skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> From recent benchmarks you need to go into $1000+ territory for the CPU alone to get close to M1 multi-core performance

I don't think so, quick comparison, with numbers from https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Apple-M1-Pro-10-Core-32...:

- Apple M1 Pro 10 Core 3200 MHz - Score: 23730

- AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X - Score: 27293 - Price: ~$499

And I just spent 2 minutes digging up those numbers, didn't even look very carefully.
> Ubiquitous computing is roughly the opposite of virtual reality. Where virtual reality puts people inside a computer-generated world, ubiquitous computing forces the computer to live out here in the world with people.

> -Mark Weiser

This sounds more like my future than the vision put forwards by Meta.
There's some details here:

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/popular-coa-n...

>"Based on our analysis and information seen thus far, the malware is likely the Danabot password-stealing Trojan for Windows."
> Hell, GPS alone is worth $1.4T

The fact that it's worth that much doesn't mean that the companies sending those up there would make a fortune.

I can give you the example of concrete. Don't people realize how vital concrete is for the modern economy? It's worth 100T, matter of fact it's unvaluable, putting a figure on it would be lowballing it.

Do you want to start a concrete company though? Do you want to invest in it?

NO! You want to start/invest the Microsoft, Google and Facebook of the world.
Cool to see more competition to Headless UI [0] by the Tailwind guys

[0]: https://headlessui.dev/
or some years ago, when people were forcing hadoop to biggy data easily queryable with traditional SQL.
> PRC has been absolutely saturating region with anti-submarine warfare assets

While the US has been saturation the region with submarine warfare assets.
There's nothing that makes that debt load scary, unserviceable, etc. the US can raise taxes anytime. It's simply doesn't have to. It can play the annual debt ceiling chicken game without any real impact on its ability to issue new debt.
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What calculus class did you take? I don't think that there are many calculus classes where computation is a significant part. Rather you learn how to work with and translate equations, but there is little about methods for manually calculating integrals or derivatives by hand with different approximation methods etc. Basically nobody learns that properly today. And the tiny part of the course is the part where you learn and get intuition for the "Area under curve" concept, which is extremely important for basically everything.
The first "onboarding" I can remember, from Microsoft Word 6.0 in (?) 1993.

It would display a dialog when you opened the program. Every. Damn. Time. Displayed a useful tip from the included documentation.

At the time, it felt like a huge, complicated, OLE application, a big departure from the previous version, Word 5.1.

I suspected that some members of the Word 6 product team felt the same about that startup dialog: at a loss to suggest anything productive for that "Useful product tip for today", they wrote down some inane safety tips.

"Welcome to Microsoft Word...
You can hurt yourself if you run with scissors."
Email the hiring manager, tell him you have a number of other firms who are ready to go, but you thought there was some good chemistry between you, and that he needs to act immediately if he wants you. When he throws an offer at you ask for 20% extra and see if you meet him at 10%.

If he can't swing HR or the salary, you don't want to work for a wet noodle and you've now dodged a bullet.
Did you see the image quality in the sample videos? Seems to live up to the branding.
I'd have pulled out as soon as I understood they had a diversity manager
I assume that inflation (CPI) can be reflected by the increase of money supply only when people can't find a way to transfer the money to somewhere inflation-proof and can only spend it on consumer goods. That's absolutely not the case in modern days. Look at the housing price, that's where the money's gone.
I don't think so. Imperative programming is a closer model for how computer registers work. More subjectively, I think imperative code is a better match for how we think about problem solving - ie in the time domain.

I think by relegating time control to a workaround, functional languages aren't a great fit for most problems. The concept of pure functions is elegant, but I don't think it's a realistic model.
[...] sound judgement, prudent decision-making and adherence to required procedures in navigation planning, watch team execution and risk management could have prevented the incident [...]
We put all our DevOps tools behind Open Ziti (ziti.dev) which ensures we do not need any public IPs (unlike a VPN or bastion) while giving granular access control for only trusted users.
Wait 'till you hear what rich boomers are doing with Medicare avoidance trusts!
"It wasnt there when I checked the mirrors before reversing"
I'm having a hard time finding mips/flops for the M1 CPU, can you measure one of them?
Porn could load really fast
Nice to see you here jensneuse. It seems there v2 implementation uses a fair amount of rust too for parsing at least so it is not pure JS.

I was a bit worried that they changed the license of the spec but it doesn't seem like it, only the code so that is good.

Like I suggested a while ago, splitting this go module would probably help drive adoption specially with this announcement.
So have they been kicked out of the Navy, or just removed from these postings?
I can understand non-CSS things being different, though it still feels wrong to have them plural when nothing else is, but then... "spacing"? Why isn't that plural, when the other 2 are?

I appreciate all the work that goes into something this large, but that just makes me more sad that this jumps out at me so quickly when I look at the examples. This kind of thing made PHP a laughing stock for many, many years before they finally bit the bullet and standardized their function parameter order, etc. And I say that as someone who does PHP for their day job by choice. (Among other languages.)
No it wasn't.

The territory was under the British control and before that was under Ottoman rule for several hundreds of years.
I'm not sure of the benefits of using a dumb phone for productivity reasons today. In the past I was fine with just text messaging and calls, but today I do most of my calls and texting through apps like WhatsApp and Signal so I need a smart phone for basic communication. It's also not possible to pull up an eTicket or pay via contactless which happens quite a lot these days and is really useful. I do however try to limit what apps I use on my smart phone -- specifically the social media apps. These days Twitter is the only social network I use and I've recently cut use of that to once a day on weekends which I feel as been good for my emotional stability.

This year I've actually been trying to go without a personal computer which has been far more interesting as I felt I personally had more of an internet addiction than a smart phone one. I'm writing this on my work laptop, but on the weekends and evenings I don't have access to a computer which means less gaming and less mindless web-browsing. I think that's allowed me to be more present in the evenings which my girlfriend appreciates and I've been doing other things like cooking and DIY.

I will need to start using a personal computer again at some point because I have some personal projects I want to work on, but I want to keep use to a minimum and ideally just use it for personal projects. I suspect people on HN may be more like me and have addictions to their computers rather than smart phones so it could be worth limiting your computer use to a certain time window rather than getting rid of your smart phone.
Yeah, I'd like to know what the officers could/should have done differently...

And why wasn't the Navigator dismissed?

If it was an unknown seamount, surely the only way they could have known about it to avoid it would be using active sonar, which would almost certainly be a no-no in the area of sea they were in (active sonar from other vessels can be heard passively quite a bit further than the range the active sonar's being emitted for as it only has to go one way, not there and back like it does with the response from active sonar), along with the fact they'd want to stay hidden.

Maybe it was something else they hit which was more embarrising? (don't know what though)
Depends. Sometimes the only people who get fired are those who can't defend themselves while the hire command does not investigate the reasons for the failures beyond the more immediate ones.
Well, there was lot of jokes at the start, people comming in to work in blue ties for day or two.

In reality, nothing changed, for better or worse, we did kinda speculate that this was kind of an expensive acquihire of one James M. Whitehurst and if the have to buy this profitable company alongside with him, might as well :D

Another speculation is, that we are one of the more profitable parts of IBM, so the rest of the company doesn't want to f- with that, but if we stop being the golden-goose our management was selling us as, more interference might comme our way.
People might be seeing this through slightly rose-tinted glasses.

Yes, you could use Excel 95 by just double-clicking on an icon.

However, not only did you have to buy and install the software, which back in the day often meant going to an actual brick-and-mortar store to purchase a shrink-wrapped box labelled "Office 95", but it even required buying a specific type of computer with a specific operating system first.

In this specific case, that doesn't even take into account Microsoft's shady tactics of strong-arming vendors and OEMs into exclusively shipping Microsoft software with their products.

So, arguably, the barrier to entry still was a lot higher than with even the most obnoxious growth hacking tactics we see in many SaaS products today.

That said, I absolutely love the way Excalidraw are "onboarding" users.

It's just worth remembering that not everything went downhill with SaaS products (in fact, quite the opposite) and not everything was better "back in the day".
I have a saying:

"How you hire, is who you hire."

It starts with the opportunity's description and it goes forward from there. The emails, the calls, etc. If you pick up a "smell", keep it in mind.

What annoys me most is the presumption most outfits seems to have that they hold all the cards. That they are The Only option. If they don't yet understand - i.e., it's 2022 - it's a relationship that a red flag. Those are difficult to ignore.

In a proper adult relationship the karma, the comms, the love, etc. must flow both ways. Or else, sooner rather than later, one side will be looking for a break up / divorce.

Other than that, be mindful of your CV. If your "profile" has a look & feel like most others then you will naturally struggle to stand out (read: get interviews). It takes effort, but the wisest thing you can do is try to nudge the balance of power back in your favor.
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Easy to be in denial when it doesn't affect you richies. Dont see the need to let everyone else know how hard you clutch the pearls.
The seafloor is not mapped 100% to a sufficient resolution.

Underwater navigation is not that simple (no GPS).

Plus even if this big underwater mountain were on a map, maps are not perfect.
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To stay sane in the interview process you must apply "mental" automation.

The goal is to reduce emotional pressure.
Treat interview process with balanced emotion.
Write down responses that you will repeat.
Make a bullet list.

Don't expect response or some communication etiquette.
Make your rules and stick with them.

If you have a company in mind, and HR process is not adequate, don't work with this company.
Companies who are treating the interview process with HR hostility are not ones that you want to work for.

If you don't have network in place and your work is under NDA, create a project which will represent your skillset.

Put your current skils infront, your experience and accomplishments behind.

Companies search for the best "deal", not the best possible candidate.

HR is broken by design. It will not be in your interest. It always will be driven by employer requirements and HR mallice.
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I installed it on my family's s21 and pixel 4. Easy install, no need for root. Vanced comes with adblock and sponsorblock, this is exactly what I was looking for thanks! Now I need an android device...
We're planning on doing exactly this! Here's the starting point: https://github.com/graphql-alliance
Not porn per se, but porn sites are notoriously filled with dubious ads, so ad-heavy sites would load so fast people say they don't even need an adblocker anymore.

Apart from that, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok will load faster? Yay, I guess?
Sorry, afraid not. Will try to find it again.

According to the person I spoke to on the team that responded, and helped set up the new replacement system and network, there had been warnings for years about the adoption of the system and the lack of any real monitoring, but those were ignored because it was considered politically sensitive to double-check on what the Chinese had provided.

It was a new member of staff who did their own experimentation without authorisation who found it and sent it up the chain, to point where it couldn’t be ignored or hidden anymore. Mostly because that made the delegations aware of how terrible security was, whereas before it seems they’d assumed the organisation had that covered.
This is not the type of answer you want, but it is the answer: Java/JS startup times are different largely for product reasons.

V8 is highly optimized for fast startups because that's necessary in loading web pages.

JVM startup time is generally not an issue anywhere but Lambdas, also, JVM apps run for longer and so they want to take advantage of performance data to optimize over time.

If Oracle was desperate to make JVM start fast as a matter of life-or-death for an important revenue stream, then JVM would start quickly.

What the trade-offs would be I don't know, but keep in mind there might not have to be any, at least materially. Products are made to do certain things and not others, if something was never a requirement, nobody ever cared to think about it hugely material terms, well it's unlikely to happen.

FYI one simple tradeoff is that JVM might not compile code until it's run a bit and optimized whereas V8 might immediately compile some things meaning the later you get 'pretty fast right away' but miss out on the runtime characteristics that make it optimally fast, so in the former you pay a little bit of 'learning time' up front and then get better optimization.
Facebooks new 3D metaverse for sure.
VIm is to other editors what touch typing is to hunt-and-peck.
In my country we have a website where many employers are anonymously rated by employees. There are also details about salary by position, how interviews are done and a forum for questions.

It is a life saver since seeing company X has poor ratings and reading trough reviews and seeing why employees dislike working for it will allow you to not wasted time.

Also, you can see what are top rated companies and why people like to work for them so you can try to find open positions at those companies.

This might also have the effect that "bad" companies will find new employees harder, so they might have an incentive to improve their situation.
Incompetence is rarely a factor in downfall nowadays.
Saying that education is the only path to success would make students with bad grades feel bad. That is the reason. The goal is to shield students from real world pressure so that it all comes down on them like a hammer when they get out of school and can't get a job, at that point they are no longer the teachers problem so it doesn't matter.
But don't compare to the modern desktops, only laptops. I often see that people want to compare new M1 to the latest desktops (hot and power-greedy), then say "well, just a little bit better in that benchmark" and think that it was a good and fair comparison :)
> you've now dodged a bullet.

This is a key point that too many of us lose sight of. Getting into a bad relationship is never a positive. When you're (semi) stuck in a bad relationship you'll struggle to find the time and energy to pursue a better relationship.
True, he probably didn't hack his own exchange.

https://medium.com/@bitgrailvictims/the-bitgrail-exchange-ru...
Probably about knowing what you don't know, and acting accordingly. Like, I'm guessing that if you don't have a part of the sea mapped, and you can't use active radar, then you probably shouldn't be going through there.
wow, how did i not see anything about this story?

i've been a bit busy-ish, but....i was definitely interested to know how we almost ended the world.

that would be pretty funny tho - aliens get the last recording from the space station in about a trillion years:

"How did World 2 end? Well, if you can believe it, it was an accident. The driver was in the loo and checking his crypto, and, well...he hit a mountain. Underwater. Unmapped. Until then."
There are two main categories of privacy protecting software. Ones for the masses, and ones for the power users.

Those don't mix well, unfortunately.

I also use Signal to stay in touch with the friends who aren't power users.
Generally agree. But what's the point of having a kid if they're mostly going to be raised by someone else (teachers and sitters)?
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It hasn't been the processor nor the RAM holding smartphones back, they're plenty fast nowadays. It's the operating system and the form factor the issue. M1 won't solve any of that.
Earlier post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29111279).

The thing that should be causing concern is not so much these very loud obvious attacks, but how many better attacks that are harder to detect, are currently happening.

With 1.7M packages and an ecosystem that favours lots of 3rd party package usage, NPM is a large target. Whilst NPM isn't the only repository to have this kind of issue, it's definitely the largest attack surface.
PDP-11 clones are nice but I've always wanted more information on the Russian balanced ternary designs, how far they got going along that path.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced_ternary
Isn't the point of an UI to have an ... UI after all? The only ones that I can see being headless here are customers buying in to headless UIs, headless CMSs quackery.
Totally, I agree!

Mark and I were discussing his ubicomp work 32 years ago, a few years before his SciAm article, and I asked him about the term "real virtuality", and he explained:

Date: Tue, 12 Dec 89 21:43:27 -0800
From: Mark Weiser <mark@arisia.Xerox.COM>
To: don@mimsy.umd.edu
Subject: real virtuality

Actually, my term was "embodied virtuality".
-mark

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jasonh/courses/ubicomp-sp2007/papers...

>Scientific American: The Computer for the 21st Century, September 1991

>By pushing computers into the background, embodied virtuality will make individuals more aware of the people on the other ends of their computer links.

>[...] Neither an explication of the principles of ubiquitous computing nor a list of the technologies involved really gives a sense of what it would be like to live in a world full of invisible widgets. Extrapolating from today’s rudimentary fragments of embodied virtuality is like trying to predict the publication of Finnegans Wake shortly after having inscribed the first clay tablets. Nevertheless, the effort is probably worthwhile: [...]

>[...] Indeed, the opposition between the notion of virtual reality and ubiquitous, invisible computing is so strong that some of us use the term “embodied virtuality” to refer to the process of drawing computers out of their electronic shells. The “virtuality” of computer-readable data—all the different ways in which they can be altered, processed and analyzed—is brought into the physical world.

>[...] Most computers that participate in embodied virtuality will be invisible in fact as well as in metaphor. Already computers in light switches, thermostats, stereos and ovens help to activate the world. These machines and more will be interconnected in a ubiquitous network. As computer scientists, however, my colleagues and I have focused on devices that transmit and display information more directly. We have found two issues of crucial importance: location and scale. Little is more basic to human perception than physical juxtaposition, and so ubiquitous computers must know where they are. (Today’s computers, in contrast, have no idea of their location and surroundings.) If a computer knows merely what room it is in, it can adapt its behavior in significant ways without requiring even a hint of artificial intelligence.

>[...] How many tabs, pads and board-size writing and display surfaces are there in a typical room? Look around you: at the inch scale, include wall notes, titles on book spines, labels on controls, thermostats and clocks, as well as small pieces of paper. Depending on the room, you may see more than 100 tabs, 10 or 20 pads and one or two boards. This leads to our goal for initially deploying the hardware of embodied virtuality: hundreds of computers per room.
As someone who moved to a country where I didn’t speak the language, then changed jobs twice and then moved to a third country I can honestly state the year went by just as fast.
From the CNN article :

When it comes to knowing the terrain beneath them, even astronauts might have it easier than submariners, according to Shugart.

"Basically, the surface of the moon is better charted than the bottom of the ocean is," he said.
I do wonder what they ran against. Did they navigate into one of the Chinese man-made islands? Or to Chinese / Nork sub
We Don't Need Bigger Screens in Cars. We Need Lots of Tiny Screens
I had my first strabismus surgery in the early 80s in the UK. It was not considered unusual and was handled in the local hospital. The technique has barely changed since 1839, apparently. [1]

After surgery, there are some simple interventions, like wearing a patch covering your 'good' eye the majority of the time, so that your other eye gets wired in more. However, they recommend against this if the eye is unlikely to gain much function.

Also, do note that, unless you had stereoscopic vision before age 3, almost all specialists believe you can never gain stereoscopy, but you can probably regain some function. (There are signs that VR headsets can help people or regain stereoscopy, in some cases. [2])

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6389657/
[2] https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/ist/ei/2018/000020...
I believe that is true in this case. The 7th Fleet has incurred a series of accidents in recent years. Lack of training, overworked staff, and delayed maintenance may have been contributing factors beyond the control of those punished.
The 1% have been shoving fake equity down our throats since around 2010. It is poetic justice that people are finally making the intellectual leap to full class warfare.

Woke Googler berating people (and destroying their lives) on Twitter for non-conformance? Well, live on 30,000 per year and donate the rest to Black people!
I mentioned relatively extreme measures that are still reasonable for the sake of argument. The point is you can greatly reduce risk from these activities without affecting your life too much (except maybe if you're a professional swimmer/cyclist); the equivalent for shootings would be to never leave your house and that has an obviously much worse impact on most people's lives.