skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you work with Immersed (which I do every day) you just work on your laptop while you see 5 large monitors (virtual desktops) hanging over a large planet in space (for instance). It is really nice and I have been doing it for months; I kind of forget where I am as it is very good for focusing, especially with the right sound on as well.
I once had a girl ask me if she looked Indian. I said no, she got pissed off, and it was quite a while before I realized she didn't mean "from India." Turned out she was from Whitehorse, "full blooded Indian" she said.

First Nations is what they say on the CBC, but "Indian" hasn't been stamped out completely.
Absolutely agree.

I bought a couple Hue bulbs a while back and a (somewhat) recent update to the Hue app removed the ability to control them via by watch. Completely pointless feature removal. Part of the selling point is that level of control, and yet they just removed an entire feature I frequently used. That's simply straight up removing something that I've paid for, which I don't view as any different from theft.
> Any crime tangentially-related to drugs

Or lack thereof.
I actually stopped reading the guide when I got to this point, and I have a lot of experience working with GPS.

My thought was, "If the simple parts are this unclear, I don't want to spend time getting to the more complex portions".
Combustion is an energetic oxidation. The primary chemical energy change is combining the oxygen with other stuff to produce stuff-oxide. If you want the stuff back out in its pure form you absolutely do have to put in more energy in to remove the oxygen than the combustion result produced. Now, depending on the chemical reaction, sometimes the "more energy in" is "waaay more energy in", which can certainly be improved with catalysts and the like, but that can only create improvements like 100x to 1.1x, which is great!, but always >1.
This. I was a Senior SWE at a non-tech company (investment bank). I was under no illusion I was of the same caliber of Senior SWE at most tech companies, let alone a FAANG level one. I would have been delighted to have been hired and downleveled to midlevel SWE at a FAANG. I would learn a ton, and the pay would likely have been double what I'd been paid at the bank as a senior SWE.

Thank God I made such a transition to a FAANG level company while not being downleveled.
Typo in “Horeshoe crab”
> Microsoft just never recovered from just how bad the XBox One launch

They just completely lost me to their branding strategy from that point. If I can't keep track of which console name does what, it's going to take something really compelling to make me pay attention. I'm still not actually sure what the PS5 competitor is even called.
Does this mean those are random "1/16th native american" WASPs and such, that claim the heritage because of the results, but otherwise didn't know about it, or have any real relation (demographic, cultural, etc) with native americans?

Because that's quite different than Native Americans actually increasing as demographic groups...
I wonder how cool you think it would look when someone breaks into your house and graffitis your walls.
I see it more as the wfh version of going to the office; when the headset comes off, I went home.
> Just what does one blame government disasters on?

Generally, incompetence through complacency or lack of motivation or something like that. Though I’m sure you weren’t actually looking for an answer.
> Scaling bail would make it so that if people are repeat offenders, eventually they won't have the assets to put up bail and will be detained in jail until their trial

No, it would make it so that if people are repeat targets of prosecution eventually ”won't have the assets to put up bail and will be detained in jail until their trial”.

It's not until after trial that the legal system determines that a crime has been committed.
Sounds like Singapore.
>I do wish the federal government would step in some way

Yes, what Native Americans could use is more federal meddling in their lands, tribes, and affairs... /s
Gotcha, in fact I used to preach that style of position from my neo-Abrahamic pulpit. Slightly different in that I was preaching that God OR his special representatives like me could tell you what the right truth was. Funny memories.
Examining the covidtests.gov architecture
This reads like a prequel to E. M. Forster's "The Machine Stops"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops#:~:text=%22T....
There is some footage from the ground. The space footage is time lapse so it happened a lot slower in real time. It was actually multiple eruptions in rapid succession in random directions. I have not seen one of the initial eruption though.
Back when I was doing grants, I had the US Census for a reservation for 1970, 1980, and 1990. I remember that the total population had not gone up by much (maybe 8,000 to 8,200), but on each census 50% of the population was under 18. That scared me deeply.

Doubling would have been happier.
This is why I don't buy specialty hardware devices anymore. I jumped off the smart device treadmill with the fitbit.

The only thing in my house that gets access to the internet are my computers and phone. Nothing else. If I turn it on and it complains about no internet - it gets returned as defective.

I have a car charger (Juice Box) that have a smart app to control it. Nope not for me. Last thing I want is a hacked device fucking with my car's charging.
I.e. no oxygen. It would probably not be suitable for direct air capture.
Is the difference between a $500 treadmill and a $4,000 really just an Android tablet? A fool and money.
Or, maybe because its been economically, socially and legally advantageous to be considered white for hundreds of years, so people who weren't white were saying they were (if they could get away with it). What we're seeing now may be a pendulum swing, and if so, good.
I will disagree with this, this is a completion of a P&L merger, a golden parachute some know it as, Gus also recently left.
When you compare Gaza to the Warsaw Ghetto, you're doing violence to history. The Warsaw Ghetto did not have elections to vote in a terrorist group. It was not offered its own nation-state. It didn't receive billions in foreign aid to build bombs. It did not have a charter, nor was the annihilation of German civilians in its charter. Moreover, it existed as a way to round people up in order to exterminate them. That is not the "purpose" of Gaza. Gaza should by now be a successful part of a successful Palestinian state, and the reason it is not has a lot to do with Hamas.

In any case, where you have actual genocide - e.g. the systematic murder of a Muslim minority in China - no one is calling for boycotts or comparing it to the Holocaust, or even labeling it a genocide. Tesla opens a dealership in Xinjiang and the same exact people who want to boycott Israel go out and buy Teslas. Teslas they can charge up at the casinos on Indian reservations between LA and Phoenix. Chatting on their iPhones made by slave labor in China.

But then, where you have nothing remotely similar to systematic murder, as in the Palestinian territories, people call it "genocide" and call for a boycott. Ain't that funny?
That might all make sense if Bethesda didn't also bring them other revenue streams. I mean, Elder Scrolls Online alone brings in a completely separate subscription stream and cash shop.
>There are thousands of indigenous groups in the Americas and every person in them can have their own preferences and opinions.

Well, the same is the case with Europeans, Asians, and so on, so?

We have smaller identities, and larger group identities, it's not belonging or being categorized in one precludes the smaller more unique identity...
Much of my mother's side of the family is Navajo and they do use the term Indian. Inuit is a completely different group much, much further north.
TLOU is “The Last of Us”
I wish this was standard in recipe webpages. It really makes a difference, and shows the author is thinking about their audience.
My understanding is this is the key innovation that Magic Leap promised a solution for.
I know someone who was convinced she had covid q2 2020, had panic attacks which felt like she couldn’t breath and that made her cough. As far as we know she never had it to this day, and she laughs about it now, but she was absolutely convinced she had it and looked ill indeed after a week or so.
I think it is probably fair to assume that every country (friend or a foe) spies on others.

Just a few months ago, we were caught red handed spying on the EU and our closest allies [0]. I’m sure their equivalent of NSA lists us as the most aggressive hackers behind China and Russia.

When your economy or your survival (in Israel’s case) is at stake and you have the tools, the temptation is just too strong.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-security-agency-spie...
>I just read slashdot and later HN, and I trusted people who ran much bigger sites. But how could Nginx take such a lead that Apache could never catch up to?

I read that in the last 10 years or so, this is what has happened to other successes like Slack etc : The users are becoming the decision makers as opposed to CXO handing down tools. I think developer advocacy was one of the major reasons.
The pressure wave was recorded around the globe seven times, on barometers. I am actively monitoring my digital pressure sensors on my home weather station and have seen the pressure waves from the Tonga blast go by 4 times and counting (2 in each direction). Hoping to see a 5th pass tonight here in Seattle at around 10:55pm. I wrote a little python script to predict the future passes based on the first two very obvious ones. Very fun.
> Does this mean those are random "1/16th native american" WASPs and such, that claim the heritage because of the results, but otherwise didn't know about it, or have any real relation (demographic, cultural, etc) with native americans?

In the theory under which “race” is meaningful, it is biological and distinct from (and orthogonal to) social “ethnic” categories, so claiming race on that basis is exactly as valid as the idea of race itself.

Now, if we admit that “race” is just a dishonest label assigned to certain ethnic categories...
Whenever Israel is involved in anything unfortunately the discussion becomes about anti semitism (sometimes rightly and sometimes wrongly). Maybe it helps if we imagined it was another nation and then see what we think about it.
If it was Russia/china or UK/France/Germany would you still think or feel the same?
Its not like they don't interfere all the time anyway, might as well do something positive for once.
Have you both proven that the so called 'driver monitoring systems' used for Autopilot and FSD not only doesn't work, but it neither properly checks that the driver behind the wheel is paying attention with their eyes on the road?

Perhaps that why these days both of these systems are open to abuse constantly by the driver without the car monitoring them and hence the cause of these crashes regardless if it is autopilot or FSD.
Great job! What makes PioSolver much more popular than the other solvers?
Just curious how it works: do you touch type and never use mouse?
When I temped at Bank of America, there were 20s of people who effectively just shuttled CSVs between points A and B, and a whole on premise army of programmers who made our work redundant. So...
Self promote: primitive.io is an IDE designed for VR

https://primitive.io
And yet the United States crucifies China and Russia for what it does to its own citizens. I think America will only get involved if it's not an ally.
Some of us don't work in such a privileged place as you with a community and nature. Some of us work in cramped apartments, with roommates and partners clicking and typing nearby. With noise and light pollution to add to the distraction. It's overwhelming and we can't focus but we can't afford to go anywhere else. Sitting in the Oculus opening lobby is like a dream.
tristran harris spoke about this on a podcast recently.... the meatspace is what holds up the metaverse. With the declining mental health of our youth nowadays, with social media etc... how will the 'metaverse' be this utopia in the 2030s,2040s?
I need to correct myself: I've defined my surfaces as linear combinations of the vectors forming the angle, which is wrong. Rather, the 1D surface expressing the 2D angle consists of the points in the set (mU ∪ nV) for all nonnegative m and n, and the 2D surface extending the angle into 3D space consists of the set [(m·u_1, m·u_2, a) ∪ (n·v_1, n·v_2, a)] for all nonnegative m, n and all a.
> So I should pay more than 50% in taxes?

Well, yes.

But more than that, you should stop electing shitacular government officials.

Otherwise it's going to be so unprofitable for you to not be in government. Once you're in government then you might as well just fix the problem yourself.
Yes, quite likely. Also in order to be accurate DNA services need to have enough samples (of the group and the geographic region) to be accurate otherwise they can be misleading.
> and the population can "expand" through outmarriage

You see something very similar going on with the Reform Jewish population. Reform Jews have relatively few kids, but a very high intermarriage rate (about 80% of Reform Jews marry non-Jews!) so you see the Reform Jewish population increasing regardless.
Neuralink and Elon Musk Criticized by Russell Brand
HPC=high performance compute. I'm not sure that HDR would come up there. Maybe you are thinking of HTPC (home theater personal computer)?

I actually was just looking this up, quite randomly. I think it is actually a soft no, in the sense that support is essentially non-existent now, but it is being worked on.

It appears to be an annoying situation where HDCP (high definition content protect, I think) content has some sort of encryption baked in that requires proprietary driver/hardware support. Since the main use case for HDR is watching movies, and we can't do that without the proprietary stuff, there's not a ton of incremental value for the community to get by working on it. But Intel, Nvidia, AMD, and Red Hat are all working on it.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Red-Hat-...

Also this recent version of libreelec

https://libreelec.tv/2021/11/03/libreelec-matrix-10-0-1/

advertises that they can process (decode?) 4k, 10 bit video, on a raspberry pi 4, but they apparently only 8 bit output is actually available. Not sure if this is a hardware or software limitation.

Anyway, the pieces are maybe coming together, just very slowly.
Strange that this is the second boomerang worker article I've seen today...

I am currently in a boomerang situation, and planning an exit. I received a large pay increase and title bump to come back, but not much progression since then. I'm starting to feel as though they think I'm a lifer and don't need to try hard to keep me. Not only am I frustrated with the lack of career progression, but nobody is interested at all in doing the things I'm doing. I have so much more institutional knowledge that exists only in my head than when I came back.

I could go on, but won't. The point is that this pro-boomerang movement offers some short-term benefits but likely leads to a worse situation long-term. There's a reason they left you.
Seems like it's 55M years old, so on the younger end of the list. But it might take a bit more digging to confirm that.

https://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/plants/fern/pteaqu/all.h...

Please feel free to contribute! https://github.com/bcherny/bcherny.github.io/edit/main/_post...
Can a new phone platform be successful if it launches without whatsapp / wechat / line / instagram / [add a dozen social networks there]?

A phone that doesn't let you speak to your friends, family, and coworkers is going to be a tough sell. Getting all those from the get go, without a large user base to motivate the developers, is going to be a tough sell.
And the Davy Crockett, the smallest nuke ever, could go as low as 10 tons :3
Adblocking Does Not Constitute Copyright Infringement, Court Rules
Fun indeed. And interesting. Well done.
No. If you run on a good treadmill you can immediately feel the difference. Motor smoothness, the weight of the machine, the give and bounce of the platform, all of it adds up to a nicer running experience.

That said, I still hate treadmills and prefer to run outside, but there’s a huge difference between a cheap one and a good one.
Just curious, what’s the reasoning behind naming it “primitive”? It’s not exactly reminiscent of the tech at play lol.
>Pretty sure he's widely acknowledged as a guy who was an insufferable prick to work for (or an asshole Dad in the case of his daughter). Plenty of stories of unpleasant interactions with him.

Yes, we have anecdotes (plus all the other nice things people said about him, including his daughter in her book and the author of TFA elsewhere in Quora).

Those are not what he is remembered about though, but for building one of the biggest companies on Earth (at times, the biggest), plus doing it twice in his 20s and in his 40s, while also building two other companies (one worth billions for its movies, the other sold to his first company for half a billion), plus defining several modern consumer tech markets and/or phenomena.

And of course, there are far far worse employers than a demanding jerk (abusers, rapists, racists, thieves, even murderous CEOs and founders) - and with less saving graces and nowhere near the same results.
How well do explanation methods for machine-learning models work?
> Or, maybe

What difference do you see between my comment and yours?
Modern fortran seem fine (in the sense that many languages are “fine”) but isn’t just about all production fortran legacy.
That's still largely a rebuttal of the broader claim that policing in general has its origin in slave patrols - a claim the original comment didn't make. You can argue the narrower claim is still in some ways inaccurate but your own link just doesn't support the position that it's "incredibly reductive to the point of being untrue". Otherwise why would the author write:

Yes, policing in Southern slave states has some roots in slave patrols.
Meanwhile in Canada I have an Indian Status Card

I've heard plenty Indians call themselves Indian. Probably tied to locality

When my father was in school in Northern Ontario they were having students cross out "savages" in text books & write in "Indians". While I was growing up the term was moving to aboriginal
Or their workers.
The 2+ km CEP[0] of early ICBMs required a large warhead to ensure that the target would be taken out. With this large of an error, you can easily make fortified structures and bunkers survive a 'close' hit, so civilian targets were the only target left.

Once the CEP got small enough, bunkers were no longer effective as you can't really make a bunker strong enough if the nuke can be delivered right on top of it. EPW nukes can burrow 100+ meters into the ground before detonating to deliver more of their energy to the target, which means a vastly smaller nuke.

[0]: A circle in which 50% of your shots will land, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_error_probable
Delegation of authority from the systems programming perspective
I have a hand-held GPS receiver that was last used in Chicago in November. I just turned it on again in another part of the world but inside a reinforced concrete building, where is gets no satellite signals. It still thinks it's at the Chicago airport.
Can’t use just reduce the gallium oxide with renewable energy when it is available? So your process looks something like:

1. Emit carbon when there is no wind or sun and capture it with gallium.

2. Reduce the resulting gallium oxide when clean energy is available.

That makes this essentially a gallium/CO2 battery.

Also, it’s not true that cycles like this necessarily require more energy than is generated from the CO2 source. I can’t speak to this one in particular, but there are carbon capture techniques that use less energy than is generated by the combustion source. That’s because the carbon ends up in an energy state that’s lower than it’s energy state in the fuel source (e.g. solid carbon is higher energy than CO2 gas but lower energy than hydrocarbons) and because carbon isn’t the only molecule oxidizing in the combustion reaction, hydrogen is too.
From the linked github code:

/*
Intel actually recommends calling CPUID to serialize the execution flow
and reduce variance in measurement due to out-of-order execution.
We don't do that here yet.
see §3.2.1 http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/embedded/training/ia-32-ia-64-benchmark-code-execution-paper.html
*/
static int64_t cpucycles(void) {
unsigned int hi, lo;

__asm__ volatile("rdtsc\n\t" : "=a"(lo), "=d"(hi));
return ((int64_t)lo) | (((int64_t)hi) << 32);
}

Where `cpucycles` returns the number of CPU cycles since its reset (as 64 bit integer). [1]

Seems really useful for benchmarking!

Note that this code was last updated Oct 2020 and there is a note on top. Also reading about this instruction, sounds like it doesn't work in hyperthreaded CPUs? I was wondering if anyone knows an even more accurate (?) version of this code? Possibly by conforming to Intel's suggestion (or not)?

Author in the article claims:

> (The code calls the RDTSC instruction to get accurate cycle-level timing measurements.)

This implies the above `cpucycles` is more accurate than using high resolution clocks. Is this still accurate in multicore or hyperthreaded CPUs? if not does this mean dudect doesn't work as accurately in such systems?

Really curious about this, if anyone can point me to more code I'll be very happy!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Stamp_Counter
> The Tonga explosion is more powerful than a fission bomb but the same magnitude as many thermonuclear bombs

Well, less powerful than several tested thermonuclear weapons, and maybe a very few that were deployed (largely to deal with low accuracy of early weapons and dealing with hard targets.) But more powerful than any currently known to be deployed (the biggest current is a ~5MT Russian strategic warhead.)
The solution in other languages is to use a DI framework written for them. Which one doesn't have any? In .NET, the basic DI interface (imports/exports etc) is even part the standard library as System.Composition.
I mean, if that's your standard you have to provide the same capital T truth standard to science and, well, pretty much everything else.
I may be ignorant but I still don’t understand the fuss about this feat. I mean poker is all about probability, right? With uncertainty about bluffing and fraught with emotional control problems. So naturally, a machine is best suited for this kind of problem, but not human. The bluffing problem can also be solved with heuristic optimization techniques like GA. Thus, is it not obvious that machines/algorithms will beat humans in the long run?
Not in a million years. I am not touching that with a ten feet barge pole.
The number of opportunities to build something totally green field are quite rare. Even a lot of startups are going to be using some off-the-shelf stuff to some extent just to get going.

This is true with most work. Whether it’s programming or landscape design or what have you, there is a shed load of work to do that no one is really excited about. This is why the whole “do what you love” is dangerous.

From my own experience, I find the best way to scratch this itch is to find a passion project and spend time on that as you can. This has the added advantage of getting you more time with code. You’ll pick up tips and tricks and tools.

Finally, don’t lose your optimism. Many of us work on projects that are fulfilling outside of work for just this reason.
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Alas, I now realize this was not in an official statement, but merely reporting by the WSJ. I'll edit my comment to make that clear.