skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This thought has been churning around in my mind for some years now — we focus too much on processing speed and reductions in time complexity and not enough on increasing the size and efficiency of our cache and stack.

MM (especially MM on large type numbers like e.g. hashing algorithms) are very reliant on the cache because you can’t always fit that big of a number into a register. Side note, I was reading some Abseil code last night that did some funky bit twiddling on ARM: https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/blob/master/absl/hash/i...

Off the top of my head, isn’t it about 200ns [edit, not ms] to query, bus, and read something from memory? Just a thought, perhaps the cache and memory is where we should focus our efforts.
The present > the past

Some people could have made mistakes as a teenager. How they are now is more important, humans ( normally ) learn from mistakes.

Same for countries, Europe has changed a lot over the years/decades/centuries.

Because of advancements in technologies enabling global communication, the success is now mostly based on trade and not on war/conquer like in the past. People keep forgetting that it really is a different world compared to 1600.
Expected to see his face on the other side of the coin.
There have been many studies on this, people much overestimate their ability to multitask. Of course if you listen to a book being read to you while doing other stuff, retention isn't going to be as high. You also won't be able to reflect as much on what's being read to you as you would if the book had your full attention.

What I'm curious about is if people actually read less or if people who read less tend to congregate on social media, which would make sense.
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Ok, good luck with that. After 55 or so comments out of a total of 330 in this thread I think your endless repetitions of the same bits don't contribute but just detract, there is some good that can come of this but not by this ridiculous stream of unsupported assertions.

Once more: you do not know what that set of headphones have gone through and you do not know the finer details of the charging setup. Both of these matter enormously and until that data is available anything you add to it in terms of conclusions is speculative.

For some reason you seem to be either in a panic or overreacting but this whole thread isn't even about you. So why the over the top responses, including suggesting that something exploded, that this is a systemic issue, that somebody died and so on, it makes no sense to me. Count to ten and relax, the world will continue to turn even if one Bose set of headphones came to a bad end (which is all the evidence we seem to have) and let's learn what we can from this instance to ensure that if (which we do not know for sure) there is a quality control or a design issue that it gets found.

And that's not just because of Bose but also because of the 10's of millions of other devices using similar setups.

As for the warning: that warning applies to any device that contains rechargeable lithium ion batteries. Shape change or warming up when they shouldn't be is a very strong indicator you have a problem that is about to get a lot worse. Not having that warning in their manual would have been irresponsible, of course Bose - and every other LiIon powered device manufacturer) is aware of that and instructs their customers accordingly.

Not that anybody ever reads the instructions. And if they did I'll bet that people would not be so happy with Lithium Ion any more. But after having used a couple of hundred cells in various shapes and sizes and advising on the way a certain piece of consumer electronics was put together (wearable, LiIon powered) I think I have a reasonably good idea of what it takes to get one of these cells to misbehave and my list of suspects would be, in order:

- charging circuitry

- impact or drop damage

- cell piercing

- repair gone bad (either of the headphones or of the charging circuitry)

- temperature damage / operating / charging outside of allowed temperature envelope (charging circuitry should protect against this)

and finally

- manufacturing defect (either at Bose, or their supplier) implying at least a quality control issue at Bose

- design error

You seem to jump to 'structural manufacturing defect' as your conclusion without having the required data to establish that that is indeed what happened here.
This quote comes up whenever Babbage is mentioned among geeks, but the common interpretation of its significance may be wrong. The quote is assumed to illustrate the hardship of a genius communicating with a society of dunces, but I think the problem may have been the reverse. The fact is that Babbage was a terrible explainer and the questions put to him may have been sensible extrapolation on what he said. I came to this opinion largely from seeing how much effort Ada Lovelace had to put into getting Babbage to clarify his ideas. It seems that he truly could not "apprehend the kind of confusion" that his explanations caused in others.
The power of habit ~ Duhigg

Seeing around corners ~ ???

The former is for developing habits that can change your team / organization.

The latter is for developing a culture of innovation and synergy
You mean you want US to be even more jingoistic? It won't be an easy task for sure as I'm reading propaganda pieces almost every day for a last few years in a places that earlier were almost politics free (ars technica, hn...) - regular new sites not to mention.
>"Nike, for example, gave all office employees a week off earlier this year, and Bumble and LinkedIn enacted similar policies."

This bothers me quite a bit. Only office workers get off? Why not everyone? This seems like some class warfare type bullshit. Everyone is under stress, and the physical laborers may be even worse of simply due to the physical nature of their work
Hey, that could have been earnestly meant as helpful advice, couldn't it? "You seem to have psychological problems, better seek professional help" kind of thing...? Charitable reading and all that.

But yeah, maybe you've looked into their posting history, whereas I definitely haven't. [Edit:] Also, their reply supports your reading more than mine. So, uh, sorry; never mind. [/Edit]
This is a lot of words to essentially repeat the "Latency Numbers every developer should know" by Peter Norvig:

https://gist.github.com/jboner/2841832

EDIT: That was an uncharitable take and I apologize to the author.
Good thing purchasing an NFT doesn't actually mean anything
Ask HN: How do you get articles/papers/talks recommendations?
I've been trying different approaches such as subscribing to newsletters or using RSS readers to follow people I find interesting but not everything they write every time is interesting! Also, if you limit yourself to following people you've been reading before you probably end up not discovering new content.

With the technology, amount of data, and algorithms we have currently should be pretty easy to build a tool capable of tracking articles/papers/talks you read/like and suggest things you could be interested in.

Does anybody use/know a tool like that? There are many places to get suggestions based on how popular they are across the entire platform but aren't we in the era of the personalization?
Why go to the extra expense when the audience will presumably be totally happy with inert materials? Like "Audiophile rocks" made "with cast resins".

Also: https://gizmodo.com/the-thorium-lantern-your-opportunity-for...
All I have to offer is nothing more than personal anecdotes.

I think there is a "habitual framework of the mind" that we condition ourselves to operate, and that it's a side-effect of the ways we consume information on a daily basis.

Now we simply want to learn about what big event happened moments after it happened. We want to be entertained in our free time and there's a surplus of ways to achieve it, to the point where we can even desensitize ourselves by chasing more triggers than before. Another opinionated and not so scientific book about this subject is "the shallows what the internet is doing to our brains".

Last but not least, I don't believe that this is simply a matter of aging. Correlation does not imply causation. It takes time for the mind to get into this state but I don't think it's just the passing of time that causes it, but also what you're doing with. A sufficiently accurate metaphor would be that of the person who exercises daily to maintain a level of fitness that's deemed "very good" for their age. I'm ashamed to admit that my grandfather would easily fall in this category. My grandparents lived far away from town and they worked in the fields, biking etc. daily. As a result my grandfather could easily kick the lights out of me if he wanted to. That's how much of a chair slug I am.

And just like there can be a wide discrepancy of physical strength that correlates with habits and activities, so can it happen for mental strength or parts of which in our case is concentration, information recalling and memorizing new things.
Ha ha, now that is the best comment ever! You said it way better than I was going to!
>so the question here boils down to "does the plugin itself contain GPL code" and not to "can it be loaded into a GPL'ed program on the users computer."

I don't think it's that simple either. You mentioned the Virtual box kernel modules. There's plenty of discussion, some from Linus that some kernel modules are "derived works of Linux" and some are not. The binary Nvidea kernel drivers had to skip using a zero-copy DMA feature because of this, even if they shipped standalone.

I suspect the same situation exists here. OBS, for example, has some very specific structs, header files, api functions, and other ways of interacting with plugins. A plugin made to work with OBS could very well be a derivative work, regardless of whether it ships with OBS or not. Distribution of the derivative work alone triggers the GPL in that case.
Fortunately there are a lot of other more-senior leaders in larger companies and longer-lasting non-profits who believe people can learn from their mistakes and there is no magical class of people who never make mistakes. Obviously mistakes were made here, and obviously at least the PIs should have known better - but deciding that you're going to keep the student on some mental blacklist forever, and instead find people who haven't yet had the chance to learn from their mistakes, is short-sighted.

You've probably heard the story of IBM's Thomas Watson being asked if he was going to fire someone who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000 in lost sales. No, he said - I just spent $600,000 training you! Why would I want someone else to benefit from that training?

(Also, the fact that you are aware there might be enduring consequences to this comment if you associated it with your name, and are therefore keeping your name off of it, is ... interesting. My advice to Ross Texiera is that, until proven otherwise, the commenter above is some random troll in high school who doesn't know how the real world works. If they wanted the threat to be taken seriously, they'd post it on LinkedIn.)
Just to update everyone: the domain has been renewed and is being transferred over to my account (as the current lead maintainer). We’ll use some funds to ensure it stays active for a long time and this won’t happen again.
True that — I can only combine the "speech input channel" in my brain with very low cognitive load tasks like data entry or doing the dishes.

Interestingly, I've noticed that "can you understand the article while doing the dishes" is a very good test of the quality of a piece of writing. Whenever I lose track on the narrative repeatedly (I must stop the computer and restart from the beginning) it's usually a sign that whatever I'm reading is too "fluffy" (convoluted sentence structure, no clear point, roundabout explanations, all-opinions, outrage narrative, etc.).
because that is what the insurance companies will pay for - they CAN take 30 minutes, but the only get paid for 15 in many cases.
Since version 2.16, log4j doesn’t perform such substitutions on the message string anymore, unless explicitly requested by the log pattern in the configuration (i.e. by `%msg{lookup}`).
Whether or not I feel I am impacted by a law has little to nothing to do with whether someone else will decide to sue or prosecute me based on it. Even if it's without merit, it's still an extreme hassle if that happens (and also very expensive).
> this shouldn't be a big deal for Bose if this is a one-off freak accident. And if it's a systemic issue, it better become a big deal.

You're spamming the thread with dramatic comments that are premised on this not being a one-off freak accident. Nice of you to finally acknowledge the possibility.
"Ukraine is a semi-failed state with an ongoing civil war(and was for decades)"
It is a pure lie, there was no conflict in 1991-2014.
What's a semi-failed state? How do you define it?

"how Ukraine can pull itself from the current hole it dug in"
What do you mean by digging a hole?
>I'm all in favor of...These are all things that will disproportionately help those groups who have been marginalized throughout history.

>I'm all for investing in marginalized groups to level the playing field, but scoring individuals differently for things they have no control over feels flat-out wrong.

I hear you, but what you're kind of doing there is drawing the lines around what you'd feel comfortable with, not what might actually be most effective. And, your comfort is generally tied to addressing things at the macro level. When we talk of groups, people tend to find it more acceptable than when they consider individuals being affected. But, of course, policies, including harmful ones, have historically been aimed at groups and groups are comprised of individuals.

>seems eminently unfair to punish that specific individual

Likewise with this sentiment. But, if we look at it as "punishing" individual people on one hand, then we're discounting the negative effects (i.e. punishment) experienced by individuals in the original group from previous and ongoing policies. That is, we're kind of unevenly oscillating between the macro and micro views, wherein the previous individual's "punishment" is lost in the group, but the current individual's is clear, present and personalized.

The other thing is that those individuals in advantaged groups are frequently also the direct benefeciaries of favorable policies that they didn't earn. Where do we sort that?

Because, in that context, even "merit" takes on a different meaning, relatively speaking.

It's all suboptimal, but we got to this place by embarking on a massive, multi-century campaign of codified disenfranchisement of some groups in favor of others, to include violence, murder and redistribution of trillions of dollars in wealth. Millions of individuals were harmed as a result. I wish this entire discussion was unnecessary, but if earnestly attempting to address this means that a relative few individuals, say, go to Duke instead of Harvard, then it's unfortunate, but these things don't reasonably show up on the same chart.
Disney+ is another example of this.

Derided prior to launch in late 2019 as having missed the boat, it's a massive force now.

Same with HBO Max, which added even more user hostile behavior, but ... they have their content so it's working.
>Because the burning is in the hands and arms not the nose, larynx or lungs...

This isn't even a sentence, much less a coherent thought.

The OP inhaled smoke from a burning device that caused chemical burns on his arms. The smoke from burning electronics is hazardous. OP's concerns are justified, and calling him "paranoid", "hypochondriac", etc. is insulting, and against the rules of this forum (on which the OP is commenting as well).
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Unless you're doing something very special, is there any reason to not use Javas build in logger? I don't know any Python developers that doesn't just use the logger in the standard library.

I'm not a Java developer, so I don't know, but is there something "wrong" with java.util.logging?
The space between IPv6 allocations: part 2
The plastic will burn. In addition to HF and other very nasty things the battery fire emits, the burning plastic is also very nasty: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5577247/
What's your e-reader of choice and what kind of unlimited plan are you on? Thanks
Wait. Did you really mean to tag anyone simply _employed_ by Facebook as hypocritical? As if being employed by an entity immediately connotes acquiescence to whatever unethical or immoral behavior that entity engages in? Isn't that "guilt by association" taken a bit far? It's as if you were to call Google pro Sanders because a significant amount of money was donated to the Senator's campaign by non-executive Google employees (as if there were many other avenues to protest the status quo and still put food on the table). Full disclosure: not a big tech employee or a dev, just another over-the-hill greybeard sysadmin with absolutely no influence on corporate behavior.
Actually I‘m surprised that nobody suggested radioactivity helps against Covid-19.

It seems nuclear medicine is out of fashion nowadays.
I don't think that the greens, Greenpeace and a lobbying website are particularly good sources.
There is silicon. Some sci-fi authors have postulated silicon-based life in their stories. (It’s been too long, I don’t remember which.) As with most science fiction, how plausible that is, is a different matter altogether.
Isn't the point that you don't generally stuff your log of things that are only strings but of things that can become strings?
(Asking since I know of your work with truffle)
I guess that's exactly the part which prevented so many of us from working on ideas like Facebook.

And then someone, who is willing to bend ethics to get what they want, worked on that idea and messed up our world.
The evidence the essay provides is compelling to me. This follow up article provides yet more evidence, including a recent $100 million + judgement against Tesla under Civil Rights Law:

https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/wokeness-as-saddam-sta...

Anti-discrimination lawyers are licking their lips at the prospect of sueing SpaceX next, this time for sexual harassment:

https://www.space.com/spacex-sexual-harassment-allegations-l...

The explanation provided by the essays is coherent and resonates with I have seen.

The Civil Rights Act made it illegal to use IQ tests to hire applicants. It is totalitarian in nature and needs to be scaled back to enable a free society where a sanctimonious elite is not using the force of the state to reshape private citizens.
so they they are greedy for collecting payments for visits to keep writing prescriptions, but if they spend their time treating them during the visit, they are not greedy? How does that work? do you think somehow they get paid extra for writing prescriptions during a visit, vs spending their time during the visit coming up with alternatives? If you think that, you are wrong.
The state university systems are already doing this quite well. In my state, there's one "flagship" university, that also has the football and basketball teams. And a number of regional universities, commuter campuses, trade schools, and so forth. The regional universities have the same admission standards as the main campus, but fewer graduate and professional programs etc. Some of them specialize, e.g., one campus has the big nursing school. Sure, there is more prestige at the big campus, and students try to get in there if they can, but it's a well kept secret that the regional colleges are just as good for basic undergraduate education. And cheaper.

The community colleges in my state are so great. They do such a huge service, and they do it economically. You can get a 4 year degree by spending 2 years at a community college and the other 2 at a state university. That's like the bargain of the century. The CoCo's keep an eye on the curriculum at the big schools, so the students are prepared, and there's no hassle with transferring credits. And their focus is on teaching.

Disclosure: One of my kids attends the big school, the other is at one of the regional schools, both are in good situations.

I think that the "elite" schools can be left to their own devices, on their own funding, and turn themselves into a freak show if they want. Public attention should turn towards supporting and developing better access to education for the rest of us, starting with the community college system.

In a few decades, I hope we will look back on privatized higher education, the way we look on privatized health care today.
So this is what it has gotten to for CNN? First peddling and spinning false news and now this?

Desperation for low viewing numbers and jumping into the scamming with NFTs much?

Well, scammers gonna scam.
The theoretical dividing line (I don't think this has ever gone to court) is whether the plugin interface is specific to the GPL application.

The prevailing view is that if a GPL application is just implementing a pre-existing plugin API (for example VST or NPAPI) then obviously plugins built for that API can't be held to the licensing of one particular host application. On the other hand, if said API is specific to the GPL application then the GPL applies (for example Linux kernel device driver interfaces).

I'm not sure if it's ever even happened, but it's interesting to contemplate the possibility of a proprietary application implementing compatibility with an existing GPL app's plugin API.
I used to work for Highrise (after it spun out from Basecamp), and if you looked through the early commits, there was definitely some functionality that were ancestors of Rails features.
Part 2: http://www.r2d3.us/visual-intro-to-machine-learning-part-2/

The promised part 3 is still not here :(
A director at GitHub shares openly how much he makes a year
The JIT works by making assumptions using runtime information, and by discarding compiled code when the conditions change and the assumptions are not valid anymore.
Incorrectly did you a favor. Be thankful, now go and smell the roses
Have you read "Destructive Emotions" which I think was a collaboration between Daniel Goleman and the Dalai Lama?

The title may sound off-putting to some but it was a great book for me, following on from Emotional Intelligence (I second your recommendation on that one).
3rd Vulnerability on Apache Log4j Utility Found – Cyber Kendra
You're simply wrong, here. Take a single sinusoid and do that, sure. Take a large number of sinusoids of different frequencies, as all music and public noise is, and invert/offset, and you get everything from double amplitude to zero amplitude. None of these simplistic mental models of noise cancellation will help.
>Off topic, but is there a name for peoples behavior where they barge into a topic

I believe the proper name is "having one's bullshit called".

And yes, when a pair of headphones self-ignites and causes bodily harm, we better immediately and loudly take the side of the person that suffered injuries, and demand the manufacturer to be held accountable. I have provided plenty of nuance elsewhere in the thread as to why we should do that; you're welcome to look there.
In the next video in this series he mentions how he was encouraged to reach out to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission about these products which resulted in their sale being banned.
> "[...] NHTSA had opened an investigation into Tesla autopilot after finding a collection of just 13 accidents over six years"

If it takes them 6 years, they're not getting enough actionable data quickly enough.

> How does the CDC get covid infection statistics? How does the NTSB do aviation safety studies? How does OSHA report on occupation risks? Of course the government can do this.

By requiring that key industries and people report the data, then sometimes with inspectors. It's not magic, and it's not going to go well if you're expecting the data to just appear for them.