skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not saying you're wrong in the slightest, but why would our universe be like a computer? When our understanding of the universe was very primitive we thought everything was alive (animism). Then a little more technology and we thought the universe was like an orrery or a clock (mechanism)[0]. Then a little more and we think it was like a computer (turingism?) Occasionally you'll hear it's like a hologram, a simulation (what's it simulating?), a graph [1], or some other faddish concept.

We just like to make metaphors to put this thing in a box that we can't understand. But perhaps at its most fundamental level it will defy comprehension or even definition.

[0] In the philosophical sense; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanism_(philosophy)

[1] https://syncedreview.com/2020/04/17/stephen-wolfram-the-path...
Great comment. The growth in the export market lets the domestic market do a bit of optimization and arbitrage, keeping prices down overall.
Yellen Applauds White House’s ‘Historic’ Crypto Executive Order
Ask HN: Why so many posts about SQLite on HN front page?
Every time I get to the front page, there's something about SQLite there. Is there some ring of up-voters working on it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=sqlite.org
I should replace every single switch with a smart one to do that. Which kind of switches do you have? If they are Wi-Fi how do you avoid hitting the max number of devices your home router is able to handle?
2 clicks and 1 guess :-) I love that album.

Cool idea, but sadly it's probably a decade too late, since album art isn't as visible nowadays.
As a programmer, data scientist and macOS user, I have to say I'm just annoyed by Apple these years. They've built a preset of users who may use their products, on that list are "Creative producers", etc. I'm not saying creative works aren't important - I personally enjoy poems, movies and photography very much. But just imagine how many MacBook Pros and other products Apple sell each year - does the world need that much creative producers, so we can indulge ourselves in Tiktok and other things? This is crazy. And I also feel excluded from their potential customer.
This is a product experience defect, and not intended to be deceptive. Several comments have cried “foul” on this one and we hear it loud and clear. We apologize this has persisted in the product, and can definitely see how this can be misleading.

To explain what’s happening from the inside, immediately after the sign up, we retrofit the profile data you’ve input at the signup process into our URL templates for each data broker. This provides an immediately actionable link you can click on to see if your profile is present on the other end at the data broker. Meanwhile, our automated scanner starts running to see if it can actually find your profile at each data broker. After about 1 hour, a PDF report is emailed with ~70 (on average) places on the web that your profile has been found.

What’s often really confusing, and that we definitely need to fix in the UI, is when the user starts clicking on the links and they find “no profile found” they think that something’s gone wrong, or that we’re trying to be deceptive. Even more confusing is when a dummy name like "Notareal Personxxx" is input, the links are still there for you to click through.

The defect in the product is that the UI assumes a large number of matches for each user will be found, typically 50 – 100 on average. Everything in the UI is framed up with that assumption. However, when there are only a few results, or in the extreme case where a fake name is input, and there are no results at all, the UI still frames everything up as if it were for a typical user with 50 – 100 matched profiles. The other reason this product defect has persisted is because our Free Basic users use the links to QA their own self-service opt out work. So after they’ve submitted their own opt out, they want to be able to click through the link and see that the profile is gone. This is why most people use the product with glee, but when a link leads to a “page not found”, at best people are confused, and at worst they cry “foul” of deception.

I love Show HN and Launch HN threads because the builders get so much rich feedback like this on how to improve the product. This is the best feedback that we’ll take with us and start hammering away on immediately. Thank you!

We do have a Help Desk post describing what’s happening with these links, but we need to update it and make it more clear based on this feedback. You can find a little more information on how these links work here:

https://help.optery.com/en/article/what-if-a-view-leads-to-a...
If that's the case, then I wonder if it's more about the content of what is being said
The iPhone 5 uses 3G for voice and 4G for data.
Given that break even for the tar sands has been in the $100/barrel range only recently (with process upgrades) may be as low as $40 (very optimistic in my books). It's certainly appears to need subsidies to survive.
Yes, 4-5 cycles is to be expected. Also, larger caches generally trade off latency, so I would not be surprised if apple's chips were slower still.
In what concerns developer productivitiy, it is Vulkan that needs to get feature parity with Metal.
What's the point? The company a you are asking to remove data will anyway know which dataset you asked to delete.

What would work would be a mandatory self block list (e.g. most EU countries have a 'do not call' opt-in list against telemarketers) and then the brokers have to check any new days against the hash of data points in this block list. But that requires government intervention, not startups that bandaid the problem.
The USA at least just recently unilaterally withdrew from the INF treaty (claiming Russian non-compliance, but launching a rocket of their own that would have been illegal to even develop while the treaty was in force the day the treaty expired). Israel's well known illegal nuclear weapons are also supported by the USA.

So at least one pretty important NATO country is very clearly not prepared to get rid of its nukes, or pressure allies to get rid of theirs. Even more scarily, per president Trump, this same country is very interested in finding ways to get usable nukes.
Yes! Gumroad.com is not hiring until late April, but their initial coding challenge is async, untimed, and uses Litebulb: https://www.notion.so/Jobs-f43f816013b2405aa41ddefb663a4a38.

Some other companies are On Deck, Mashgin, Dover, SnapEDA, Evidence.dev, getatlas.io, and Okteto.
>at around 70% the multicore performance

But at around 60% of single core performance. That is basically half the speed.
"unspecified frequency" is LPDDR5-6400.
Better than anything else you can get for a reasonable price, and well into the experimental range with a 12th gen Intel cpu
> others' bad ideas represent a large threat to my well-being

I’m sorry you feel threatened by other people’s ideas.

> There are indeed serious and important issues in the world: and solving one of them the wrong way would lead to really bad outcomes

That sounds right to me about any important decision, at the individual or the global level.

> one of least self-aware groups of people on the planet (journalists)

That doesn’t sound like a fair or even knowable criticism to me, just bashing an entire profession.

At a fundamental level, the collection and distribution of information is important for decision making, so there’s probably an advantage for groups that can share information effectively. I personally would love access to quality, well sourced information. But everyone is biased. If you started writing articles, I don’t think it would be as easy to remove your personal bias as you might think. It’s easier than ever to be an independent journalist with a substack account, or a self-hosted WordPress blog, so you’re of course free to try and improve upon what we currently have.
The most promising approach I've seen to answering the author's question: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/04/finally-we-may-h...
You might be right. It takes time to rewrite software. But damn, those machine cost a pretty penny to run.

Still, I would love to have one.
> If arguments are obviously wrong, they are easily refuted.

Let's assume we live in an idealized world, where everyone could indeed easily refute false information. In this case you're right.

This is unfortunately not the case for many. The US citizens are a good example, Trump can claim voter fraud and continue to do so even if there's zero evidence. This is not an opinion, but false information. However, many people still believe Trumps words, and if they crowd up, storm the capitol and kill police officers, based on false information, then this has nothing todo with freedom of speech.
wow, the internet and the "coalescing of the fringe", which is probably a more apt phrase and characterization of this phenomenon.
Lobbying. That's the reason. There is no rational reason why a user's explicitly expressed preference would become irrelevant after a year.

The organ donor database won't ask you every month to verify that you still want to do it - there is nil legitimate reason why this would be 'needed' in this case.
I'd argue capacity was not 'outsourced' as American manufacturing never had the kind of capacity seen in Asia.

Modern Asian manufacturing scales up faster than USA has ever done outside of WWII. Large numbers of infrastructure and people.
Optimize Storage has been there since like macOS 10.13 (2017). You're commenting about M1 machines released 2020.
Appreciate this tons, because we'll definitely need the help! Would actually love to connect over email (gary@litebul.io) or directly in a chat (https://calendly.com/gary-j-lin/30min).
Not sure what you're trying to say. Nothing about war is right, with very very few exceptions.

My only point was that claiming NATO is a "purely defensive alliance" is not supported by history. This means that some NATO claims about Russia's lack of reasons for fearing NATO expansion are bullshit.

But to be very clear again, this doesn't justify Russia's illegal murderous invasion of Ukraine.
The sad reality is we've solved many of computation's problems, and don't have much of a utopia around as perhaps expected in solving them.

Macs in the 2000's had productivity apps that were needed, fun to discover & to try out:

* Growl for notifications

* AppFresh for automatic downloads

* Quicksilver for file/app search

All of which has been solved by the OS.

Web 2.0 solved connecting with friends and strangers around the world, as well as many other problems, by FAANG+.

Web 3.0/VR will be 2.0 on steroids, which too eventually will get boring.

As big of a nerd I am, computation I'm finding can only go so far in satisfaction, thus eventually "stagnate."
> Come to think of it, IRL text deep fakes don't even make sense. You can make up whatever quotes you like, you don't need GPT3 to do it for you.

They make sense for advertising and misinformation purposes.

You don't have to pay a firm to drum up interest for a brand/product, theoretically, you'd be able to generate convincing conversations about the brand between bots on Reddit or Twitter, and do it at scale. Instead of paid posts on social media, you cut out the middle man and give the perception of community support for a brand/product, despite it being artificial.

The last point goes for misinformation, as well. Want to start grassroots support for an idea/policy/person/group/place? Instead of paying teams of people to post on social media about it, you can automate the campaign and scale it with deep faked text.

I don't think deep fakes are there yet for either purpose, though, and it isn't a given that they'll be good enough for them, either.
Short range fights might go electric. Long range fights may still use jet fuel, but hopefully jet fuel created using carbon from the atmosphere using renewable energy. That's carbon neutral.
Except Ukraine has 10x the population of Tibet and a land border with EU countries...
I can tell you that the student body at MIT generally had a pretty dim view of the admins when I was there, always trying to kill the things that make MIT an amazing place, while building stupidly overpriced vanity buildings. Not to mention the incredibly shameful way they handled the Aaron Swartz case.
When industrial partnerships are broken, there is no incentive to go back. No trust either, neither from the two sides, neither from companies to government not to shut down the transaction again at the first whim.
Go is follows Python's original principles more closely than modern Python does. Take a look at the Zen of Python [1]. Go fits it far better than Python, sadly.

[1]: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/#the-zen-of-python
Yes, they entered the market around those years, but what does that change? DDR3 and LGA1150 were not deemed "legacy" the day DDR4 and LGA1151 motherboards entered the market. They were 2-3x the price, and DDR3 dominated RAM sales until at least 2017. In fact, the reason DDR4 took so long to enter the market was incompatibility with existing hardware, and higher costs to upgrade. [1] I didn't go out of my way to buy "legacy hardware" because they weren't, at the time.

Point being, PC-building makes it easier to replace and repair individual components, but in time, upgrading to newer generations means spending over 50% of the original cost on motherboard, CPU, PSU, RAM. Not too different than dropping $3K on a new Mac.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20101219085440/http://www.xbitla...
> the majority of brands are simply paying protection money

Exactly this. Google should be forced to not allow bidding on other companies‘ brand kw.
Breakthrough study on whole genome sequencing reveals critical Covid-19 factors
Well that's precisely the mindset of C/C++. You have to think by yourself about everything that can go wrong with your code. And, man, lots of things can go wrong.

I find more modern languages so much less exhausting to use to write correct code.
I've seen it all. From hobbies to marital problems.
Worked great for me on FF developer edition fwiw. The cursor was offset in the initial menus, but once I was in-game it was all effectively perfect.
> Which presents the second problem: If you don't hold on to their identifiable information, you cannot determine if they have previously requested to be removed from your offerings. So it may be dumb to have to opt out again, bit the alternative is to trust them not to use your information in the mean time.

This is just false. You can opt to keep e.g. a hash to check against future additions. Else you also would not be able to comply with the 12 month requirement.
How do you develop on a VM running on a remote machine? I could make some guesses but I'd love to hear the specifics, especially things that I could adapt into my own workflows. Are you compiling remotely but coding locally?
After 3 months of using that baby bottle before I stopped some of the paint flaked off. I'm guessing due to the fact that this bottle is regularly heated up which means it is an issue. If some paint flaked off that means potentially my baby ingested it.

Lead bioaccumulates, it stays in your body until you die, there's no mechanism to remove lead. The scientific consensus is that there is no safe level of lead exposure. See https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27837574/ or even the CDC: "No safe blood lead level in children has been identified. Even low levels of lead in blood have been shown to affect learning, ability to pay attention, and academic achievement. " https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/prevention/default.htm

So, yes, there are a lot of toxic things in the environment and I'm not concerned about most of them but lead is dangerous and has been proven to be. There is also no reason whatsoever for a company to use lead paint (which has been banned for constructions in the 70s) on a product meant to be used for children (a baby bottle).
> They think that I and my people shouldn't

Who is they? Do you believe that Putin's regime is a democratic expression of the will of the Russian people?

> my people being exterminated

What the Ukrainian people are going through is absolutely horrible. But it is by no means an extermination.

> They have supported this regime for decades.

Ukraine were part of the Soviet Union for 7 decades. During this time, the Soviet Union invaded Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan. I would still consider Ukrainians victims of the Soviet Union and not supporters.
On raw Metal performance, yes it does get the same performance. The benchmarks showed this.

The problem was the implication that you'd get 3070 gaming performance. That was never going to be true because of the un-optimisation tax for games on Mac.

There doesn't exist a AAA game built for Metal and the Mac. The closest are games like World of Warcraft, Divinity Original Sin 2 – and even they are just "good ports" not originally designed for Mac (and are far from AAA graphics). This is why on Intel Macs, games under Bootcamp always ran 30%-50% faster, even though the hardware was the same.

Games on M1 Max run as you'd expect – about 30% slower than a 3070 for the same old reasons (and some new ones, like not being compiled for Apple Silicon at all). The GPU is about the same speed as a 3070 and it's doing what you'd expect, given the 30% unoptimization-tax workload.
Why would you assume it would be obvious? Copernicus's heliocentric model was wrong in many ways: he assumed uninform speed, that the sun was the center of the universe, that orbits were circular, assumed the necessity of epicycles, and so on. His main victory was simply that from our perspective of complete knowledge we can now safely say he was less-wrong than the geocentric theories of the time; there's also the David vs Goliath narrative which is emotionally satisfying.

If one wanted to cast doubt upon, if not "debunk", his idea from the science of the times, it would not have been difficult to do so (see: Tycho Brahe). And that was on an issue that was likely some orders of magnitude less complex than the one we may be facing today. The implication of that being that the "right" answer may initially seem to have more holes than swiss cheese. I think it's very safe to say that relativity, undoubtedly the monolith to which all scientists aspire, was an exception and not the rule in the march of discovery, in its reception/clarity.
Sometimes, because a status update is less awkward than sitting there in silence.
I admit I don't cook much.

As for turning on lights when carrying, that's why I have an elbow! The switch is at elbow height.

> It’s also frankly more fun

What, this isn't fun?
https://www.amazon.com/Clapper-Sound-Activated-Switch-White/...
> I can share with you that my solar-powered Pi3B+ hosting yourdatafitsinram is holding up quite well, being linked to on HN - a funny contrast to the kind of systems it links to in the table.

If all a server does is serve mostly static content from memory then it's not expected to handle a demanding workload beyond networking.

Therefore I fail to see the point of trying to downplay someone else's needs for TB of RAM just because you serve a site on a raspberry pi, as if that's the full extent of what anyone needs to do with a computer, particularly when the OP mentions big data.
Bravo! I enjoyed this.
So they will enter all this data on the websites of the brokers which sell such data....this reminds me of the website that promises it contains all/most bitcoin private keys - just enter yours to find out if its there!
Or it could be because its a topic that genuinely interests people, and why wouldn't it:

* efficient
* easy to use
* well documented (docs not just extensive but readable)
* many very useful features

All this making it great for many side projects, which is what a lot of people are very passionate about.
Yes, this could only be useful if it were written in Rust, or whatever is fashionable this week. /s
Can you give an example of a company that mandates this?
MonkeyUser comic was created out of a desire to bring joy to people in IT
According to the CDC, "No safe blood lead level in children has been identified. Even low levels of lead in blood have been shown to affect learning, ability to pay attention, and academic achievement. ", so there's no acceptable dose of lead if it is ingested.

Being sure that there's no issues without having done the research is just as ignorant as someone who panics without having done the research. If I'm concerned about something, you can be sure I will read everything to see if it is an actual issue or not.

See:
https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/prevention/default.htm
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27837574/
My bet is that once Russia is on a black list for everything China is going to keep Russia on a leash. Buy enough from them in yuan to keep them alive, sell to them to get those yuans back, don't make them so rich to be able to rebuild a really worrisome army. And who'll be in the Cremlin will still rule over all of Russia and be rich and happy.

I'd like to hear from someone in Russia to understand if this is a credible endgame.
I have 30 minute 1:1’s every week with my team (8 engineers). I’m in weekly backlog grooming sessions, semi-weekly demos, retros and sprint planning and of course daily standups. I’m in weekly status calls with two separate customers and weekly prioritization calls with product. I’m in constant dozer mode trying to clear a path for my team to eliminate blockers, execute bullshit corp process and help them resolve issues hands-on. I have a team member in my ear 80% of the week and half of them still prefer to regurgitate status than have any kind of other conversation.

At times I’ll interrupt them and say ’this isnt a status call, this is your time to complain, vent, suggest, ask whatever you like and find a way for me to help you’. I always try to keep them upbeat and ask about the weekend, hobbies, etc. Not everybody wants that conversation i think.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Brilliant design. A forcing function to take a break; even tho it's only ~4 times per year it's better than changing batteries every 2 weeks.
Indeed. If unconditional branches are rare enough it may not be worth the cost.

Also, it’s not like software designers don’t waste cycles. In many languages, for example, arguments to log statements are evaluated even if logging is disabled. There sometimes is the hope that the runtime will figure that out and move that inside the if logging is enabled check, but that’s only a hope (COBOL had the ALTER statement for efficiently handling such things, but that’s being frowned upon :-))

Also: a conditional branch can be always taken, for example when the software does an if cpu supports instruction extension at startup, sets a flag accordingly, and later branches depending on that flag.

That, too, is a case where the CPU will speculatively execute what, to it, may look like garbage. So, you have to make sure speculative execution handles that.