skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There seems to be a lot of guessing by the author. VMs that run on the CPU have the same performance as everyone else, except when you trap into the hypervisor, and especially on buggy CPUs. Now, there are a lot of buggy CPUs out there right now, so I won't say any more. But just imagine a world where we have a fully working io_uring (all system calls that make sense), and less buggy CPUs.
With all the respect, but you've got your economics wrong. That's alright though, i don't mean to be disrespectful by saying that. The bedrock of prices is human time spent (yes there are exceptions, but they are just that, exceptions)

> If someone comes along start doing strip mining by truck and bulldozer, they will spend a fraction of the man hours, and yet create orders of magnitude more value

They only reason the truck guy would create orders of magnitude more value is that, in genreral, the rest of the people would work manually. The truck guy would sell the volume of mined materials at the market rate and the market rate is based on manual labor. The truck guy has an advantage. When everyone gets a truck though, his advantage will be lost. He will make as much money as the others and prices will drop because suddenly everyone has a truck and it cheaper to mine because way less manual labour is involved
> But X is at fault for ludicrously bad security practices and Y exploited said bad security illegally are not mutually exclusive.

No, but even that wasn't the case here.

When X has NO -- not even "ludicrously bad" -- security, Y can't have "exploited" anything, because there was nothing for them to exploit.
Track down the JavaScript code responsible for polluting the global scope
Hah, a fun write up.
I haven't tried much yet, but it seems to work fine for me in FF97 on W10 and a modern but not extremely fancy laptop.
thanks for sharing.. sums up all conspiracy theories
My guess is that prior to this episode blowing up on YouTube, Steve was dealing with a single customer support/RMA person who was either extremely lazy or negligent (perhaps due to Newegg incentives) and there is no escalation path for regular people whom Newegg isn’t aware are YouTube stars. I doubt Newegg set out to defraud Steve or anyone else, but they put the structure and incentives in place that let it happen. And they probably know this happens to some extent due to the wealth of other complaints they’ve racked up. They choose to operate this way, though, so the bottom line is that their execs are ok with scamming a small percentage of their customers because it saves/makes money. That small percentage just happened to hit the wrong guy this time.
And creepy/illegal
This leverages Perl's BEGIN block which runs before the main part of the code. I suppose the same fun could be had in other languages:

if day_of_week is "Friday"
eval(piece_of_incorrect_code)
else
do_sane_operation
"a core part of their business model" means actively look for vendor lock-in. I have to say I don't get it.
That’s not the job of advertisers, the subject of this article. They don’t make the products. They just help sell them.
I've read that Einstein often improvised on violin. Here's a search result[0].

> Einstein's violin playing took a gypsy turn when he improvised, often while thinking about mathematics. He was a very good musician. He could navigate the piano well enough. But his real love was for the violin. Even so, Einstein's violin playing was not of the first rank. Yet such was his love for the violin that he played and practiced anyway. Such is the spell that musical instruments cast on people's minds.

> In addition to studying the classic violin pieces of Bach and Mozart that he adored, Einstein was also given to improvisations. Some have told of the haunting, gypsy-like quality of these rhapsodies. Einstein himself stated that many of his greatest mathematical ideas came when he was improvising on the violin.

[0] https://pianobynumber.com/blogs/readingroom/einsteins-violin...
"That can't possibly be true"

Read this and tell me that it couldn't possibly be true -

https://www.factcheck.org/2020/04/hospital-payments-and-the-...

I'm not saying there's a bunch of greedy doctors rubbing their hands together thinking about all the sweet sweet covid money they could make, but there are definitely perverse incentives there.

Is it so difficult to imagine that a hospital would err on the side of declaring a death as caused by covid if there is a financial incentive for doing so? And if you're willing to accept that as a possibility, then perhaps you might be willing to entertain the possibility that a small percentage of them might be willing to outright fabricate covid deaths.
Im not normally Mr Fiat is a Ponzi Scheme but...

Central banks are no more licensed than your local ICO. Some are better than others. Given the issues India has had with its currency, they might not want to throw stones...
Right, easy is a relative term. Its not trivial by any means but it is much more straight forward than the rest of the rocket.
> Are the people good at one also good at other? do mathematicians understand musical theory better than those that have no background in math

Music and music theory are two different things. A person who is an expert in music theory is not necessarily a good musician and vice versa. There are approaches to music theory based on mathematics (see book list below); here at the latest, your assumption is likely to be correct, but hardly in general.

Book list:

Mathematics and Music - Composition, Perception, and Performance

Musimathics Volume 1 and 2

Music and Mathematics - From Pythagoras to Fractals

Mathematical and Computational Modeling of Tonality - Theory and Applications
You should try the Dark Reader plugin that reverse all the colors and make the subpixel rendering of the web version of MS Word become BGR subpixel rendering. I know it because the text looked weird on my RGB display with the plugin on.
> Probably just apple not supporting anything web related as usual.

The comment you’re replying to specifically mentioned Firefox and Chrome, no mention of Safari.
No one claimed there weren't scammers in crypto, this is a phoney argument. The existence of scammers using fiat currency doesn't stop you from supporting fiat currency. This is about as legit an argument as the usual "pedos/terrorists/drug-dealers/mafia use the internet/encrypted messaging therefore internet/encrypted messaging BAD".

Also, banks being regulated, don't make me laugh.
Snake Oil is a long standing business practice.
The problem is not only believing in statistics.

As you fix the high confidence problems, you get into lower and lower confidence ones, until you are in the region where each study gets a completely different answer because of really small changes in methodology.
It's quite the opposite. Culture is mentioned three times in the article and each mention is to point out that culture doesn't make a difference to the supposed immutable evolutionary truths.
Even crazier is that Gigabyte offered to repair it for $100, but Newegg refused and later sold it for $500.
> I am convinced the biological need for sex is rooted in a core psychological need for intimacy

The biological need for sex is rooted in the necessity for reproduction.

> this need is so crucial, the body works to help obtain it similar to food or water.

The body serves the need for reproduction.
You're probably mis-reading my (in fairness badly worded) sentence. I mean there are no medical benefits to vaccinating children, including no benefits of vaccinating her to e.g. her parents or teachers. Not that there are no benefits of vaccines to anyone at all.
Lobsters: Link Aggregation and Discussion Community
Hey thanks a lot! I think I’ll try this.
like running one of the top 100 companies in the world :) thanks for everything
> manufactures integrated circuits using specialty process technologies, including SiGe, BiCMOS, SOI, mixed-signal and RFCMOS, CMOS image sensors, non-imaging sensors, power management, and non-volatile memory

Aren't these the kinds of technologies used to produce the kinds of chips that are in great shortage atm?

Or perhaps a better way of stating what I'm trying to say is... aren't these the kinds of technologies that could be used to produce chips that can replace those that are in great shortage atm?

Not as dependent on highly advanced lithography machinery from the likes of ASML, but not so ancient as those that have recently stopped churning out the same basic chips after 20-30 years.
Who cares if you listen? (1958) [pdf]
> Einstein often improvised on violin

Improvisation has little to do with music theory; most Folk and Jazz music is improvised; even what we know today as "classical music" was often improvised in the past; many great composers were also great improvisers.
Graphene FET on diamond for high-frequency electronics (2021)
I could rant for a while, but a few things off the top of my head: over-architected, overly complex, sometimes bad tooling (karma, protractor), tons of old issues (though they’ve been working to clean this up lately), big time inner platform effect (the templating feels like a language to itself), slow compilation, RxJS is generally overkill, Reactive forms is untyped(!) and clunky, and the “included batteries” are sometimes later removed leaving you to figure it out yourself, such as with protractor and eslint. If I’m just gonna figure it out, why not use React anyway and get a much simpler framework?

That said, for a team or teams with lots of apps where a consistent structure provides real benefits in getting up to speed, I can appreciate that some of angular’s enforced structure could be helpful.
San Francisco Voters Overwhelmingly Back Recall of Progressive School-Board
Why 14 Teams Moved on from Apache Cassandra
Here's a gift for you:

inotifywait -m -e create "$(xdg-user-dir DOWNLOAD)"|while read d e f; do chmod +x "$d/$f"; done

You can add "-r" if you want to also do it on subdirectories, and you can specify another directory instead of the default downloads directory.

Though I don't really recommend doing this since you should not be executing downloaded binaries often enough for this to be worth doing.
Hey Google --- I've got an extremely simple solution that your users will love and will make everyone's lives easier and better.

Forget all about personalized ads.

Simply base ads on context. When I'm on a web site that sells pet supplies, only show me ads for pet supplies. No tracking required.

See how simple this is? Life doesn't always need to be so complicated and underhanded.

Thank you and have a nice day.
Yes, a fixed supply is definitely one of the reasons I'm in favor of crypto over fiat. There are many others. I'm not even necessarily arguing solely in favor of crypto but it does come across as the most practical solution to a lot of problems with governance nowadays.

>Everything else in the current system is fine

Do you really think anyone here believes that?
Intel Plans to License Hybrid Chips That Combine ARM, RISC-V, and x86
Author here!
In this post I'll explain a method to debug what JavaScript code is adding global variables to the window object. Hope it can help!
Open to questions and feedback.
"Tuesday’s election marked the end of a year-long recall campaign launched by Siva Raj and Autumn Looijen, two single parents and Bay Area tech professionals spurred to action by their frustration with the board’s refusal to reopen the city’s schools well into the Covid-19 pandemic.

Instead of focusing its efforts on developing a reopening plan, the board has been preoccupied with woke culture war issues, expending energy on changing the admissions process at the highly-selective Lowell High School to boost the number of black and Hispanic students and reduce the number of white and Asian students; rechristening 44 schools named after prominent Americans, including presidents Abraham Lincoln and George Washington; and a proposal to spend close to $1 million to paint over a historic, 80-year-old mural at a local school that depicts the life of Washington, but also includes outdated stereotypes.

The board became the focus of national ridicule last February after a two-hour debate over whether a gay white dad was diverse enough to join an all-female volunteer parent committee."
Moral quandary of the morning: Do I point out the sign error or do I just say please don't merge this?
This is how it’s done with influencer herding. You conceal the strings that puppet them. People trust the messages more that way until the strings show. Then you discard that puppet and make a new one.
I don't think saying "Love wanes except when it doesn't" addresses anything.
Do you have any data to back this up at all? My experience is opposite, many backend jobs have been replaced by different BaaS', while most of the programming is done on the frontend. If you hire a younger developer half your rate, you get what you pay for. Complicated frontend projects needs good seniors, and they get paid their fair share.

IME demand for experienced and talented frontend seniors have never been higher, as frontend continues to expand in complexity, and more logic is handled on the frontend-stack (routing, API-routes with eg. Nextjs, SSG/SSR and so on.
I can agree with you that trump probably was hoping for chaos of some sort though not explicitly asking for it or knowing what form the chaos would manifest. Thanks for the info!
OK, I correct you: you overeact.

And, yes, of course, email addresses in local languages, why the heck not? People in the world want to use their language! And yeah, even Hebrew, Tibetan, or Mongolian (in vertical script).

That comment of yours reads to me like an lazy post of a unilingual or uniscriptal cultural imperialist who really does not care about other languages.

Your attitude makes me rather angry, because Unicode is such an amazing achievement for the world, and your comment just comes off totally ignorant of that. It should be clear that combining the world's languages into a common standard is really, really difficult and will inevitably create something that is much more complex than your beloved ASCII. And it should also be clear that in such a complex standard, you cannot (a) solve all problems the first time you try, (b) you cannot try a second time, because no-one will adopt yet another such standard.

So just read those Unicode documents in order to understand. Those people really try and there are security consideration documents, and they are extended all the time. And take those new security warnings for what they are: they are problems with a complex system. It's expected. So when they get known, react calmly and figure out whether you need to fix anything.
Tell that to Paul Manafort's laywers.

https://www.alfresco.com/blogs/corporate-news/redacting-pdfs...

>Redacting PDFs – What did the Manafort Lawyers get wrong?
Date: May 18, 2020

>With Paul Manafort being released from Jail on May 13th, for those in the document space like Alfresco, it was worth revisiting the PDF redaction issue that surfaced during his trial. Back in 2019, lawyers representing Paul Manafort (a former lobbyist, political consultant, and lawyer, who chaired the Trump Presidential campaign team) filed a response to special counsel Robert Mueller’s claims that he violated his cooperation agreement by repeatedly lying to prosecutors. On pages five, six, seven and nine either the lawyers or the special council staffers attempted to redact sensitive passages.

>Although parts of the public version of this filing appeared to be redacted by black bars at first glance, it quickly became apparent that anyone with Adobe Acrobat, or other PDF viewing tool, or even browser-based viewing tools, could easily copy and paste the text that still existed under the redaction blocks to another document to simply reveal the passages that had been redacted. From the UK, a similar incident happened back in 2011 with the Ministry of Defence.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-13107413

>Internet mistake reveals UK nuclear submarine secrets

>The Ministry of Defence has admitted that secret information about the UK's nuclear powered submarines was made available on the internet by mistake.

>A technical error meant blacked-out parts of an online MoD report could be read by pasting into another document.

>Details were reported to include expert opinion on how well the fleet could cope with a catastrophic accident.

>The MoD said a secure version had now been published and it was working to stop such an incident happening again.

>Information also included measures used by the US Navy to protect its nuclear submarines, the Daily Star Sunday reported.
> people with higher levels of oxytocin generally are more open to relationships, they are more committed to wanting to work toward a relationship

Can people get a test for this?
I had low expectations but that's actually a really nice error message! Well done WASM. No sarcasm.
I'm preparing to enter a similar phase in ten years too. Should have more time by then~
There is one variety of flywheel that evades this problem. The magnetically confined kinetic energy storage ring levitates and confines a rotating ring via magnetic forces. The mass of the magnets and tunnel required scales in proportion to the radius, while the energy stored scales as the square of the radius. This does not violate the virial theorem, since the design is taking advantage of the underlying bedrock to carry the confining load.

It's a rather whacky idea, and as far as I know it hasn't been looked at for decades, but it is out there.

https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc173309/
> India has been recognised as a single entity for a long time before the British, for instance the Ancient Romans, Chinese, Arabs and Greeks.

So has "Europe" been recognised as a "single entity". Or "Christendom" or many other entities.

The reason India is a single state is because of an accident of history - that Britain colonised it, built a ruling elite and civil service, and so constructed it as a state. If it weren't for that accident of history, India would most likely be as it was before - a collection of states "bickering about trivial things".
> If you want to distribute an .exe or .app, MS and Apple have released some pretty good tools to help.

You mean having to pay them for the priviledge of not being flagged as "dangerous" by shitty machine learning algorithms?
The hope is that in the future crypto breaks free of the connection to fiat. Rather than comparing crypto against $USD it will be compared against $BTC. This is why it’s essential for $BTC to maintain and expand upon its role as a source of value. It’s the best path we have to break the bondage to $USD and other government-controlled fiat currencies.
We can all laugh at how stupid these moves sounds, but Facebook is an incredibly profitable company not in the habit of burning through cash on doomed projects. It really sounds like they’re buying hard into the meta-verse and the most terrifying thought to me is. What if this pays off?
Funny how we all know the YouTube video is more credible than the peer-reviewed study. If I had to explain why to a stranger I'd really struggle.
Carmack for sure, if we're talking about prolific producers who really advanced things outside of academia.
Even uninteresting examples are absolutely crucial. I've taught Rust to many, many people, and one of the things that new users rave about is how the docs provide an executable example of every API, no matter how trivial. This especially matters for highly generic functions (which are very common in libstd), where the signature is extremely imposing but the usage is surprisingly simple.
I twice got things as part of an Amazon order what I didn't order. It took hours, and speaking so several supervisors to get them to take back the extra stuff, and that no, I wouldn't "just keep" large metal pipes.
Thanks for the insight. It's the only mailer service I've used so far but seems like I gotta do some exploring.
I was and still am a computer nerd and I was never a pariah. I'm sure some nerds out there felt like it. But, anecdotally, that was not my experience.
Code specialization for the MIR lightweight JIT compiler
Re: sharing DNA. That's like saying why does this same binary behave differently depending on configuration: in other words, non sequitur. It is normal: some female fish is 10x larger than male fish.
You can multi-select and download too or get it via github/figma.

https://github.com/webalys-hq/streamline-vectors/blob/main/R...

https://www.figma.com/community/file/1063138616574654762

We still recommend using the app just because we keep improving icons frequently.
It would work differently. Libre office would think it was accessing a local file, but really it would be whatever the JavaScript tells it exists. So you might be able to implement a rudimentary online doc and storage system using this if your users could suffer tab sizes of 300MiB for every open doc.
I read “Man’s Search for Meaning” after someone recommended on another thread and it felt like a great time to read it as the pandemic comes to an end.
I am scared to ask another team question about my work without checking documentation twice because I'm scared I'll ask something that's already covered in detail somewhere.

I am very good at asking stupid questions. Thankfully, my teammates are patient with me.

Can you imagine wasting the time of one of the brilliant minds of our times and it turns out to be user error?

I would say try to sleep on a problem before reaching out for help if time permits. Probably isn't good for business but it is good for my personal development.
Intel is paying for a foot into the foundry business door.

https://ir.towerjazz.com/static-files/fc758c75-c7fd-4f87-9d1...

looking at the latest report. Tower is like TSMC for specialty chip. i think this will be great if Intel want to go all in on IDM 2.0
I would add
Ushers History of Mechanical Inventions
https://archive.org/details/historyofmechani00ushe

And something I want to read but haven't found a copy:
Secret Book of Secrets by Ibn Khalaf Al-Muradi

When I looked at the science of engineering and saw that it had disappeared after it's ancient heritage, that it's masters had perished, and that their memories are now forgotten, I worked my wits and thoughts in secrecy about philosophical shapes and figures, which could move the mind, with effort, from nothingness to being and from idleness to motion. And I arranged these shapes one by one in drawings and explained them. ~AD 1000
Metaculus Track Record
"Others are just foreign spellings (like "FIBRE") " Oh dear, how insular can the USA get when it forgets who created the English language.
And they still would have been right?
Although that's true, and potentially useful as a feature (not sure I want it, but pretty sure I wouldn't be angry if it was added)..

I don't think that's what your parent was talking about when they say "couldn't name the actual type".

They're saying, suppose I have a function that says it return an Iterator and I realise ah, it's not really returning an Iterator, but some subtype of Iterator - or, in Rust where subtypes don't exist, a type which merely implements Iterator. I now can't talk about the actual type being returned, because that's hidden from me, and it needn't be.
Nobody would care about crypto if there was no institutional activity in it.
Full version of conclusion, by swyx : https://www.swyx.io/state-of-js-2021/
Can a Clean Toilet Seat Help Predict the Next Election?
I'm relieved, at a presentation I did when I was an undergrad in the 90s I claimed that the QCD strong interaction boiled down to pion exchange at nuclear distance. It's good to see that I didn't mislead my classmates too badly.