skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So given all this knowledge, presumably, if each thread used a physically different locale object and snprintf_l, then it would scale fine. And it does:

The author provides several graphs in which what appears to be the total execution time stays constant as the number of threads varies, and this is described as "good scaling".

How do I know what's being graphed is the total execution time?

> Converting two million numbers into strings takes 100 milliseconds when one CPU core is doing it. When all eight “performance” cores are doing it, it takes 1.8 seconds, or 18 times as long.

This corresponds to a curve where "one core" takes the value 100 and "8 cores" takes the value 1866.

But isn't constant execution time as we increase from one thread to eight threads terrible scaling? What's happening here?
> but I know Youtube still allows RSS (just about). They have been slowly but surely removing the feature though.

Can you elaborate? I can still find the YouTube RSS link in the page source (or just paste the normal channel link into Feedbin and it'll automatically get the RSS feed) and it seems to work fine.
Generally, Grammarly feels like a practical example of something humans want to believe AI will be very good at, but will eventually turn out not to be.
There's lots of scepticism from some tech or political circles sure, but I don't think the population in general cares. The latest Oculus got bad reviews because it's so tied to Facebook, and it's since sold over 10 million.
AGI consists of a set of problems:
1. Finding an algorithm which is capable of learning anything.
2. Building the computers that can run said algorithm.
3. Collecting, sorting and filtering the data that the algorithm learns from.

DeepMind claims (with good cause, IMO), that MuZero can be such an algorithm. Showing that this one algorithm can tackle disparate problems is a way of proving this.

I think the questions that still stand are: is it even possible to build computers that could drive a scaled up MuZero to AGI? And is there a more efficient way to get there? I suspect the answer to both questions is yes.

Still, I think it is pretty incredible that we've managed to build computer programs that can totally adapt to arbitrary datasets and perform arbitrary tasks.
The durability is a combination of fabric and how it's stitched. Good fabrics can be wasted for the sake of slightly cheaper manufacture - I've had a few backpacks like that.

If you really want to make the most of fast fashion etc. the best thing to do would be to immediately stitch in some reinforcement when you get it home. Of course, I never actually do this. The higher price items deserve their cost.
Japan is about halfway through this process in the Fukashima area
I got the feeling that book was fanciful, and maybe only 30% accurate and 70% fantasy. Has anyone corroborated it?
This was how we estimated project plans, at my previous employer (Japanese).

We always started from the ship date/spec, then backed through the various steps, until we got to where we were starting from.

It actually worked fairly well, for a strict, process-intensive waterfall angle, but I was seldom happy with the end result.

It sucks, when you get exactly what you asked for.

I’ve found considerable success, in “making it up, as I go along.”

Takes serious discipline, along with a willingness to toss out a whole bunch of work, and make sharp pivots.

I write about my process, here: https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/evolutionary-design-...
Twitter was shutting down mainstream OSINT accounts. They eventually apologized.

It seems like the new media are keen to shut down information offensives, but are trying to use AI or some other lazy technique.
How Covid Stole Our Time and How We Can Get It Back
You beat me to the punch, but at least I can support with a link to the spec: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/dev/semantics.html
Other networks can achieve up to 50,000 TPS nowadays. The thing is they're still not very mature, technology wise.

But it's been proven to be technically feasible to replace OldFi with blockchain, at least in terms of TPS.
> saying stuff like america was never great

I'd say it is working. The sheer quantity of anti-American rhetoric online, places like Reddit and even on HN, is astounding. Ostensibly coming from our own citizens, in many cases. If this kind of self-loathing is reality, we have a big problem indeed. The optimist in me likes to assume that a good chunk of it is planted deliberately by America's foes.
Modafinil: https://www.gwern.net/Modafinil
Humpback whales no longer listed as endangered after major recovery
No? To be honest this is the first I'm hearing of this. This paper reads like a loose collection of tea-adjacent statements vaguely cited - doesn't particularly inspire confidence in any kind of 'conclusion'.

A cursory glance at a few other sources suggests you'd have to consume on the order of 10,000 times the amount in a glass of tea to get adverse effects. Seems about as toxic as caffeine.

> ...drinking of the studied green teas cannot make a significant contribution to the daily dietary intake of F for consumers.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC4811265/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33350950/
Yeah, this is probably the single largest wart in the Python packaging ecosystem. It's gotten better over time (wheels improve things, as do third-party tools like Pipenv and pip-compile), but there's still a lot to do.
Love love these nostalgic takes, reminds me of this Windows 98 demo in a 3D simulation I recently came across. There is a real demand for 90s aesthetics

https://twitter.com/PCBANGio/status/1493850712471527426
How Japan Saved Tokyo's Rail Network from Collapse (Part 2, 1982-Now)
And if you can’t code without Google, maybe you shouldn’t have that job.

Tools exist to help us. Use them.
Man, that’s all I really wanted.
The 90s were a decade of unbridled American power and optimism. The Soviet union had crumbled and the world was America's oyster.

This week's events will cause a resurgence in 90s nostalgia in the West.
Depends on Putin's goals. Taking government buildings only might be a reasonably low casualty operation, while taking the city might be a high casualty operation. But there's little value in the latter, so I would bet he'll go for a siege of the city itself while using air power and cavalry to take the government buildings.
What? China is still biggest dollar forex out there.
Have You “Moved to Substack”?
Talking point if out in public (assuming you have this on a laptop or similar) or at a meetup?
Because that desktop is honestly clearer and faster to understand that today's chromeless trends. Buttons look like buttons, and text boxes are obvious.
Because we hit peak desktop right around Windows 2000. Just about everything since then has been a step backwards in speed and usability.

The Mac Finder is a hot mess and seems to get worse with every release.

The 964 different desktops available for Linux are in general a hodgepodge of slow impossible-to-use disasters. A notable exception is XFCE but it's a bit of a second-class citizen and even things in XFCE don't work well. (Example: network configuration, you need to be logged in as root to use this applet.)

Edit: I would like to point out that the Win2k desktop was blazing fast on a machine with 256MB of RAM. I can't get Debian to install on a machine with less than 512MB without complaining.
The article in question has a preprint at https://psyarxiv.com/ezkh4/
If the best we could do was Win95 then that explains the decline in American imperialism.
Not really sure, but I can't stop thinking that, perhaps, simpler models can perform similarly, and that this is just an attempt to find a problem that fits to the existing solution. In this specific case, the problem space is so well defined that we can just spend more time on training than building more complicated models. You see, GPUs are much cheaper to roll than researchers.

p.s. Meh, any wisdom here?
I really like this as an interview task. I wouldn't do particularly well, as I'm more on the JavaScript side, but it would really expose the parts of web dev that I'm not familiar with.

Prompts to have conversations that expose a candidate's depth of knowledge in real world cases are exactly what an interview should contain...
I'm currently getting a high school advanced math certificate (in Dutch). It's a good platform and it gives me the opportunity to ask teachers much more advanced questions that relate to the material.

I supplement my theory by watching 3Blue1Brown. Remembering double angle formula's is easy because of it :)

So for me, I've learned a few things. I need:

- Fellow students in a WhatsApp group

- Teachers giving an answer in about a day on questions I have

- Good exercises that give immediate feedback

- 3Blue1Brown + Khan Academy giving better explanations

I'm simply describing the nature of the course that I'm going through :P But I've also noticed that these things help.
They probably named the project years ago.

Edit: 2021-09-06, most likely: https://whois.domaintools.com/getconvoy.io
Probably because 99% of users do not have or need xattrs/acls.
It could be tough to manufacture the components if they aren't available. Magnesium is a more reliable way to ignite it.
Totally agree. I even go with three. One work gave me, one for my own hard mental work and one for everything else.

For me, I am just not going to play on my personal work computer after going through the trouble and space to set all this up.
This with WINE is what I think is the perfect combination of GUI and CLI... but as a long-time Windows user, several things stood out and made it look slightly off:

the menu bar and padding around the icon labels is too tall
the window borders are slightly too wide (compared to the default)
scrollbar buttons shouldn't disable at end of travel
sort direction indicator in header control (which first appeared in Win2k) should be a grey triangle, not a black arrow
"KiB" and "GiB"
font has some weird keming in some places

Nonetheless, this is a lot closer lookalike than some of the others I've seen, such as this one:

https://kmandla.wordpress.com/projects/lookalike-windows-xp-...
I take it you've never had to depend upon a Google library before.

Just kidding, but yeah - my understanding is that Tensorflow V1 was annoying to use and that Tensorflow V2 sort of "pytorch-ified" everything but it was a.) breaking changes and b.) too little too late.

Now Google has JAX (they JIT numpy so it will run well on their TPU's + autograd) which is coming along nicely and takes a different approach from pytorch. I'll still be using pytorch or a wrapper for pytorch-isms however.
> wore a circuit board with nine lights over a hoodie and was inexplicably grasping a hand full of Play-Doh

Not quite the same thing as ham equipment in a suitcase.
You will have to trust when I say the last time I tested this (not when I wrote the comment) using the data scheme without a doctype tag still disabled quirk mode. Clearly you are very knowledgeable about the browser so I am willing to concede defeat here. :)

edit: I suppose what I'm trying to say is: I wouldn't hold it against an engineer with proven experience if they don't know what quirk mode is, but I would become suspicious of their capabilities if they couldn't imagine any justifications for it after giving them a quick rundown of what it is and how it works.
Of course, and I'm not asking them to change it or anything. Just speaking to current events and feelings about the word. But that's all. No criticism to the project or maintainers.
tl;dr: They're letting players have more than 4 times as much marijuana in their systems as before without counting it as a positive test, and players can now test positive on 3 separate occasions and still not lose their eligibility.
And there is just enough whitespace. Not waaayyyyy toooooo muuuuccchhh.

And there’s consistency. Not eight generations of UI redesigns for each control.

And you can actually tell which window has the focus.
> I can 100% confirm that all money in the world is just literally numbers, and it is balanced by the different federal reserve systems around the world to ensure no one can "create" money without notifying everyone.

So how does this stack up when the CIA are purportedly printing their own currency? Or are the CIA and others exploiting the lack of security measures built into cash?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdollar#CIA

My understanding of money creation aka FIAT currency is banks/lenders deposit a small % with the central bank and can then create circa 90%+ of money out of thin air when someone takes on a loan.
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...

https://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/archive/starkey_banking#:....

With this being the case, then borrowing money not only demonstrates banks have more intelligence on people in order to decide whether to lend money or not, but it also benefits some in society more than others when considering credit rating agencies.

Edit: In other words, the amount of debt someone can take on is a sign of good behaviour and nothing more, a variation of monkeys being taught the concept of money and then scientists witnessing how monkeys traded their tokens, notably, females got cash for sex, males got cash for stuff the female wanted.
Basic.
I just totally misread that part. My mistake.

I've been wrong about how far Putin would go before, so I won't make any predictions. I think it's too early to call this a "lebensraum" maneuver, and as I keep saying, the costs of conflict are so high, that it's perfectly sensible to pursue a cautious approach, even at some cost (even to human life). Minsk 2 was somewhat dictated by Russia, but it wasn't a hugely onerous protocol, and the causes of its failure don't lie entirely with Putin -- meaning this invasion was not a fait accompli. Also, let the dust settle and see if it's more like the 1st Iraq War/Gulf War, where "just" the military and infrastructure are cruelly decapitated.

And Russia today is a middle power like the UK or France, not a great power like the US. If your analogy is apt, it could be soundly defeated in a conventional war.
I suppose the above scenario is probably contrived, but it seems all of those replies fail to grasp the nature of the problem - I.e. none of them attempt to quantify the risk of doing nothing against the cost of doing something. Instead, just opinions/speculation, which is disappointing coming from a room full of doctors.
Both a more efficient use of screen space (at least, compared to the default themes of XFCE, crucially, but also KDE, GNOME, and others), and an aesthetically better visual design. I am surprised to have just written this latter observation, considering this came from Microsoft, but I suppose the era when it was designed demanded it, both as a result of the lower screen resolutions used, and the the contemporary marketing needs for the release of Windows 95.
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Have you heard of negative interest rates? This is so real that it is real.

Also real: the wild "insanity" that is the picture painted by the writer of this Harper's piece is also exactly the same "insanity" that is present in, well, everything that involves the US dollar.

Money is so tenuous worldwide at this stage that entire central bank policy is designed so that you won't want to keep it anyway. You must spend! We really are jacked directly into the machine. It's pretty wild if you compare it to just a blip ago, historically.
Your 2nd sentence is very difficult to parse; not nit-picking, just hoping to inspire you to reword for clarity.
From the video, it appears what Disney is doing is much simpler compared to the techniques in the article. It seems children are simply "filling in" parts of existing figures (e.g. the Mickey Mouse ears shown in the video), which are then animated. This seems to me like a less challenging problem, as all the rigging/joint/etc stuff that Meta is doing can be done by-hand, beforehand, in the Disney case, it does not need any ML. The cool thing with Meta's system is that it (hypothetically) works on arbitrary human-like figures.
Whenever I go on twitter it messes up my momentum for that whole day. At least that's how it seems.
You can learn the hacker mindset in school.

What school? Where VUSEC teaches (Amsterdam).
C2PA Releases Spec of First Industry Standard for Content Provenance
If you're leading the programming group of a FIRST robotics team then you're more prepared for real-world development than a fourth semester CS student. Do anything you have to do to get an interview and be confident.
People, ideas, material -- in that order! -col. John Boyd
These games got me through very difficult times. When life felt impossible, Dark Souls felt doable. It was punishing at times, but it needed to be like that because life is like that. It would just be a waste of time otherwise.

It taught me a bit about despair, and how to overcome it.
Write, in anyway that feels mentally relieving. Whether it’s a journal or a whiteboard.
> "Haven't been on the crusade against it ever since."

haven't -> have, right?
Did you try the arc-dark theme? It's quite popular among archlinux users, and I think it looks pretty polished. [1]

I'm no design expert, so I got nothing to say in terms of UI/UX. But it's the theme I've grown most comfortable with to use over the years. I agree with your sentiment that most themes lack attention to detail, where everything looks just more cluttered than anything else (especially when taking a look at icons, fonts etc).

[1] https://github.com/horst3180/arc-theme
What a farce. But one takeaway is that Putin's support in his inner circle is waning.
> I'm afraid a lot of people have no clue. Their only idea is action movies and FPS games.

The horrors of war is like half of the history classes. It's hard to miss.
Fun enough that reminds me of the smell in the computer room in our house.
The coatings are an almost complete waste of time on something with as many seams as a pack. Get a trash compactor bag, and use it as a pack liner bag. They last forever and do a better job than any woven fabric with a coating.

Bonus: they're usually white, which means you stand half a chance of being able to see the stuff in your pack. White is pretty rare except for Dyneema packs (Dyneema apparently doesn't dye).

Edited to add:

The other major failure mode for coated and laminated fabrics is when they tape the coated or laminated side. The seam tape flexes differently from the substrate fabric, which pulls at the coating or laminate. I've had coated and Goretex rain jackets fail in this way, as well as coated stuff sacks. Silnylon fares a little better because the silicone is impregnated into the nylon rather than coated on. Silnylon isn't breathable, so it isn't a mainstream material for rain gear though.

Source: GA->ME 2010 and another thousand or so miles of hiking.
I'll be the first to say the unpopular take on HN: I don't think Windows 95 looks that good (compared to today).

I personally find more modern (like MacOS 10) styles to look the best, and flat designs to be just as usable as more skeumorphic ones.

It seems to me that preference for UI styles is completely personal, probably being influenced by what OS we initially used. As someone (potentially a lot) younger than many of those on HN, I like newer designs, and vice versa holds as well.
I wonder if using tailscale and yubikeys with Workspace is a configuration that would provide security, if possible.
Or an accomplished retired American pilot of Ukrainian descent? There's precedent for that in previous wars.
Who are Ukraine’s Jews, and how is Russia’s invasion affecting them?
I grew up with dd/mm/yy, comma as decimal separators, dot as thousands separator, but:

1. The fact that I grew up with those formats holds little weight for me. At this point, most of the literature I read and content I consume doesn't come from my own country. And why should it? when I have access to books, movies, websites from all over the world, and my country makes up for a tiny fraction of that. With the massification of international remote work this tendency will only increase.

2. Even when working with people from my own country, I can agree with them to use formats different from the ones we grew up with. In fact, everytime we type a floating point literal in any programming language, we do it without following the rules we grew up with.

3. In the 21st century, in the context of globalization, massification of the Internet and widespread access to computing, to keep doing these things differently by country/language makes no sense, specially when there are already good international standards that we can follow. It's not that hard to learn, either. We even accept English as the de facto language of programming and software development, and that's a full natural language that we have to spend years learning.

4. In my opinion, yyyy-mm-dd and dot as decimal separator are simply better for practical reasons. However, if we collectively decide that other formats are the "international standard" then I'd follow whatever rule we decide, as long as it's not too bad.

Can you imagine if instead of using SI units, each country used their own special units of measurement? We are definitely better off with SI, standarization makes everything so much easier. I can talk to someone from Japan about meters and kilograms and they will understand without any ambiguity.
I really like the question "What happens when I type [x].com into the browser?"
The interview is looking for one very specific type of engineer: a frontend specialist with demonstrated experience with a broad range of web technologies.

I see lots of full-stack and generalist engineers screw up frontend development because they don't understand the choices they need to make or understand the consequences of those choices. They lack domain knowledge. Sure, you can Google a meta tag, but if you never knew it existed in the first place you're going to walk into a performance, security, accessibility, or SEO edge case. It's a domain where a good developer with experience is going to outperform a great developer working from first principles.

I usually dislike interviews that focus on trivia. But I also see a lot of people who wouldn't dare disparage other engineering specialisations belittling frontend as trivial. Yes, everyone can and should do frontend engineering, but it is also a domain full of gotchas where esoteric and hard-won knowledge can be valuable.
> Nearly 100 open issues on Github. It's not something you want to use in production.

The number of open issues isn't a meaningful measure of the maturity or reliability of a project.
See also: https://cs140e.sergio.bz/about/
IMO the last decently desktop version of Windows was 7. After that, it was utterly ruined by the existence of touchscreens and Microsoft's insistence that they're the next big thing in computers.

My main issue with current macOS is the combined toolbars and titles, including in finder. There's too much padding but then everything feels unnecessarily cramped. My second issue with modern macOS is their new icon system where literally nothing is aligned to the pixel grid. But there's still a surprising amount of dense UIs — I guess it helps that Apple has a clear separation between touch (iPad) and non-touch (Mac) product lines.
Spectra and Dyneema are used for braided fishing line. It's scarily strong for its size, but at least in fishing, is incredibly prone to abrasion. Is this true for bags also?
A closer look at video footages by DAESH reveals that the bombs dropped by drones are not as effective as vehicle-bombs since 40 mm munitions have limited effect. However, a drone with the help of a simple mechanism can still inflict casualties on ISF personnel or cause the injury of personnel and render them ineffective in the fight.

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