skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And I suspect the only reason they want people to come back is that they've invested soooo much in office real estate. They have billions in buildings in the Bay Area, NYC and other locations. They used to be primo buildings and they're probably carried on the balance sheet at a huge valuation. No one wants to come to grips with marking these positions to market.
I've never really seen the advantage in going off grid per se, since it increases the amount of wasted capacity in both generation and storage, and running a few wires is cheap enough in urban environments. The most efficient arrangement might be a global grid.
Given russian media is legally only allowed to spout government-approved propaganda, it really makes sense to ban them from social media. This does not equal to only allowing pro-Ukrainian media.
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I know the logic, it's just, I don't think it makes that much sense any more. Fighting wars has become an increasingly technical occupation in the last couple of centuries. Therefore, a technically capable soldier who is cowardly, individualistic, and occasionally insubordinate would be, in some roles (say intelligence) superior to one who was none of those things, but didn't have the technical skills or aptitude.

Realistically, a ship is a big machine, so it would make more sense to prize people that fit the typical 'conscientious engineer' profile, warts and all, even if those people are going to be pretty awful at traditional soldiering. These kind of roles have absolutely proliferated over the years, and it makes zero sense to prize physical fitness and ability to follow orders in a lot of them.

Imagine if you were a hiring manager for a gigantic industrial complex with cutting edge technology, producing a delicate and high-stakes product, in a environment that often demands extreme creativity and imposes severe timetables. Except all your hirees have to be able to do twenty pushups and be OK with being shouted at by some guy in a big hat. That's the literal situation of human resources on an aircraft carrier, and it's insane.
EU has been at the forefront of censorship. Germany is a model for internet censorship around the world.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/11/06/germany-online-crackdow...

It's funny how people think EU or europe in general is a bastion of freedom. It's not. Never has been. And never will be. What europe is exceptional at is self-promotion and virtue signaling.
I don't disagree?

Exercise is best used to build muscle mass and is not very effective if the goal is a caloric deficit. You could run, some people love doing that, but most aren't able to do this consistently enough - and the more overweight the more injury prone.

Walking works just as well as high intensity cardio it just takes proportionally longer. You're paying for your extra weight and lethargy with time. However, everybody (who can exercise at least) can do it, and it works.

Going from sedentary straight to beast mode rarely works.

And most people are in fact overweight. Walk for a month or two to shed weight, improve mood, and form good habits - then progress onwards from there. Maybe throw in pushup sets every mile or get down to the park with the bars, 'etc.
It is technologically incredible how far video games have come in that time.

Shame about how much corporatization has happened there too though.
Are you seriously interested in waiting 8 hours to transfer bulk data to your 128 gig USB 2.0 drive?

Because yes, that's what I accidentally bought.
I guess that depends if you consider WikiLeaks part of the press.
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Aside, anyone used the java sqlite driver https://github.com/xerial/sqlite-jdbc in production (webapp with multiple users)? Has the driver been reliable?
The economics is not great as described, but I wouldn't see this at being an individual level solution. The larger it is, the easier it is to insulate.
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The movie "Hackers" prophesied that RISC was going to "change everything". And it did, but not in these workstations, but rather in smart phones, raspberry pi's and other projects that have made RISC viable again.
All the remaining Atlas V launches are spoken for. Another customer will have to back out before Kuiper can get on an Atlas V.
Thanks for your feedback! Currently USD is the default (and only) denomination, but I will be adding support for other denominations in the future!
Having not managed to finish a Stephenson book since "Snow Crash" (which I liked) i may not be in the best position to recommend something to you, but I really like Greg Egan. Truly idea-driven SF which also has interesting enough characters and story. I also like that his books are pretty short, even his trilogy is probably shorter than any single Stephenson book. Very little "fluff".
Unless they installed conda on an Apple machine, because I'm pretty sure that constitutes original sin.
Does TikTok mark Washington's enemies with big "X-state affiliated media" warnings while omitting them for American-state affiliated media?
There's a reason "walk till you rollover" was a slogan! My pedometer only went to 9999
I don't know about other backers, but I'm happy with how this has turned out myself. I think backing anything comes with a level of risk, and the fact that they're working on something publicly, eight years later, is more than a lot of campaigns manage.
Google's new 540B language model
Why misquote when it's easy to copy/paste what they actually wrote:

> just leads to a lot of sitting either on the couch or in the car

You left out "either" and "or in the car" which changes the sense quite a bit.
Sure, but with mathematics, nobody is ever starting from scratch. And even the "driest" of educational books has some context in it. Or maybe I was lucky, and I haven't seen really dry books.

Initial topics on numbers and geometry have students already have some intuition on them, usually brought from home (eg. kids can count, add smaller numbers, understand differences between straight lines and circles...).

Similarly, coming into more advanced courses, I already had a bunch of context already at my disposal.

Like everything, it can go to an extreme in either direction, but I am mostly saying that I am comfortable with books that tend to be more on the "dry" end of the spectrum, and I can sometimes figure out many of those "dry theory" applications myself which brings motivation and joy (but certainly not all; lots of math has, as you point out, taken centuries for brilliant people to find solutions and tricks that work, and I don't kid myself that I can figure out all of that in a few months or years, let alone few hours — not without learning specifically of their tricks and solutions that do work). And it's definitely not the most efficient way to advance the science of mathematics — but we are discussing teaching and learning mathematics here: keeping students motivated is at the core of any successful learning experience.

Historical context is wonderful in mathematics because it allows one to really see what the original motivation for building up an abstract system was, and that's the best context.
Why do you think they will watch Ukrainian videos? In Telegram there's plenty of Russian war videos. Probably, hundreds of channels with tens-hundreds of thousands subscribers.

It's just TikTok does not want to be part of this.
I agree. I rarely ever use new tools, but I switched to Notion a few years ago and even recommended it to many friends and colleagues.

Big mistake. Lessons learned. It's been slow and buggy all this time but I still kept using it. The final nail in the coffin was it started using 15-20% of a CPU core on IDLE, and has been doing so for 5+ months. Tried everything and gave up. Going back to simple text files.
Definitely not the software. Samsung consistently ships very well tuned flagships. Compare their performance and efficiency to other devices using the same SoC, and that much is clear.

Of course, we can only say this about their Qualcomm devices, since there aren’t other Exynos devices to compare against Samsung’s.
pnpm uses its own lock file (pnpm-lock.yaml), while npm uses package-lock.json

You definitely should use the same manager (npm, yarn, pnpm, whatever) as your teammates' or you're going to run into problems, either with them or with your CI workflow.
It’s worked out so far. I knew it would be tough to scale up myself as support so I set down as couple of policies:

1. Do it in public if possible via GitHub issues so others can also answer and search in the future.

2. Don’t allow more than N questions per year per customer. A few have drowned me with requests. Nope, you are buying a product, not a trainer or teacher. Read the docs, watch the videos.

3. Pour everything I know into the wiki docs. Note each wiki page will talk about semantics, edge cases, etc. That’s all there to get ahead of the support inquiries.
Sony Xperia is one of the most intriguing phones to me.

Im currently on an iphone 8 still kicking.

If it had a removable battery I would buy it in a heartbeat, I dont think Ill ever need to replace my phone as long as it has good battery health. Problem is, there are almost no phones on the market that do have one. Last one I had was a LG G3.
When I started programming, the computers would save their programs in a common tape record. People would usually type programs printed in magazines. We even had a radio program in Brazil that transmitted programs as if it were music.
Darwin notebooks missing for 20 years returned to Cambridge
And yet we've had demonstrations and protests that have drawn hundreds of thousands of people, perhaps millions, into the streets around the world to demand change or rally around causes.

Where does that happen online, with the guarantees afforded by only the rule of law?
Congratulations, you just invented geothermal heat pumps. :) They’ve been the preferred way of hearing single family houses in the Nordics since the 90s.
Agreed.

Reddit on a desktop does this kinda weird jiggle thing.

I thought my eyes were going bad, and then you notice the page is still loading after 10 seconds.
Based on what I've read it seems to me that the gap has become worth over the years... The last time I remember reading that the exynos was competitive was around the Galaxy S6 so 2015
For reddit you can use Infinity or other reddit clients, I use Infinity and I don't even need an account to subscribe to subredits that I want to follow and for me it seems to be a lot faster then the official reddit app.
US policy isn't "expanding" NATO. NATO expands because free, sovereign nations apply to join.

Name a single country that is in NATO against its own will due to "US policy".
Official Formula 1 NFT Game Shuts Down, Tokens Are Now Practically Worthless
Okay, but the article was about the multicore speed difference.
the main issue is that housing costs money no matter where you live in the westernized world.
The photogrammetry api in macOS Monterey does this I believe
I thought both samsung and qualcomm dropped their custom cores for exynos and snapdragon at this point. So is there still such a huge difference between the two? Aren't both of them using the best arm licensed core? I get that for some reason apple sillicon like performance won't happen but this is just sad from samsung.

Also samsung seems to be doing something fishy with benchmark results. It seems like exynos has been very close or even outperforming snapdragon for years now in benchmarks but the performance gap in real life is still massive. My friend imported a samsung s21 and it is a nightmare compared to my snapdragon s21.
That's super interesting, actually!

> The work division you want (do a bit of work for each curve), is exactly backwards from the work division a normal GPU might give you (do a bit of work for each pixel)

Doesn't this mean that you could:

1. entirely "offline", at typeface creation time:

1a. break glyphs into their component "convex curved region tiles" (where each region is either full, empty, or defined by a curve with zero inflection points)

1b. deduplicate those tiles (anneal glyph boundaries to minimize distint tiles; take advantage of symmetries), to form a minimal set of such curve-tiles, and assign those sequence numbers, forming a "distinct curves table" for the typeface;

1c. restate each glyph as a grid of paint-by-numbers references (a "name table", to borrow the term from tile-based consoles) where each grid position references its tile + any applied rotation+reflection+inversion

2. Then, at scene-load time,

2a. take each distinct curve from the typeface's distinct-curves table, at the chosen size;

2b. generate a (rather large, but helpfully at most 8bpp) texture as so: for all distinct-curve tiles (U pos), for all potential angled-vector-line intersections (V pos), copy the distinct-curve tile, and serialize the intersection data into pixels beside it

2c. run a compute shader to operate concurrently over the workload tiles in this texture to generate an output texture of the same dimensions, that encodes, for each workload, the alpha-mask for the painted curve for the specified angle, iff the intersection test was good (otherwise generating a blank alpha-mask output);

2d. (this is the part I don't know whether GPUs can do) parallel-reduce the UxV tilemap into a Ux1 tilemap, by taking each horizontal strip, and running a pixel-shader that ORs the tiles together (where, if step 2c is done correctly, at most one tile should be non-zero per strip!)

2e. treat this Ux1 output texture as a texture atlas, and each typeface nametable as a UV map for said texture atlas, and render the glyphs.

To be clear, I'm not expecting that I came up with an off-the-cuff solution to an active "independent research problem" here; I'm just curious why it doesn't work :)
The S6 was clearly much better Exynos than Snapdragon. They were competitive for a few years more after.
Neal Stephenson gives a spicier take on this in Snowcrash: "... the Invisible Hand has taken away all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity."
The large portion of single family homes in Sweden are heated (and cooled) using geothermal heat pumps. The drill holes are 100-150m deep.
That's a weird argument, you will essentially not find one country in the world that is autark from others. If they are building stuff they depend on raw products from other countries and other countries to buy their things. If they consume things they are dependent on others again. I mean even if you're the centre of semiconductor manufacturing in the world like Taiwan, you still depend on others to build your machinary (pretty much all the EUV systems are build by Asml a Dutch Company)
I went on a Vinge binge when I'd heard that he was the originator of the singularity concept. Didn't like any of his work, including True Names. I liked Neuromancer and Count Zero way more.
Minimodem is a similar piece of software, but much more flexible. Depending on the quality of your link, you can adjust the symbol rate, as well as the frequencies to signal 1's and 0's.

Still (as said before) not more useful to me than as a weekend project. I used it a few times with my CB radios to see how far I could transmit 1200 and 300 baud.
What is your standard for "reliable news source"?

Does it look something like this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Per...
What is ironic is surely the dancing video mentioned and not that a publicly funded Norwegian government-owned media, NRK, (Jens Stoltenberg from Norway is the head of Nato) publishes a hit piece on TikTok all the while ignoring what FB, Twitter and many other social media have been doing to people in their own counties including the US for years.

Very convenient.
It is not at all surprising to me that the A52s’ 768G benches higher since it has 4 A78s vs the 1280’s 2. It is surprising that it seems to do better in power as well, since the 1280 is manufactured on a superior process.
Version numbers are officially out of control.
That it has helped people doesn't make the comparison untrue.

We shouldn't lose sight of the fact that many drugs with reputations of illegitimate/illegal use are readily provided to patients (including children) in a pharmaceutical context, most notably amphetamines and opiates.
I'll let anyone else chime in if they would like, but I wanted to note that Collections would be a good use case for this. If you add all of your work gear, you can add it to a "Work Assets" collection, that would be tagged on all of those items.
[0] still looks bad for complex (CGEMM, I assume). It doesn't have comparisons there, but Eigen's claim to be faster than any free BLAS is surely wrong. (I wouldn't doubt its similar if it has the right loop structure and prefetching, and a few percent is within the normal variance of HPC runs anyway, so not worth worry about.) Unfortunately it isn't convenient for me, not being clever enough for C++, but I've nothing against any good free linear algebra implementation for a platform I'm using.

What's "RAM placement" in this context?
10.000 is very hard to attain every day. I walk a lot and just get this value in very active days.
Ukrainian, whose house was robbed by invaders, found his headphones in Belarus
I don’t think they're logically equivalent at all.

“Are you being a baby?” - Are you temporarily being a bit of a baby, like, at the moment? Could you maybe be a teeny bit braver to get through this current bit of anxiety you're feeling, and then we'll worry about the next bit tomorrow eh?

“Are you a baby?” - Is it possible you have always been a baby? Is it time to grow up, ie, make a real, permanent change to how you think? To start taking responsibility for managing your own emotional responses to the all the inevitable sources of potential anxiety that life will continue to throw at you forever? To break the cycle of weak/passive/burdensome social behaviour once and for all?
From a leftist perspective, it’s beneficial to have something like a draft because it forces all classes to confront the reality of our wars. Instead of how it is now when it’s mostly the lower class that goes to war.

The last draft we had was Vietnam, which was a PR disaster for the US military because middle class america saw (and experienced) the war for what it was: destructive and unnecessary.

I guess the difference is the sprinkler fitting industry doesn't result in hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths the way a war does, so I don’t really care how the general public perceives it.
FAANG recruiters are very different than FAANG engineers.
Same, tried Nix on my macOS (MBA M1) back in January. The installation is painless but it ran into an issue in the first run after it. It looks like that I skipped a step somewhere, I was following the guide and it should be working but its not. I suspected it was the guide that someone forgot to include it in the documentation or edge case I experienced. Now the uninstalling part is painful because there bare minimum documentation about this. Tried all different way to remove it and I couldn't. Took me a month to finally remove Nix from my macOS, I found the information through SO.
1/Vurt naturally ;P

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17401136-vurt
Easter flight cancellations to continue for days
I actually prefer Exynos, most models with Qualcomm do not have unlockable bootloader.
I'm a huge fan of masagin - it was one of the first demos I saw that really spoke to me about the expressive power of graphical programming.

I'm glad he's having fun, too :)
How has that worked out for you?
I was unable to use pnpm with a project that used Electron (~2 years ago), IIRC because some spawned process was incompatible with symlinks. It's the only time it caused me trouble though, it's indeed much faster than npm. I'd love to use it at work too.
I was aware of the Radu Dogaru case, but not of Stéphane Breitwieser. And unfortunately the time he ultimately served (26 months, and 18 months for his mother - for stealing 239 artworks, of which 60 are still unaccounted for and presumed destroyed) does not really serve as an effective deterrent for future art thieves...
From https://www.coinflation.com/

Name years face metal value % of face value

1909-1982 Cent (95% copper) $0.01 $0.0314770 314.77%

Jefferson Nickel 1946-2014 $0.05 $0.0813904 162.78%

Lincoln Zinc Cent 1982-2014 (97.5%) $0.01 $0.0114539 114.53%
Does anyone know why their software is just so so bad? I have Samsung phones for testing and development work, and I don't understand why anyone would ever use these things. They're loaded down with so much half-assed knockoff shovelware of common services, some of which have ads, and nearly all of which keep issuing out useless notifications.

It's like Samsung forgot that phones serve people, not the other way around. Samsung software is just so damn needy and won't get out of the way.

And it's not like these things are cheap either! The user is very much a paying customer, not a freeloader who's a product to be sold to other businesses.
I'd guess that most people have the capacity to work and also enjoy significant moments in their lives.

Some people may get more joy out of crushing a new feature than taking their dad to the same old steakhouse for their birthday but that is more an issue with how Dopamine is distributed than an issues with their motivations.

I recently spent the weekend with my brother and his wife both who I love deeply. But during the weekend I felt myself wanting to play Elden Ring and dick off like I often do on the weekend instead of feeling obligated to spend time with them who I only see a few times a year. Does that mean I have some type of flaw? No. It means my reward system loves getting runes so I can level up and make progress in a game which was build specifically trigger that reaction.

But I have been alive long enough to know that prioritizing spending time with my family is actually much better for me and everyone involved in the long run than chasing the quick Dopamine hit my body wants. So I do it. We hiked, ate out, watched UNC beat Duke, and had a fantastic time and build memories that I'll cherish going forward.

Human are capable of feeling conflicting emotions and drives. It's hard, but finding which things to prioritize kinda is... living.
Here's the US government explicitly picking the leaders of the Ukrainian government before they were put in place https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957

Not to mention that leading up to this transition of power we backed a violent coup of their democratically elected government in 2014.

What of the Ukrainian people in Eastern Ukraine who have been getting bombed for 7 years in a civil war? The Ukrainian people through their government agreed to the Minsk accords which would have prevented this but were then never honored.

I wouldn't say this idea is tired at all, it's the opposite, it's banned and unspoken on corporate media that serves as the mouthpiece for the US government and arms industry.
The website that you showed is pretty cool. Can you read the bookmarklet code?

Scriptbar Snippets provide an opensource/community driven space so anyone can snippets. This feature make it stand out from bookmarklets
Thank you for your feedback, this is in the pipeline but won't be ready until a later date. This is definitely a use case I have considered and would like to address.
My late dad was a huge Amiga fan back in the day. I was just a little kid at the time and didn't see what the big deal was.

Looking back at what it was capable of though...they were doing 256 colors and sampled audio at a time when x86 was still pushing 16 colors and could only produce generated tones through the speaker built into the case.

There was some really good music on the Amiga, too. Some of my favorites:

Hybris theme: https://youtu.be/Siwd7b0iXOc

Pioneer Plague theme: https://youtu.be/JSLcN6GBzO0?t=17

Treasure Trap theme: https://youtu.be/n5h_Wu7QRpM

And of course, you can't mention Amiga music without also mentioning Space Debris: https://youtu.be/thnXzUFJnfQ