skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's an entire genre of articles which argue that computers can never do X, because X is ill defined. Thing is, half of the time X is only ill defined because the writer neglects to define X well, and for the other half, that the writer can't define X well is no proof that it is impossible to define X well.

Here however, if the take the argument of representations in a technical sense, then since a neural network topology is just data we can fit along with the rest of the network, it's just wrong.

Or if we take a slightly more charitable interpretation, observing robots, from time to time they can get to really surprising solutions, so at least one would need to distinguish between a numerical algorithm finds a surprising solution and 'insight.'

Now, I actually don't want to be too hard on the article, I think it is genuinely interesting hodgepodge of facts about human cognition, I just think it should be rewritten without the computers will never do X thesis.
Perhaps it can be simultaneously true that Uber is providing a good service to customers against an outdated and badly-run industry, while they are doing many bad things.
Dragan Stepanovic did an interesting analysis [1] comparing lead and wait times times of async code reviews in contrast to pair programming.

His conclusion: "The optimal size of a Pull Request is one line of code which is reviewed immediately", i.e. pair/mob programming.

Disclaimer: I'm biased - founder of CoScreen [2] here, a pair/mob programming tool.

[1] https://www.slideshare.net/kobac/async-code-reviews-are-kill...

[2] https://www.coscreen.co
Even though I am no longer an Apple Fan I was surprised at the sentiment on A15 after the Keynote and Reviews.

Do people really expect revolutionary improvement every single year? ~20% Improvement YoY within the same power envelop is god damn impressive. And if this is not good enough? This is just layering ground work for next year's 3nm and LPDDR5. ( Or 4nm depending on circumstances )

The E Core are interesting because they are a preview of what to expect in next generation Apple Watch.

I was hoping there is some investigation on new Display Engine and Video Encoder / Decoder. Especially on power usage. But looks like these kind of interest are in the minority.
Simply by application of existing cutting-edge technology (mobile chipset) to a different use-case (laptops/desktops).

The writing has been on the wall for almost a decade, but the execution required to achieve it is definitely remarkable.

My M1 MBA is better than my 2020 Intel MBP (which cost over 2x) in almost all ways that matter: quieter, cooler, battery life, and incredible responsiveness.

And x86 will never catch up. That's why it's revolutionary - it has destabilized the existing regime.
Mckinsey is paying 600 million to states which is 10-20% of yearly profits.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/r obertzafft/2021/02/07/mckinseys-573-million-absolution--value-for-money--but-for-whom/?sh=517a72c56429
I don't understand the comment wrt the MacBooks either.

It looks more like sour grapes that one of the most prestigious computing companies on the planet is out-engineering the "foundation" spin-off of Broadcom, created (very successfully, I might add) to breathe life into an aging chip foundry.
Have you tried velocity/capacity planning? It’s not too accurate on small scales, but should be pretty accurate for a single person on the scale of a week or two.
I am involved in the agreement, because the FDA is part of my government. I don't want my government ignoring conflicts of interest with a wink because "everybody knows". I don't want my government ignoring contracts because of an unwritten "mutual understanding". Based on my understanding of human nature and your own posts in this thread about how easy it is to move between projects at McKinsey, I don't believe "firewalls" are effective and I don't want an unethical organization with an extremely recent national corruption scandal and blatant conflicts of interest working for my government's regulators.
Or, people who are constipated for six days because they gave them a placebo maybe are not in the best mood for memory tests.

Edit: they were healthy subjects, disregard my comment.
Fast computers in the cloud accessible via the browser
> And third, the world has almost entirely been rebuilt to compensate for human observation flaws.

I don't entirely agree with what I think your point is. Fundamentally, humans are pretty great at using context to work their way through a variety of unfamiliar situations. The work we do on intersections is about tuning. Even in a bad intersection with horrible flaws, 99.9% or more of all humans navigating it will be successful. The reason we keep tuning them is because our tolerance for death is zero. 1 death for every 100M miles driven is pretty good, but many people still find it completely intolerable. We're going to keep tuning.

But I don't think that means that making roads safely navigable by algorithms is going to be a simple matter of tuning them.
Perhaps it's where I live, but for me - it's just the internet. It doesn't have any resemblance to my reality. As someone who's been on the internet since a teen, watched it evolve, etc, it makes me kinda sad. Because I feel forced out. But that's ok.

As online communities, emboldened really by tech companies themselves, try to gain control by silencing dissent via mob behavior or 'canceling', I just find myself leaving. And in doing so make both myself and presumably the community happier for it. Take a walk in the park, or go sit on the beach a while. Make small talk with people walking by. In doing all this, I realize I never meet or see the type people who are so 'in control' and loud and/or threatening online. Most people seem friendly enough in person.

So my questions become - are these people even real? Do they live somewhere I'm just unfamiliar with? Or did the internet give them some loud voice that otherwise doesn't exist in person? Why are these voices the loudest - does controversy really sell this well? Is social media purposefully putting controversial things on the forefront because it increases engagement?

Not actually expecting answers, just rambling really - apologies.
> I'm sorry this is such a negative answer

Don't be; I'm here for frank feedback and appreciate yours.
That is a terminal bug and not a rendering bug though, since the problem was that the terminal didn't properly fetch your user settings here. Feeding the same character into the other rendering would cause the same issue.

Nobody said he made a fully functional better terminal, just that the terminal rendering was better and functional. Doing everything needed for a fully functional terminal is a lot of work, but doing everything needed for terminal rendering isn't all that much work.
Except US government contracts have specific language requiring disclosure of conflicts. That Kinsey ignores this language and instead pays fines indicates both that Kinsey lacks some morals and also that the contract process with the US is broken (at minimum, the fines should be higher to discourage this behavior).
Does anyone have any real numbers for nuclear power station risk? It's all very well and good saying how great it is, but what do the numbers say?

Let's assume the newest technology. Chance of a meltdown per year per power station, multiplied by number of stations, multiplied by years of service. Then factors in the cost of the meltdown (health, unusable land, lost infrastructure) versus the benefits somehow.
That's an amazing amount of ethical gymnastics that one would expect from someone who works for McKinsey.
Why 1 word instead of 1 cache line?
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I mean, they were never really that great. People tolerated them when we didn’t have good ways of managing technology, but the archetype of the hermit programmer has been confined to academia for decades. Development practices have focused on collaboration, pair programming and code reviews for a long time now.

Concur with the large number of commenters saying this guy seems to have limited experience with which to judge the scale of the problem.
I'm not trying to be pedantic but when you wrote:

"dithering was a sub optimal solution to simulate more colours on old computers with limited colour palettes."

perhaps what you actually meant is:

"dithering IS an optimal solution to simulate more colours on old computers with limited colour palettes."
I’m starting to think section 230 protections (as I understand them) are a bad idea. The whole issue is these negative externalities. Facebook has to choose between money for them versus good things for others. It has misaligned incentives because it isn’t liable for the harm it imposes. So make it liable.
Blockchain solves this (not kidding).
I've really been holding out hope for K. Karikó. She put up with such monumental struggles. Obviously the MRNA Covid vaccine is a huge "prize" and vindication for her, but I'd love to see even more. She deserves it.
Sure, there are technological and commercial (and regulatory, and, and, and...) aspects to the bet. The thing I'm after in my car bet is that I'm using 'replaces humans at something that requires intelligence' as the bar to clear for what you describe as 'smarter computers in our life time.'

Can you give a purer example of a bet that would demonstrate what you believe here?
Again, why are these genes more important than say, GM-CSF? That gene has 10 times more therapeutic importance than these genes. I can name 500 genes more important for any practical purpose than these genes. That’s the reason none of the early scientists were scrambling to discover them.
its the first ARM based PC that doesn't suck. Microsoft Windows ARM didn't move people to ARM based PC while Apple succeed.
Yea, it's been a generally shit experience. Knowing the sense of humor of the original "PhD" comment, yea, I read that as a light-hearted jest, which was definitely lost in transit. Communicating on the internet is hard. Miscommunications are easy, and this one happened to spiral quickly. It saddens me that this whole incident was used to balkanize the community rather than to work constructively together.
Cloudflare has always had free bandwidth and you can point the origin to whatever you want, including Backblaze which has free interconnect and cheaper pricing.
- Kullervo

- The Swan of Tuonela

- Karelia Suite

- All 5 symphonies
Cloudflare is a service provider the site owner contracts with too, so why the distinction?
I'm excited about the M1 Macs and the fact they do have bootloaders which can be unlocked. This doesn't change the fact that there are a large magnitude more iPhones that exist that will never be used for their full potential.

Everyone is buying a magical teleporter but it'll only take you down to the corner store. Doesn't matter if 95% would only use it for that anyway, the fact the other 5% can't is what makes me sad.
And, if people are wondering if these statements are evaluated in a particular way, you can view a typical rubric here:

https://ofew.berkeley.edu/recruitment/contributions-diversit...

Which speaks for itself.
I remember talking with my grandparents and they mentioned how when they were younger they remembered how it was a hot debate at the time as to whether or not toilets should go inside of a house.
> You make it sound like this only happens on the democratic side. Republicans have similar echo chambers.

I'm not succumbing to the folly to believe that such a false paradigm (Left v Right) is anything but a dichotomy that people continue to think is separate; while wokeness may be often attributed to the Left, but I think it's clear that both sides seek the same goals which is to enforce self-censorship (University campus on Sex/Gender) or impose an archaic notion about self-ownership where the State determines what you can and cannot do to your own body (abortion).

So, to be clear: I don't think their is a discernible difference between those two entities enough to make such an argument.

I don't think conformity is a natural byproduct in a free and tolerant Society; what I do believe is natural and spontaneous in Nature is order, often by incentivized consensus.
CDNs have existed since the 90s so everyone's had time to get used to it. The part which I think you're over-weighting is that this is not a third-party stranger but a third-party with whom you have a legal relationship — the use-cases for a CDN require external termination, otherwise you don't rent one, and the contracts commit to keeping it secure.

For a business, there are tons of trust relationships you handle this way: you trust Microsoft not to ship a trojan in Windows, Cisco/Juniper/etc. not to sniff your internal network traffic, Google not to ship your Chrome session keys back home, etc.
> A young priest could have a vasectomy before taking over his own church

The article, at least at the beginning since I haven't finished reading it yet, is referring to Catholic priests. The Catholic Church teaches that contraception is immoral as it frustrates our natural sexual powers, thus your position would never be able to be adopted in the Catholic Church.

> Then he could establish a healthy relationship without having to hide his needs.

In the western rites a priest takes a vow of celibacy, unless this discipline was reverted this wouldn't offer a solution because it would be an illicit relationship, thus not a "healthy" one. And even if the discipline in the western church changes to allow married men to become ordained to the priesthood my aforementioned point would still prevent what you've proposed.
It doesn't matter whether the point you were trying to make is true or not, because Thunderbolt is irrelevant to the problem that was described. DP Alt mode is not the same thing as encapsulating a DisplayPort stream in Thunderbolt signalling, so knowing which of your laptop's Type-C ports is Thunderbolt-capable does not tell you anything about which of the ports is capable of DP Alt mode.

Stop calling people dumb until you can make a comment that is at least somewhat correct and on-topic.
We do not have a leaf blower at all, but have considered getting one. My wife wishes to get the fallen leaves out of gardens every fall, and it is hard to do this without bringing a great deal of mulch along. We suspect that a leaf blower would work better. It seems unlikely to me that we will get one, after four or five falls of "we really ought to get a leaf blower".

The other thing is that leaf blowers compete not just against rakes but against brooms. I hear them all summer when yard crews are cleaning up a sidewalk after mowing. I think there is some savings in time there--not much for a homeowner, but enough to count for a yard crew doing many lawns in a day.
Faster Time Parsing
> If he's an open and virulent racist you should have better proof than a twitter account.

Sure.

Here's vc calling someone who isn't nonwhite a "creature" and implying that they would discriminate against whites[1].

Here's vc hanging out with a bunch of people wearing white nationalist apparel and holding a sign that references a racist meme[2].

> It's unwise to make such extraordinary claims without evidence beyond "trust me bro", particularly on an account linked to your real-life identity as this could reasonably be seen as libellous if it's untrue.

I fortunately live in a country with strong protections against frivolous libel and defamation claims. What an ironic threat to make!

[1]: https://twitter.com/gexcolo/status/1441549739087048708

[2]: https://twitter.com/gexcolo/status/1307057430761738252
And, I might add, all laptops of any architecture.
They could probably expand brand awareness by creating a NobelX prize for locally popular Nobel-esque work.
Haha this is great.
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Or you just live in a small town without facilities. I've been there. Additionally, there is weather, lack of space, lack of money, and lack of safety at times, and lack of time.

I'm ill inclined to go outside in hot weather to exercise: I will walk an hour in cold weather, but I certainly do not feel safe on a bike. An hour in the rain can be pretty miserable too: This isn't so bad when I'm commuting, but getting myself to go outside to exercise in the rain is a different battle entirely.

Ive lived in rural areas and towns that supported them (more pigs than people). At least we had a gas station and grocery stores: Some of the surrounding towns didn't.

A gym costs less upfront than the equipment needed to do weight training and the gym comes with folks that'll give you advice.

I currently live in a small attic apartment and cannot put equipment in the house. The area is very walkable, so I can, technically, walk or run for next to nothing. I personally cannot bike here as I'm not strong enough - I live in a mountainous region. Joining a gym isn't all that out of the question, but I'd definitely drive. The only place in a short walking distance happens to be twice the cost of other places, which are 20-25minutes walk. Driving means that I save 20-30 minutes and I'm much more likely to actually put in some time.

I figure that lack of safety doesn't need explanation.

If we want neighborhood gyms that folks can walk to, we probably need to start by funding them with taxpayer money and make sure they have equipment that meets the needs of the local folks using it. Honestly, though, this doesn't seem worth protesting over since we aren't using that tax money to make sure everyone has food.
Brave and Firefox to intercept links that force-open in Microsoft Edge
>Most bosses are aware of the issues

This is not about compensation.

Leaving for compensation is absolutely a valid reason. Again, though, the same rules apply. Express to your employer you have received a job offer at X% more, with X improved benefits, and would gladly stay for a match. The worst they can say is no, correct?

Either way, the original conversation was about issues with the employer/manager. Not necessarily compensation.
To put a brand name to it.

The original "Scotchguard" was PFOS and it was reformulated in the early 2000s to PFAS which is believed to be less dangerous.

PFOS and PFAS are "fluorosurfactants" which are surfactants in the sense of "surface acting agents" but are very different from the usual soaps, detergents and disinfectants that help things mix. Applied to solid surfaces it does the opposite. It's pretty amazing that you can apply it to a rug, pour coffee on it, and it wipes right off without sticking.
The surprise element: A hallmark of creativity in scientists, artists, comedians
From an end user's point of view, there is no difference in the orientation. But from the device's point of view, one orientation has pins 1-8 and the other has pins 8-1. It's up to the device to figure out which is being used. This is still considered symmetrical though.
There's a saying "to make an omelette you have to break a few eggs." It's a justification used by those who think they're bringing about some great positive change to justify the all the damage they caused.

For example, "In order to bring about our communist utopia, we're going to have to murder a few million people."
Adding at least a factor of two for safety is reasonable. So e.g. if you compute with 64-bit integers, you shouldn't ask if you ever need numbers larger than (2^64)-1, but if you need numbers larger than 2^62 (one bit for allowing signed ints, one for intermediates). That catches the most common examples like overflowing when calculating the average of two numbers or when calculating an offset.

The less safety factor you have the more carefully you have to consider what your intermediates are doing. But going up one level of precision probably won't hurt performance too bad, if your language makes it easy (like 128-bit ints)
Far in the future, we will also see the effects of having full or near-full adoption of self-driving. If all the cars on the road are driven by the "same" or at least similar driver, the edge-cases will drop off significantly.
See the FAQ "Are paywalls OK?"

Short answer is what you describe actually falls into acceptable content submission on HN
"Am I enabling more work to be done in oil and cigarettes? In my opinion, not really."

Your opinion is not borne out by facts: it is a way of letting you rationalize working for an organization that is corrupt and corrupts other.
I would love to know where I can get free cloud storage equivalent to S3.
It's inevitable that at some point, Facebook the company will part ways with Facebook, the social network. They'll probably rename the company to "FB Inc." or something equally meaningless, ala KFC or FedEx (where the "federal" is no longer apt).

We might even see the name change while the social network is still up and running, resulting in some ridiculous re-brand like "Facebook by FB" (did you know that the actual Express service from Fedex is now called "FedEx Express"? :)
The R2 disruption is a reduction in cost. The target of the disruption is Amazon, a company that has decades of experience operating services at break-even or loss to acquire market share.

Quite a lot of the coverage seems founded on the idea that the price difference is an unbridgeable moat for Cloudflare. IMO, let’s see. Amazon could lower prices, and/or Cloudflare might need to start charging someone something as volume grows.
The Parks service needs to find a way to start fining/banning people for exceeding a threshold of distance from these animals. This woman did this so she can tell her friends she got right up to a 700-pound bull elk and "had a moment". Maybe the Parks service should make it compulsory to show people footage of these animals ripping shit to shreds cause apparently mere verbal warnings are not enough and this woman could've had the bull coming after the group.

The way people approach reality as if it were a mere stage for their petty psychodrama and social currency is astonishing.

But this article makes me concerned about eventual poaching in national parks and reserves (if that already doesn't happen) once ecosystems in Indonesia and East Africa are completely torn apart.
I am not agreeing with the tinfoil "controlled by the CCC president" rhetoric, but a lot of CCC events including their Congress indeed use an all female (identity) volunteer group calling itself "CrewCrew" as security.

They are known to be a bit "paranoid" sometimes, can act "overly aggressive" sometimes and like to disguise their faces during "enforcement". That said, I did not have first hand interactions with them, so that's just my impression of them seeing them around and some hearsay from people who had minor interactions with them.

But they do not seem very accountable, and they are in my humble opinion a bit of a sore on the otherwise very well organized Congress. Especially considering this in the context of the CCC, who for years ran and runs campaigns for more police accountability.