skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My takeaway, more than anything else — as someone who has never interacted with Michael Seibel — is immense respect/admiration for how well he handled it — staying focused on the true goal (understanding the pitch) and in the process coaxing out something even the entrepreneur couldn’t easily vocalize, and along the way gracefully de-escalating the situation.

There are a lot of ways the situation could have ended up with negative value for everyone involved, and it took a bit of skillful steering to turn it into something valuable. That level of emotional composure seems worth developing.
Yes, yes, we get it. You’re incapable of independent thought, and you repeat talking points without ever considering them meaningfully.

Thank you for letting us all know that you have given up your mental autonomy, and that you are incapable of thinking or saying anything remotely interesting.
What are those native binaries? I know that VSCode ships with ripgrep, but that's the limit of my knowledge. Those binaries probably could be compiled to WASM to make VSCode fully run in a browser too.
Anyway, the iota operator isn't wholly dead. It gets name-checked in libraries for other languages, including recently C++. Which isn't dead.
Because the people who dislike him have more reason/incentive to write dislike-bots than the people who like him have incentive to write like-bots.
Also see the gigantic map - https://iconmap.io

The blog post is the analysis of the data set, the map is the visualization.
Playstation 3 Architecture
Surprising how low some of the view counts are - for example the Kult TTRPG AP I was on last week has 250+ views.
Woah. Thanks so much for sharing this!
I can’t help but wonder if encryption export controls will be slipped into this mess. Seems like a good place to hide them but I don’t have time to drudge through this at the moment.
For comparison, M1 results:

1705 Single core, 7382 multi core
that’s exactly the the advancement that the segway represents, but while the sensors, actuators, and engineering were notable, it was mainly the advancement of computing power that enabled dynamic stabilization. before the segway, the computations couldn’t be done in real-time without (relatively) very expensive computers.
> Second Life has existed for 20 years and it's a fun novelty.

Eh. My mother learned English in Second Life by paying an actual company that provided classes in Second Life. Instead of a boring chapter with some canned dialogue about, say, an airport scenario, they would take the class to a virtual airport, and roleplay there.

Having a setting where everyone could interact led to organic conversations and seemed much more effective than the textbook approaches.

Not sure I would call it a novelty.
Thanks for the advice. I do try to respect political views. And I think even if I don agree with someone they often have redeeming qualities. I make two exceptions. Trump and Lopez Obrador.
I was involved with the mozilla/browser team from the start, we shared an irc channel and knew how to use it to take down Netscape inside AOL and then restart the browser market.

Who are you and where were you inside Netscape then? Or are you just lying about me?
For any Googlers, how does vscode.dev (or Codespaces) compare to your internal web based editors and code pipeline tools?
CGP Grey has a great video about this topic: Americapox: The Missing Plague

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEYh5WACqEk

TL;DR; You need big cities to keep plagues ongoing.
Figure out your hourly wage, how many hours a day you use your laptop, and whether $400 amortized over the life of the device is worth the "risk".
This is a disaster, these birds are threatened by over-fishing and now they have an existential threat of bird flu.
So sad.
You're making an even more extreme argument than Liu is making: that there's no obvious answer to virtually any ethically questionable act.

This is such a perfect example of how delusional one's ideology can make them.
> humanity just deciding one day that exploration is lame and unfair so they'll forever be against letting people leave the solar system was beyond annoying

Kind of like how sea trade and settlement was banned in China after Zhenghe's travels? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haijin)

A big reason for liking the book for me was just a different perspective on politics and human psychology. Not saying it was always believable, but it was certainly something fresh and new to a westerner.
You still have measurable lead levels in the air. Essentially the rain and gravity brings it down to the ground - mostly concentrated near roadways - where it mixes with other dust and soil. From there it can then get cycled again into the air by agitation. It is unlike CFC gasses that tend to float up and are no longer present at ground level shortly after they stop being introduced.

In this regard you still have lead present in the air in varying degrees 20 years after it stopped being introduced. The report cites 2% of 1990 levels nearly 20 years after it was outlawed.
John Siracusa had a diagram linked here that shows the die for M1 Max, and says the ultimate desktop version is basically 4 M1 Max packages. If true, that’s a 40 core CPU 128 core GPU beast, and then we can compare to the desktop 280W Ryzens.
> When your app starts on a Fire device,

I don't know if the telemetry applies to all apps on the Amazon store, or only apps installed on Fire devices. If the former, I would feel very uneasy about installing Amazon store apps on Windows.
That makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the insight.
Which other passively cooled laptop can do it? And what 3 year old card are you comparing it to? Hopefully something with 20W or lower power consumption.

45fps at medium Full HD is not far off a 1650 Max q
A "100W mobile RTX 3080" is basically not using the GPU at all. At that power draw, you can't do anything meaningful. So I guess the takeaway is "if you starve a dedicated GPU, then the M1 Max gets within 90%!"
Covid’s lessons for climate, sustainability and more
Dry ice can be used to provide cooling and is relatively available or can be made available without too much difficulty so the drugs can stay cold in insulated transport 24 hours.
So maybe just bid on the land and be a super ineffective fossil fuel company. Pump one barrel of oil a year…
The House Paid Leave Proposal Is Awful
Appreciate your point but this is a false dichotomy - (to me, at least) there's beauty in function. In fact, it's sort of the only non-subjective aesthetic.

Code like the Linux kernel isn't necessarily all beautiful in terms of overwrought abstractions, but I find quite beautiful the accretion of small changes and thought over time that has made it suited to task.
Depends on the date of ownership...price took out liquidity, so could easily begin it's descent to 20k
I do not mean personal, I mean cultural, especially in the West. Nipples are more taboo than gore, sex work is not accepted openly as any other profession, you'd probably be a little weirded out if I had a miniature of Priapus with his remarkable erection [1] in my house.

Of course, times have changes since the Romans, but it'd be quite disingenuous to say that we are as sexually free and disinhibited as they were. We're still recovering from the Middle Ages censorship and Christian mortification of the flesh. I'd argue we've reverted back from whatever sexual freedom the Hippies in the 60s were striving for to a more conservative society on that aspect.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priapus
This BBC article is also pretty good: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-40593353 . In this discussion ewhanley also linked a podcast episode which exceprts an interview with Patterson: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/heavy...
It's simple, dislikes are fake. Here's the last video on that channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q3rptB_FJs

At the time of writing this, it has 1062 views, 29 likes, and 687 dislikes.

No non-manipulated YouTube video what so ever has 67% of viewers engaging with it by liking or disliking it.
Interesting, I see what you are saying. Well, I guess aviation fuel byproducts aren't great to have sprayed on your home every day either way :)
Virtual reality as a concept has been validated since the initial release Oculus’s DK1. You are quite behind the times on this one.
Underscores in Numeric Literals. (PEP 515)
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0515/

Your question about 0_0 is just 00 which is 0.

(This is really common in other modern languages. Readable example: 1_000_000 vs 1000000)
Aside: This article is a decent usecase for the esoteric `image-rendering: pixelated;` css property.
More importantly, those users would complain and some would even ask for support.

As horrible as this is going to sound, I'm thinking both Apple and Microsoft file that under: "Some users are not worth the trouble."

Probably OK for server users though? But Apple doesn't really make servers.
If they want a patent on the vaccine then they must provide "full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the technological area to which the invention pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and use the same."

So the one patent on the vaccine should be enough, the other seven tools of the trade patents are a red herring.

"use unpublished information as well" nope that would fail the "full and clear" terms of a patent.
Documenting this is important because many of the recent lawsuits allege government collusion with tech companies in censoring. Documenting a one sided pattern like this will go a long way to convince courts and juries.
Investors who want that sort of thing are not really a good match for a Silicon Valley style startup. Because a Silicon Valley style startup is highly likely to fail, and if it succeeds, it will succeed in ways that are entirely unjustified by the current circumstance.

An investor who wants a five year projection is suitable for a traditional cash flow oriented business like a restaurant or widget factory.

Good luck.
Facebook to penalize rule-breaking Groups’ members by demoting them in News Feed
Teaching code is hard enough, anything that makes the process easier, especially at the start, is greatly welcome.
Permutation City is hard sci-fi? That has mind uploading and the dust theory of consciousness. Both of which are very speculative.
Probably not as good as you might expect. Z machines are built for enterprise features like RAS, and performance on specific workloads.

The ultra-high-clocked IBM cpus are probably significantly faster at DB loads, and less than the best at more general benchmarks like Geekbench.
Consider also the supply chain and logistics networks for getting materials to manufacturers and then distributing them all over the world in just a year's time.
Do you think he intentionally invented it to harm people? I don't think you can logically position that it is good for a person to die but not those which they indirectly (and likely involuntarily) harmed.

CFCs are a pretty important invention even today and leaded paint and fuel probably seemed like a good idea at the time since no evidence suggested otherwise for a long while after it's introduction and commercialization. Unless he concealed information about known dangers, I think it's illogical to fault him to the point of celebrating his untimely death due to it.
Most people who buy fast cars don't need them and it's the same with computers.
I don't believe parent was "demanding" anything. Simply asking an increasingly relevant question as work moves from office to home and the remote work pool expands.
Do you know Peter Singer's parable of the shallow pond? Why is what you are puzzled about any different than asking yourself why you haven't donated everything you have right now to save lives in undeveloped parts of the world?
I was dead set on getting a new Mac but I think I will opt for Alder Lake. It appears Apple Silicon for desktop will be pretty much constrained to mobile designs and limitations. Perhaps I will revisit if they decide to release M1 Max inside a Mac Mini but I highly doubt that will happen.
A dirty little SQL notebook
I find it really curious that all these stories about "how I screwed up" are all of a sudden popping up all over the place. Is there some sort of meme or zeitgeist going around where it's now in vogue to post about how you messed up some big deal or lost some big thing?
I think it's both. Google does seem to editorialize search results but the web's also becoming more obsessed with SEO and some sites are just hard to search, either internally or with an external search engine.
I'm concerned that looks a lot like a more conventional system where you have centralized payment processors. The best-connected ones are most successful, incentivizing acquisitions until there are very few of them or even a duopoly.

What discourages that?
I don’t want to discourage the author, but this seems like a misguided use of decorators. Maybe there’s some scenario where it’s practical to do version checks only at function boundaries, but why limit yourself that? It’s already easy (and clear, and non-magical) to check sys.version yourself in an if-statement. You can do that inside a def block to modify a function slightly, or outside a def block if you truly need the function definition to change by version. Given that, I don’t see how this library adds enough value to justify it as a dependency.

The project should also maybe note that it doesn’t help at all with Python 2 compatibility. A newer Python user might assume it enables freely mixing Python 2 and Python 3 in the same file, but even without reading the code I’m pretty sure the library doesn’t (and couldn’t) support this.
Ethics of DNA research on human remains: five globally applicable guidelines
The Intel CPU is pretty underwhelming. It has twice the number of high performance cores (16 vs 8) but is only 37% faster for multi-core tasks.
@dang can you please help correct the title with the right link?
Even so, its hard to believe this is a ratio the most popular president in history is mustering. 81 million votes after all, you would expect some traction.
The Egyptian Egg Ovens Considered More Wondrous Than the Pyramids
> The trisolarans use a device that meddles with the results of particle experiments, to make the results super unexpected, so the scientists will commit suicide out of desperation.

you are combining to different things here. One aspect is that they use the sophons to stimy research into particle physics so that humans can't advance into understanding higher dimensionality, etc.

The second, unrelated aspect is using the sophons to effectively terrorize scientists in non particle physics fields into either submission or suicide by gaslighting them about the nature of the universe. The purpose of the countdown timer and blinking the universal background radiation from the main character's perspective was to make his life a living nightmare until he agreed to stop his nanoparticle research.
Have you noticed any increase in battery degradation from keeping it plugged in all the time? I like the idea of that setup, but that's one worry I've had.
I think that was an attempt to exclude traditional compilers from being transpilers. Like 'C' is not at a similar level of abstraction to ASM or a compiled executable.
No question that tons of other organizations are failing to make any kind of sacrifice. I'm picking on Moderna because this thread is about Moderna. We can't derail every discussion of "why isn't company X doing the right thing" with "well hang on, Jeff Bezos could just buy them and force them to do the right thing, so it's also his fault".

But also, in any discussion of "why doesn't X buy Moderna", a natural follow-up is "wait why doesn't Moderna just do this on their own if they can". Not an expert in hostile takeovers, but I'm pretty sure it would be a lot easier and more efficient for Moderna to just save the world themselves rather than wait for someone to acquire them and force them to do it.
> It’s equivalent to calling people the 4 letter n word.

No, it's absolutely different thing. One is derogative racial slur, carrying a baggage of slavery, violence, rapes, and systemic injustice that's present in the society to this day; and the other one is a description of people who choose to ignore science and are willing to risk life of others basing on their anecdotal evidence.
Was it cloud9?[0] I remember this from a few years ago, but it seems like it was killed after they were acquired by AWS.

[0]: https://aws.amazon.com/cloud9/
Michael Seibel is a better person than me. I wouldn’t have handled it that gracefully.
A foggy day
https://youtu.be/DTtX7QVaQWk
Any data leaked would just leak more than it already does. If your data is encrypted, it would just be encrypted but louder.
A hearing test is done to compare your thresholds to what is considered "normal".

Without controlled test environment you cannot compare as your test environment will change your thresholds, and therefore make the test invalid.
We managed a several thousands node cluster of perl services. We took several years, but we recently finished migrated all of this off from stateful Perl to stateless Go all the while growing rps volume 40% yoy and migrating datastores as we scaled those too, continually improving stability and availability, adding features, and scaling the org from a few hundred people to a few thousand. We are now 100% off perl for our critical path.

Perl is not on my resume :)
I pretty much only use Facebook for the groups and pages I follow. So it seems they did tailor it for the reasons I use it.
Three Attacks on Proof-of-Stake Ethereum
Xcode has no issues taking advantage of all cores.
"Recently, two attacks were presented against Proof-of-Stake (PoS) Ethereum: one where short-range reorganizations of the underlying consensus chain are used to increase individual validators' profits and delay consensus decisions, and one where adversarial network delay is leveraged to stall consensus decisions indefinitely. We provide refined variants of these attacks, considerably relaxing the requirements on adversarial stake and network timing, and thus rendering the attacks more severe. Combining techniques from both refined attacks, we obtain a third attack which allows an adversary with vanishingly small fraction of stake and no control over network message propagation (assuming instead probabilistic message propagation) to cause even long-range consensus chain reorganizations. Honest-but-rational or ideologically motivated validators could use this attack to increase their profits or stall the protocol, threatening incentive alignment and security of PoS Ethereum. The attack can also lead to destabilization of consensus from congestion in vote processing."

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.10086.pdf
Myths about Gifted Students
at the same time, if you're transpiling from something else, verilog is MUCH better than VHDL because as a language it has a much smaller surface area.

Modulo "HDL is different because everything is synchronous" and the testing DSL, You can learn most of verilog in a day, not so much VHDL.
Thats interesting, it could be smaller initial supplies perhaps chip shortage or supply chain issues - The average wait time for ships is quite bad.

I would expect demand to taper off during pre order phase. People who would pre order are likely to do it earlier than later, to not have to wait for a month like now.

The rest are going to wait for reviews be able to check it out at a store and buy one when they need it/afford it or at a store over the next months.
Hm, every vendor with free tools (Xilinx/Altera/Lattice/Microsemi etc), seem to be fine with it, along with the usual vendor-specific Modelsim. In fact, most "verilog" synthesis tools actually synthesize SystemVerilog. Out of curiosity what tool are you referring to?

Thanks!
"Design patterns are bug reports against your programming language." - Peter Norvig

what's wrong with C that you cannot design a general-purpose hash table? Is it that you cannot define a general-purpose function to hash an object and check for equality?
FounderCulture Uses Teamable as a “Distributed Trust” Graph for Intros
Watched my neighbor powersand lead paint off his house yesterday. He wasn't even wearing a mask. Makes you wonder how many decades until we don't have as much lead in the environment? 50 years?
The next two books explore the Dark Forest Theory and the Fermi Paradox, and how humanity, including the Western powers, try to deal with this realization and the pending Trisolarian invasion. The third book goes way into the future beyond the Earth, and even has a chapter from a different alien POV. Read like legitimate science fiction to me with a different cultural context.
A math tutor teaching calculus on Pornhub
shrug doesn't look like they need it. As long as they keep churning out machines and devices that make people's wallets reflexively open, they don't have to pander to the tiny minorities...

Not a particularly nice situation to be in, if you're not in the Apple ecosystem, but there's the world we live in, and the world we wish it to be. Only sometimes do those worlds overlap.
For context, I was watching The White House YouTube channel during the Obama, Trump, Biden administration.

Every video posted is subjected, instantly, to what I assume are automated comments and, in my opinion, unusual like/dislike ratios. The comments originate from a wide variety of accounts of varying ages, usually with no published video or text, following channels of international brands and small entities so obscure that I wouldn't doubt they were chosen at random. The content is generally support for the current President. "[US Flag Emoji]" features prominently. In my experience, total comment activity dropped off after the last election. It looks like comments are disabled on recent videos.

So, if I had to guess, this site grapples with the removal of the accounts that would normally make those comments, and all of their associated likes and dislikes. It would be interesting to follow up on every comment, checking whether the account was changed or deleted after those comments.
I would not be surprised to find 10% is a low estimate.

To first order, for each person falsely incarcerated, somebody guilty went free. But white-collar criminals are normally not even arrested. Sometimes they are invited to promise not to do it anymore. Often not that.
Eliminating gifted programs won’t make education fair
In Dark Souls, other than a couple bosses which require playing reasonably well the whole way through, most enemies only have a couple gimmicks. You die to that gimmick once, go recover your souls, and then beat the enemy. There's a concrete sense of progress. Humans more likely have a pretty big bag of tricks, or just better fundamentals and map knowledge. I mean over the course of a game in an arena shooter, you'd probably just get incrementally better, right? It is unlikely that the top scorer of the leaderboard only had a couple gimmicks that you have to figure out and then win, haha.
I've seen entire apps written as React components/hooks, the whole thing, no redux/mobx/etc managing state above the level of necessary local UI state. React markets itself as just a library but the truth is people tend to go all in precisely because there's too much pressure to research a whole stack for yourself.
Those are only for our government to use!
Unfortunately another of their strength lies in the 3rd part: "extinguish". It's only a matter of time before their recent software of WSL, GitHub and Android on Windows becomes yet another walled garden.
I've tried to read the (currently unpublished) interim final rule to see what's been added but with all of the ECCN, country groups, and license exceptions cross-referenced it's practically incomprehensible: [PDF] https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2021-22774.pdf
It begs the question then of what happened to them? Did they integrate with existing Native Americans? Or did they just die out? Are there stories from Native Americans in the area that report Norsemen in the area?