skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're not alone. (10a+b)(10c+d) = 100ac+10(ad+bc)+bd = 100ac+10(ac+ad+bc+bd-ac-bd)+bd = 100ac+10[(a+b)(c+d)-ac-bd]+bd. Quite pleasing, aesthetically.
> And for a first party product?

This seems to depend on what country you load it from. This web archive link shows you what we get in the US.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220308222503/https://www.mozil...
I don't know. I'm not a maintainer of those projects. There's no obvious reason to me other than that it's hard to adapt a legacy code base that assumes a single thread to something that uses multiple threads. IIRC, there have been multiple attempts to make GNU grep multi-threaded. I believe folks have even submitted patches to the project. I don't follow it closely enough to know why they haven't been accepted.

Sometimes the answer to "why don't they do this" is just uninteresting. :-)
I don't care about that, if Russia is going to launch then let them, we will retaliate, there's not much we can do about it. However cutting off regular russian people and businesses just seems anti-democratic and wrong. It will just turn them more against the west.
It reduces the earnings for the exporter from selling it abroad, effectively capping the internal price for the commodity so it cannot go higher than a certain price (it works on anything that can be exported)
I have an existing GTX 1060 6GB I already had from before insane prices. And I bought an HP Omen 30L 5800x that someone had purchased to pull the video card from.
Google is well known for the acquihire. They aren't Berkshire Hathaway, they aren't just assembling a portfolio of companies. They have their own product plans, and generally buy out other companies as a way to get pre-built teams with the right specialties to accomplish that.

Also, it's very unlikely Google wants to be in the incident response consulting space: Google entirely hates any line of business that can't be automated into a smooth profit paste. Flying security professionals out to clients isn't in their DNA.
$4000-$6000 is a toy for a tiny number of rich people or a work machine for a well paid professional.

In the PC space the average spend is $800 and a PS5 is $500.
And a lot tend to make decisions for IT departments too from my experience.
name and shame, so those of us non-experts can spot the bad comments.
Biggest missing thing for me is no internal M.2 SSD slots where you can swap storage. Getting external closures is annoying, really wish it came with 2 or 4 m.2 slots that you could put on the top or bottom. Cables break, wiggle around, get moved around during data transfer and cause it to get corrupted or fail and more.
The first war of this scale in Europe since WW2...I wonder why it's on the news.

I really despise this line of thinking. Are you saying you can't care about objectively innocent peoples homes, cities, lives being destroyed unless you have in depth knowledge of the regions history and energy politics?

And honestly your assumption that most of these people don't remember Georgia or 2014 is ridiculous.
Inspired by this, can anyone explain why distributed protocols more often opt for centralized consensus algorithms like Raft, instead of decentralized schemes like Chord or Kademlia? In all cases, the underlying data structure is a shared key/value store. Intuitively, the p2p approach feels more robust, since each node only needs to worry about itself, and every node is the same. So why add the coordinator node? Is it still the right choice in $current_year, even after so many hours of development invested into strong p2p consensus protocols like libp2p powering Ethereum (currently ~11k nodes btw, not actually that big – and many operated by small number of entities)?
a decade ago, I had the idea of a distributed internet wide filesystem where the chunks could be duplicated over and over again over the internet. Something survivable and loosely/eventually consistent when updated.

Someone appears to have built at least part of it.
Everyone should oppose the Russian invasion of Ukraine and, outside of Vladimir Putin, nearly everyone does.

Getting involved in a shooting war with Russia is a very, very different animal and IMO something to avoid at all possible cost. To be specific, at this moment those (truly awful) costs include the bombardment of civilian areas in Ukrainian cities by Russian forces, which is likely a war crime.

I’m very happy as a U.S. taxpayer to give the government of Ukraine nearly any military hardware they think will help.

But to have formerly-Polish-but-now-American-though-piloted-by-Ukrainian-pilots MiG jets fly from a NATO controlled base to Ukraine to shoot down Russian planes places us perilously close to an actual shooting war with Russia. Such a war could escalate in unpredictable ways.

Vladimir could just be “acting crazy” when he puts his nuclear forces on high alert. Maybe he’s just trying to convince us he’ll do it, so that we do nothing. But how great a risk are you willing to take that he’s only acting?

I do not think this Polish proposal, nor the idea of a NATO no-fly zone (which would require shooting down Russian planes!) are workable ideas. I say this with genuine disappointment for Ukraine. The potential costs are too high.
I tried an iPhone 12 for two weeks and then went back to my old Pixel 2 - it was a nice phone with a great camera, but nothing wowed me. And I missed my fingerprint sensor.

I then bought a secondhand iPhone SE (2020) and could not be happier. It does everything I need. Love Touch ID. The only thing that’d make it better is a headphone jack to plug my Shures into.
Like everyone says, it varies greatly. The change can be fast, or it can be slow. The acquisition could be a nightmare or it could be intentionally thoughtful. It’s important to figure these things out before agreeing to be acquired.
how can you say that when they are about to annex taiwan?
You could say that the "explanation" of inertia is that which preserves the symmetry of space translations under Noether's theorem. But that doesn't tell a physicist any more than they already knew, and it tells a layman even less.
The Immigration Angle on Digital Nomads (2021)
If I never have to interview again, it’ll be too soon.

Hats off to you for trying to fix a broken system.
Password Manager Security [pdf] (2020)
It’s really east to cram 5 dummy warheads in your icbm and chew up all the defenders rockets.
This is getting fucking stupid. Honestly. Companies should not be escalating the situation like this. Leave the geopolitics to the diplomats who are at the negotiating table. Being required to do things like this via sanctions is one thing, getting involved voluntarily is another. At what point do we consider companies full blown belligerents in the war? If nukes start flying, then all these virtue signaling companies will not be without blame.
You would know why they left if you read the article.
I know everyone is fed up with the cliche of web3, but having done some side projects with web3 (as in npm i web3) and ipfs, the posted article here is very exciting.

This posted link could be another piece of the jigsaw (Solidity, IPFS, IPNS, ...) that I think will come together to make interesting apps in the future. Solidity doesn't mean necessarily spending $100 to make a function call - there are other chains, off chain stuff being developed, and you could host a private chain for your app.

While none of this stuff can do something new you can't do with Postgres - you can create more open and perhaps 'honest' applications where everyone can see the data-engine and understand it. So it is more of a cultural shift. For example, if you make a Twitter this way, you don't need to rely on an API. The data is there for everyone, all of it.

For example, take Uniswap. It's not a company like Facebook, it's an open protocol. Swapping tokens is now functionally open source because of that. There is no "Facebook of swapping tokens". And this can be used as a building block for other apps. Not necessarily just "gambling" or "trading" either.
I think starting with a guy who looks almost exactly like Tom Cruise in the first place really gives the computer the advantage it needs to look believable. You can see him here
https://youtu.be/p7-B8S734T4?t=77
Nothing is stopping Putin from claiming this is unilateral aggression on the West's part while hiding as much as they can about Ukraine. The USSR used this tactic all the time to exert their rule/influence in other Soviet republics and brutally suppress rebellions with most Soviet citizens being none the wiser.
I don't get what being black has to do with this theory though. It's not like it was hard to find a black community before? Nevermind that it's not exactly a trait that has anything to do with what community you are in the first place!
I’m not sure you’re properly thinking through orbital velocities.
M1 One: The Second One!
I'd take the RTX 3090 comparisons with a huge grain of salt for the moment.

First of all, Apple's performance comparisons are against the mobile Nvidia cards, not the desktop ones. For example, the M1 Max comparisons with the "RTX 3080" were against the 100W mobile part, not the 320W desktop part. The mobile version is about 40% slower than the desktop one (something that I do find irritating about Nvidia's marketing). The desktop gaming cards are typically trading power consumption for performance. They're clocked well beyond the optimal efficiency point to squeeze everything possible out of them. Cutting the power target in half may only cost you 20% of your performance.

Another thing to note is that Nvidia pretty much holds all the high-efficiency binned dies for the enterprise cards. In terms of GPGPU, the data center cards are nearly twice the performance per watt of the consumer cards by going wider and dropping the clock rate.

Small edit:

The best benchmarks I could find suggested that the M1 Max was drawing ~105 watts with the GPU under under a large synthetic load and doing about 10 TFLOP/s of FP32. Let's assume the M1 Ultra is exactly double this and can do 20 TFLOP/s at 200 watts. The Nvidia A100 GPUs are the same performance but at 250 watts. The RTX 3090 is upwards of 36 TFLOP/s but approaching 400W of power draw.
Well yeah. Ultimately no one can block Russia from the internet completely.

But you can add a lot of friction and severely limit the bandwidth and latency the average person experiences.
Officially reversing the post-coup additions to the Ukrainian Constitution that make direct overtures to joining NATO?

Russia has made this clear since the collapse of the Soviet Union. They invaded Ukraine after the Ukrainian coup in 2014. In theory, this made it impossible for Ukraine to join NATO. And yet here they are pushing (or being pushed by the US) to join NATO, despite knowing this will 100% begin WWIII.

So yes, the answer is what it always was. Ukraine can't join NATO, if they want peace with Russia. This is not a mystery.
“If none of the above resonates, rest easy: you are not in a cult. But you are unemployed.”

Delightful.
Just to be clear, the XDR is not a _terrible_ monitor. It's certainly better than a random $200 monitor. Most people in the world wouldn't notice the following issues.

- There is a noticeable (to me) brightness shift with viewing angle changes. When the monitor is on the back of my desk and displaying a flat color across the monitor, I see a noticeable gradient instead of a flat color because of different viewing angles between looking head at the center pixels vs being off axis to the side pixels.

- The adaptive brightness backlighting doesn't do a very good job. Full bright white pixels in a dark areas will be noticeable dark compared to full bright white pixels surrounded by other brighter pixels.

- If you have some bright pixels in an otherwise dark area, the backlight cell built into the monitor there noticeable brightens, putting an approximately once inch by one in halo around the bright pixels. For example, this halo shows up around the mouse cursor when moving across a black area.

- I tend to work with light text on a dark background. The monitor makes the darks too bright (from the backlight bleeding through) and the brights too dark (because the backlight around there isn't on all the way). Everything is muted. It's noticeably less contrasty, colorful and alive when used with light on light than two iMac 27"s I have had.

- Although the PPI specs are the same, there's something about the pixels on the XDR that makes them more visible and less smooth to me than on the 27.
Replied in a sibling comment.
> I’m very happy as a U.S. taxpayer to give the government of Ukraine nearly any military hardware they think will help.

unless it's a big piece of equipment that can make a real difference?

> oppose the Russian invasion of Ukraine

but not oppose enough to use force? I think that's just as useless as people saying they're sending "thoughts and prayers".

Against a sovereign entity that has disregarded international law, the only option is to use force for compliance.
Weird then that the top quintile pays most of the income taxes that are paid.
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> The do. The article is incredibly misleading.

I’m reading a lot of talk from you about the Democrats and Republicans, but what are the Independents thinking?
Religious exemptions are the most plausible legal argument so it isn’t surprising that’s what will be filed - I should have known that was the alleged reason though, I responded hastily to the claim the request to get vaccinated is “benign” (it isn’t.)
I would think that the specifics of the new language would (greatly) influence the difficulty. If the languages (known vs. new) are similar, it's typographical more than anything else. How to make a code block, end statements, indicate arrays and pointers, etc. There's a vocabulary to pick up, but it should be like learning a new similar romance language when you're fluent in another.

However, if the language paradigm is different, such as vector vs. scalar or other significant differences then developers can end up wrestling the language rather than working with in. I would suspect, as it was in my case, that the more experience one has, the worse this conflict will be. I had a way of approaching and implementing code that was just not what the language wanted to see. It was rather frustrating falling into the write/tune rather than write-then-tune process. My only "solution" was to first write things the way I had internalized and then revise them into the appropriate form(s) for the new language.

Once this was done, and I would say it was a 3-6 month process, then the "normal" learning process started. Syntax, grammar and vocabulary is an ongoing process but it's easier as language familiarity grew.
“Crude oil” is not one thing with standard specifications. It varies wildly from almost mud (e.g. Canadian tar sands) to wine like (Arabic crude). Different refineries are configured for different kinds of crude and it is not easy to switch. So the supplier matters.
I definitely think GUI development is easier, because there's often no algorithms or math work.

I've never sorted or btreed or third normal formed or a* searched something. I've never designed a new machine learning model. I couldn't implement even a toy version of AES. I've never done a GPU shader.

I just find out who has, come up with a workflow model and UI that uses it, then track down all the edge cases that need a few if statements to handle, and maybe pack and unpack some bytes for a microcontroller.

I couldn't quite be replaced by a CRUD builder tool, because I'm doing embedded stuff, and a lot of CSS theming work... but it's not unimaginable.
I was completely expecting to be impressed with yet another demonstration of this technology taking a step forward.

I got 31/32, and the only one I got wrong was a text statement that I don't really understand the point of including. None of them were remotely difficult except for one.
Replace Russia with North Korea and ask the same question.

Autocrats can hold power for a very long time with the asymmetric tools of oppression and control we have that are only getting more advanced with each passing version upgrade.

And the more we cut a country and its people off from the rest of the world, the easier it is for the autocrat to maintain control.
It's strange that Nato/USA seems to thing there's a hard and fast rule that says "indirect help of any form is fine, direct help is not and leads to war".

It's like they think there's some sort of law of physics that prevent Putin interpreting smashing Russia in any indirect way is acceptable to Russia and not a declaration of war.
How will they connect the dots that the reason the internet is not working is because of the Russian government's actions in Ukraine? What's stopping Russia from spurring homegrown competitors to Western tech services like China has and enforcing their own Great Firewall?
They can get pregnant but why do trans men want to have pregnancy as part of their identity? Wouldn't getting pregnant as a trans man trigger dysphoria?
> One side views abortion as a moral sin. The other thinks that access to healthcare is a value and have a moral obligation to fight for the rights of women.

How about all the people who view abortion as a sin but think it should be legal anyway? You know, like Joe Biden and every other liberal Catholic.

You're just spitting out talking points.
I read somewhere that quantum mechanics is the most tested of all scientific theories. And it has been shown to be right, every time.

Hawking espoused this idea he called “model dependent realism”. The idea is that every human understanding of reality is model-dependent, that is, it is not “reality” that we truly understand (we can’t) but rather in every case we have some model of reality that is useful in particular situations. For instance, we know that Newtonian physics are not “real” but they are perfectly accurate in certain situations. So they are not “wrong” when they are used in those situations, in fact, they are right.

The author of the article writes, “While Einstein won a Nobel Prize for proving that light is composed of particles that we call photons, Schrödinger’s equation characterizes light and indeed everything else as wave-like radiation. Can light and matter be both particle and wave? Or neither? We don’t know.”

In model dependent realism, we can ignore this apparent contradiction. In some situations the model of light as a particle is the most useful, and in others, the model where it is a wave is the most useful. We have to accept that it is not “really” either of these models, but that no matter what we do, any model we come up with for it will still just be a model.
I was a desktop diehard until performance reached the point where laptops are good enough. Being able to take the same computer around with you and use it seamlessly in a different place is a big improvement.

I still have a proper desk-based working environment hooked up to a docking station though. I really wouldn't want to use a laptop that doesn't have a first-party dock as my primary machine.
> Why would I care which plumber paid Google the most money? I just want to find plumbers.

Yes, exactly! Also, To your second point, its in Google's interests that customers have no other way except paid ads to look you up. IMHO, Google has become a company that wants to install toll booths on the internet.
There have only been two generations of Touch IDs on iPhones. The 5s and SE gen 1 have the first generation Touch ID and the rest have the second.

The second gen was noticeably faster, I don’t know if it was more reliable.
I think a 100 years of now 17-decimal accuracy is fine.

Maybe we do need a Copernican revolution. But how many areas of physics and science can we say that? A lot.

I think for sure the idea of measurement as a passive activity revealing pre existing values is gone though. No matter what happens. How long was that a paradigm?
I find Fidelity or Vanguard to be "perfectly reasonable" discount brokers to manage, say, retirement funds. For those outside of where they operate, such as Canada, there are smaller discount brokers such as TD Waterhouse here in Canada. I would think "long term" = "buy and hold", so things like advice isn't welcome or appropriate. Minimize the commission and particularly minimize the other expenses involved in mutual funds or ETFs. And as others have said, be willing to lose your investment if you gamble on individual stocks.

As a bit of advice, don't purchase stock without a discount like ESOP for your own company. You're already investing your job, possibly your career there so why increase the risk for less gain. Similarly, you might want to avoid investing heavily in your own currency if it's not Dollars or Euros. Again, spread rather than concentrate your risks.
And what would be an example of a non-cancel culture, going by your definition?
The answer is simple: America is not a monolith, and it is a free country. It's not a single entity that imports x, exports y, and figures out that it can net out inflows and outflows and just export y-x in the end. It's hundreds of companies, each trying to optimize their own business operations, and ultimately profits. If there are no restrictions from purchasing oil from Russia, or Venezuela, or Libya or whatever, and they find it advantageous to do that, they'll do that. The day the US puts some sanctions, they'll have to scramble and find an alternative. That's the way it is, and it can't be any other way.
>The advantages of WebGPU vs WebGL probably make sense to experts in this area

Think of it as going much lower level like doing your stuff in x86 assembly language, so, sure it's going to be a PITA to get something running but for that very special need where every bit of performance matters it's going to work well.
Indeed, it is a little faster single core and a little slower in multi-core on average compared to my 24-core Zen 3 EPYC (https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/compare/13330272?baseli... - which I expect to be slightly slower than the new 24-core Threadripper Pro 5965WX) - certainly comparable in terms of performance. But no word yet on if the M1 Ultra supports ECC RAM or how many PCIe lanes.
Head over to the Bogleheads wiki[0] and forum[1].

The general consensus on the forum is that Schwab, Fidelity and Vanguard are the big three to use. Do you need a HSA? Fidelity is the only one with a completely no fee HSA. Read through the wiki and and look at previously asked questions in the forum. If you still have questions, ask away in the forums.

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