skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, abduction reasoning is still useful, it can serve to orient us in our surroundings, aka, it can help us explore the search space from places that are more likely to be correct. So it's still a useful form of reasoning.

Just don't make the mistake of thinking it proves the consequent.

I'd much have preferred the tweet said:

"DuckDuckGo doesn't have any search histories by design and, this might be the reason why we've had 0 search warrants."

But it said:

"DuckDuckGo doesn't have any search histories by design and, bc of that, has had 0 search warrants"

That's a strong assertion, and it's not been demonstrated. You could likely say that it is because the police had never had a case where they needed too, given the lack of popularity of DDG, they might have found all they needed through other sources of warrants. Or it could be any other reason, like they don't even know it exists, or anything else I'm not thinking of.
> Why have static ports when you can have dynamic ports?

Because dynamic ports (basically internal dongles) reduces the amount of internal volume they have to work with. This would cause compromises in other areas like a thicker laptop, less battery life, noisier fan, etc.
Except that theories rooted in facts, with evidence, and a track record of successful predictions, has nothing to do with mythology.
I gotta say, of all the searches to not let Google track one on, local seems like second after baby-related.

I find “things to do in X city” is “companies in X that paid us the most”
China uses central AI city ‘brains’ to observe and control residents
Sinofsky on Apple's Processor History
I mean I’m not sure I could have come up with a better transitional design that has to keep the old UI around for compatibility.
Don't forget Adderall which is very similar.
I agree, only the selected few should be allowed to participate in financial schemas, that may yield very high rewards. For middle and lower class, let's leave gambling and lottery. Wealth has to come from generations. /s

In all seriousness, this is gate keeping, wrapped into "think about the kids" gift paper.

At large, US tax payers don't have access to state funded pension. Not all have access to 401k and like. Those that do, often aren't provided with great or flexible options or charged high fees. Plans are tied to controlled by employers. One of the ways to build wealth is to invest it into real estate. But it is hard, to acquire a primary residence hour US families have to compete with foreign investors, local private investors, big institutional investors with exclusive membership, like the one you mentioned, now even municipal pension funds.
Not only fewer investment options are available to them, also fewer options to hedge against economic downturn. Tax system favors the rich.

Now God forbid the mass gains access to something new, that might actually double or triple their money. Gotta keep them in check.

Crypto is a huge gamble, but, at the same time, it is one of those opportunities that can shoot up. I know people whose 401k only recently recovered from 2008 crash and it's unclear how long it will take to recover after then next one.

Although, I agree that crypto is not for everyone, but I would rather see it challenge from marketing and advertisement perspective. Make them watch very carefully every word they put in any marketing material. Introduce various cool down periods, that can be a function of your net worth. Come down hard on anyone who touts it as a sure win strategy, but let people take the risk, if they want to.
Headline at odds with data. Data suggests higher Vax rate = higher Covid.

Study never had a chance to causate, so headline is propoganda.

"In fact, the trend line suggests a marginally positive association such that countries with higher percentage of population fully vaccinated have higher COVID-19 cases per 1 million people. Notably, Israel with over 60% of their population fully vaccinated had the highest COVID-19 cases per 1 million people in the last 7 days. The lack of a meaningful association between percentage population fully vaccinated and new COVID-19 cases is further exemplified, for instance, by comparison of Iceland and Portugal. Both countries have over 75% of their population fully vaccinated and have more COVID-19 cases per 1 million people than countries such as Vietnam and South Africa that have around 10% of their population fully vaccinated."
It would be cool to have some kind of PDF export! Definitely seems very educational nevertheless.
For the first time ever, they have something to brag about in their laptop specs. They are no longer just pulling parts off the shelf.
or using hole punch camera
This used to be one of my favorite Google UI Engineer interview questions - how to implement something like this as a content script.

One of the fun "get away from math and into experience" bonus parts of the question was about how to deal with ambiguity - for example, if your elements are laid out like the 5 on a dice, and you focused on the middle element, which do you pick when you press left or right? What if you'd previously come from one of those elements?
Tesla and every other EV maker is battery constrained.

Tesla will sell every Cybertruck they can make as fast as they can make them.

Tesla still doesn’t sell that many cars overall per quarter. But they can’t keep up with their demand.

Ford will not be able to sell many electric F-150s because they won’t have the batteries to do it
https://www.rollcall.com/2018/11/30/cohen-among-select-few-c...

> Pursuing criminal charges against those who are untruthful to Congress would be a huge shift from tradition. “Almost no one is prosecuted for lying to Congress,” attorney PJ Meitl wrote in a 2006 law review article on the topic, “in fact, only six people have been convicted of perjury or related charges in relation to Congress in the last sixty years.”

Emphasis mine.
I need a crash course in this language. I was mostly hit with empty promises and brick walls when I would ask them to deliver.
It’s even easier to do that on land by the way. You’d use large Earth grounds, which also don’t corrode as badly as grounds in saltwater. And running it on land (minus permitting, right of way, etc) is dramatically cheaper as the cable itself also doesn’t need to be as sturdy.

I found this neat paper on HVDC grounds and interconnects too [http://b-dig.iie.org.mx/BibDig2/P13-0399/files/PESGM2013-001...]

The point is that right of ways and permits are super hard on land, which is why most of these are run via the sea.
Why anyone may need this? Don't we have Scala?..
No, they've been putting precise numbers on it for a while:

- https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/22/health/cdc-vaccine-advisers-b...

- https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/24/health/us-coronavirus-tuesday...

- https://www.healthline.com/health-news/heres-how-well-covid-...

- https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02261-8

- https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/04/pfizer-covid-vaccine-protect...

- https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/04/pfizer-covid-vaccine-protect...

What you're seeing is two factors combined, first delta being more infectious. But delta only became widespread in many places in ~July, so solid data on how it affected infectiousness took until August or September. And second, the vaccine's effectiveness wanes over time, but again, this takes time to detect. So it is simultaneously true that in January of this year, the vaccines were in some cases 90% effective at reducing infection, but are now 40-60% effective (note that this still *halves the r0, which is significant).

And those numbers have been communicated in the mainstream media and via official channels like the CDC (although the CDC has never posted efficiency numbers: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/effective..., see that this was last updated in May). Perhaps you weren't paying attention though.
Yeah, it’s all marketing fluff around “we’re bumping the version because we want to delete a huge chunk of 30 year old code and can’t do that mid-version.
When nothing is changing, you do not have to touch the GPU. Yes, without Panel Self Refresh there would be this many bits going to the panel at that rate, but the display engine would keep resubmitting the same buffer. No need to rerender when there's no damage. (And when there is, you don't have to rerender the whole screen, only the combined damage of the previous and current frames.)
US State of Nebraska to allow physicians (a licensed profession) to perform Trump allegiance virtue signalling.

Wow, all you need to do is whip up enough of shit storm about some topic, and public officials will knuckle under. I think this should put to rest that idealism about countering bad speech with good speech. As much as I liked that idea in the 1980s and 90s, it just doesn't work when no gatekeepers exist, or when some gatekeepers act in extremely bad faith.
rsync.net is a very different product though.

I recently evaluated a bunch of cloud storage/backup services. rsync.net is a ssh-accessible ZFS filesystem (including support for zfs send/recv) in the cloud, B2 is object storage.

rsync.net has a cheaper version aimed at people doing borg backups. Unfortunately it's still 3x the cost of B2 for 1TB of data.
If they don't want to restrict themselves to accredited investors, they could alternatively adhere to SEC guidelines for selling financial instruments to the public. Clear auditing, GAAP, prospectus including a frank discussion of risks, etc. It's really not that high a bar, considering the $ involved.

You can't ask for no accountability, these rules are written in blood (or red, I guess).
Wow, this is really interesting!
I've owned Macbooks since 2003. Typing this on a 2020 Macbook Pro 13". It's just been a long evolution of getting thinner. IMO, and as others have stated, going all-in on thinness drove a series of design mistakes that seem to be reversed here. Rounding out the thinner leading edge gives a bit more space, and would guess makes it feel more solid. I don't like the thinner front end being a little suspended above the surface of the table, it makes me worry about it bending.

The 2003 12-inch Macbook with the aluminum keys was like a textbook made out of solid metal. That keyboard felt great.

This looks like a great machine to me and I am a little sad I bought in Feb!
> What else is interesting is that Florida who has had ZERO Covid restrictions this entire time, has the lowest levels of new cases per Capita in the lower 48.

Yes, but its just doing bad in identification of non-severe cases—and maybe severe cases, before its too late, too, given how much higher ranked it is in deaths compared to hospitalizations. It is more middling in recent per-capita COVID hospitalizations and near the top (#8 of all states and territories) in recent per capita COVID deaths. [0]

Florida embodies Trump's observation that the COVID case rate was driven by testing, and cases would be much lower if testing was.

[0] FL recent cases are 22/100K population (US overall is 25/100K), FL hospitalizations in the same time frame are 15/100K population (US overall is 18/100K), FL recent COVID death rate is 0.79/100K (US overall is 0.46/100K) from https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html
Neat. When I look at old pictures like the one in the article, I wonder, is it foggy, smokey, or just an artifact of the photograph?
Yeah I'd prefer that. Converted everything to quality 6ft braided usb-c cables, bought a separate multiport charger. Will have to sell original one...
Agreed. I think Alexander Shulgin deserves some blame as well, though maybe not to the same extent.
I don't think I really said this wasn't the case. What I said is that corporations comprise the most popular/most watched videos (which is true, if you look at the video rankings).

That can happen simultaneous with good, independent videos being produced. But I think those non-corporate videos would do better if YouTube wasn't so hostile (again, content strikes, getting reported for violations...have you genuinely never heard any complaints about YouTube from people who create videos on the platform?).
It's hard because of Windows.
I'm just a stupid engineer; Robinhood got me into trading stocks and crypto. I did a ton of research and started being really successful. Then, I was labelled a 'day trader', and was super pissed. It made no sense to me why I could gamble all my money in the casino, but do it in the stock market and then all of a sudden big daddy needs to come protect me? Screw that. I quit Robinhood and now only trade crypto.
The GPU overheats because it runs at high clock (and 18W) even when doing 10% work.
To see how monads would work with C structs:

1. Implement a simple interpreter for the basic lambda calculus, no side-effects or I/O, something like [1]. You should have a discriminated union describing terms, lambdas and applications.

2. Now add two more node types to your union, one for a "print_line" command, and one for a "sequence" expression, that takes the left expression and passes it to a command on the right-hand side; the command is free to do something with the expression that was previously evaluated, or not.

This AST is the core of a monadic language. The basic operations of every monad are:

1. Wrap values in the monad: here you wrap values as an AST expression, let's call it Expr<T>.

2. Composition operator that accepts an Expr<T0> and a function T0->Expr<T1>: this is the sequence operator.

You can keep adding node types for more types of side-effects/commands (and handlers for those node types in your eval() function), but all you need is this "sequence" node type to handle an arbitrary number of side-effects in sequence, because a monad is basically a structured way to compose arbitrary computations.

Every sequence of operations won't necessarily make sense or compose well, because monads are actually too powerful to model effects, ie. they permit too much.

[1] https://github.com/io12/lambda/blob/master/lambda_calc.h
Today RISC just means an ISA is fixed-length load-store. No uarch implications.
See for example DDG video search (which I believe proxies for Bing video search).

If I bang-search "!video <search expression>" on DDG, I'll be returned hits for the search across a range of video hosting sites. Principally YouTube and Vimeo, though also others. I don't believe Peertube sites presently appear, which is a shame.
Or Dungeons of Grimlor from even further back.
Are they still affiliated with 45drives? I was never clear on the history of the two companies.
Sounds from Mars
I was looking for this last week and couldn't find it on the site. Thanks!
An atomic clock measured how general relativity warps time across a millimeter
One of the world’s most popular iOS apps was developed by Chinese police
You're under the impression that anyone on RW actually takes Roko's Basilisk seriously? It's a mildly amusing thought experiment, precisely zero people have ever changed their behaviour because of it.
Historical puzzle solved to bring the sounds of Ancient Rome to life
>Walmart and other big chains have used their sales information to know which products were worth making “house brand” copies of, then promoting those alongside the original ones.

Aren't those white label products? Major manufacturers produce them, meaning they're similar in quality to regular brands, but at a lower price point. Which would mean the producer would get to target customers at two price points, which is nice.
I also don't have any direct HFT experience, but I do know that HFT firms hire FPGA designers (https://www.indeed.com/q-Fpga-Engineer-Trading-jobs.html) which suggests they really care about counting cycles and basically everything in is play from a performance perspective.

To contribute to the OP, https://godbolt.org/ is indispensible for high-performance C++ development. In specific, you can see under what circumstances the compiler optimizations apply to your code.
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2010/08/26/129451895/how-...

the fed creates 1.25 trillion and makes the assets that the poor seeks more expensive than it would have been if their price were allowed to fall. This is not nominally stealing from the poor, but it's activity like this that steals the value from the earnings of the poor, and steals their economic potential. It's stealing because it's not a voluntary contract and it's a one-sided power move, not a "natural consequence of the universe", like "inflation resulting from an earthquake" would be.

In this case, I am, of course, arguing against my interest, since this activity is propping up the price of the house I bought this year. But the fed does a whole lot of damage otherwise, mostly by printing money and giving it to the banks.
Their seven day measurement time window choice is a bit suspect. I'd like to see a much longer time horizon. I'd also like to see it analyzed by population density.

They chose a time window where the Northern well-vaccinated states are rising as everyone moves indoors and school starts [1]. The southern, less-vaccinated states generally were over the initial school class initial cross exposure spike.

https://www.cnn.com/2015/08/04/living/school-start-dates-aug...
> I see that rustc has a "--emit obj" option, from there surely any decent build system would allow enough customization to do what you want but there's enough raw capability to write a user guide that says "build your stuff with rustc --emit obj lgpl_lib_1.rs -o lgpl_lib_1.o and link with our proprietary .o with lld" ; and you'd be good to go.

No, that is not how it works, like not at all.

Rust doesn't use the same concepts for building as C.

1. You don't build stuff with `rustc` in general. (You build it with cargo.)

2. You don't produce object files in general, sure rust can produce them and if you link something over the C-ABI it can make sense. What the compiler produces in general for linking libraries are rlibs.

3. rlibs are not just unstable in their format, they are more like a implementation details, don't expect to be able to link in a library as rlib. Like at all.

4. Rust widely uses generics similar to C++ templates this means part of the code which is not supposed to become public will leak if the libary interface involves templates/generics.

5. In rust (and somewhat in C) you normally don't link two "objects" to produce the final binary you build it with a number of "object" dependencies. But this doesn't work with what LGPL requires from you. It can be easy to make a public open-source skeleton you link in all LGPL libraries and your code then to make the linking magic work.

6. `rust --emit` is mainly meant for debugging, and some special use cases around embedding. Don't expect good integration with build tools.

And most important:

What is theoretically possible doesn't matter, what matters is what is practical. I.e. simple, and fast to setup and maintain.

Even for a C CI the requirements the static linking of a LGPL library puts up can make it easily not worth it.

> only that there is a way to patch

No, you need to be able to provide a non LGPL object which you can re-link with the LGPLed libary, so "just" binary patching isn't a legal option.
In reality, progress did not stop in the twenty years after the First World War.

Many of the great inventions of the 20th century came about in those 20 years: Jet engines, Sound movies, Color movies, Television, Radar, Modern Liquid-Fueled Rocketry, Nuclear Energy, Antibiotics, and several others that I can't dredge up out of my brain just right now.
What fraction of Ford's trucks are bought by individual "truck guys" vs. fleet managers? My gut says fleet managers may have more buying power - I can't find any stats online that breaks down F-150 buyers specifically, or trucks in general.
What application makes full use of 5950x all cores?
My teenage son wrote this post last summer when doing some personal research on GANs.
It can't be as bad as Sean Connery's (any other language aside from English).
I'm not really worried about the cost of traffic. According to their latest 10-Q [0] they earned 152 million and spent 187 million for a net loss of 35 million. About 76 million of that (40.6%) went to sales, so they're certainly not spending it on the pipes. But despite a large increase in sales spending they're less profitable than they were during the same period a year earlier. They're losing $1.23 for every dollar they earn.

[0] https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1477333/0001...
I wonder how much of the mechanical keyboard community increased sheerly because of the fact that many MacBook owners hated their laptop keeps.
Nobody knows
Same for me. My AirPods gen 1 are still going strong. I use them about 4-5 hours every day monday-Friday.
From their docs, their product looks amazing. However I haven't successfully deployed my app on their platform: https://community.fly.io/t/first-app-fails-to-deploy/2754/3

This might be related to my network problem, I will try other deploy ways when I get some spare time.
> Why do business at all with robots? If you can't get someone on the phone, don't do business with that company.

I was doing business with a company and signed a 20-year contract.

At first, it was all humans. Then eventually there were fewer humans... then no longer anyone near me and I could only get business done over the phone. Then the phone people were replaced with an automated system for "nearly everything". I always wanted to speak to a representative though. Eventually even the way to speak to a representative was taken over and now they "schedule a call back".

I don't receive phone calls.

Too bad, I thought Aflac was an alright company.

Unfortunately there are a lot of businesses that are leaning towards "schedule a callback". What comes after that is "chat online with a real person on our app". What comes after that? Maybe just "schedule a later chat with a real person" because their chat people are too busy and wait times are measured in hours. Then what?

"Don't do business with robots" is well but it doesn't go far enough.
Neat, but I’m missing the part where the author learned anything beyond the obvious:

> … when you look at those writers’ punctuation, you can see, in a quick glance, how different they are.

Wild. But beyond this and pretty pictures, what have we learned?
>and millions of fast-enough computers will become e-waste because people will be too lazy to learn Linux.

No they won't. People will happily continue using Windows 10 and 7. Anybody that wants to sell software to Windows users will probably understand that many users won't be on Windows 11 and will therefore offer versions for 7 and 10.
It's not some great mystery, micro SD cards are tiny, USB storage isn't.
Oh hang on a minute, I'm not so sure. The right to not be offended by anything could have its perks.

I'm offended that people responsible for or complicit in wars and intervention and destruction of Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, etc. have not been found guilty and imprisoned for life, while we're being preached at by these same criminals about how the collective good is our paramount responsibility.

I'm offended people are being told their freedom must be sacrificed so their hospital systems can remain as gutted and fragile as ever, years after fairly gradual pandemic with relatively low hospitalization and death rates almost caused health systems to collapse, while allowing the ruling class and multinational corporations to get away with obscene tax loopholes that could be helping to pay for an actual robust health system.

Yes I think we could make some real progress here.