skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m glad I still have the time window to self reply and encourage anyone still reading to register as “eat butts” everywhere you possibly can. It won’t accomplish anything important other than it’ll hopefully make you snicker, but please have a good laugh about butts and eating thereof.
This comment encapsulates what confuses me about commentary on the way videogames have evolved. I fully understand and support the idea that monetization has had a negative affect on many games. But the idea that "games aren't fun" to the point that you haven't bought a new game is beyond lunacy. I've continued to buy videogames over the last half decade, and haven't spent a single dime it had my experience compromised even remotely by any of these trends. They're insanely easy to avoid and still have access to a wide variety of high-quality games.

The level of moaning about how the very concept of gaming is ruined due to what some games are doing just reads as people who enjoy being miserable manufacturing something to complain about.
Telextext was was very popular in Australia as well.

Was called Viatel.
At larger nodes, as far as I know the latency was mostly dominated by fan-out, which is how many inputs an output is connected to. The more inputs the larger the total gate capacitance; to compensate you can make the output transistors larger, but that adds its own delay. So if you need to fan out to a lot of inputs, you'd end up chaining stages and adding more delay.

Typical numbers for designs going for higher clocks (read: Pentium 4) would be 16 FO4 stages per clock. So of all you're doing is moving data from point A to point B on the chip, that still gives you quite a bit of leeway for adding buffer stages without having to add an extra cycle of latency.

Things have changed though, as other commenters have pointed out. These days everything is a lot more complicated, as you get to smaller nodes.
> Fact is many LCOL areas are upgrades if you don't need to work.

Sorry, having lived in Mississippi for 4 years, that is not really true. Or I guess it depends on what you mean by "many", because there are many bad cheap places out there (e.g. Gary Indiana, Port Gibson Mississippi, Monroe Louisiana, ...). It also depends on what you mean by upgrade: many people like big city amenities (food and cultural options) and would see moving to the sticks as depressing, just like many would see the opposite (they love the country side, hate big cities).

Internationally, LCOL areas are generally in developing countries, and even a city like Bangkok will get expensive after awhile (though big cities in the west might get more expensive faster). It is still a trade off, many can't make (and many can, good for them).
Interestingly, Codex/Copilot might have even more extreme BPE issues than GPT-3 does.

They mention that they manage to expand the window in terms of characters greatly (to 4096?), which I take as implying they recomputed the BPEs on the source corpus to make it much more tailored and relevant to source code (which makes sense, because I would expect source code to be far more verbose and repetitive, in terms of syntax and vocab, than Internet-wide natural language, and so simply using the old GPT-2/GPT-3 BPEs won't work well).

Which is fantastic if you're doing Python, and that wide window is part of how they do tricks like being able to put in parts of debugging sessions, but if you are going to use Copilot for non-source-code generation, I wonder what the consequences might be...? BPE issues can be hard to notice even when you are looking for them and have the vocab at hand to check.
This is true and glad that CDC pointed it out. I guess an even bigger percentage of "N95" and "KN95" masks in India are fake.
BLS lists median forklift driver salary around 37k. This is not starting, it's median. Starting is much lower everywhere I look. And forklifts are being automated by many companies right now.

Median starting pay for a 4 year degree is over $54k at the moment.

That's a massive difference.
I wonder what percentage of those were "Sold by Amazon.com"
I think the problem is that if we don't pay them, someone else will. And the "someone else" always attaches strings.
Yeah don’t buy off amazon folks.
I remember as a teen when my parents got me a pc (they could Ill afford) as an upgrade from the, by then 10 years old, hand-me-down ZX Spectrum.

I was in awe at how many primes I could find on my cyrix 333Mhz on my own noddy code

Left it running all day when at school.

Never found any thing of value but I learned how to Beowulf cluster and learned a lot about arbitrary integer implementation

Simpler times
Any medical scam is despicable, but, probably just because I'm personally affected by these, they strike me as particularly loathsome.
This is why when I lived in Korea we'd only buy KF94 made in Korea. KF94 made in China were also usually counterfit. It is crazy to me how everyone buys "KN95" in the US.
I think I did not express myself well. The problem I was referring to with the schools is not that some teachers are better and some are worse, class features, etc. This matters, but there are bigger problems as US lacks a uniform school program. The selection of materials is done more or less at the teacher's discretion.

This means that even in the same school the math teacher for kids entering grade 8 does not know what material was covered before. Some kids may have been exposed to a particular topic, some may have never seen it. So teachers have to go over the basic material again and again and again, which makes it very hard to give a solid course.

In Europe (at least in some countries), there is a standard program, so the teacher in grade 8 math knows that all prerequisites have been seen by every student. So they give a very brief refresher at the beginning of the year and can turn to the new material. Even better, when a topic is covered in a physics class, the physics teacher knows that the corresponding math tools have already been covered in the math classes.
Even Rust code can still be unsafe. It's a question of where it can be unsafe. You're reducing the scope of code that can be unsafe to specific areas.
It’s been really strange buying masks for the last couple years. I’ve been able to buy a brand I recognize (3M) from a retailer I trust (Home Depot) one time. Every other purchase has been a no-name supplier on Amazon or at a store. I eventually switched to just surgical masks from Costco, because I was never confident with the KN95’s I had. I would have thought I could walk into Target and buy some from a brand like J&J by now.

I heard about Project N95 today, which seems legit: https://www.projectn95.org/
Yet I bet you would categorise my city as designed around the car
Two years into the pandemic, I've wondered why Amazon still allows counterfeit KN95 to be sold all over their site. It's really hard to verify that the masks you're buying actually have the rating they claim unless you buy from a trusted vendor that gets their masks directly from known good suppliers, sites like projectn95.org.
> There is a ceremony later this year, but it's probably too soon.

Maybe this is what you meant by "it's probably too soon", but almost certainly the decisions about who gets it have already been made.
Isn't this basically scrum? Instead of doing an estimate at the start, you determine the throughput of the team and then give an estimate based on that measurement. That's my understanding of it anyway, could be wrong on that.
> C++03 is Turing-complete

thank god for that. and also thank god that it is not a proprietary language/platform. eg., Apple otherwise we would be mandated to write in the latest C++.

>That you have failed to learn to understand those reasons is not a fault in the >Standard. Blaming your own failure to to learn on the committee does not fool >anybody

what you call as my failure to learn is not remotely unique to me. many others more eminent and eloquent than me (and you too) have said more unkind things about C++, least being the phrase 'cognitive load'.

the 'trouble' with software is it its impossible to leave it alone. an 'update or perish' sword hangs above it. and C++ has swallowed the bait totally. it has competed with the joneses all the time: oh Java has garbage collection, why cant C++ have that too?..oh well cant cos...our users write imperative, sequence critical software that we cant have unpredictable, behind the back GC...so hah smartpointer, nullpointer kludges. oh LISP has lovely lambdas, why C++ has no lambdas?....well we give u lambdas but please close ur eyes to that horror-syntax; hey we can give static const variables values in the struct/class declaration, why not other variables?...sure that isnt a big problem! and the horror of all...C++ so proud of be a type-safe language yet modern programming is all about type-free so hah lets give u auto! what if i used auto as a var name in my code. tough luck. gotta change it dumbo. u are a bad programmer to make a variable name with just 4 letters.

C++ is so thorny, every symbol impregnated with meaning. walking on egg-shells, no wonder they call it 'cognitive load'.
U.S. Supreme Court halts Covid-19 vaccine rule for US businesses
I realised that the dissociative response was due to a strong emotional response that I wasn't properly addressing. In my case there were a few causes:

- I severely lacked the organisational skills required to break down big work into smaller pieces so I got overwhelmed easy

- I had lacked confidence in things I was unfamiliar with like DIY or marketing

- sometimes I wasn't sure of the concrete next step and avoided the task instead of figuring it out

The way out for me was that through mindful meditation I learned to become aware of when I was checking out, and instead I would just think about what might be causing me strong emotions, usually the next thing I was supposed to be doing. Then I'd work through said emotion by solving the issue that was causing it.

Happy to elaborate via email if you want (in my profile).
Most of them, I would imagine.

I've ordered KN95 masks from Amazon twice because I couldn't find them elsewhere and needed them for travel. The first time, the masks I received looked nothing like the masks advertised, and felt like they were made of tissue paper. The most recent time, the masks I received had clearly been opened before and poorly re-sealed into plastic bags.
Bytebase (https://github.com/bytebase/bytebase) is another option. It has bulit-in integration with GitLab to achieve so called database-as-code (disclaimer: I am the author of it)
It's not even close.

Here's an example: Gulf War 1 [1]. The Coalition flew over 100000 sorties, dropping 88500 tons of bombs. The US Navy spent 288 Tomahawk missiles. Each such cruise missile has a 450kg warhead, so that's about 1300 tons, or 0.15% of the ordnance dropped from the air.

Now here's the stunning part: that 0.15% of the contribution cost about 1/3 of the total bill: $0.9 BN out of $2.7 BN (GAO report [2] page 178).

Let's look at it differently. The daily operating cost of an entire aircraft carrier strike group is about $6.5 MM ([3] p 5). That's the cost of 3 Tomahawk missiles. For this you can launch more than 100 sorties, and drop many, many bombs.

There's simply no comparison between the bang for the buck of aircraft dropped bombs vs cruise missiles.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War_air_campaign
[2] https://www.gao.gov/assets/nsiad-97-134.pdf
[3] https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA575866.pdf
Is there a good way to tell? Like at home.
The sinking of a US fleet would result in the same public reaction as that Pearl Harbor. The US would not backdown and China knows that, which is why the current status will likely not change.
This is both a high enough number and an important enough issue that it feels like Amazon should just outright prohibit the sale of KN95s, or that regulations should fall on Amazon to police it.

I'm sure other stores that have third party marketplaces like Walmart and Home Depot, or sites like eBay also contribute to this issue, but we all know it's likely mostly an Amazon problem.
Well they gave a Grammy for best engineered album to Finneas (for his sister Billie Eilish's album), and it was recorded and produced on equipment most any of us could afford. Not so different.

I don't see the people who vote for Oscars being so concerned about threatening the foundation of the industry. That would require some sort of corruption or conspiracy, and I'm just not confident that is going on to that level.
Why Tesla Cannot Solve Full Self-Driving – Deep Learning Is Hopelessly Flawed
I love System 76 and I love the idea of Pop OS but I just know it's going to be ugly as sin.

I don't know who their designer is, but they're the only reason I'm not pumped about all of this.

There is a good reason these color schemes aren't seen elsewhere, ever, in any interface. Hopefully they will fully support theming or even provide a different built in theme.
This is so obviously the case that it's difficult to read the GP comment as anything but a troll. The idea that harebrained monetization schemes have taken over gaming to the point that you avoid it is just flatly lunatic.

I barely even play indie games and I have literally never interacted with any of the much-maligned monetization schemes that people complain about.

That doesn't suggest they don't exist, nor that complaints aren't legitimate. But the idea that they're impossible or even non-trivial to avoid is idiotic.
And the best HN can come up with is throwing more money at the problem making anyone in public office automatically a part of the gentry.
Great illustration of the US’ low state capacity. Whether that’s borne of lack or will or lack of ability starts to not matter at some point…
I hate to break this to you, but Chinese manufacturers can and do fake the "Made in X" labels as well.
that seems a little more ergonomic at first glance than ob-restclient https://github.com/alf/ob-restclient.el
Fun story. My late cousin (German dual citizen) was working on IT stuff for the Pakistan federal government in the late 90s-early 2000s at a high level. When asked to declare his religion on the hiring paperwork there was no checkbox for atheist so he checked Buddhist. The government people are like, are you sure? He's like, yes, this is the closest thing.

A few hours later his desk phone rings. It's Raja Tridiv Roy, wanting to know who the other Buddhist in the government is in Islamabad. (Apparently Rana Bhagwandas called later too)
I'm not sure if you're agreeing with me or not. I think you are, but I simply can't say for sure.
I assure you I’m not the one bending logic. Good day.
This is so cool! I'm definitely going to share this with my social groups. I am definitely guilty of using information seeking as a form of procrastination- I feel as though as long as I am learning I am not wasting my time but without the implementation of a to do list I slowly stop getting anything done besides reading in depth about different topics.
Damn, love this post. Svelte is really nice to use and it's great to read about all the excellent developments in the community. Go Svelte go!
Pop-Up Paper House Kit
Amazon has had a big counterfeit problem for years. And they commingle their inventory so that there's no way for a customer to even buy from a "reputable" seller. I don't think anything short of regulator cracking down hard is going to make them care.
and the usual headliner sagging and cracked dash
FYI Grainger has N95s (not KN95s) in stock, is unlikely to have the systemic counterfeiting problems Amazon does, and in my experience delivers quickly: https://www.grainger.com/category/safety/respiratory-protect...

Price vary, but they run about $2 a mask give or take a bit. You can generally reuse them for a while, assuming you don't work in a hospital - the usual reason to dispose of them is if pathogens are on them, but if you're only using it for protection against covid, the virus dies quickly when outside a host. I don't go out a whole lot because I work from home so I usually use one mask for at least a week, often several weeks. If you're going out frequently, I've seen a recommendation to rotate through a couple of active masks, giving the virus a few days to die off.
> Amazon should just outright prohibit the sale of KN95s

Amazon allows and profits from counterfeits in a lot of products, not just KN95s. Amazon should be held liable for not taking due care in ensuring personal protection equipment is not up to the certifications they sell them as.
They still offer trade services and courtesy trailers at Edwardstown. In fact, they seem to have far more services listed than a large store like Mile End:

https://www.bunnings.com.au/stores/sa/edwardstown
https://www.bunnings.com.au/stores/sa/mile-end

There's a large timber 'yard', but I haven't looked to see how it works. Seems like there's a ramp up: https://bit.ly/31XKTBb

Might be an oversized lift/elevator too.

Otherwise, larger trade enquiries could be pushed off to a different store. Another store like Kent Town has a fairly small footprint but external parking, so I assume that sort of thing would be phased out.
Awesome work, this is a semi related project I built, but not really: https://concepts.jtoy.net/

How can I contact you?
Yes, Osmo has been around for many years and seem to be a playful way to get into some simple logic that can be carried over to computer programming / extended on.
Is there more detail/discussion on the optics posted anywhere? It would be nice to see some info like PPD across the image area, distortion (corrected and uncorrected) and chromatic aberration, pupil swim/eye box, focal distance, and some other display details like contrast, black levels, brightness - I've been interested (and spent a fair bit of time working on a POC several years ago) in VR workspaces, but shelved my work due to the lack of HMDs with sufficient visual quality/comfort.

Lately I've been interested in the newest upcoming micro-oled/pancake lens wave of devices (Arpara, MeganeX, etc) which seem to hit decent PPDs at reasonable price points. $3K doesn't seem entirely unreasonable but it makes me wonder - the XR2 has 3K/eye support and does all the hard work for device design, 6dof, and you could probably work with an ODM like Goertek to get an almost finished product at a fraction of the price? Also for hand tracking, are you planning to integrate something COTS like an Ultraleap 170?
Do any bots incorporate the history of wordle words? Wordle never repeats previous words so I wonder if the “best Xth word to guess” could change at some point?
I typically buy Healmade KF94 masks. I believe there are counterfeits of those as well, but the Korean manufacturers seem to have more genuine capacity.
5.291 soare
5.294 roate
5.299 raise
5.311 raile
5.311 reast
5.321 slate
5.342 crate
5.342 salet
5.345 irate
5.346 trace
5.356 arise
5.360 orate
5.370 stare
5.382 carte
5.390 raine
5.400 caret
5.402 ariel
5.406 taler
5.406 carle
5.407 slane

Shown are the twenty best initial guesses using Claude Shannon's definition of information entropy. Each number is the expected number of yes/no questions needed to resolve the remaining uncertainty. Shannon is the "father of information theory", and this is the right measure.

One might recognize SOARE as identified elsewhere by a different measure. I am relieved that I give up very little by moving down to the first word I recognize on this list.

This takes about 20 minutes to code in Ruby, and four minutes to run. There's no point to using a more efficient language, or wasting part of an hour as I did searching for a clever way to score guess words.

In the 1960's my dad used entropy to program Jotto on Kodak's computers. It wasn't feasible then to evaluate every possible clue word, but he determined that one did well enough with a random subset.
I only buy N95 masks with valves from 3M. The CDC approved N95 respirators with valves in spring 2021 as being safe for others.

3M masks are made in the USA. I have 500 right now and plan on keeping them even after the pandemic. Just in case.
As a start to using shell I recommend learning (roughly in order):

man

grep

sed

find

piping and redirect

xargs

looping

Knowing the basics of those unlocks a lot of the power of the shell. You can you them to brute force your way through most problems as you learn more.
Agreed. This idea could only by put forth by someone who has never had to do the work involved in hiring a software engineer.
No. They are trying to use a vaccine to solve the problem and this is wrong because the virus is not the root cause of harm. Even if they did manage somehow to prevent the virus from getting in, which the vaccine will fail at, it wouldn’t matter because this same kind of immune dysfunction is at the center of a million other diseases. A treatment that controls the immune system wipes them all out in one stroke. But people are stuck on yesterdays thinking
I have a tendency to listen to audiobooks about a variety of subjects while I game, scroll, drive, and do other chores in the interest of maximizing my enjoyment time and my educational goals. I do feel as though I get a lot of pleasure from this action but also worry that I'm slowly eradicating my already finicky attention span.
When it comes up do you need to code it up in 20 minutes or is looking the algorithm up in a textbook ok? If all you want to test that sort of knowledge just ask the knowledge question. I don't need to memorize Floyd-Warshal and be able to code it on demand to be able to recognize when it's needed and look it up. I'm sure I remembered it back in school, haven't used it since, but if the day comes I'll look it up...
I bought 3M Aura masks at home depot today in Bay Area and there was a ton of them.
Wild speculation but it might be possible if you had a calibrated hyperspectral camera, calibrated light source at a known distance and luminous flux level, and a database of known good masks.

I mean the equipment "fits" "at home" (lol)

I wonder if its possible to burn masks and analyze the spectrum of the light emitted by the burning masks. Might need a hyperspectral camera for that and it might not yield any useful information.
I believe they are legit. I think my sister pointed me there months ago ... but they were pretty pricey. Seems to be more affordable now — roughly $1 (U.S.) per mask.
This is the most powerful and wealthy country in the world and we can’t even supply our citizens with working masks 2 years into a pandemic?
Yes, exactly. I would say that without moderation even the deep delving of information can be a tool for procrastination that is more easily justifiable to yourself for why you never seem to make any progress on your goals.
What state does that? B average and above is probably ~50% of high school students so that’s full tuition for half of all high schoolers.
Sorry, sure, yes - for ~5 years, this has been true. 2017 was before my time, and I have no idea what was happening then.

> And Google still processes the content of your emails, no? Are all of those smart features like identifying flight bookings done completely client-side

Of course, no, but the same is true of things like spam detection. What is the difference between scanning emails to see if they are spam and scanning emails to see if they are flight details? Or to scan emails to see if they have malware? In all these cases they’re not used for anything outside of Workspace, and they all provide some value to users.

> Every way you interact with your Gmail account can be monitored, such as the dates and times you email at, who you are talking to, and topics you choose to email about

Sure, yes, this could be monitored. This is the equivalent of saying, “when you use a saas product, the provider can see what you do”. It’s both obvious and uncontroversial- even the e2e encrypted messaging apps can see who you are communicating with and when.

The important consideration is that Google doesn’t use this for anything that is personally identifiable. You can choose to believe this or not, that’s up to you, but the same is true of literally every saas service everywhere.