skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look at the stopping distances, it's affected by mass F = ma here. The a part is affected by the quality of the tires/breaks/suspension... but that's getting into specifics that don't really fit the generality of the fleet of vehicles getting larger and heavier and their variety in qualities will more time to avoid an accident that they may not have.
> mathematicians

Mostly jews

> physicists

Mostly jews
And skills are not the only thing that makes groups of humans work successfully together. Time zones matter. Sharing a mastery of the same language matters. Cultural expectations and norms matter.

I say those things actually matter more than skills in many cases.
That doesn't seem too hard to me frankly.

Intel has shown that you can just store the sizes of instructions in a new cache (in their new architecture) for example.

But even then: it shouldn't be much more than O(n) work / O(log(n)) depth to determine the length of an instruction. Once lengths are known, you can perform parallel instruction decoding rather easily.

Ex: given "Instruction at X, X+1, X+5, and X+10", decode the instructions. Well, simple. Just shove a decoder at X, X+1, X+5, and X+10. 4 instructions, decoded in parallel.

Even with "Dynamic" length (ex: X, X+4, X+6, and X+7 afterwards), its clear how to process these 4 instructions in parallel. Really not a problem IMO.

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So solving the length thing is a bit harder to see, but clearly could be implemented as a parallel-regex (which is O(n) work and O(log(n)) depth).

I seriously doubt that decoding is really a problem. I'd expect that Apple just has made many small efficiency gains across the chip, especially the uncore.

I'm personally looking at the L1 / L2 cache hierarchies more so than anything on this Apple chip.
In 2018 I inherited a rather large website, and have been slowly fixing it to support unicode because many of the users want to use their real names, not an English-hack version of it.

It is WAY more complicated than I thought it would be. There is so much code that manipulates strings that is not unicode aware.

I've fixed the simple things, like places where the user name is displayed, etc., but the email subsystem is a train wreck and there are still places in the database where I couldn't retroactively fix old entries. Going on 4 years fixing this!

But EBCDIC? Damn, opportunity to make lots of $$ here fixing people's code. I had friends that made bank on Y2K prep in the mid-90's.
> So that we don't give away features to Rider?

Rider's a really good .NET IDE - it's my preference by far over VS Code, and over VS as well - but it's exactly the kind of thing an 'open' .NET ecosystem should be embracing.

If this is the MS management mindset (and I don't find it that hard to believe), then .NET is never going to be truly open.

edit: the bugginess of OmniSharp + VS Code for .NET development doesn't work to push me towards VS. VS is okay for the most part on Windows, much worse on Mac and not an option at all on Linux. It 100% pushed me away from VS Code and towards JetBrains - now I use Rider, PyCharm, and PHPStorm instead of VS Code.
Masterworks: Invest in multimillion-dollar art works from famous artists
> Edit: The other nice things about hooks is their composability (and this is in fact related to what I said above). With class components, a component can have one state object, so it's hard to compose with other "mixin" type behaviors that need their own dedicated state. You ended up with weird patterns like higher order components (à la Redux withStore) that have basically ceased to exist with hooks (replaced by a useStore hook which can opaquely manage its own state under the hood).

This is more because the React team didn't care to figure out proper mixins beyond "Object.assign all the things"[0]

[0]http://raganwald.com/2016/07/20/prefer-composition-to-inheri...
I don't have any gun but... There are invasive species throughout Europe like wild boards and hunters are doing a great job in saving people's garden and farmer's farms. In France alone there are 5 million people (out of 70) who have a hunting license and more than 1 million that are actively hunting.
Minimum config that allows 64 GB RAM which unfortunately means the M1 Max, 2 TB SSD. Prices out just under 4k for the 14”, over 4k for the 16”. Not sure I care about the screen size, I’m almost always at my desk with a 43” display. But either way it’s gonna be a few months before I can budget it.
Dogs are indeed more demanding, they henceforth grow your sense of responsibility, which aligns with the required skills of entrepreneurship.
For each individual country in isolation – relatively easy, yes. What’s hard is universal consensus.

If organization X is considered shady by country A, but totally legit in country B, then Visa operating in both countries A and B cannot allow transfers from B to A. Regardless of what country B and its residents think, Visa would get into trouble with country A. Country B cannot legislate Visa to ignore the laws of A, and there is no recourse for residents of B.
Facebook targeting policy makers with ads
You prefer an emotionally shallow animal? /s [1]

1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJFp272w9u8
The economics are probably analogous to the cruise ship business, which somehow makes it viable to build and maintain these behemoth machines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_cruise_ships A space version of The World (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_The_World) is something you will probably see in your lifetime.

Btw, if James Cameron is reading this, maybe it's time to reshoot Titanic as a space opera? Thing hits space junk starts crashing toward earth, burning up in atmosphere, involves a Baumgartner level skydive from an escape pod, Tom Cruise does his own stunts. Call me.
Seems to me that if cars were invented today, they would be immediately banned. Imagine any other product that kills as many as cars do (in '20 cars killed 38,680 and guns killed about 20K in USA).
It's kind of useless to blame drivers as there is little that can be done to resolve that problem. It would be much better to take a long hard look at road layouts. Engineer them for safety rather than traffic throughput.
> In fact in this instance I think it's a little disingenuous to quote Linux and say it could happen again.

Seems apropos to me, given the fact that a Linux ABI compatible hobby project is under discussion - and that everyone here is familiar with the famous Usenet announcement.

> The industry is totally different now. There's much more competition than there was when...

I wonder how you define "competition"? Because there were way more operating systems in use then, and the industry was far more fractured. Fractured in a way that was meaningful - not like today where you can spin up a VM and be productive in short order, thanks to the significant lack of distinguishing difference. That is the really interesting thing about these hobby projects - they introduce possibilities that are either completely ignored by organizations suffering from inertia constraints, or can't be mimicked because they're diametrically opposed to present designs.
> (for $299 in a Galaxy Book Go, and that's a totally borderline system)

Can it run anything other than Windows Home?

I’d love to have a small cheap Linux machine, but have no need for a small cheap Windows box.
Doing something when we forget to close the garage door lol
May we all walk on warm sands.
And even that link doesn't give a lot of details. I was thinking it had something to do with young (Neo) Amish dropping out and getting into tech.
>WhatsApp success is not about what WhatsApp did, it's about everything they didn't do.

I wrote something similar [1] about its success not long ago on HN,

>WhatApp grew because it was the only IM that worked on Smartphone. Thanks to Erlang. Yes. ICQ didn't bother. Microsoft refuse to accept Smartphone is the future of computing hence there never was MSN on Smartphone. Other contender tried but none of them managed to Scale. I still remember all my colleagues and friends used to download instant messenger on our phone to test them out, creating a group and basically DDoS each other until the system or network crash. No IM was able to handle the traffic load, not only WhatsApp did it many times better than their competitors, they also had almost all platform support, from Symbian to Blackberry.

There is another part of the story that dont get much appreciation, is how they managed 2 million connection per box on a what is now a relatively slow server. The latest M1 Max would have been a lot faster. I often wonder if they could have pushed to 10 Million connection per box with same latency under current CPU and Memory. ( Not saying it is a good idea. )

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25984924
I miss the nude pics take with a shitty webcam in a dimly lit room you’d get in the early 2000s, either from the girlfriend, if you where lucky, or from a random girl in a chatroom,if the internet was extra weird that night.

Somehow those crappy 320x240 pictured where much interesting than anything snapped with the latest smartphone.
Again everything obeys it.

If there was something that didn't obey fundamental changes to spacetime itself we'd observe things like gravitational waves in a completely different location and time to their visual counterparts. We do not see any evidence of this. So for any theory that states a change in the fabric of spacetime itself you can guarantee that everything must conform to that change.
+1 for Costco travel. I have found that alone to cover your Costco membership fees.
Thd Dating Helper
+1 on personal responsibility.

I'm also frustrated by squandered opportunities for improvement. One example: allowing red-light cameras to become a money grab by revenue sharing with the suppliers and thus subject to lobbying, influence and gaming like shortening yellow lights and buffer times to increase $$$. That crap has created political resistance to the concept. The frustrating part is that few people would oppose putting red light cameras on most major, high-traffic, >35mph intersections - as long as they were restricted to only sending an automatic warning to "orange light sliders" but triggered serious enforcement and even in-person follow-up for the rare (but deadly) people who fly through at high-speed long after other traffic is actually crossing the intersection.

Over the past decade, I've almost been broadsided twice by people barreling through a major, multi-lane intersection at high-speed while I'm turning left on an arrow. This despite other cars in the lane next to theirs already being stopped and waiting at the light. I was saved only by being super-cautious and going slow or halting when I noticed the oncoming car not slowing at all. If there had been a truck blocking my view of their approach, I would probably have been hospitalized (or worse) in the collision. It's hard to imagine the oncoming driver doing this intentionally as both times it was clearly near-suicidal.

Now that the capability to do fairly discerning automatic detection is low cost thanks to cheap imagers and processing, detecting those rare yet dangerous people (who are likely drunk, high or possibly even having brief 'waking blackouts' without knowing it) could help get them off the road before they actually kill someone. The benefit to narrowing the 'targeting' for enforcement is that instead of dozens or hundreds of revenue generating tickets per day, we'd be finding a handful of potentially deadly near-incidents. A number small enough that each could be carefully reviewed and the scary ones could get not only a ticket but a welfare check from community liaison officers.
I do not understand the purpose of hate crime statistics.

If a person goes around murdering people for instance - it kind of stands to reason that this person has a some form of hate going around in his mind. What does it matter if he hates only black people or people that wear orange hats? What matters is that he is a murderer. Murder has always been against the law around here so lets focus on getting rid of murderers instead of trying to divine what is in their hearts. What additional benefit does it gain us in attempting such divination?
I come from the failed Lambda School UX program. It wasted more than a year of my life. And to add insult to injury, after having succeeded in learning UX on my own + finding employment, I now send them a mortgage payment's worth of $$$ every month, until I reach that $30k limit. What a damn scam.
Go figure. how is this a surprise to anyone . Not just lambda but any of these coding academies, boot camps, etc. It's an open secret that these companies vastly inflate their success rates.
I'm imagining it. Those drones are remote-controlled. That can be traced, so anonymity is foiled.
There's definitely cheaper options for the various components, but I would personally choose a nicer motherboard if I were doing a 5950X build. One of the new ASUS boards with no chipset fan and 2x Thunderbolt 4 ports, like the ProArt X570 Creator Wifi, is a likely choice.
Semantic diffing would be great, but until then you want an ignore revs file:
https://www.git-scm.com/docs/git-blame#Documentation/git-bla...

Real world example: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/main/.git-blame-ign...
You went and found the cheapest versions of components you could find to make a false comparison. This has always been the difference between pc laptops and mac laptops. People say "I can get this cpu with this graphics card in a pc laptop for WAAYY cheaper" ignoring the memory, quality of the chassis, quality of the screen, quality of the speakers, the battery and just about everything else.
More than overengineering, misplaced engineering.

We have a lot of stuff that "scales" and would not solve a real problem if it didn't "scale", but there is also an equally good solution not in the domain of the person who was tasked with writing it.

So for example, we were distributing a "large" (~100e6) multi-dimensional lookup table to ~30 servers to do some transformation job. The engineer who did it didn't like to think about data formats, so they used JSON. They didn't like to think about cache friendliness, so it was just maps of maps of maps. They didn't look at the actual dataset contents - which was some mostly opaque-to-us customer catalog SKUs - so didn't notice the massive redundancy in it. Implementing their algorithm as a straight line process, yeah, it did really take several hours to run and it was too long and probably required more memory than we wanted to commit.

But the solution wasn't "farm it out to a Hadoop cluster", it was "translate the dataset into some DFA-like things and then run some optimization passes on them" which yeah, was slow to "compile" - like 2min - but once compiled could chew through the rest of the job in another 10min, with sub-1G memory.

Very big / indirect "everything looks like a nail" situation, combined with lots of people who want to rush for the Big Data / ML / whatever stuff and not fundamentals. And the reasons don't seem to be uniform either. I've seen it from careerists and architecture astronauts, but also bootcamp grads who just weren't properly educated, at startups often early non-technical or technically-adjacent employees trying to help out but don't realize the mess they're making, and sometimes people who just don't want to think very hard.
Anything of note we humble readers should take a look at?
Where am I supposed to recharge a Tesla if I am living in a cheap motel ?
It depends on the circumstances, no?

If a drunk pedestrian stumbled into the street while you were driving at speed, and you struck and killed them -- I would not blame you.

If you were driving recklessly and killed someone in a crosswalk -- I would.
Their logo reminded me of Quake.
Indeed, we can learn a lot from the Amish. Efficiency isn't always the most important thing in life.
Like I mentioned in another comment, people are refusing to accept increasing worse outcomes (at least in pedestrian safety).

Additionally, I’d wager most reasonable people are willing to accept the unavoidable risks of driving. However, many car collisions involve people taking risks that are not necessary to transport themselves from A to B (speeding, drinking, texting, failing to indicate turn). Breaking traffic laws aren’t crimes of necessity, or borne of poverty, it just people refusing to think about how their shitty actions effect others.

Society is completely complacent to bad driving behavior. The whole zero risk thing is a straw intended to shit down the conversation
No one knows why they actually failed her on the interview. Have run many interviews, and it is very rarely the case that you fail a candidate for one technical slip up.
I took it as poetic license, most interviewees don't know why they failed, maybe an interviewer's offhand comment caused her to fill in blanks or extrapolate from the general point -> She wasn't the right fit due to the scale of problems.
I'm just asking for a tapered edge :D The new bulbous rounded edges almost seem passive-aggressive from apple. Yes, prioritize power, and with whatever remaining ability to make things pretty that you have, utilize it. When you can but don't, that's unattractive. Is there a specific reason for the brick look? I'm not sure that we know there is.
Secured by... F5 APM? I always took that to be "Enterprise-Ticks-All-The-Boxes-Secure" not "Actually Meant to be Secure".
1. I am all for space exploration. I consider getting all our eggs out of one basket to be the single highest strategic imperative for humanity.

2. I do not for a second believe Blue Origin and Boeing can deliver on this.

3. I really want them to prove me wrong.
I must say Europe, or at least part of it, got much better about this :)
What exactly would this push look like? A massive ad campaign encouraging people to diet and exercise? Do you really think that would make a difference? Most overweight people already want to be skinnier - the fact is that it is extremely difficult to lose weight and keep it off. The focus has been on vaccination precisely because it is both effective and easily implemented.
Anecdotally, kids ask for their photos to be taken, because they see making photo as sign they do something special.

For kids, it is normal.
Pierre Omidyar's Financing of the Facebook “Whistleblower” Campaign Reveals Much
I take from your comment that you probably haven’t driven an electric car. The whole point is that you plug it in where are you are staying. Every morning, you wake up to a fully charged up car.

You don’t drive to the charging station. Those are essentially for road trips.
Universal consensus isn't required. It's up to individual countries to decide how they choose to run their payment networks and if that means you cannot transfer between countries, that's a choice they make. They can just achieve this with local or regional subsidiaries, as they already do. Multinationals already handle this exact situation all the time.

Marijuana is a federal crime in the US and basically everywhere else on Earth, but you can buy pot at Canada's government-run pot dispensaries online with your Visa, Mastercard and American Express cards. Like at http://ocs.ca
Thanks for the link, For those interested, here is the source report:

https://www.ghsa.org/sites/default/files/2020-02/GHSA-Pedest...

I was surprised to see a few things that ran counter to my intuition:

A large number of pedestrian fatalities, 16%, occurred
on freeways, which include interstates.

Only about 25% of pedestrian fatalities in 2018 occurred at intersections.

76% of pedestrian fatalities in 2018 occurred after dark, and daytime fatalities have not seen the same dramatic increase.

33% of fatally injured pedestrians ages 16 and older had a BAC of 0.08 or higher and 16% of drivers had a BAC of
0.08 or higher.

Total pedestrian deaths from passenger cars has gone up more than total deaths from SUVs (but SUV deaths are increasing faster as a % of baseline).
I'd love to buy it for the better screen, but since it is my personal laptop and I don't need the performance, I don't know if I can justify the cost :/
New VR headset Quest 2 Pro video leaks online ahead of Facebook Connect
I think Hackbright is doing well, enough so that I recommended that a friend attend recently (and she did). I would look closely at the reporting from each, and interview former students. I think prospective students go along too easily with marketing. A friend and former bootcamp operator told me that students ought to think of picking a school much more like buying a house than picking the best air purifier off of Wirecutter or whatever. I think this is true.
Big push against all forms of activity deemed undesirable by [insert amorphous, elusive global puppet-masters here] under the guise of [insert noble-yet-hijacked cause here that makes the agenda impossible to criticise without inviting criticism yourself].

I wish these people would just have the guts to make their agenda plain, rather than these ceaslessy tedious covert behaviour modification tactics.
I know, I've read the rules. Still, I thought that this is an interesting exception since it's directly related to the content at hand.
> Luckily EU mangling is usually just one or two encodings.

Just to list the iso-8859 parts concerning EU member states:

- iso-8859-1 (Latin-1, Western European, including German umlauts, French accents, etc)

- iso-8859-2 (Latin-2, Central European, including characters to support Polish, Czech, Slovakian, Hungarian and other)

- iso-8859-3 (Latin-3, South European, including characters to support Maltese)

- iso-8859-4 (Latin-4, North European, including characters to support the Baltic states)

- iso-8859-5 (Latin/Cyrillic, including characters to support Bulgarian)

- iso-8859-7 (Latin/Greek, including characters to support Greek)

- iso-8859-10 (Latin-6, Nordic, refinement of Latin-4, popular in Baltic states)

- iso-8859-13 (Latin-7, Baltic Rim, because -10 was not enough)

- iso-8859-15 (Latin-9, basically Latin-1 with the €-sign and some commonly used characters missing in Latin-1)

- iso-8859-16 (Latin-10, South-Eastern European, "Intended for Albanian, Croatian, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Romanian and Slovene, but also Finnish, French, German and Irish Gaelic (new orthography)")

And they are all still in use. ;)

It seems to me -15 is now more popular than -1, probably because it supports the Euro currency sign.
I very much hope it succeeds, but I very much expect this to be vaporware, given the players.
SREcon21 – From 15,000 Database Connections to under 100–A Tech Debt Tale
Microsoft could make a fast and responsive version of visual studio, then we would probably use it. But right now rider is mostly better and much cheaper.
For me 14" is enough to do work, but definitely would not wand to stare at it all day. These days you can just connect a second (portable) display via USB-C so that helps a little. Though I don't recommend doing that on battery alone.
That's good. it better 'close' over $1T.

However from [0]:

> Market cap stories (and price fluctuation stories generally) mostly aren't substantive enough to make interesting HN threads. They just turn into generic discussions about the underlying company or currency or whatever, and those are too repetitive to be interesting.

So is this going to get flagged down then?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27667464
Lighter weight UI version available here: https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/koGbEwgbfst2wCbzG/i-don-t...
PBS also had a show to teach English to native Spanish speakers in the early 70's, Villa Alegre.

They made some effort to teach Spanish to English speakers too, but too much of the show was only in Spanish for young me to follow.

The theme song from that show is quite the ear worm.
So as to not become another Lacenaire
Doesn't show up for me yet in the Mac App Store