skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There was no “battle for power” between Bolsheviks and Mensheviks. It was a political discussion between two blocks inside the party long before it took power.

That’s completely false. While they were at one point two blocs in the same party, the dispute was never resolved, and it split into two different parties before the overthrow of the monarchy, and continued to have conflict through the revolutionary period culminating in the Mensheviks being banned by the Bolshevik-led regime in 1921, and a supposed attempt to restore the party was the notional basis for one of the earlier of Stalin’s purges of the 1930s.
The final link line in a build system for an application is generally `cc -o app file1.o file2.o file3.o ... -llib1 -lib2 -llib3`. Turning that link line into one that produces an app.o that can be combined with liblgpllib.a to produce an equivalent app file is nontrivial. (And before you say just add all the .o files into a single .a file, no, that is not equivalent. Because Unix linking sucks).
The Search for the Universal Algorithm Continues
Why the "universal algorithm" is the modern equivalent of the perpetual motion machine, and researchers don't seem willing to give up on it despite its theoretical problems.
There is this TV series

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ray_Bradbury_Theater

which is a unique SF show in that it is not based on characters and settings the way 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘳 𝘛𝘳𝘦𝘬 or 𝘎𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘮 or even 𝘘𝘶𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘮 𝘓𝘦𝘢𝘱 are. They are free to tear down the world each time and take the imagination far and they did most of it when Bradbury was still alive.

Characters of all ages from young children to old men and women are represented. There is artistic input from the writer but also the director, actors, casting, music, etc. I can't think of another anthology SF series that is this successful.
Then why are you using a laptop?
Here's the deal. I don't care if I can get something workable for $1000 less. When I'm making many times that with the laptop as my primary interface for work, I'd rather spend more just to make me feel that tiny bit better each day.

The touchpad alone is probably worth it.
Payday loans are illegal in New York
But you can't use the HDMI port as a USB-C. I would much rather another USB C to an HDMI, which never gets used
Masochistic minimalism?

I am occasionally guilty
Typically the couch of a friend in the area.
So, M1 has been out for a while now, with HN doom and gloom about not being able to put enough memory into them. Real world usage has demonstrated far less memory usage than people expected (I don't know why, maybe someone paid attention and can say). The result is that 32G is a LOT of memory for an M1-based laptop, and 64G is only needed for very specific workloads I would expect.
This effort seems to be born out of frustration with build systems for cross-platform engines, not really with the engines.
Most clients I've used allow you to browse the library via the filesystem, even allowing you to use that as the default.
>What was Apple's market share of desktops at the time?

I don't know, but probably significantly better than a few years later, due to how vast an improvement 95 was.

There really, in my view, and in some of the magazine reviews I read back then, was nothing to recommend Windows 3.1(1) except if (a) you couldn't afford a Mac, or (b) you wanted to run software that wasn't available for one.

Suddenly, once 95 got traction, people promoting Macintoshes had to make excuses for the lack of memory protection or pre-emptive multitasking, on top of the high prices. And Windows just wasn't as godawful ugly any more.

But at the moment that ISPs were all sparking into existence, I don't think the wave had quite arrived. I mean, people were getting it and I do remember vaguely the initial version of IE, but 95 wasn't even the majority of PC users for a little while.

A browser for 3.1 that I kind of remember from those days, that lapsed into obscurity, was Cello:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cello_(web_browser)
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There have also been numerous adverse events (including death) from e.g. MMR or influenza vaccines.

That’s because when you put things into millions of people, you are guaranteed to run into an edge case here or there. The fact that you can point to so few significant AEs caused by the COVID vaccines is a pretty incredible achievement given the unprecedented scale of rollout.

The point is that no one with any credibility ever said we could expect zero adverse events from the COVID vaccines, nor 100% efficacy. No one.
I wrote boringstreamer to listen to my collection. I start more instances on different ports in different directories and connect to different ports similar to fm radio frequencies.
With tailscale I can listen from anywhere without any explicit access control.
github.com/fgergo/boringstreamer
Yes, I wonder why can't something like the Lit Motors or Lingyun self-balancing motorcycles get into production? Is it safety/regulatory hurdles? Lack of perceived (or actual) market demand that scare away investors?
Great idea with smile. Changed here: https://github.com/foobarbecue/surfsonar/commit/089782464608...
The biggest of all being that Vimeo has essentially no discovery system?

To a viewer, Vimeo is just a crude way to host a video.
He sold at the market bottom.

If this was an insider trade, it was the worst one I've ever seen
Sure, but did he release the code as a repository?

I've seen that site before but I think all you get is minified js, which isn't terribly helpful if you want to make your own maps to unfold.
(author here)

I don't have exact numbers for latency but the inference widget is currently on a TPU v3-8 (which if I am not mistaken could roughly be compared to a cluster of 8 V100). That gives you a rough idea of the latency for short inputs.

Note that a colleague just reminded me that it is possible on a single (big) GPU with enough CPU to run inference for T5-11B (which is the size we use) with offloading -> https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/issues/9996#issu...
Don’t think that is entirely true. Lots of features which exist on both RISC and CISC CPUs have different natural fit. Using micro-ops e.g. on a CISC is more important than in RISC CPU even if both benefit. Likewise pipelining has a more natural fit on RISC than CISC, while micro-op cache is more important on CISC than RISC.
Exactly. There's no engineering reason, and if there was, it would be embarrassing. Apple is a marketing and advertising company at this point which makes hardware and software to support that mission. So they marketed that they wanted or needed to remove the jack because <reasons>, when the real reason was that they wanted to sell you overpriced bluetooth headphones and leave no option otherwise.
Thanks for the encouragement, it’s appreciated.
And Find My built in in case you lose them.
Facebook also publishes famously misleading engagement metrics to producers. It's lead to a lot of business issues where content creators have gone too heavy into the platform and ended up running out of revenue.
No, it is like if you ordered 15 donuts, got 2 free ones, and are mad because 17 donuts don't line up neatly when put in 3 lines
Blender has strong use case in the animation and movie ecosystems. RenderMan, Pixar has some strong connections with Jobs and in turn with Blender, games may not really be in their radar for Blender sponsorship.

Besides supporting creator workflows (Final Cut Pro, best in class laptop graphics, Blender etc) doesn't mean they want to directly support gamers as buyers, just that they believe creators who produce games (or other media) are strong market for them go after.

The marketing is designed strongly towards the WFH post pandemic designer market. They either had to ship their expensive Mac desktops to their home or come in and work at office last year. This laptop's graphics performance pitch is for that market to buy/upgrade now.
A lot of companies have made billions following it. See oracle etc. so maybe short sighted, but I think Larry is doing OK
Why even bother with such an inane answer ?

It's because I need to use my computer whilst not physically attached to the same spot i.e. between work/home, travel.

You know the same reason as almost everyone else.
> This page surveys a bunch of studies on the question of dynamic v. static types and finds the evidence in favor of static types to be surprisingly small

Most of the studies seem to be rather poor though, so difficult to draw any solid conclusions from them. Almost all seem to drown in noise, or have flawed setups.

From personal experience, with a static type language I can jump into an unknown codebase and make non-trivial modifications much, much faster than if it's a dynamic type language codebase.

I've wasted soooo many hours doing print(dir(x)) in Python it's far beyond funny.

On the flip side, over the years I've helped countless people with their C/C++/Delphi code in minutes, frequently using libraries and API's I've never seen before.
Precisely.

And if you're all about optimization and time, you could get a VersaClimber cross crawl club model and spend 8 minutes (2 mins warm up, 4 mins HIIT, 2 mins cooldown) for better (clinically proven more effective at causing a metabolic shift) results.

Why doesn't everyone do this? For one, the intensity makes people ill when not used to it. That's why it's not in many clubs. For another, unlike rowers or cycles, you can't just sit on your butt or coast.

(In addition to road cycles, I own water rower, versa climber, and hydrow. The VersaClimber kicks your ass.)
What? Of course the UK has a constitution. It is simply not codified into a single document.
> SD is absolutely massive in Asia

Why is that?
A blockchain is "just" a fancy hash chain, or a hash chain with rules. Take your pick.

Blockchains provide a cryptographic ordering of events, or cryptographically agreed upon state, which is a useful property. It's certainly not as world-changing as a lot of blockchain-enthusiast-cryptocurrency-bros think, but it's not "only useful for censorship-resistant money."

Which is why I think it's a shame that blockchain has become synonymous with proof of work cryptocurrency scams.
The physically shorter wiring is doing basically nothing. That's not where any of the latency bottlenecks are for RAM. If it was physically on-die, like HBM, that'd be maybe different. But we're still talking regular LPDDR5 using off the shelf dram modules. The shorter wiring would potentially improve signal quality, but ground shields do that, too. And Apple isn't exceeding any specs on this (ie, it's not overclocked), so above average signal integrity isn't translating into any performance gains anyway.
Not really, it’s the same root cause: a distrust of doctors.
>Is there any competing service that has a model similar to YouTube?

No.
A few years back I was playing OpenMW quite extensively, always on the lookout for potential bugs. I remember it getting harder and harder to find new issues, and for most of the ones I found in the last few months of that period I had to double- or triple-check with the original version to make sure it was an OpenMW-specific bug (often times it turned out it was a bug with the original game as well). I contributed some 100-150 bug reports, most of which I think are fixed by now (a bit hard to tell because they switched bug tracker in the meantime).

Funnily enough sometimes OpenMW worked too well. E.g. there is a script that damages the final boss for each of his "captains" that you kill, which never worked in the original version because IIRC the engine couldn't modify the health of an unloaded mob. In OpenMW it worked perfectly, with the side effect of subtracting exactly 100% of his health if you killed all underlings, resulting in you encountering a corpse as a final boss.
The CEO created Bedrock. The engineers have to maintain it because it is the CEO's pet project, and the CEO always knows best. Nobody there really loved it.
> People will often make mistakes when a function has 3 or more booleans

A function with three or more positional parameters in a language that isn’t badly broken (that is, one that supports keyword and/or structured parameters, which pretty much all significant languages do) is, IMO, a code smell. Even if more specific typing and IDE pulling up signatures can makes it less likely to make usage errors, readability is impaired.
Play the popular “Guess The Country” fun game
When was the last time you seriously tested your geography?
Zig is allocator aware, use after free protection is covered with the ``GeneralPurposeAllocator``
I'm exactly the same. I was looking forward to leaving Apple's ecosystem and getting a Framework laptop or something similar (I'd prefer AMD and I'd like to run Qubes, which is rather picky with its hardware). But with this release Apple is making it hard to do.
Artificial Gamer documentary on OpenAI's Dota project screening in SF on 11/1
Apologies for self-promotion.
Mojeek
Independent and no-tracking
https://blog.mojeek.com/2021/03/to-track-or-not-to-track.htm...
Gigablast is another and one of very few
https://blog.mojeek.com/2021/05/no-tracking-search-how-does-...
Prescription of Ivermectin or Hydroxychloroquine as Off-Label Medicines for C-19
Some of this had been previously fixed but not noticed by some: keyboard was fixed on the last Intel MBP models. Headphone jack was never gone to begin with. RAM had already been boosted.
Cytomegalovirus: The Worst Herpesvirus
One minor note in case others aren't aware - the M1 to M1 Pro is surely a big improvement, but the base 14" does not have the same M1 Pro as the base 16" - it has a lower-binned version of the M1 Pro that only has 8 cores instead of 10, and has a 14 core GPU instead of 16. The arrangement of the cores and the GPU core count is still an upgrade over the 13" MBP with M1, but it's not the full M1 Pro with 10 cores and 16 GPU cores.
Ignore the "trade-in" value. Your machine has excellent resale value, because it's a Mac. Take advantage of it.
> 2014 - New Year's day

House of Cards - 2013

If you need more proof VR doesn't work and won't for a long time this is it.

Tight parameters, easy to make safe, sensors are easy. People still prefer to watch TV.

TV is more immersive than VR and probably always will be, unless you are watching TV on VR, which is legitimately one of the best uses for VR so far.
Desktop games and mobile games are not the same. On mobile pretty much every heavy game uses either UE or Unity. High end PC games use custom engines that are heavily tuned for x86 and use different APIs. Metal port would be expensive and not worth it.
Well at least they admitted it. If they doubled down with the butterfly keyboard and touchbar crap they would rapidly die to a better designed linux capable book. or just become one of the many commercial vendors.
clang-tidy will ask that you put in the full set.

Foo() = delete;
Foo(const Foo& orig) = delete;
Foo(Foo&& orig) = delete;
Foo operator=(const Foo &other) = delete;
Foo operator=(Foo &&other) = delete;

(add const to taste)
Your iphone is a lot thicker than a macbook's lid.
I like that it also raises the keyboard at an angle. Remember typewriters? (Dangerous question these days, sorry. ;-)
I know it's completely subjective, but I'm currently on a work provided 2018 mac with the 0.7mm travel and I despise it. I have far, far more typing errors on this keyboard than I do on pretty much anything else.

I'm excited to try the new 1mm keyboard.
Its political prosthelytizing.

What you're ignoring is that 99% of our employees don't have the ability to cease doing business with these holier than thou assholes. They're forced to get these emails they don't want and they all spent time being being mad, annoyed, confused or upset, many spent hours crafting internal emails and following the very public discussion, many were annoyed by the eventual decision to stick with them. Many still bring this up when related issues arise. It's a collective waste of time and it isn't ok.

Would you be happy about a company that sent religious recruitment emails to all your employees?

Would you be happy about a company that distracted over half your employees for the better part of a day in some cases for no fucking reason other than to push their own personal agenda?
https://medium.com/@zoecurzi/my-experience-with-leverage-res...:

"The explicit strategy for world-saving depended upon a team of highly moldable young people self-transforming into Elon Musks. For a long time, what was asked of me in order to maintain my funding was to “become a self-debugger” — become capable of working with my own mind effectively enough to be able to change it in the direction that would be useful for the project, which it was assumed was also the direction I’d obviously want, because right now I wasn’t a powerful Elon Musk type, and obviously I was here because I didn’t want to keep being an ineffective, unagentic powerless normie forever (this was not remotely the self-concept or set of concerns with which I entered Leverage, but it was a shameful prospect by the time I left)."

What?

"Perhaps more important to my subsequent decisions, the AI timelines shortening triggered an acceleration of social dynamics. MIRI became very secretive about research. Many researchers were working on secret projects, and I learned almost nothing about these. I and other researchers were told not to even ask each other about what others of us were working on, on the basis that if someone were working on a secret project, they may have to reveal this fact. Instead, we were supposed to discuss our projects with an executive, who could connect people working on similar projects. Someone in the community told me that for me to think AGI probably won't be developed soon, I must think I'm better at meta-rationality than Eliezer Yudkowsky, a massive claim of my own specialness."

What?
It’s in the presentation.
But like my out of pocket max is 3-5k for my entire family. So a few ER visits or have a baby and you are paying $0 the rest of the year.

The reason a doctors visit is 0-$20 and an ER is $500 is because the insurance company is trying to steer you towards the more cost efficient treatment place.

Yes you can go to the ER for a sprained ankle, but often you can wait until the next day and go to the doctor for better treatment for 1/10 the cost.

Incentivizing you to make more budget friendly choices if capitalism. We like capitalism here right?
Nope! Not a downgrade. Distinct upgrade. You are aware this machine has THREE Thunderbolt 4/USB-C ports, yes?
The project is only 4 months old :) I will get to those bits and explain my vision there once the groundwork is done.

In general, I have a preference of providing (1) solid groundwork, (2) libraries, and (3) extensive tooling. We're only at phase 1/3 :)

I don't want to _force_ one way of interacting with this, either. You're free to take the work I've done on making GLFW easy to use and build on top of that (several people are), same with the upcoming WebGPU work.

But yes, there will eventually be a graphical editor, component system, and "obvious" ways to structure your code if that's not something you want to choose for yourself.
I sometimes watch an iPad (velcroed to the rowing machine) with standard bluetooth headphones. I don't find it too loud. You don't even need noise cancelling headphones unless you have a really loud machine.
> I have a water rower. I highly recommend it, as draining it makes moving it quiet easy (its pretty light when drained). I never setup a tablet; I just listen to podcasts when I row, the same as I used to when I ran.

Which one did you buy?
My experience with Concur is that the product itself is not bad. Not great but not bad once you get used to it. (Fir example, there's a lot of random information asked for that varies by category which is annoying but you get used to it.) The problem is with the auditing on the Concur side, whoever's "fault" it is.

Things like any date discrepancies between the receipt and how it's entered on the report get bounced even if they're off by a day even though it's obvious and, pre-Concur, would have just been fixed in-house. Also random invocations of travel policies cause rejections rather than not just making a trivial connection. Simply not reading comments with respect to exceptions. Etc. I'm sure hundreds of hours of highly-paid people's time gets wasted.
Its still a bit unclear how much of the bandwidth the CPUs can use (as opposed to the GPUs)
Radeon 6900XT works with eGPU. But yes, intel macs only. And of course, you're not getting all 16 lanes!

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208544
Pre-COVID, I would use the gym at work at the end of my day, and they had two water rowers. I must have been using them wrong, because I was pretty out of shape (5'8", 240 lbs), and I found that even with the rower set to the highest resistance, I could easily go 20+ minutes and my heart rate never got very high. Meanwhile, I'd struggle to jog a 13-minute mile.

With each stroke, I began with my knees bent, arms straight in front of me, with the row handle almost fully retracted, and ended with knees straight, leaning back, handle pulled completely to my chest.

My resting heart rate is about 90 bpm, and on the rower, it was only getting to ~130 bpm. I felt like I wasn't accomplishing much and used the stair machine for my cardio instead. There, my heartrate would be 160-180 bpm, and I'd usually climb for ~10 minutes, doing 20-30 floors, though I did hit 100 floors twice.

Sadly, since COVID made me go remote, I haven't been to a gym. I miss that feeling of pride and accomplishment I'd get from setting the 100-floor goal on the stairs and hitting it. I plan on going back once Oregon lifts the mask mandates. Exercising with a mask is absolutely awful.
Depends on the relationship I think and how the feedback is delivered as well as the topic. If I just give you unsolicited feedback about a topic that I have nothing to do with, then yea that can be weird. But presumably most feedback would be something where both people are involved to some degree. e.g. if you're chronically late to meetings that I attend, then me telling you that I would think is a good thing.
In 1993, iirc, I borrowed a Mac and 2400bps modem from my high school that I used to call the library and AOL.

Before that, the way to get software (for me, because I wasn't a college student) was to go to a local computer store and copy their disks containing free or shareware.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Fish

But everything changed about 1995.
How is there even a connection between this murder and online anonymity?

I thought they had arrested the suspect already.
I assume because modern HDMI supersedes it. Sucks if you have an old receiver/amp tho.
Rumble is making some big waves right now, actually paying uploaders for ads run on their videos and such. It’s still a small fraction of YouTube in terms of viewership though.
There was too much trying to 'being right' rather than saying things that are easy to amend. The prime example is masks. Sure leave the N91 for healthcare. But don't hem and haw on whether people should use masks, if they're effective, and how so. Say we don't know for certain, but to be safe use them to protect yourself or others. Consider the upside vs down. What no one wanted to say was "we don't know, so..." Most of these problems came from upkeeping appearances. Science should not be based on appearance. On that occasion science == politics.
They capped PC as well.
I think this is a bit like the dynamic vs static typing discussion that's currently raging in another topic[1].

Being explicitly marked makes it self-documenting. It allows someone to see just the definition to know that it is async.

This is especially useful in conjunction with interfaces (or pure virtual base classes).

In addition there's function pointers to consider.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28907154
Because those legal investments are voluntarily deciding to adhere to a lower level of regulatory scrutiny in exchange for only being able to sell to wealthier and presumably more risk-aware investors.