skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple's chips in their iPhones & iPads have been outperforming the competition (Qualcomm & Samsung) for a long time now in both power efficiency and performance. Apple has usually been around 2 yrs ahead of the competition. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 chip with 8 cores has a Geekbench multi-core score of 3592[1]. The six-score Apple A15 Bionic scored 4673. The Apple chip has ~30% better multi-core performance with 25% fewer cores than the Qualcomm chip. In single-core performance the difference is even larger, with the Apple chips performing ~47% faster. You can get the same A15 Bionic in both the $429 iPhone SE and the $1100+ iPhone 13 Pro Max.

It hasn't really been a huge deal though because people don't develop directly on an iPhone, so it doesn't affect their every day productivity all that much. Also phone's have reached the point of "fast enough" a few years ago, it's hard to tell the difference between an iPhone 13 Pro and an 11 Pro unless you use them side by side. But with the release of the M1 chip, people are getting the performance & energy efficiency gains in their every day workflows.

[1]. https://browser.geekbench.com/android-benchmarks

[2]. https://browser.geekbench.com/ios-benchmarks
Sounds like an informal variation on / parallel to the TRIZ idea: ”Here are a bunch of strategies… If you get stuck, try one of these!”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIZ
I have literally seen that happen, although the house was electric blue and not purple. I did in fact put my money where my mouth is and moved to a farm without an HOA.
I don't have access to the study, but wasn't it the one where:

- the author was the only person studied

- the difference wasn't that big

?
How to choose between two job offers in software Enginerring
I got two job offers at same compensation. One from 7 year old startup in HRMS space and one from service based IT MNC. I am comfused which one should I choose. How to decide between two?
Some categories of work are like respawning hydra heads: the more tasks you do, the more tasks reappear in their place. Other categories of work are preventative: the more work you do, the less respawning hydra work you get. The goal is to do more preventative work.

To visualize this, use the Eisenhower Matrix: a 2x2 grid. The top row is important tasks, the bottom row is unimportant tasks, the left column is urgent tasks, and the right column is non-urgent tasks.

Items in the top-left "important and urgent" box are usually problems. These are emergencies, and they're typically respawning hydra heads. It's tempting to spend lots of your time here, but if you do that, you'll turn into someone who's always putting out fires. It's necessary to do some of this stuff here, but where possible, you want to minimize your time here.

Items in the bottom-left "not important but urgent" box are usually other people's problems and emergencies: people sending you emails, text messages, calls, requests, favor requests, etc. The more you respond to this stuff, the more people will send to you. This became particularly vivid to me one week when I was exceptionally on top of my email inbox, and by the time I'd finish an inbox zero session, half the emails had already come back as replies.

Items in the bottom-right "not important and not urgent" box are time wasting activities you don't really want to do.

The top-right "important but not urgent" box is really where you want to spend your time. These are preventative, foundational, strategic, and restorative tasks that help you live your life according to your values, act at your best, and get things under control. It's not just work stuff, either. It's taking care of your relationships and recreation and health, too. The more time you spend here, the less you'll see urgent work piling up from yourself and from others.
This is it.

I walk to the grocery store and used to use a basket, carrying food home. Non-food was delivered by Amazon.

Then near the end of 2020 when so many trips per week was getting to be too much a hassle, I bought a personal cart that I bring to the store with me. Now Amazon is more of a hassle for plenty of non-food items, because it's so trivial to add it to the cart, so I've been getting less online and more from the store.
Nice, does not look super fast, but a great start and looks very usable for development or smaller tasks

(a great start especially considering the missing nvidia GPUs on intel macbooks)
Sure, it's not definitive, and rabbits are different from humans in many ways, but at the cellular level they are similar, & if skin cancer is a cellular phenomenon (say, perhaps, driven by fat composition of the cell membranes), it's likely the results would transfer.

(Hard to do this kind of research in humans, so you have to use animal models and use good judgement/guess at the applicability.)
Note that, the census considers many “small farm towns” to be “urban areas.” For example, Sibley, Iowa, where my wife grew up. It qualifies because it’s population is 3,000 people (over the 2,500 limit the census bureau uses). But it’s not what most people would consider to be an “urban area.”
> It simply says that people know nothing about govern, they should only vote once for themselves to protect their personal interest.
And that liquid democracy doesn't work at all, when applied to when applied to practice...

Technically, these are beliefs that you have formed, not facts demonstrated by your example.

For proof:

> ...unless you have proof of the contrary.

How would him providing proof change the epistemic state of underlying reality that you are allegedly describing?
AS/400s actually support 3270 terminals. Apps natively speak 5250, but OS/400 has a built-in 3270/5250 conversion layer. IBM wanted to sell AS/400s to their mainframe customers who had already invested heavily in 3270, insisting people had two terminals on each desk (3270 and 5250) was a non-starter, hence the emulation layer.

Makes less sense now just about everyone uses emulators rather than physical terminals, especially when you can get emulators which speak both - but still supported anyway. You can set up your IBM i to accept TN3270 as well as TN5250.

That said, people confusing 5250 for 3270 is more common than people actually using 3270 with an AS/400, so this is probably a case of the former rather than the later
Im on mobile so will check you math later but our 100 GW nuclear fleet makes 20% of our electricity. So you need 500 GW-class reactors to power all electricity in the USA, not 500,000.

UPDATE: So yeah power is rate of energy delivery, measured in Watts or Joules per second. Energy itself is measured in Joules or (equivalently) Watt-seconds. Units that are like kW-hour have power × time, so those are energy units. So if the USA uses 4116 billion kWh of energy in a year, that comes out to 469 GW of power averaged over the year. So you need about 500 GW-class nuclear reactors to generate the country's electricity.

Meanwhile electricity is only 40% of our total energy usage. The rest is transportation (almost all oil), building heat (natural gas), and industry (mostly natural gas). Those have to be decarbonized too, and if we switch them to electric alternatives we can expect our total electric demand to roughly double.

PS I always use GNU units for these kinds of unit conversions (`units "4116 billion kW*hour/1 year" "GW"`)
Depends upon the jurisdiction. For instance, there was a bill in Massachusetts in 2013 that had a provision making brandishing illegal, but the bill did not pass. There are no current statutes that I am aware of making brandishing specifically illegal in the state. Case law does reference brandishing quite a bit (mostly with a knife) and is used most often to show intent or where an assault or other crime has also taken place. (e.g. a perpetrator brandished a knife and then ordered a victim to perform an action against their will, or a perpetrator brandished a firearm to win an argument and was then found not to have a license for it).

Brandishing alone could be considered an assault I suppose, but I don't really see that much in case law. I think because its pretty rare for somebody to brandish a weapon with intent to harm and then not follow up with further criminal actions.
A test tool that can take an abstract/general purpose AST and output unit tests for every code path.
Complementary features would include pinning tests to 1. Diff 2. Detect regressions. Also having the ability to fuzz the code automatically would be great.
Asterisk: They probably are using the "new" definition of racism, not the classical definition. The foundation of the "anti-racist" definition is that in any situation, a difference in outcomes has a single attribution: racism.

As an example, if you give 100 children a math test -- no word problems, just algebra -- and find that there is any correlation between skin color and test performance, then the test itself must be racist, and perhaps even math itself. Similarly here, if there is a difference in how cancer affects people... what must be the cause? That's right! Racism™!

This is a patently absurd understanding of racism, but I've found it extremely helpful to start discussions like these by pointing out that if we don't have a common definition of what it means for something to be racist, then we can't have a discussion about it.

PS: The classical definition of racism is the idea that skin color is indicative of performance. To look at the students before or after the test takes place, and make the assumption that skin color will effect performance. The extremely fine point here is that *the skin color itself* is what will cause (or caused) the difference.
> How do you store that in the database?

1. A very small dimension table, defining the set of flags in terms of the current state: (user_lifecycle_state, is_a, is_b, is_c, ...). Join it to the fact table when you need it.

2. Computed columns in a writable view wrapping the table.

3. Procedures/functions that take the lifecycle state as input, so you can `SELECT u.id, ..., is_active(u.lifecycle_state) AS is_active FROM users`.

> which just hides/black-boxes the ugly code

I don't see what's ugly about it. The point of defining something as a FSM is that that's a formal definition on the design level, separate from any particular implementation; you can write a single stateless module that defines these predicates in terms of the lifecycle-states on any or all layers of the stack they're needed, and they'll all work the same, because they're all working off a formal definition of the meaning of each state.

Compare and contrast: Postgres has an `inet` type for IP addresses. It has a function `family(inet)`, which returns 4 or 6. Your business layer's runtime probably also has a function like that somewhere. They won't necessarily have the same outputs (i.e. your business layer's version might be a pair of predicates `is_ipv4?` and `is_ipv6?`) — but they'll both answer the same way semantically given the same inputs, because they're both working off of a shared formal definition of what an IP address is.
It’s probably lots of little reasons, the main one being though, why stay?

Why start a business there vs another state? Lots of empty office space rn and I can only assume remote won’t help with that.

When the value of the location goes down, could easily start an exponential exit. Cities aren’t forever, just look at Detroit. Not saying that will happen to California but I really do think it peaked for tech last decade.
It's a funny topic for me because last summer I wrote a text layout engine for Python because I thought the alternatives sucked. I struggled with loading libraries to support vertically-oriented Japanese text and then it hit me "these characters are all squares... it can't be that hard!" Then there was the gradual epiphany that: (1) if you want to use serif typefaces and have it look good you have to kern them properly (2) Word, Powerpoint, and Adobe tools don't kern properly (3) that's why sans serif typefaces are so fashionable these days

Of course I am using this to print cards with custom software and it doesn't have to be interactive, reflow, or be useful to anyone else.
I know you’re being sarcastic, but it most definitely was the fault of the shooter who did not follow basic firearm safety rules (either not knowing what they were shooting at or what was beyond what they were shooting at). Firearm ownership is a right, but also must be taken seriously and responsibly. Regardless of the “mistake”, the offender should have been charged (hopefully with a felony).
People will get used to that spike. People get used to a lot of dangerous and scary things. Going faster than walking speed and operating heavy machinery is dangerous and scary if you are not used to it, and yet, people do it every day without a giving second thought.

People will need constant reminders that that spike is dangerous, like seeing people they know die from it. So it is essentially advocating that in order to make less people die from car accidents, we have to make more people die from car accidents, which make no sense.

Protective equipment, and the absence of spikes on the steering wheel work. For example, machine tools today are much safer than they once where, resulting in much less workplace accidents. By the Tullock's spike standards, removing the cover between you and that blade loudly spinning at high speed should improve safety by making people more careful, it doesn't, and there are few more obvious threats than that.
> A good democracy is one where the interests of most people are exercised

the many times cited Arrow's theorem says that no such system exist: they are all biased and if you use one that favours representativeness, you miss on the fairness side.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theo...
It's on you to prove the claim. Post the full text of studies.
How does blender not meet these needs?
it depends on who "the rich" are

but there is a decent sized subset of California that is insulated from the "problems" of California. they are insulated from the famous tax rates, do not rely on employment income, are not subject to the compliance burdens of being an employer, have inherited low property taxes or only rent, and can leave at a moment's notice.

this part of the population of California is large enough to vastly distort the rental or property market wherever they go to.
In Tokyo, it is passably fine. Business communication is strongly preferred in Japanese. However, learning resources are many & people are generally helpful and accommodative. 20-30% will be proficient in English. I am told Osaka-Kyoto work setting is more traditional than Tokyo, so expect less foreign language fluency.

I wouldn't discount the difficulties of not knowing the local language. Living in Japan is not easy if you do not speak or understand Japanese. Every single form or application is in Japanese. All government related procedures are in Japanese. Banner signboards & instructions too. You'd miss out on several important bulletins e.g. tax instructions, license updation etc., if you read only the EN versions, as Japanese ones are more detailed & explanatory. One-to-one translation of information is not guaranteed with such documents.
You realize both can be true right?

The can want to sell more suncreen, and the way they are achieving that might be racist. These two are not mutually-exclusive.
I ran into this article about a month after I started to self-teach coding, coincidentally in ruby. It probably ruined my career in a good way.
The number of private companies that are comparable to the size of the ones in the S&P 500 is quite low. [0] If we're talking about macro trends, public co's are much more important than private ones.

Do you have a source for small-to-mid sized businesses having a decreasing average age of CEOs?

[0] Compare the implied ranking based on revenue for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_private_non-go... vs. https://companiesmarketcap.com/usa/largest-american-companie.... There are only 14 private companies with more revenue than Visa, the 100th-largest public co by revenue. Cargill, the largest US private co, wouldn't even break the top 20 when compared to publics.
> that loon shows up next door and paints their house purple

HOAs started as a way to handle common infrastructure, like drainage. They allow a few homes to share drainage, without sticking all of the costs of maintenance to the homeowner who happens to have the pipe on their property.

In my case, my HOA carries property insurance for undeveloped land, maintains a grassy cul-de-sac, and maintains a fire road. (I personally spend about 2 hours a year trimming growth on the fire road because so many people walk on it.)

As far as saying that an HOA is to keep the loons out, we did have a hoarder live around the corner from the HOA. The people who lived across the street couldn't sell their home. (They had kids and wanted a larger house.) Could the HOA really do anything about the hoarder? I know the people who lived around the hoarder all put a lot of pressure on hee, the town condemned the house, and eventually it burnt to the ground. At least my with HOA, there isn't any good way to "evict" a loon who makes a mess.
Depending on where you live and how bad a yard gets, it can be a real problem. Here, for example, it can be an invitation to snakes or other wildlife that aren’t confined to that property.

That said, I’m -1 on HOAs. I’ve heard far too many complaints and too few people happy with them to deal with one.
As far as I understand (and from an extremely cursory google search), (crypto) yield farming is described as "An investing strategy". Not as a bonus on top of something else. i.e. the "bonus" is the only point.

Your argument (again, afaik) was that yield farming should be likened to bank sign up bonuses.

If I follow that argument:

If someone were to tell me in the non-crypto world that there was a new "Investment strategy" and when I asked what it was based on, the answer was that my money would be used to pay people to open bank accounts to get the sign up bonus and that part of those bonuses would trickle back to me (making this, in some sense, "an investment strategy") -- I would run away.

But maybe I'm taking the analogy too far :-)
It seems to me that ideally, if a variable name is so predictable that you can name it by rules, that’d be an opportunity for the language to not require a name.

But in practice $0 and Haskell’s point-free styles can be annoying to read, so maybe what I want is the IDE to insert obvious names.
I would say pay back the debt. Along the way you will find itmes that maybe are no longer of interest to you. This will reduce your list.
Oh plasma and sperm donation, didn't think of that!
Concerning the referenced study that equates negative effects of sun-avoidance to smoking:

https://sci-hub.se/10.1111/joim.12496

> First, it is not possible to differentiate between active sun exposure habits and a healthy lifestyle.

People who are healthy get outside more. People who engage in physical activity tend to do quite a bit of it outside.

Despite the term "sun avoidance" this is not about people who intentionally avoid the sun. It is about people who for whatever reason do not have much sun exposure.
Which is why I no longer live in a place with an HOA
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If there’s an HOA, they probably agreed not to.
In other words, root access does not require being able to run Total Commander as root, or SimpleSSHd? I have a NAS at home, "root access" doesn't mean that I would be able to back up the entire phone to that NAS?
Agree completely
> Unless those other people are the government.

> it is their (US government's) obligation to reasonably check predatory fraudulent activity

Crypto, by-in-large, is not predatory. Most fraud checks are after the fact. Fraud can be triaged, but there is no getting around the reality that there will always be people who don't value risk properly. Again, this is not a problem for other people to solve.

This is not a reason to pretend it's a larger issue that will affect your gambling experience.
Wasting time, energy and money to please our algorithm overlords.
There’s nothing authoritarian about entering a contractor voluntarily
>Correlation vs causation much?

Oh I'm so tired of this meme!

Plenty of times causation is found through correlation. Plenty. Of. Times.
You shouldn't take reddit creative writing seriously.
Is your hypothesis that avoiding sun exposure slows aging generally, or just that it makes the skin look younger? I’m worried about many of the effects of aging, but don’t care a whole lot about how my skin looks.
This is about the iconic Joy Division t-shirt that is "based on an image of radio waves from pulsar CP 1919".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unknown_Pleasures#Artwork_and_...
> That's a real criticism, for sure.

There is a temporal component to the problem though: given time and education, voter minds can be upgraded.

I think an often unrealized potential side benefit of liquid democracy is that it could be used as a way to sneak proper education in philosophy (logic, epistemology, rhetoric, etc) into the curriculum, like an end run around the department of education and current internet forums that seem almost designed (both software and moderation, like the throttling undesired points of view) to produce a voter base that is unable to think skilfully.
Isn't ko just simple forbinding of board state repetition rule ? (As in You cannot go back to previous state of board and create infinite cycle). Akin to repetition rule in chess. Why would this be hard for beginers ?
Unless You try to frame it as a forbinding of retaking the stone that took Your stone - because that can be confusing and it does not explain why this rule exist.
The grass is pretty green right now, but if the rain stops, boy it will be a problem!
No idea, just heard this anecdotally from a friend of a friend, >50$/hr.

I'm rethinking if you could get this going in 7 days, though. Might take a few weeks to build up an audience and cashout the tips.
That was Larrabee/Xeon Phi, was it not? Discontinued for lack of sales.
Made an edit to better serve your sensibilities SMH
> What if you stop putting your components in a box

... and thus remove the protective casing and allowing every possible kind of foreign matter to intrude the components, having it take direct impacts if I accidentally hit my elbow on it, take possible water damage, not be able to have cats around it any more and my girlfriends hair being sucked into the CPU cooler?

No thank you
Relax, be kind to yourself.

The finance analogy isn’t right, because debt is something you have to pay and these things, or at least most of them, don’t require you to do anything.

If you have too many emails to get through, yes, unsubscribe ruthlessly.

If your storage costs too much, yes, delete ruthlessly.

Now, accept that you will never make use of everything you’ve found. That doesn’t matter. That’s also true of libraries and the world in general.

So don’t worry about getting through them. You cannot.

Just remove anything that causes problems (incoming streams, expensive storage), and then enjoy your curated things at whatever pace you feel like.

You can’t finish it, ever. But that doesn’t mean it is a problem you need to solve. It means it’s a selection to taste from.