skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In general if you're making the argument that A is easier than B, and B keeps happening at a much higher rate than A, then you're probably missing some very important detail to explain that difference

Visiting a prostitute is way easier than dating, how many people visit prostitutes?

Taking away a candy from a child is really easy, how many people actually do it?

Rich individuals aren't seen as a threat, because they can be easily overpowered with violence

What people see as threats are people who have a following such as politicians, thought leaders or technoutopian cult figures who also happen to be rich.
> They need to convince people to buy into, but the technology itself doesn't need to be real.

Maybe. But on the other hand, Tesla was starting out with a _lot_ more user goodwill than FaceBook.

Tesla isn't perfect, they have (IMHO) a good basic product, but with some build quality issues, labour issues, over-promising self-driving issues etc, and yet ... these issues have not shifted the narrative from basically favourable. Part of me still wants one, even though I know it's not going to drive itself. Maybe narratives are sticky?

So, FaceBook is going into this with a massively negative narrative. Shifting it will be hard. We're all really cynical about FaceBook already.
> Not when building large software projects.

Or run heavy renders of complex ray-traced scenes.

Or do heavy 3D reconstruction from 2D images.

Or run Monte-Carlo simulations to compute complex likelihoods on parametric trading models.

Or train ML models.

The list of things you can do with a computer with many, many cores is long, and some of these (or parts thereof) are sometimes rather annoying to map to a GPU.
> If it was flat but exponentially grew after you went on a hire spree, you know where to look at.

It takes time for new hires to get familiar with the code and for seniors to help them get up to speed, so I'd be surprised if a hiring spree didn't end up sharply rising curve for feature rollout time.
That’s not great especially because I believe WoW works natively for the M1 and uses the Metal API.

My follow up would be what settings were you playing at?
Too many units too fast just seemed to create a logjam where then you'd have your units attack each other just to get them out of the way.
Compilation, graphics work, heavy-weight IDEs

And, if you're spinning on 16GB ram on an M1, you might be eating through the SSD powering your swap space and not know it.
Ok so I've learnt something there, just one transaction to open a channel that everyone uses. But then what happens when you've transacted with say 30 different merchants, and the tab is called? Is that one bitcoin transaction to settle, or 30 since you're presumably sending bitcoin to 30 different wallets?

Personally I don't like the glacial pace of ground layer dev, as it makes me think this stuff can't be solved. Each way you approach it is a compromise.
> I dunno here, is Rails a server application library because I can progressively integrate the different components of its total API, e.g. first use ActiveRecord, then adopt rails-api for the frontend, then adopt ActiveView and Turbolinks for the end-user frontend? Or is there different idea of framework at work here?

I think you misunderstood parent comment. Progressively integrate here means: you have a web page (facebook.com), you want to replace a part of it with react (chat function), you rewrite just that portion of the webpage in react.

You can't get a Sinatra application and replace just one route with rails. Well, you can use ActiveController, which is just an opinionated wrapper around Rack with a lot of sugar, but that wouldn't be rails and you won't get any rails benefits of doing that.
This price is on the high end. But many people like myself don't have the courage, confidence, looks, or complex social skills required to succeed by going to a bar and trying to pick up a girl. Then when you look at how much time and disappointment you'd have to go through to do the same through something like Tinder, then suddenly paying a few hundred starts to make sense. And quote from somewhere, "you're not paying for the sex, you're paying her to leave after".
How much and on what is the question. I'm not in the market for a laptop, so I can wait and see.

That said, if Apple releases a MacMini M1 Max, I'll probably buy it.
I didn't say they shouldn't make any profits, just that I felt they'd already made enough that squeezing the developing world for more seemed unethical to me. For example[1]...

1: https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/21/business/covid-vaccine-billio...
Is this a joke? Zuckerberg won't ever change the name of his first successful and beloved project just like Page won't ever change the name of Google or he already did with Alphabet but you know what I mean(we still all call it Google not Alphabet).
Right. But there's no requirement that if you're a skilled practitioner of the art and you read all of the patents (seven in this case), then you'll be able to replicate any particular product that uses those seven (and perhaps many other patents).

You have to know those seven to replicate the Moderna vaccine, but there's no guarantee that knowing those seven will be enough. Moderna is allowed to use unpublished information as well, or unpatentable inventions, or patentable but unpatented parts/processes, or outsourcing, or purchased parts.
Nobody cares about my political opinions :-)
> Where do you put your function definitions?

Inside ‘function’ blocks, like the language syntax defines for any other type of function. I can then throw those functions into any file I chose.

Having special functions inside special files just creates annoying special cases I need to look up.
Sure but I’m only asking for
Points per watt to use as a baseline for testing Apple’s claims.
What international organizations would be trying to stop these money transfers? The whole point of blackmailing someone is to get their cooperation.

Bitcoin: a solution desperately searching for a problem.
I tend to find when someone starts a sentence with "not to be rude" or "with all due respect" or "I don't disagree", this person's subconscious is telling them "hey don't say this thing you're about to say because..."

And then the person just tells their subconscious to take a back seat and prefaces their statement with a dismissive phrase.
Very True although I note that I wouldn't be able to actually work on one for the day job because of windows.

Still might buy one, I want an arm box to test my work on compilers on.
I learned this technique from one of the best YC interviewers of all time - Paul Buchheit.
Honestly, all these shells are too simple or at least too generic-task oriented. For me, and I guess most users, the shell is not where I live, but where I do recipes. It would be nice to have a shell+vim style shell where you edit your command plan and can see its execution results right below the commands after pressing <C-CR>:

### cwd: /some/path
cd /home/user/mysvc
…
cd /etc/systemd/system
…
sudo ln -s /path/to/mysvc.service
…
git pull
…
sudo systemctl restart mysvc
…
tail -f /path/to/log.txt #! lines=10 nowrap autorun
…(10 lines)

So you could move and edit pages (or OBTF) of recipes and see their status right there. My observation is that all you do in a shell is following some patterns again and again. For example, select last three commands and hit C-CR to execute them.
I'd argue it has more than budged, it's moved dramatically. I know several people who make amateur porn. These are professionals in tech! I know an ever-growing number of people who are in non-monogamous relationships, who defy traditional gender roles, who embrace alternative/kinky sexuality and who in some cases are raising their children in homes accepting of all of these things.

Cultural norms were vastly more oppressive and restrictive in the 1960's. And in the 1990's.
American men also used to be thinner. Fat shaming, perhaps?
The metaverse push shouldn't be a surprise if you've read The Art of Surveillance Capitalism. The first step is to get data from the digital, from our online presences. The second step is to get data from the physical world. Google did this with StreetView and then with Pokemon Go (Niantic started as an internal Google startup). Facebook needs more data and the metaverse is a thinly veiled attempt to get it.
Well, Apple G13 series are excellent rasterizers. I‘d expect them do very well in games, especially with that massive bandwidth and humongous caches. The problem is that not many games run on macOS. But if you are only interested in games with solid Mac support, they will perform very well (especially if it’s a native client like Baldurs Gates 3).
I just can't figure out what I'm missing on the "M1 is so fast" side of things. For years I worked* on an Ubuntu desktop machine I built myself. Early this year I switched to a brand new M1 mini and this this is slower and less reliable than the thing I built myself that runs Ubuntu. My Ubuntu machine had a few little issues every no and then. My Mini has weird bugs all the time. e.g. Green Screen Crashes when I have a thumbdrive plugged in. Won't wake from sleep. Loses bluetooth randomly. Not at all what I'd expect from something built by the company with unlimited funds. I would expect those issues from the Ubuntu box, but the problems were small on that thing.

*Work... Docker, Ansible, Rails apps, nothing that requires amazing super power. Everything just runs slower.
C++ compilers probably will.
I teach coding to new programmers, in particular kids, and every step is a pain. In particular, since we had to go fully remote it's really hard to even get people started.

Anything where I can just say "go to this website, start typing python/javascript, see cool stuff happen" is cool.
You can do this right now on android. If you're using chrome/chromium based browser, just visit vscode.dev and then select add to home screen from the browser menu. A similar option exists in firefox on android too, I believe.

Once you open the shortcut created from the previous step, it will open the webapp without the browser's UI.
I just tried it and it mostly works in Chrome on Android, except that I can't right-click because Chrome uses that to go back.

Anyone know how to disable that in Chrome?
- https://web.archive.org/web/20211020175422if_/https://browse...

- https://archive.md/zQAC3
Also recommended: A visit to the Benjamin Franklin Museum in Philadelphia where they have reproductions of equipment Benjamin used to experiment (end to entertain guests) with electricity, such as a Leyden jar and voltaic cells.

https://www.nps.gov/inde/planyourvisit/benjaminfranklinmuseu...
I understand that's not how they decide what to research, but I'm asking today, this second, why are they not factoring lives into the question "should I tell the world how to make my vaccine". I don't even know how to phrase this without sounding absurd. It's like a superhero letting the villain blow up a stadium because if the city is too safe then they might get bored and not be around when the next villain shows up in 20 years.
Peak wattage is apparently 330W on a super heavy test, not really sure how to extrapolate that to geekbench.
From what I've seen is there is a clause that says some employers have to try to recruit U.S. workers when seeking H-1B employees.

However, from what I understood, it only applies employers who have been designated H-1B dependent (something like 15% of their workforce is H-1B) or something like that, or were identified abusers of the program. And even then, there is a salary limit, i.e. if you are paying over $X (which I am assuming facebook is), even if you're workforce is a high enough proportion H-1B you would be dependent, you are still exempt.
Until firearms no longer exist, gun control is merely picking who you want to live a defenseless existence. In this case, the target was blacks. A pretty traditional target, as blacks are prohibited possessors [felons] at much higher rates than whites. The GCA and prohibitions on free citizens (felons), disproportionately blacks, is one of the most racist laws currently standing.
This VSCode.dev standalone site adds Azure Repos support in addition to Github.dev's existing GitHub support, and they say it will be extendable by extensions so maybe hope for Gitlab/Bitbucket/Gitea/Sourcehut/who knows who else to add this sort of remote dev experience that the Github dot shortcut does.

Also, there's a new "Theme Preview Playground" which lets you write URLs to try theme extensions before you download them.
they will create lots of digital penises (see the aforementioned Second Life)

Actually, they rarely do in Second Life. As I mentioned in a previous posting, in a big 3D world, being a jerk doesn't scale. You can only make trouble locally. Second Life is about the size of Greater London.

Most virtual land is leased to individuals, and the leaseholder can eject or ban annoying visitors. There's also peer pressure. People can and will tell jerks they are being a jerk. This works better in 3D than it does in text forums.

There are a few public places in Second Life that are jerk magnets. These are the "social islands", where new users enter the system after completing the tutorial. They're the bus terminals of Second Life. They're intended as transit points. Most users take one of the portals and leave for a new destination. Some new users, confused about what to do, stay there. Some losers go there to harass new users. They're the same kinds of losers found in real-life bus terminals.

People who write articles about Second Life sometimes don't get past the entry area, and they think that's typical of the whole virtual world. It's more like visiting only the Port Authority Bus Terminal in NYC and then publishing an article about your trip to New York.
The list is based on search engine hits for "x programming".

That's probably fine for comparing c to c++ or perl. Searches for "scripting" or "coding" instead are not counted, which probably explains shell scripting below languages 20x less popular if you search by the name alone.

Powershell at ~40, bash not even top 50. You'd assume both are dead from this list.
It's neither inflation nor deflation.

If it were used as a currency, we might start using this kind of language, but it's not a currency.

It's a number that people people make speculative guesses on how much other people are willing to pay for it. That's it.

It has no intrinsic drivers, just pure speculation on the whims of other major holders and how the crowds might react.
M1 Pro & Max (and plain M1 too for what it's worth) have unified memory across both CPU and GPU. So depending on the model it'd be up to 32gb or 64gb (not accounting for the amount being used by the CPU). Put differently - far more than 3070 and 3080.
Then perhaps you may want to wait for Apple to release a desktop-class processor to make the comparison, perhaps early next year?
On your site. Never going to use these tools.
I can stress out a 32+32 core 2990WX with 'make -j' on some of my projects, htop essentially has every core pegged.
I wonder if this has anything to do with the correlative studies that showed that higher IQ individuals have less children on average.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertility_and_intelligence
I've used Gitpod (https://www.gitpod.io/) for this same scenario and it's available for anyone, way cheaper than Github Codespaces (possibly free depending on your usage), and it works really, really well. It felt like coding in the future.
He owns Palantier, a name synonymous with weapons R&D, and which owns the contract to Project Maven along with many other defense contracts.
IIRC, the wave of suicides was confined to the members of the club, so they actually knew what was up. On the other hand, there was at least a strong hint that it was going to spread globally, so you have a point there.

On the other hand, this would still destroy a lot of experimentation in the field of particle physics... although I guess it would be interesting to poke at the edges of the effect?
Even if I were exiled to a Kuiper belt object I would never be lonely enough to even consider using this.
Ideas to make money as a developer (honest ideas that take hard work)
Man, that's one dystopian name. I'd expect that in some post-apocalyptic tv show.
While you might have a point about private companies profiting from US taxpayer funded research, I do not understand the purpose of comparing a company's revenue before their product was being sold to their revenue after their product started to be sold.
> However, people want more throughput.

This is where the dragons enter the room. 9/10 times the thing that the business wants to make go faster is almost exclusively a serialized narrative of events that has to occur in a certain order.

For problems that do not demand a global serialized narrative of events, we can certainly throw Parallel.ForEach at it and call it a day.

For everything else, you want a ring buffer with spinwait & (micro)batch processing. 100k events per second is paltry compared to what is possible if you take advantage of pipelining and cache in modern CPUs. I have personally tested practical code piles that can handle ~14 million events per second with persistence to disk using only 1 thread the entire time. Impractical academic test cases can get to upwards of half a billion events per second on a single thread:

https://medium.com/@ocoanet/improving-net-disruptor-performa...

You would think low latency and "batch" processing would not go hand-in-hand, but they certainly do when you are dealing with things at scale and need to take advantage of aggregate effects across all users. This technique also has the effect of substantially reducing jitter. It's amazing what is possible if you can keep everything warmed up.
As someone born in the 1970ies, all I can say is "ugh. bad."
What is the most intensive game you could actually run?

I was going to say Fortnite but I'm guessing that's not the case anymore
The nine no-nonsense habits of houseplant success
I wish Pinterest would buy tineye, it wouldn’t be so bad if the pins pointed to the original source (and dropping the login-wall…)
That's not really a revolutionary thesis? At least, not to the point where I would hold it up as a prior for AR. Bicycles started appearing in the early 1800s, adding an electric motor was an obvious step once the technology was small enough.
Is it an alternative to modelsim?

Or something different?
Over 6 years, 2x the performance in single-core and 4x (for 2.5x the cores, depending how you count) seems surprisingly low compared to stuff I've read (not experienced yet) with the M1.
Full titles, authors and ISBNs should be available via Goodreads:

* Halmos: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/692030

* Axler: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/309768

* Rudin: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/292079

* Gelbaum & Olmsted: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/818070

* Meyer: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1002449

* Hubbard (5th edition available): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/631871

* Ben Ari: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/115121

* Schoening: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4993214

* Girard: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3400118

* Huth & Ryan: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/151847

* Pierce: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112252
Often a single compiler won't make use of more than a core, but it's generally easy to build independent modules in parallel.

For example, make -j 10, or mvn -T 10.
> the desktop application is as slow as a web IDE.

Have you ever used VSCode on the desktop? I have never experienced any issue with VSCode nor have I ever wished it performed better.
You should consider yourself lucky to never have been under the boot of a crappy IT department that won't let you have diddly (and even if they let you have diddly, it's five years out of date).
The 1080 Ti was made available in March 2017, so it's 4.5 years old. Not 6.
How did you get Chrome not to hijack right-clicks?
I really wonder how a single z/Architecture core would fare on this benchmark, though I imagine it's never been ported
Except that was a hypothetical. The effects of climate change are real, and irreversible.
But why it would be .org? Isn't .org usually non-profits but Facebook Inc. is all about profit.
Most planes don't need leaded gas. Jet-A / Diesel etc can also be used in planes. And yes, I understand small, old GA planes may be impacted, but this has been on the radar for decades now.

This comment makes me think you don't actually understand the situation. The vast majority of aviation fuel used IS Jet-A, which does not contain lead.

Small piston engine general aviation aircraft are the only ones that use leaded gas, and most of those can not use anything else that exists currently.

I too have a pregnant wife and a young child, but I worry far, far more about residual lead paint exposure than I do about avgas. Both get tested regularly and show no detectable levels (<2ug/dL), so that makes me feel like the risk exposure is acceptable. Yes, your quote about "no known safe level" is true, but at undetectable levels I'm confident it's in the noise along with all other environmental factors we don't know about.

If you're worried about lead exposure, are you testing?
How did you deliver the guides? Confluence doc + screenshots? What worked?

Also, what is the category/term called for those type of pain points? It's like those typical enterprise-y, sad but true, jaded senior tropes.

Like this question:

> How to represent a form from an object that isn’t backed by a row in the table?

I don't know how to describe it exactly, but it's like a question that gives off a strong signal of someone operating at a high level in an enterprise context.

I'm genuinely curious on the ways people solved those types of questions.
Compilers typically don't use multiple cores, but the build system that invokes them do, by invoking them in parallel. Modern build systems will typically invoke commands for 1 target per core, which means that on my system for example, building my software uses all 16 cores more or less until the final steps of the process.

The speed record for building my software is held by a system with over 1k cores (a couple of seconds, compared to multiple minutes on a mid-size Threadripper).
While I know it's not the fault of the vscode team, it sucks that Firefox feels like a second class citizen since it doesn't support the File System Access API.
It's also the most startup name ever. A single, short word from the dictionnairy.
I think “secret recipe” is grossly underestimating the complexity involved here. It’s not like they added a pinch of cumin or something. This was greenfield lab science in March 2020, the fact that they’re producing as many of them as they are right now is stunning. If this were an easy process to scale up, why wouldn’t Moderna be doing so and capturing the profit? What’s the argument that they should divert a (possibly quite large) amount of resources to helping others produce it instead of focusing on making as much as they can?
How many climate predictions have been correct? How many predictions in general have, a posteriori been right? This is multivariate, not necessarily a question of the effects of climate itself, but every conceivable effect in a long chain, including further human intervention and non-linearities in global climate behavior that are yet-to-be observed and no doubt a lengthy slew of other factors. But we're not allowed to talk about speculation, right?