systems is the costliest mistake that we have made in modern times. Stifling natural fluctuations masks real problems, causing the explosions to be both delayed and more intense when they do take place. As with the flammable material accumulating on the forest floor in the absence of forest fires, problems hide in the absence of stressors, and the resulting cumulative harm can take on tragic proportions.

[0] https://fs.blog/2012/11/learning-to-love-volatility/
I believe this is what OP means by "covert" levels. There are no official levels but you were equivalent to senior principal even though you had no official level. Either all ICs are doing senior principal level work, which probably can't be true because no org has that many jobs with that scope of work and generally you're talking about cross org, architecture level work, multiple "lower level" engineers need to support and implement that work at that level. All flat organizations have implicit hierarchies, especially once they grow to a certain size
The idea that there are "ever-increasing levels of poverty" in western democracies is transparently false. Would you like to try to provide some evidence for that?
The US let the Russians break themselves fighting the Eastern front while they invaded north Africa. The North African front was basically secure while Stalingrad was happening, and if the US applied more pressure to Germany in this period, as the Russian requested, the Germans probably would not have done so much population damage to Russia.

Bitterness of this fueled a lot of ideological tensions. I was also taught that a large motivation of dropping the Bomb was to scare the Russians.

Source: My Highschool education. Obviously, commentary on WWII is not objective, but I stand by my thesis, considering the actual action that the United States engages in in present times. Its in our history to be both ideologically driven and meta gamers.
IMHO, the heaviest impediment is that the source isn't available.
RTO is just so 20th century
Why does it have to be “mysterious”? Making balls is one of the most innate and pleasant artistic things humans can do with their hands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorodango
I'd call that a "median comment."
>Does it matter?

Yes it does, it makes the difference between journalism and propaganda. If you dont care about the truth I cant help you.
Characterization of bacteria and fungi associated with the ISS' surfaces (2019)
That’s a fair point about home being a sanctuary. After working out of my basement for almost a year I went ahead and built an office in the back yard.

I don’t think I’ve ever been happier.

Not everyone has this luxury but a hybrid model or choice of working environment is a necessity.. or maybe the real debate to a return to office isn’t location, but the forty hour work week.
Thermodynamics is derived from statistical mechanics though. Economics models use too simplistic approximations of the behavior of human brains.
It does not help Wikipedia to do that. The content on Wikipedia is licensed so that Apple and Google can show the content from Wikipedia (and this is by design, not a loophole). If the users can get access to the encyclopedic content more conveniently, that is still in line with the project's goals, even if that content reaches the user indirectly via a third party.
I have been 100% remote for years and am content to continue to be so, but I totally see where you're coming from. I was never thrilled by my train journey into London, but the short walk I had on the home end was some of my best "thinking" time. One of the ways my mental health has suffered most since moving on from that time in my life is a steady decline in enforced personal time, and a lack of willpower to re-introduce it. Not made easier by our shitty weather discouraging impromptu walks.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3329714.3338137
Maintainable software projects are modeled as a dependency graph of components that encapsulate implementation details and depend on other components.

func main
foo, err := NewFoo()
handle err
bar, err := NewBar(foo)
handle err

Given a single component, each external dependency should be injected as an interface.

type Fooer interface{ Foo() int }

func NewBar(f Fooer) (*Bar, error) {
...
}

Test components in isolation by providing mock (stub, fake, whatever, it's all meaningless) implementations of its dependencies.

func TestBar(t *testing.T) {
f := &mockFoo{...}
b, err := NewBar(f)
...
Filling in at water coolers and difficulty onboarding is mostly because companies still don’t really think about communication and information and have no strategy for either beyond “they will figure it out”
But people disagree about what makes the country "a better/worse place" and that disagreement leads to political parties and the need to win to promote policies they agree with. Just consider any wedge issue to see how this works, e.g. abortion and the fight over supreme court justices as a result.

The issue is the rhetoric these days is dominated by useful idiots online spouting talking points and propaganda to the point that "debates" are nothing more than whatever scores points (literally points = social media likes).
Politics is about making the country a better place FOR YOUR GROUP, whatever that group may be. There are many groups, with competing, incompatible definitions of "better." That's why "politics" exists in the first place. It's not a bunch of enlightened scholars competing to find the best solutions to hard problems, it's any number of tribes fighting to secure a piece of the pie for their people.

So yes, it's absolutely about winning. Losing means that your group suffers, and eventually that your group (ideologic, geographic, economic or, grimly, even ethnic) ceases to exist.
Matt Taibbi (and others) compare it to Pro Wrestling. Which is actually kind of a cool thing, and gets dumped on way too unfairly in general as an art form. But as a model for politics, oh god, please, no. The guy with the nuclear launch codes should not be the best entertainer.
One problem I have with the statistics I’ve encountered is that they often seem to categorize people who were vaccinated less than 14 days ago as unvaccinated.

This makes it harder to dive into vaccine efficacy and safety relative to unvaccinated.

It would be great for anybody seriously trying to compile this data to distinguish between vaccinated, unvaccinated, and not fully vaccinated for both 1 and 2 shot vaccines.
Not concerned enough to do anything about it.

Taiwan takeover will be such a shit show. Cutting off high end semiconductor manufacturing means chaos for multiple years in multiple industries.
Building a huge render farm would come to my mind, but I'm not a billionaire.
> I find the commute far more effective for unwinding to be honest

No one is stopping you from unwinding after work if you work from home. Hop in the car when you're done with work and enjoy a relaxing "commute" on your own terms.
On the technical perspective no. 3D stereo was always possible, but what Atmos offers is the ability to deliver the 3D experience to any audio player. A mix for headphones won’t sound right on a home cinema, or in a car and having the actual vector data allows for it to sound right everywhere.
Even if you agree with his assessment, remote work let’s employees do 1-3 hours less of work related activity (commuting).
That's one of those things that's much easier said than done.

It's also not always about personal time, sometimes it's just catching up on sleep on the train. Without wanting to go too much into personal circumstance, that sleep was really valuable in a way that trying to have a nap at home isn't. And that energy went directly back to the kids.

While I might have gained an hour during the week by not commuting, in practical terms that hour doesn't always translate into more engagement with the kids -- much as I'd love it if it could (again, not wanting to go too much into personal circumstance here).

Anyhow, I'm not trying to paint the picture that I'm better off commuting. I'm definitely better off working from home. I'm just trying to illustrate that some people do extract value from their commute.
yeah true. it's an interesting question that involves not only startup/shutdown of instance/os overheads (i suppose they've probably thought about this) but also overhead for checkpoint/restart of your application.

i also suppose this way of thinking about it comes from thinking around how to minimize cost from a purely mathematical standpoint. when you think about how and why the spot market is operated, and what those short term spikes may actually be, it may run counter to the intended purpose. (cheap capacity that they may recall at any time, because capacity is actually fixed)

funny how market based approaches can gamify things sufficiently that sometimes they obscure the underlying intention or purpose of having a market in the first place.
> what basis do you have for products containing both CBD and THC to only being effective as a placebo

Read the article. Because without carrier molecules, cannabinoids cannot be effectively absorbed to do much more than provide minor, dermal-area effects. There's no getting high, and not much deep penetration of anything.

> CBD isn’t truly effective without THC.

Truly what? Based on what evidence? 10 mg of pure CBD in a lipid sublingual tincture is calming if you've ever tried it. Easily distinguishable from placebo.
>Pipeline incidents have been roughly constant over time: https://portal.phmsa.dot.gov/analytics/saw.dll?Portalpages&P...

I couldn't get the link to work. If it's flat, but the amount of oil being transported is up, isn't that still a decline?

>Edit 2: NOAA data of all spills does not show a downward trend: https://incidentnews.noaa.gov/raw/index

I fed the chart into excel and generated a graph: https://i.imgur.com/QKu2Yly.png

looks like even though incidents (orange line) is up, the amount spilled (blue) is down.
> why am I getting heavily down voted for discussing personal reasons why I enjoyed working in the office?

My guess is that there has been chatter on how discussions on WFO, specially in tech forums, are brigaded by shills to sell the illogical idea that getting back to the office is fantastic and awesome, and the hallmark of these shills is the fact that their arguments in favour of returning to office are simply unbelievable. And quite frankly you post reads like that.

I have to say that I found it very weird, and outright unbelievable, that someone was arguing that commutes were "far more effective for unwinding". To me that makes no sense at all, because when working from home you are free to pick whatever you'd like to do with that time, instead of being forced to sit in a car or public transportation and waste away your life while you endure traffic. I mean, if suffering commutes is something you enjoy then if you work from home nothing stops you from hopping into your preferred means of transportation and go anywhere you'd like. But you can also do any other thing. Is driving to/from the office during rush hour the most pleasurable and relaxing thing possible? I quite doubt it.

So why claim that being forced to do something is more effective at unwinding than actually pick whatever you'd like to do? It makes no sense.
I used to tune into the odd ones in Scotland in the seventies. They were like ambient sound sometimes, patterns in the noise. Sometimes the monotonous clicking was interrupted by maniacal music, which I now think was waveskip from other radio stations.
About 40 years ago (aged 10) I watched a hedgehog wander around a grassy area near the Brandenburg Gate. If you recall, that monument was part of the delineation between East and West. The hedgehog was walking on a minefield. Of course it was too small to set off anything but even now I remember it.

I was a British Army brat and we were stationed in Rheindahlen near MG at the time. The Berlin Corridor was pretty grim. It was a long straight concrete road with barbed wire fences on both sides. At the Berlin end we parked up in a large concrete plaza and presented passports through a metal hatch. Then we were allowed into the city. Berlin in 1980. I really wish I was older and could give a better impression of the place at the time but there are probably plenty of writers who can do the same and far better. It seemed to me at the time to be the same as any other (West) German city but a bit bigger! I think we were allowed a short trip to the East side via CP Charlie.

The Berlin I visited back then had bigger fish to fry than a contentious autobahn!
You might argue that targeting a representative/"median" voter may a bit more effective than targeting the the average/mean voter, who (as you may observe) has one testicle and one breast, very unclear opinions on anything that matters, and is even more unreal than any randomly sampled person