skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Because you can buy an M1 Mac today

You can order one today. I'm still waiting for mine I ordered in March.
Salt water is already routinely used to cool something: engines in boats. The key component is the heat exchanger that uses the salt water to cool the fresh water circulating through the engine itself. I don't see why you couldn't do something similar for a computer.
Then don't work for juicero
Even if each paragraph was its own file. It's just a bad metaphor.
> That's a bold claim.

But where are the groups for "anti-organ transplants", or "anti-blood transfusion" etc? One does not often come across references to them on online forms, I think. So clearly we are talking about a substantially large population here.

>How "safe" is "safe enough"

Quite subjective, so I am not going to answer that. But that is also besides the point.

Point is people are called anti-vaxxer, if they doubt the safety of vaccines. Case in point is given below.

https://www.bmj.com/content/341/bmj.c4001.abstract
All of them turned out to be bullshit, but we now also know that those “concerned” were child groomers themselves.
‘Speek ’: An Open-Source Chat App That Uses Tor
I always wondered what’s keeping packages back from having wheels ready the day a release drops, or way before even?

I imagine often it’s just another parameter in a CI somewhere, where things mostly “just work” because backward-incompatible breakages have become much rarer.
This makes a lot of sense to me. I've grown up with my feet in two communities, my smaller ethnic community and the greater local community. My ethnic community is really tight, and most people get along with one another. There's a shared kinship, so even the awkward kids are invited to hang out often. I've always felt the 'awkward'(as in seems stereotypically autistic) kids in my ethnic community were a little better at socializing and a little less anxiety-ridden than at school.

I really think having a social environment makes a huge difference in severity of these kinds of things for those that are high functioning. Unfortunately, our greater society isn't very good at being an inclusive community. It's very dog eat dog, and most people don't have strong family and friend networks anymore. It's something that used to be important to humans, and was necessary to survive really. We don't need it anymore and as a result, neglect it. Why wouldn't that play a part in severity and presentation of autism?
> 2% is not a reasonable amount when housing prices are regularly going up by 3x-5x that percentage.

Let's examine these numbers. If housing prices are regularly going up by 6% to 10% it means that a property purchased for $250K in 1995 is worth 1.2M to 3.3M today. While you can probably find such an example, that's not the norm by far.

I can say that all the houses in my neighborhood (outskirts of Silicon Valley) have gone up about 4% averaged over the last 30 years. Yes that's more than the 2% valuation increase, but way below 6-10%. It's one thing to criticize prop13, but let's keep the numbers factual, no need to exagerate.

> There has never been a bubble crash that brought housing prices anywhere down to the Prop 13 valuations

That's very much not true. The dot.com crash brought many houses (mine included) below the prop 13 valuation. The 2008 crash did the same for a very large amount of home owners.

There hasn't been a crash since 2008 so it might feel like prices can only ever go up, but there will be another crash. Perhaps soon.

> I think that we need to start charging a huge capital gains tax on local property transaction, assessed by the local government, not the federal government. Maybe 25%-50% of the capital gains.

What does this accomplish exactly? It is a huge incentive to never ever sell. Is that your preferred goal?
This sounds like a hype that is going to die at some point. SQLite has its own uses in client devices and small webservers, but it is not built to scale to millions of transactions per second.

It is possible to build all kinds of cool things on top of SQLite, but most of these articles sound like it is going to replace PostgreSQL or MySQL.
That governs rent. But what we've seen with COVID is huge jumps in price to rent ratios.
C'mon who downvoted this?

I'll treat you with a snippet from the author's pen:

what we see is the very same effect as we have noticed in case of the countless “Arabic inscriptions” on the ancient Russian weapons. It is most likely that the coronation mantle of the Holy Roman Empire had been worn by the local rulers of Germany, a province of the Great = “Mongolian” Empire, regnant on behalf of the main Russian Czar, or Khan of the Horde. The mantle was obviously covered in “Mongol” lettering as a symbol of the “Mongolian” Empire, which was subsequently declared “exclusively Arabic” by the historians. However, back in those days the most important documents and inscriptions were written in Slavic as well as in “Arabic”.[1]

That the coronation mantle does bear an Arabic inscription is a known fact and we do know why: because the kings of Sicily at the time were Normans; the population was multi-cultural, multi-ethnic and multi-confessional, with Arabs, Jews, people of Romance and Greek descent, adhering to several Christian and Muslim denominations. Sicily and with it the treasury with the mantle only came later into possession of the Emperor and it wasn't until considerably later that we can say for sure that it was used in the coronation ceremony.[2] The author's use of scare-quoted `"Arabic"` is hardly helpful in this context; the assertion that the Emperor of the HRE was a "local ruler[...] of Germany, a province of the Great = “Mongolian” Empire, regnant on behalf of the main Russian Czar" because the coronation mantle happens to bear an Arabic inscription for crying out loud is utterly deranged and IMHO far below any antiscientific standards established by Flatearthology.

*Edit* Further down on the same page[1], the author jumps from the observation that there are both Scythian and Toltek effigies that are shown holding a cup (chalice) in front of their bellies to the claim that this proves the existence of, quote, "a common culture that emerged as a result of the XV century conquest of the Americas by Russia (or the Horde) and the Ottoman (Ataman) empire". Sure, whatever.

One should not gloss over the fact that all those deranged fever fantasies, come they from flat-earthers or nationalists, are always targeted against something and someone.

[1] https://chronologia.org/en/seven5/empire03_01.html

[2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kr%C3%B6nungsmantel
You don't have the option of telling Java whether to use "that dynamism". All Java calls are virtual calls, in most simple cases the JIT optimizes it out (i.e. single implementer of an interface), sometimes it can't.

This isn't just speculation about what the JVM does, you can examine the bytecode being generated by the JIT-process to verify whether this optimization happens.

Do you have real-world examples of this 5x speedup from this decade? 20x memory I can sort of see because the GC overhead can be pretty nasty in some edge cases, but I'd expect closer to 1.5-2x speedup from C++ if the Java code is anywhere near well written.
That's a good point. Also if modding community for a phone isn't that big.
> I’d think agricultural diets were less healthy insofar as they didn’t have nutrition science

More likely, agriculture was less healthy because it had less in common with what humans had been consuming over recent evolutionary time. Animals eating mostly grain over millions of years, would be able to produce vitamin C themselves, for instance.

> But I was just thinking that hunter-gatherers need more active participation and can’t provide a surplus to feed as many idle hands.

I think the data from recent hunter-gatherer tribes indicate that they work fewer hours per day to gather food than farmers.

> The population growth problem is the purpose of religion whose main thing has always been telling people to not have sex.

There are/were plenty of religions that promote sex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_prostitution

I think the main reasons why agricultural societies tend to build more buildings, are:
- Agriculture allows the production of more calories within a geographical area, allowing much higher population densities.
- Agriculture ties people to a geographical area, while most hunter gatherers will relocate now and then (or even all the time). Pastorial cultuers can go in either direction.
- In fertile areas, not everyone needs to be a farmer. Specialized soldiers, priests, artisans, etc evolve.
- Agriculture creates a dependency on the protection of the land until the time of harvest, which increases the need for some kind of military organization to resist raiding tribes. This develops into something like kingdoms pretty easily, where a single (or a few) individuals control a large number of people.

So, agriculture increases population density, promotes specialization, and encourages local investments in land and buildings, and requires some kind of soldier and ruling class. Over time, it's not strange that the ruling class invent non-violent means of retaining control, such as buildings that are impressive/and or easy to defend, social structures and religions that justify their "right" to power, etc.

For hunter-gatherers, the hunter and warrior roles overlap. Essentially, the same tools are used for providing food and protecting territory, so no special warrior class elite develops. In consequence, the chieftain is likely to be a first-among-equals, who participates in the hunting and fighting just like the others, and who is more likely to have his role due to personal ability rather than inheritence. With every man being a warror, a semi-democratic system would typically exist, since any sub-group that had the support of more than half the men would be the strongest one in a fight.

Just as an analogue, democracy in the West just happened to come at the same time that conscript armies armed with cheap firearms replaced elite knights/men-at-arms. A similar pattern could be seen in Greece and Rome, both of which had some kind of rule by the people for as long as their armies remained citizen armies. (When Rome switched to professional soldiers, it only took a couple of generations for Sulla, Ceaser and Octavian to arrive.)
> in the same way we ended up with a Window system called X

There actually was a Window system named “W”; it was the window system for the “V” operating system (IIRC). “X”, therefore, was the successor to “W”.
$107K in Berkeley for someone with 2 kids won't lead to a lavish lifestyle in the hills, but it should be very doable on a budget so I don't quite understand that complaint. This reads a bit like someone who is used to a more elevated lifestyle in the private sector not understanding how middle or working class people live.

Is it the belief that someone who's entire job is teaching at a research oriented university should be paid similarly to those with greater academic credentialing (PhD) and who balance both teaching and research? That seems to be the implication here. And I don't disagree that teaching is undervalued, but Pamela Fox seems to want the higher status without the 5-6 year academic journey and brutal selection process to get tenure track positions. And academia doesn't reward great performance like the private sector so doing a great job as a lecturer would never elevate her to that upper track.

It is sad to lose great teachers but a part of me finds it hard to sympathize. This reads like a very smart person not doing their homework on the way a system works though ample public resources are available to find out.
If only they could be as beautiful as the Cray 2 was (and Cray 3 would be)...

As a note, I went down the single-phase immersion cooling rabbit hole (and designed a C-shaped tank for the build) but gave up when I read the instructions for disposal of the coolant (3M's Novec) and found them a little bit too complicated for my taste. I wouldn't want a fish tank of that on my living room.
> an excess of jobs and money

And speculation.

Bay Area has the highest price to rent ratios in the US. Rent really hasn't changed that much since 2020 and if the betting stops it'd make sense to go back to 2020 prices (which is like a 50% "crash" in parts of the Bay)
Agree. Academic lecturing jobs tend to be super family friendly with on-site childcare, generous lunch breaks, and almost no work travel.
Plus I suspect you will still need to pull your card. Biometrics sort of work when you are trying to match one user with one face (authenticate on a computer). But if you are searching a face among a billion users, you will get false positives, not the least because of twins. So you still need a way to tell your ID to the system.
Same here. And every time that was a mistake and the fork sucks.
‘Dodged a bullet’: how whistleblowers averted a second US nuclear disaster
That's why you limit die size to a certain extent. But that's not a limiting factor on cores per server. You can cram many more 150mm² dies into your server's sockets than you can actually feed with power and cooling and RAM.
Here! I'd say it is most of the time the bad code.
Still the bad old days for copying files from iOS to Linux. It seems to make a copy internally of everything you copy internally on the device before sending it, which leads to running out of free space just trying to copy things of :(
Useful Bookmarklets to Boost Web Development
who is huberman? any links on that dopamine thing? cannot google it for some reason.

tia
Yeah, I get that. And that's natural. But if a huge population swell is accustomed to treating the market as a get-rich-quick casino, the market stops serving its purpose and I guess we're in for a really bad series of shocks.
> I have a controversial opinion.

How is this controversial. This should be mainstream thinking. Solve the problems that you have, when you're having them, instead of spending time preparing for a future that may never come.
A microservice contains many classes. Those classes are organized into packages and so many of them are necessarily “public.” The microservice boundary is a new kind of grouping, where even this collection of packages and public classes presents only one small interface to the rest of the architecture. AFAIK this is not a common or natural pattern in OOP and normal visibility rules schemes don’t support or encourage it.
Is there any actual research/study on the efficacy of bionic reading? If it improves reading speed / comprehension significantly then it's really a no-brainer.
They moved over by coincidence? OK.
My interpretation is that there is an internal struggle between China hawks and doves in the Biden admin, leading Biden mostly to walk back whatever move either faction does (plus sometimes freestyling some gaffes of his own). For example full sanctions on Hikvision or removal of Trump's China tarifs. Or this, which is a reoccuring theme.

The end-result is a sort of drifting around the status quo.

A full recognition of Taiwan as its own nation would break the "3 comminiques" between China and the US, and also be a massive change in the internal politics of both Taiwan and mainland China.

I don't think any of the parties involved see now as a good time to do this.
I just use github wikis, checked out as separate project
You can also pay for Obsidian Sync, which is more or less required if you're mixing Apple and non-Apple devices, as there's no proper support for OneDrive or alike on iOS, but also no proper support for iCloud on Windows/Android.

https://obsidian.md/sync
Ye. But if the problem to solve is complex or convoluted enought so will the solution be. Somewhere the code has to actually do something no matter the approuch.
I find it odd that they compare startup equity grants to cash in pocket from the university job, because there's a very high chance that the equity will turn out worthless.
"the PDP-8E was introduced in 1970 and by 1971 it was probably present in a significant portion of us high schools."

Universities perhaps, high schools no.
https://bionic-reading.com
I don't understand the rationale behind weeder courses.

Shouldn't the introductory course sequence be designed to help all students master the material?

What's the point of teaching a class poorly or not giving students enough time?

Does Cal not have enough faculty to teach the follow-on courses if too many students are successful, so they have to prevent students from being successful?
This work is an interesting step in providing the means to allow non specialists to reproduce the first image of a black hole in the galaxy M87.

From the point of view of reproducibility of the scientific results would like to note the following: The paper focus on the technical aspects of the pipeline. From the 10 authors of the paper, 9 are Computer Science experts, under the mentorship, I presume, of the Charles Brightman Professor of Physics at Syracuse University a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration.

From what I could gather, none of the authors is active in the Astrophysics of Black Holes or a specialist in VLBI with the probable exception of Professor D. A. Brown.

Very recently, a team of Japanese Astrophysics and VLBI experts from RIKEN, one of the premier Astrophysics labs in Japan, published a paper submitted to The Astrophysical Journal. The paper has different conclusions than the EHT collaboration, and argues the detected 40 µas ring structure is an effect of sampling bias in the EHTC’s processes

"Jet and resolved features of the central black hole M87 observed with EHT":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31383250

As far as I know the EHT team did not provide yet a response to the paper by the Japanese researchers. That is understandable, but hopefully one will come soon, due to the media visibility to the scientific results presented by the EHT Collaboration.
Does not work for me either on Chrome.
At least this used to be the case. Nowadays FreeBSD doesn’t implement block devices at all - there are only raw disk devices.
Other people may blur the boundaries, but Apple distinguishes them. Hardware: Apple TV. Software: tvOS. Subscription service: Apple TV+.
Again there is no reduction in CPU lanes compared to AM4. There are 16 for the GPU, 4 for storage, 4 for secondary storage or USB 4 external PCIe, and 4 for the chipset to share put as desired. That's 28 total lanes just like AM4.

Chagall/Zen 3 did drop the TRX40 chipset but again the sWRX8 class was only a small uplift from prosumer anyways so I'm not sure the loss of sTR4 is all that interesting or best compared to AM5. The question is whether they decide to continue to release Threadripper Pros at an attractive price point not lamenting why AM5 didn't absorb sTR4.
I like the appendix that talks about actively managing the arcing that EDMs the contacts away.
This bot narrative is known by everybody to be just rhetoric.

Time for summary to get over spin:

(1) Musk noted in a press release statement that “defeating the spam bots” would be a top priority under the company's new ownership. “He said he wanted to buy Twitter to get rid of the spam bots, and now he's saying he doesn't want to buy Twitter because it has spam bots

(2) nothing has changed about the bot problem since Musk signed the merger agreement. Musk knew those estimates, and ...

(3) ... declined to do any nonpublic due diligence before signing the merger agreement.

(4) He has produced no evidence at all that Twitter’s estimates are wrong, and certainly not that they are materially wrong or made in bad faith. (Musk can only get out of the deal if Twitter's filings are wrong in a way that would cause a “material adverse effect” on Twitter, which is vanishingly unlikely.)
Agrawal’s wrote a thoughtful response that Musk responded to with a poop emoji.

(5) Only thing that has changed is stock market.

So far Musk has violated every contract with Twitter. He broke the standstill agreement, the non-disparagement clause of the merger agreement, a nondisclosure agreement, now the merger agreement itself.
If Twitter agrees to repriced merger agreement, there is no reason to expect that Musk lives up to it anymore.

It seems that the best Twitter can do is to get Delaware judge to order Musk to close the deal for it's full price. This means getting testimonies that Musk had money secured from banks. If he ordered them to stop or end the deals, that's violation of the agreement and Musk is in bad trouble.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-05-17/elon-m...
Yes. An introductory course should be designed that way to facilitate learning. They do have an introductory course before this one to get your feet wet but it isn’t a part of the degree requirements.

Berkeley doesn’t have enough faculty for all the students who join. So part of it is just pragmatism.

It also wants to maintain a certain level of prestige. The degree is fairly difficult to get.
How to write a Hollywood blockbuster, with Aristotle’s Poetics
Where's All the Code?
And on BSD systems you can just press ctrl-t.
<first baby while working in the tech industry, I got 4 months fully paid leave>

This is ridiculous, how do you raise a child in US? Under the table, in your office or what.
(in my country, mat. leave is by law and till your child is 3yrs old, employer is prohibited to fire you during this period, again by law. But of course, you'll not get full salary during leave, only some percents)
Once in a blue was contacted by a guy from University of Washington for being a course instructor for CS.

- Low pay? check

- Not being able to change or at least select the schedule? check

While I'm curious about giving back in form of some CS/programming classes, it probably won't be instructing at college.
BARDA officials say the order was not related to the monkeypox cases.

https://www.axios.com/2022/05/20/smallpox-vaccine-order-monk...
I have a similar approach, I found some kanban concepts useful to prevent queues

- board structure to aid sorting before a "commitment point", e.g. "Options/New" - Later(6 weeks) - Soon (in the next 7 days)

- Now (usually just the top or highlighted item in "soon") - Done - Closed

- Closed" to place items that are dismissed

- Work in Progress (WIP) - Limits on all columns - maximum number of items

Throughput

- average capacity: number of cards completed or closed in a typical week

- useful to keep track of: when I complete a card, I add a dot somewhere (usually on a "note card") to count it for the week, and add info when blocked by sth

- this number varies, but is a useful indicator how much I can realistically process in a week - for example, 5 items/cards

WIP (Work in progress) limits

- visualize expectations - what can realistically be achieved in this timeframe

- set per column limits - when more cards are in the column, I have to remove some or transfer them to a wishlist

- wip limits determined by average number of cards closed or done per week (throughput); e.g. "Later (WIP 20)"; "Soon" - WIP 5;

Managing Flow / preventing queues

- planning with smaller steps (could each be done in a day) to enable learning

- avoiding a situation when too many things are started but not completed

- understanding the cost of queues: nothing gets done for a long time, and then all at once (unpredictable patterns); or the value diminishes (cost of delay)
Not completely agree, I work at a company who makes money with semantic web consulting. It is really powerful technology, which we use to index and unify customer data, but also for dynamic React front-end generation.

I was a bit hesitant to start working at this company, because of the many negative notes here on HN (https://hn.algolia.com/?q=why+the+semantic+web)

This contrasts with what I experience, we have a growing customer base, both in healthcare and finance. Just do a LinkedIn job search with a keywords like 'sparql' or 'semantic', you'll see many jobs.