skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that's exactly true. It's not the same thing to write a piece of code as part of a whole system, vs rewriting that piece of code as an isolated part.

> The 100x slower renderer was also written by one person (or at most few).

The difference between one person and a few is massive in my experience.

> It really is the difference between programmers.

> It's also a good example that 10x programmers do exist, at least in certain situations.

> The Microsoft programmers are not dumb. They certainly are not cheap.

> And yet here we have one guy who can write code that is 10-100x faster, in just few days.

I think it's a difference between incentives too. Microsoft programmers are not here to optimize for performance, but to push features, performance being one of them in some cases. For example, the research in file explorer is still painfully slow, probably because they have some other things to do. Many people could make it faster in a few days I guess. But these people aren't inside Microsoft being pressured to do other things.

Software made to demonstrate how fast something can be is made in a very different environement and with very different incentives compared to almost all comercial software. For pretty much anything out there, someone can take it, isolate it and make it run 10-100x times faster I think. The thing is, in most organizations you don't have that kind of time.
I hadn't heard of George, thanks for the reference. The quote in the linked article about San Francisco was fantastically prescient.
So are they saying the costs for pursuing those careers are higher for girls than they are for boys, in countries with greater women's empowerment?
I own a farm, this summer we produced and sold about 1500 bales of hay. Had no idea hay exchange existed, the vast majority of our sales were via craigslist and Facebook marketplace, with most being small-scale (50 bales or fewer). The rest came from word of mouth and our local 4-H group.

Producing hay at this scale is extremely difficult. The start-up costs are in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, and you're typically barely breaking even. This year is unusual in that supply was way down, so prices were a lot higher than normal. The only reason we can do it is that we have a relationship with someone who cuts & bales a number of small fields for a per-ton fee.

I could see a tool like this being useful for large-scale operations that are doing the big round bales yet don't have an established relationship with a buyer. For an operation like ours, where we are producing small ~60lb traditional square bales, I don't think we're going to find anyone local enough who wants to buy at the quantity and size we have. For instance, only two entries in the entire state of Oregon.

That said, I'll post on here next season, I'd be really interested to see if anyone reaches out.
I guess this means you can use Kompute (kompute.cc) on RPi 4, now?
Patrick Collins tweet in response to this story: https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/1454201794620375042?s=21
I wasn't aware of that, frankly. Do you have any sources for that? And are you talking about Raptors or Velociraptors?
It reminds me of the Bubble Yum Gum VR exhibit that traveled across malls in the mid 90’s

Edit: Found an article about it. Actually in 1993-4 https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1993-06-19-93061...
How do you change those? This is something I remember trying to look up some time ago (to set PATH also for the Alt+F2 'run command' dialog in Cinnamon) but I didn't find it.
Tim Ferriss Took 3 Tests to Confirm Covid After Getting 2 Shots of Moderna
olollolollolololollololo

Question 1: Do the Tests work?
Answer: No.

Question 2: Does two shots of the vaccine work?
Answer: No.

Fucking losers.
I can't remember if they failed as badly as the IBM Deathstar.. sorry, Deskstar (https://www.extremetech.com/computing/326292-why-lying-about...). Those things were notorious for failing.
Plot hole. Why did he spend 1 year on each research problem? After a year, what? A paper incorrectly proving the goal was impossible because that's what PhD's in industry say (I've seen this) so they're boss gets off their case?
It very much depends on the airplane. Mine has 7 sump locations. A C172S has 13. If it overall adds up to 7mL, I think you’re not sampling enough. 7mL per sump location might be barely enough.
The dog handler's "evidence" cannot be based on the dog's behavior. We can't question the dog as to why it behaved the way it did. As such, it is a violation of the confrontation clause.
For me, VR training has been life-changing so it has already proven its worth. Prefixing something that is really hard for me to do consistently with "just..." tells me we're very different persons.

VR training is amazing and after one year I'm still excited for every workout. The recent development in apps such as FitXR shows that we've just seen the start of this movement. In my opinion fitness is the killer app for VR.
Does anyone know if this will make Firefox on headless setups (like Xvfb + VNC) work better?
I appreciate your optimism, but this time around the elites have learned their history lessons and we haven’t.
How can one tell if Firefox is already using EGL?
> The other approaches mentioned above tend to make the tradeoff the other way--the consumer pays marginal cost of copying, but less art gets produced than consumers would like.

One can infer a smaller supply of art, assuming standard economic assumptions. Some human activities seem to me not to be driven by these assumptions. Stories of artists who create what they seem to be driven to create, not what potential customers want at that moment.

Time is a scarce resource, both for creators and consumers. Some of us get more time than others, but we each get 24 hours per day; in that respect there is equality.

Under what conditions or assumptions might there be "enough" art created and copied?
For socializing and work I think there’s quite a lot of chance for VR, especially if due to climate and pandemics we can’t travel as much as we used to.

It’s just a matter of finding the right balance of capability and convenience.

Remember, videoconferencing was also dead and nobody used it… until they suddenly did.
Journalism is killing our civilization - Time to stop reading into our own subjugation
Yep, to most people, comfort trumps principles.
> Apple TV's touch remote is a travesty.

The old one was justifiably maligned, but the current one is great.
I remember similar things happening in the past.

"Cloud" was a very ill-defined term once - many companies threw it around, often in completely nonsensical fashion. The cloud turned out to not be that magical future some where predicting back then. It's basically a new-ish way of hosting virtual servers in data-centers, that allows more flexible forms of deployment and new accounting methods - like pay per actually used compute power. Also more dynamic scaling. It didn't quite completely change the internet, and people's lifes like many claimed it would.

Blockchain is another such concept, that saw a lot of completely over-blown and outright nonsensical claims at first - and many companies claimed to use "blockchain" even when they didn't, just because it helped attract investment money.

That's what happens when terms get thrown around, that aren't properly understood.

Back to your suggestion of going straight for the implications.
So, for example, let's ask the question what implications the metaverse might have on the future of VR and VR adoption.
If the metaverse is defined as "it's just the internet and already exists" - like this article claims, then I see no special implications for VR here at all.
If the metaverse is defined as massively-multiuser-VR, then the success of a metaverse is going to have huge implications for VR.

So, how do I go straight for those implications, without knowing whether the metaverse has something to do with VR or not?
Russia imposes nationwide paid holiday to curb Covid
Or more aptly, a car with reins.
Right but the idea that there are aspects of our minds that don't exist within this physical universe is not outlandish or bizarre, it's a very reasonable and historically defended position.

EDIT: Also not sure what this bizarre statement is:

> Mathematically, things with no evidence for their existence don't exist.

1. How is that related to mathematics? Can you provide a theorem or some definitions here?

2. How is evidence related to mathematics?

3. Why is mathematics relevant when talking about whether or not our mind has non-physical aspects?
You used to be able to get replacement cables pretty cheaply, so it could be a fun project to try and resurrect.

To the op, I used a Psion 5 with serial cable as a data center serial terminal for year :)
Would you already look at that. Meta is off to the races with acquisitions in VR studios for building an Apple Fitness+ competitor for the metaverse.

So what are you going to do about it to compete or stop them?

Maybe Peloton is next?
Lovely drives - built a system with 3 of them - 2x74Gb one for OS and another for core programs and a 32GB one dedicated to swap/TEMP. Got well over a decade solid use out of those and only just retired the last of those drives last month.

They did do a later generation that could do 15k RPM but by then SSD's were starting to become trusted and more palatable price wise, though I dare an SSD of that ere to work near on 24/7 for ten years solid abuse.
fwiw your TLS is misconfigured.
Create a Content Aggregator with Python
No. There's a tradeoff. Faster drives means more power, more heat, more vibrations, more noise, less durability. Spinning disk is mainly about price per byte at good performance - there's simply no market.
Every day. Sweating is not really a problem for me personally but I know people who buy straps that can handle sweat better.
Re: vinyl records

Has anyone proven / disproven Benn Jordan's video about why vinyl is basically poisonous?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ2czFuIYmQ

I haven't watched it for a while but the summary is:

- Vinyl records outgas harmful things that you can detect with air quality meters. (VOCs I think)

- You can't dispose of them because they can't be recycled and aren't supposed to go in landfills. So buying new records from new bands violates the "reduce, reuse, recycle" principle

"It's just that it's _so_ lame and uncool to shit on vinyl..."

"This is just my objective opinion based on a whole lotta research... If you're an avid collector whose peepee hurts after watching this video, understand that my peepee hurts a whole lot more."
Did you find that this method resulted in less, more or the same number of students that just couldn't follow? I've been thinking about this a lot as in France we have a few "alternative software school" that use the "basically figure it our yourself" method a lot, and while it's sometimes frustrating as an experience, it really prepares you well for what you're going to face.

I intuitively think one flaw would be that less student would be able to finish the studies, but on the other hand these students wouldn't probably make it in the professional world either.
I think that this does fill a genuine gap for people who can’t get out easily, or who find standard exercise to be boring.

I can’t run, my knees are too bad. I can’t to the gym easily, since it’s hard to find someone to care for my young kids (my other half works crazy lawyer hours). But I can do an hour of exercise before the kids wake up, and the Quest 2 is much more enjoyable than doing a set of regular exercises (though I do mix those in too). I get a good workout from doing a mix of shadow boxing with FitXR (or the Thrill of the Fight if I have enough space), Beat Saber and Pistol Whip, and it barely feels like exercise while I’m doing it. It’s been particularly helpful during the recent lockdowns.
I'm right there with you. That's a great suggestion that highlights the disconnect these people have with reality.

Munger also believes that wealth inequality is basically just an accidental byproduct of apparently necessary policies and that it will eventually just go away by itself. I suppose in that light, it's not hard to believe why he thinks this building is a good idea.
It sounds fun and engaging but doesn’t the big headset impact your performance? I couldn’t imagine whaling on a bike or rower to my max ability with this sweaty headset experience. Am I missing something?
Right, I've bought an Apple TV 4K!

I have a 28.99GB H.265 5.1 Atmos MKV file of Linux tutorials that I would like to play on it, sitting on my MacBook.

What is the most painless way to play it on the Apple TV with no loss of quality (other than the surround, which will be played on 2.0 speakers anyway).
Yup. That was on of the books I read, along with the pragmatic programmer and other most technical, Unix-y things. People always said I was a step by step kind of guy and that seemed to map well to programming/hacking. Although it helped seeing external reinforcement to solve things ina logical manner without skipping steps.
That would only cause a demographic difference if STEM was more likely to the boy's one area they scored highly at compared to girls.

If the only difference was that girls were good at more subjects, but the distribution of subjects both genders were good at was equally distributed across subjects, there would be no net effect.
There's a huge subfield, called behavioral economics, in which economists study the ways human behavior deviates from utility maximization. It's been around for 70 years or so.
"In summary, 15K RPM hard drives are less dense, use more power and have performance somewhere between 1/4th and 1/300th of a SSD."
It's not more efficient to build equivalent functionality for iOS, macOS, android, windows and several linux distros when a web app could solve the actual problem for all of them and allow users to pick different os'es for different devices.
20,000 RPM disks were trialed but I don’t know if they ever saw production. Part of the problem is keeping the platters together at those speeds; and about that time SSDs took over.
> The internet could have been like this.

The internet _was_ like this. It took twenty years for us to fuck it up, it will probably take another twenty to fix it.
I love covid!

I also love sucking cock!
For what it’s work, as far as I know, Signal has never claimed to be an anonymous communication service. They are a secure communication service.

This means they minimize the information that is in the clear and do this quite well.

Now to your specific concern about the phone number. Signal only has your phone number and sign up time. This means that for someone to request your information, they’ll pretty much need that already. If you look at the subpoena you’ll see that the FBI is asking for data associated with the persons name or phone number. Name is something Signal doesn’t have. You’re right that it’s trivial to get with the phone number (and the FBI has obviously done this), but they must necessarily have this information to even request data from Signal.

In other words, Signal doesn’t provide a means of leaking your name. What using a phone number identifier does do is allow someone to go from name to phone number to Signal request, though that Signal request with turn up very little data.
Population increase has essentially stopped in most developed countries, though since household size is also decreasing there is still demand for new dwellings. But household size can't decrease without bound so... will be interesting to see what happens.
> So yeah. The original one required you to crank it up to spin the disc, because spinning the disc was vital to the operation of the original music box.

> The modern "classic" one requires you to crank it up, because it won't start playing until you've cranked it up.

Maybe I'm just cranky today. But this quote perfectly encapsulates so much of what's wrong with a lot of modern technology.
Work for a few years, then switch companies. Bam! Now your old boss/coworkers can be mentors. That’s the most straightforward way since people are more likely to invest in you if they know you well.
You'd think that the University of Florida would maintain its historical levels of academic freedom.

And all the issues we're having with censorship, it's really strange that they'd try to limit the political speech of SMEs.

That's unfortunate. Hopefully we can get back to a place where the government embraces free speech rather than trying to stifle it.
I am a huge fan of text. As someone who has a master of arts I like pictures as well, obviously but there lies a certain genius within the expressiveness, clarity, composability, transformability, movability that comes with any text based process.

Sure it shifts parts of the cognitive load to those writing or reading it, but in my eyes if there is any meaningful societal future text would play a central role.

This is why I am no friend of the direction IT is taking nowadays. Although I didn't grew up with it myself, I wished people would have to learn working with a unix shell and programming languages just like you learn how to read and write.

Learning to read and write is certainly not easy, but it really pays off if a society teaches its members how to do it no theless. In my eyes learning text based computing is just the same
CDC: Prior Infection Won't Protect You from Covid Hospitalization
It seems to me as if you're simply missing the fundamental difference in that you don't understand (likely because you haven't experienced it firsthand with a friend or loved one) the value of physical/social presence enabled by VR. There are two things so far VR does that 2d doesn't, 1) you feel like you are really in the room with someone even if you are not, 2) boobs look 3D in VR porn.
Climate change is a scam and has been for 40 YEARS now.

Don't you all have other better things to do like sucking some dick?
teletext themed 404 page:

https://www.empirasign.com/404
Sorry to tramp over your thread! Mu isn't too related to SectorLISP, I was just responding to the side-discussion about what we can build in under 1MB.

To answer your question, evaluate.mu does support lambda (I call it `fn`). My estimates of size were based on `ls -l a.bin` after `./translate shell/*.mu`.

I actually didn't really think of the micro interpretation of 'mu' until years after I started the project. The interpretation I had in mind was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_(negative)#%22Unasking%22_t...
> just as a nice side-effect, and to be fair, the US does benefit and encourage democratic (...and neoliberal) ideals worldwide as its in their own interests to

To be clear, they encourage democratic ideals where/if it's in their own interests to. There are plenty of places where they encourage non-democratic ideals as well (or directly fund their own coups to put usually military leaders they like in power).
HTDP has a nice 7-step process to designing programs and suggests teachers ask the student to point to which step they’re stuck on, to help formalize it a little bit in their minds. I quite like it.
Ah, They great legacy of crypto and blockchain
> we, “the old folks,” just don’t get it

Zuckerberg is 37 years old, so he’d probably be lumped into “the old folks” category. Why would he get it and not us?

I’m, a decade younger than Mark, so idk if I’m young enough by your standards to get it, but my sister and her friends are in college and think this is all a joke. None of them are interested in putting on VR goggles, let alone joining the “metaverse.” None of them had heard of it until Facebook’s name change.

The Metaverse is a top-down Wall Street sponsored hype cycle. It’s not a matter of “old folks” not getting it. It’s Zuckerberg’s attempt to distract Wall Street investors and consumers from Facebook’s growing problems.
> The Metaverse will be programmed with text.

Suggesting that a metaverse in VR is plausible has nothing to do with eradicating text. There will be plenty of it in there. People will not be welded into headsets and have their books torched, as the Nostradamuses want us to think.
It's not really that big or heavy. The apps I'm using (FitXR, Thrill of the Fight) are also so engaging and immersive that you forget you're even wearing a headset to begin with.
For anyone else as uninitiated as me:

> Generic Buffer Management (GBM) is an API that provides a mechanism for allocating buffers for graphics rendering tied to Mesa. GBM is intended to be used as a native platform for EGL on DRM or openwfd. The handle it creates can be used to initialize EGL and to create render target buffers.

Where

> The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) is a subsystem of the Linux kernel responsible for interfacing with GPUs of modern video cards. DRM exposes an API that user-space programs can use to send commands and data to the GPU

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesa_(computer_graphics)#Gener... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Rendering_Manager

What does it mean for nvidia to jump on the GBM bandwagon? Firefox would just talk (perhaps via some intermediate API like EGL or BGM) to the Linux kernel for talking to an nvidia card, if I understand it correctly?
> I would question if the dog was essentially trained to recognize the smell of the suspect, and if so, did the dog really indicate it was smelling odors from a dead body or the odors from the suspect.

And upon questioning, how would you possibly be able to verify?
I gave up trying to learn Emacs the “right way” and went from Neovim to Doom Emacs and was shocked at how quickly I became more productive than I was with Neovim
Those are all over E. Europe and they are a stark, daily, reminder, like a 'trigger', of the brutal totalitarianism of the past.

It contrasts with everything else so much.

As a Westerner, when you visit, it makes you feel like there was a giant foot on the neck of all of the people for generations.

Or like there was a 'Concrete Ice Age' over everything.

We reiterate the stories about the Nazis quite a lot, because 'we fought them', but we don't do a good enough job in entertainment of providing a visceral exposure to that era, and what it meant for so many.

To add salt to the wounds and make an even more complicated argument, so many of the most talented people have left these countries for W. Europe, thanks to the EU. This actually might be net-net beneficial in the economic short run (i.e. market clearing for labour), but in the long run it also means a hollowing out of the most precious resource of these places, and leaving them to be the West Virginia's of the EU. Not quite, but almost.
> negates all the end-to-end encryption goodness you're offering.

It literally does not. Source: the OP

Using a phone number means that an agency can ask Signal if you have a Signal account, but they can’t access any other info about you.
> DHTML

Now there's a word I haven't heard for a decade...
Better readability -

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1454230585933631488.html
Looking at the comments, Having emotions is normal, but at work we should try stay professional. In the article there is a reference to his own bugs and during code review what he called a nitpick. I found that a bit immature, should we wait until its a bug in production?

I think the industrie would benefit if we all abide by egoless programming.

https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-ten-commandments-of-egoles...
Mid-Scale Manufacturing
The government I agree shouldn't be subsidizing harmful agricultural practices, but it shouldn't necessarily be a laissez-faire system either. The government should incentivize good behavior.

However, I agree there are probably better ways of managing access to food with less regulation, such as repealing the Farm Bill and offering UBI payments in lieu so individuals can decide what they want to eat.
FWIW, this seems to be a new newsletter from Michael Pollan