skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like drone pilots who destroy villages in Afghanistan from an air-conditioned trailer in Nevada, the engineers of the O.S.B. experienced an uncanny incongruity between the safety of their surroundings and the knowledge that their work supported high-stakes covert operations abroad.

Drone pilots don't destroy villages in Afghanistan, what is this nonsense.
Discussed at the time:

The Math Myth - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12418788 - Sept 2016 (313 comments)
Some history reminders.

Internet video conferencing: we used to have multicast and realtime videoconferencing in the 90s: https://ee.lbl.gov/vic/

Before that we had analog videoconferencing, eg AT&T Picturephone service went GA in 1970.
A transpiler is just a piece of software that translates code to code. A compiler is a transpiler that targets machine code and usually builds an executable through various pipelines, e.g. optimization passes etc.

Transpilers aren't limited to JS nor web dev. There are various other transpilers/compilers such as nimlangs compiler that can target C.
dilbert-esque anecdote please?
That seems like main reason any high level language exist - to give us abstraction layer with better building blocks to solve problems. The trick is to choose which DSL to use in project so its maintainable (and cost effective). I even long time ago learned some prolog (had a whole semester in university on it) but I cannot find a reason why I would use it anywhere in real projects.
Businesses are also competing in the talent market.
Not sure how car dealerships in the US work, but that is the general inventory management problem: sales what all of everything, finance wants nothing of everything, productions wants to keep utilization at 100% and Supply Chain needs to balance that. From experience, this works best when sales has no direct influence on inventory levels and forecast accuracy goals on top their other ones. That way you can let Supply Chain, through sales and ops planning, figure out how to meet both availability and inventory targets.
As you said in our last sentence, it's good to have a balance of activities throughout your day and week. For me, I try to be consistent on my projects weekly, not daily.

I sometimes will have a month where I don't even want to think about code outside of work. Other times, all I can think about during work is when I can get off and go home to code more on my side projects. These are the two extremes. I am usually somewhere in the middle: I will go take a walk, go to the gym, read science fiction, cook. During these activities, I will randomly have higher-level, free-flowing thoughts about my coding projects. Perhaps even a spark of insight.

When I return to my projects, I feel refreshed and excited. If I don't feel excited about my project, then I won't force myself.
> It’s utterly insane how we’re essentially subsidizing drug development for the entire world

I think you'll find the only thing you're subsidizing is the profits of American pharmaceutical companies and health insurance providers.

Just get rid of health insurance, and spend that money on actual health care instead. It works mighty well in other countries.
It supports a small fraction of the hardware capabilities.
iMessage backups are encrypted, they are just not encrypted as much as some people would like.

In particular, Apple has HSM servers outside their hosting environment for auditable release of encrypted backups. This could be done for a support request for a lost user password or as part of a legal demand (say, family of the deceased seeking access to photo history, or requested by law enforcement with a court order).

The passkeys system uses iCloud Keychain, which is a separate mechanism and is encrypted before being sent to Apple using user-device-private keys. You should need to both get iCloud access _and_ provision a device into the "ring" before you can access passwords or passkeys.
That is a great salary for the UK - did you apply for a UK role, or did you apply for a US role working remotely, and thus got a US-level salary? I'm at the executive director level at another bank and get paid only slightly more than that in the UK - looks like I need to start interviewing.
The best explanation I’m aware of for the disproportionate death rates by Europeans vs Native Americans by disease is mainly population density of European cities was dramatically higher, leading to a lot of diseases that would permanently spread throughout the population until the combination of evolution and immune systems brought it to a symbiotic, fairly neutral relationship.

Which didn’t remain so neutral when applied to fresh populations.

Native Americans simply weren’t playing host to as many diseases, and persisting virulent ones
Can you expand on this?

The ARM and x86 don’t have the same memory barriers so MP is different, but I’m not sure that’s what you’re getting at (it’s an instruction semantics issue non memory controller).

I used to think that Intel had the edge in sustained multi core processing but now I’m not so sure.
But it provides documentation of the language. See the topic above.
This applies to a surprising amount of things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
I don't see the advantage neither. Since tokenization is usually sequential, it only seems to add overhead. If you can identify chunks in your input at a much lower cost than actually parsing that chunk, it might be of use.
You have a point, but I don't remember that time when people used to write their own Haskell compilers...
Why colleagues don't respond to your message when you share your awesome project
I work at a consultant company. My project and work is with the client.

Currently, we are developing an awesome project at my client side. Whenever we (client) officially share info on our project, I will forward the same to my colleagues in my consultant company (in Slack channel). It is a great project and I am very excited to share that. But no one in my consultant company usually responds (appreciate/suggest) to my message. It is an active channel and I see reactions to other messages.

It could be something or nothing, but I am interested in what makes people behave like that.

Please share if you have any theory or research to this or similar situations.
I disagree, Anandtech tested the M1 max (409GB/sec bandwidth), and the CPUs managed 224GB/sec with the faster cores, and a total of 243GB/sec with fast and slow cores.

Sure that's quite a bit less than 409GB, but there's other major parts of the chip like the GPU, video codec acceleration, and neural engine.

Seems pretty unique and useful to me, not everything fits in cache.
Epic! Someone stick a front-end on this pls
Pharma companies are making healthy profits in, e.g., the EU as well. And those include R&D costs as well.
This + the guest user would be amazing.

My iPad's typically in the living room, if someone want's to quickly look up or show something, this would be ideal.

The regular user would be great for the rest of my family, especially when traveling. We're just not going to get extra iPads for everyone for relatively low time spent on the device.
To any users of diabetes treatment: why not the generic novolog sold as relion at Walmart?
Because it is was a long-standing conjecture.

Also, from the article: Mathematicians noted that the work is particularly striking because it relies entirely on elementary arguments. “It wasn’t like he was waiting for all this crazy machinery to develop,” Thompson said. “He just had some really clever ideas.”

I also hate click-bait titles, but I think it is aptly fitting for a change.
If the patents expired and it doesn't cost $400 to manufacture it then why doesn't everyone manufacture it?
I usually take a few months off 'coding' outside work, then 'load up' all the side project into my 'RAM', write features etc.. whatever needs to be done, then fire off this years update into github. Maybe that month I will reintroduce caffeine into diet etc to get that extra bump.
What you've mentioned is objectively wrong and has nothing to do with reality. The US is not leading in healthcare outcomes or anything of the sort. And even then, there's more to life than just strictly salary. Things like retirement benefits, socialized healthcare, safety nets etc all contribute to reasons why this occurs.

Also as a side note: US doesn't have a physician surplus: It has a physician shortage. By your logic, we should see no issue in finding physicians, doctors etc because they should all want to relocate to the US where the salary is the highest.
7. You’re screwed if you are a mac user who does not use an iPhone.
Hug of death resulting in requirement for smaller pictures maybe?
> folks I know at Apple are on 250k and that's considered normal

As in UK based Apple employees?

5 years back you would only get to that level as a massively prolific contractor. Maybe I should move back to the UK! :)
I have a C# project which I can work with in either VS 2022 or VS Code. I find myself almost always using VS Code. I mean to blog about why, but performance is better and it is nicer for the non-C# parts like TypeScript.
Talking about health and healthcare, the facts show the US is at or very near the worst among OECD countries in: infant mortality, child health and safety, life expectancy at birth, healthy life expectancy, disability-adjusted life years, doctors per 1000 people, deaths from treatable conditions, rate of mental health disorders, rate of drug abuse, rate of prescription drug use.
Logitech c920 is still the best 1080p webcam for most usage, and easy to find under $70.
>>You wait a year if you’re not selected and want to try again.

yes.

>> You don’t wait a year before you start working there if you are selected :)

Unless you are google where you wait for upto 8 months for team match!
Get the documentation about the function DOCUMENTATION:

(documentation 'documentation 'function)

Any Lisp IDE (like SLIME/GNU Emacs, LispWorks, ...) will have ways to show documentation.

DESCRIBE is a more general tool, similar to INSPECT. Using runtime introspection.
> Because you’re trusting both apple and the third party jointly, each of whom have different incentives.

The cynical view, of course, is that Apple's incentive and the Third Party's incentive can become very much aligned for the right amount of money.
The self indulgence of your comment is laughable (aside from the ugliness of a philosophy in which "you'll adapt" is a good reason for being subjected to restrictions, regardless of their deeper merit).

Because you live in one of the densest, oldest and most public transit-packed urban areas in Europe, you think that your easy shift to not having a car is worth a damn to hundreds of millions of people who don't live in London, or another big, dense, highly developed city like it? A Texas farmer or Louisiana fisherman isn't just being a selfish, green-hating ass when he or she says that they NEED their truck or car. They really do, to live, and almost every day. What kinds of mental bubbles do some of the privileged people who comment on this site live in?
Yes, an M1 Air. I don't do containers, but everything else I use (mainly Ruby + Rails, Elixir + Phoenix) works nicely. No compatibility issues whatsoever.
Messages is end-to-end encrypted. The key is stored in iCloud backups if they’re enabled (and if I recall correctly the messages on your device are backed up as part of an iCloud backup as well), but you can turn those backups off.

> [1]For Messages in iCloud, if you have iCloud Backup turned on, your backup includes a copy of the key protecting your messages. This ensures you can recover your messages if you lose access to your Keychain and your trusted devices. When you turn off iCloud Backup, a new key is generated on your device to protect future messages and isn't stored by Apple.

> If you forget your password or device passcode, iCloud Data Recovery Service can help you decrypt your data so you can regain access to your photos, notes, documents, device backups, and more. Data types that are protected by end-to-end encryption—such as your Keychain, Messages, Screen Time, and Health data—are not accessible via iCloud Data Recovery Service. Your device passcodes, which only you know, are required to decrypt and access them. Only you can access this information, and only on devices where you're signed in to iCloud.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303
> Pick any three musical notes, even on a microtonal scale, and they form a pleasing chord.

I cannot speak to the color part, but the music part doesn't ring true to me (pun intended). For example, if I pick the first, the second and the seventh of the Phyrigian scale, it sounds pretty jarring to me (like, playing E, F, and D at the same time). And, this is staying pretty much within the scales in western classical music (although I doubt anybody would play it, I bet somebody made it context). Also, extended chords with > 3 notes sound pretty fun and has been the staple of western music for a while (blues, jazz for easy-to-reach examples).
In the Windows 11 case, I believe the speculation was that they wanted a justification to drop CPUs too old to have the hardware acceleration to blunt the severe performance impact of the virtualization-based security they wanted to implement.
Yes. The post you reply to makes it sound like his author's life is too important not to get the fastest cpu possible. Some people have modest hardware requirements that are satisfied with modest hardware for years. Not everybody compiles or renders.
Endless naysaying. Endless protest. Anything this extremely one-sided, this polarizing, the reader ought be wary of.

> Mortgages require homes to last at least 30-50 years. You can’t get that with manufactured homes whose main advantage is the low cost.

Manufactured homes of all sorts absolutely can last a long time & be affordable. Especially if we stop discriminating against them & allow them to be built at significant scale.

> The city relies on high home cost to fund the city expenses via property taxes. Low income and affordable homes are also subsidized by high developer built market rate homes.

The idea that only rich people matter & the poor are only bad is false & prejudiced & harmful. If your latter statement is true, perhaps that's better cause to explore options where lower income/affordable houses can be made more effectively?

> In other words, ‘desirable areas’ are desirable because there is a high operating cost to it

I've always heard denser areas are often much more efficient since municipal services can be better scaled & more effectively ran, without having to cover so much physical area. I certainly think there's a lot of spawl that could be converted to much denser forms, and manufactured housing absolutely could work well.

> The solution to housing everyone is not building homes first. It’s building infrastructure first and then build around the carrying capacity of that infrastructure.

There is definitely some truth to the need for capacity planning! But we need to be building housing. And we are. And we have the opportunity to be doing a better job, to be getting better outcomes, cheaper, & the opportunity to be investing in doing even better. Gatekeeping getting good at housing, saying we shouldn't work on it, because we need to do other things first, is wrong. We're building housing now, and we're not doing it as well as we could or should.

> The restrictions help us live well.

Citation needed. And, capitally, for what definitions of "us"?

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Marginal Revolution had a decent roundup off recent manufactured housing material, recommendable[1]. Did you know:

> Manufactured homes briefly dominated the U.S. housing market during the 1960s. By 1972, these homes — not just mobile homes but small-scale modular houses — accounted for some 60% of all new single-family homes produced nationwide, according to census data. That number has diminished so much that the role of factories in building affordable housing has gone all but forgotten.

Plenty plenty plenty of those Sears Roebuck & many other houses are still doing fine. There's also other facts to manufactured housing, like manufactured housing being 45% more carbon-efficient to make[2], and many designs are more efficient to live in, owing to much better tolerances & better planning.

Please folks, keep a somewhat open mind.

[1] https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/06/fa...

[2] https://www.businessgreen.com/news/4050792/study-modular-hom...
Angry upvote.
A compiler and a transpiler are the exact same thing, technically; the words differ in their connotations. And the communities you participate in definitely inform word choice.

(Parts of the Nim community are famously insistent that they have a compiler, not a transpiler!)
You can use Common Lisp, since there is more assistance now.
The promised M1-level performance on chips that ship at the end of 2023. So, they'd initially still be three years behind Apple.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/qualcomm-confirms-nuvia-ar...
GDP is a technical concept. There's no other meaningful way to be correct about it besides technically.

It's like saying, yeah, you might be technically correct about the mass of an electron but i was just saying anecdotally. There is no reason to ever talk about that that isn't technical.

>I could make a $1 widget, then the two of us could exchange it back and forth to produce an arbitrarily High Gdp.

This isn't kind of sort of correct if you look from a different angle or something. It's wrong. Its always wrong. It's wrong in every context. It's 1+1 = 17 wrong.

It's okay to admit when you are wrong.
A goal to get something done. Like a tool I need or a video/article I want to release.

Will note I'm also single/have no life in that normal sense. But I have hobbies/goals.
Currently it also is an extremely profitable business again while prices for fossil fuels dropped significantly in the years before. So you either mandate it internationally, which has a very low chance of being accepted, or you at least try to reduce consumption.
> It's cheaper elsewhere because those countries have set maximum prices

No, human insulin (or its analogues / biosimilars) is a medicine which should be cheap to produce and therefore inexpensive to purchase.[0] It's cheaper elsewhere because the there's something approximating a free market in operation.

The real issue isn't price controls, it's about $bigPharma and their lobbyists getting the FDA to help protect their profitability.

[0] https://gh.bmj.com/content/3/5/e000850
Yes, fully supported. No jailbrake/security attack required. In fact Apple even fixed bugs in the bootloader that Asahi linux found. They seem to be intentionally enabling other OSs.
its not that strange. common lisp also prefers iteration over recursion
There might be some form of selection bias by the OP? Neither the colonization of the Americas by various European "tribes", nor the brutal colonial empires in Africa in the 19th century seem to make the cut, and for some reason not even Nazi Germany is listed.

When it comes to the number of genocides, it is probably difficult to beat out the British, but they were always quite jolly about it, so I guess it wasn't that bad.
The main reason for segfaults is that not all syscalls (syscalls on linux are different per architecture - not even 32bit and 64bit x86 use the same) are implemented in a 100% compatible way.
Sorry, but I'm not seeing it. Both iOS and Android are way past their "diminishing returns peak", and that's fine. They both do everything most people need out of a smartphone, and have been doing so for a decade. All that's left is adding random features and services and selling them as groundbreaking innovations.
So basically, there is no interesting inherent property (no interesting math, no deeper dynamics), it just "solves" a problem DeFi created - and it only introduces a whole new layer of possible implementation errors and new types of risks like impermanent losses.

Backtesting is relevant because there was no stability analysis, no simulated long drawn out bearmarket, no adversarial probing. Just some minimal quant sugar to make the new gambling opportunity go down with the suckers.

In real finance, you have much more sophisticated and diversified trading algorithms babysitted and regulated for stability, with much higher effective decentralisation and control since different HFT funds are legally barred from conspiring against the traders. Oh, and much lower fees as well.
The cycle, for me, is code -> compile -> run -> observe results -> think.

Compiling is in the wrong position in that sequence to merge it with thinking.
Unfortunately modern routers made multicast unrounable, otherwise, we’d all be using mbone
A lot of people seem to be confused about insulin every time it comes up. There are many different forms of insulin. Regular human insulin has been around for decades and is fairly cheap without insurance but difficult/inconvenient to use because it requires planning out your eating schedule.

The extremely expensive insulin that articles are talking about is usually a brand name like Humalog which is an altered form of insulin that is far more convenient to use. It is possible (but rather convoluted) to bring these eye-popping prices down to $99/month without insurance (https://www.admelog.com/savings), or $43-73/vial (https://www.goodrx.com/insulin-lispro or Walmart Novolog). Of course, this is all basically a way for pharma companies to price discriminate to extract as much $$$ from insurance.
In every other aspect of my life, I take some pride, and go to some effort, in not spending.
I wear clothes till they fall of my back, then they are replaced with hand-me-downs from friends, family or as a last resort, the second hand store.
I do this not because I cannot afford it, but out of principle, I don't care about clothes, they are necessary, nothing more.

Cars are the same, driven to death.

We have few cups, plates, knives and forks of the same style, they are all from somewhere else.. never bought.

I have a large collection of old computers that I enjoy playing around with for various reasons, and I have just never been able to throw out a computer that works (or that does not, my wife would interject).

But for my whole computing-life, one thing where I will spend whatever money is available, has been computers, if I can get an improvement in speed, capacity or stability, I will take it. I've spent my days waiting for computers, to watch them while they pick up bytes from tape, while they grind at floppies, and clunk away at harddrives and spin plastic discs, and for nostalgic reasons, I don't hate it entirely, but I don't want that in my daily life anymore, I don't want to waste my hours waiting for computers, unless it's pure retro-recreation (has anyone ever sat down to watch an RS/6000 boot? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7bN1hYqD7Y)
They always keep selling not-fully-refreshed versions alongside the new redone machines. It’s confusing to look at head to head.
Hector Martin (from Asahi Linux) about Rosetta not using proprietary M1 features
Yes, this is exactly what Apple has done - created Rosetta that handles Linux ELF binaries, translates code and syscalls.
The Lua language documentation[1] covers the entire API with examples and signatures, the language grammar and the changes from the previous version including specific incompatibilities where applicable, all in a single page. It's all very easy to read and understand.

[1]: https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/manual.html
They have two choices. Sell for X profit or make no profit. You don’t turn away making millions if someone told you you couldn’t make a billion
That's brutal, where are you from? The Czech store doesn't show any delivery dates beyond August, even on weird CTO MacBooks.
Reminds me of https://js.org
We're in serious "Ship of Theseus" territory here. Personally, I think the moment you switch mainboards, you have a new computer (even if mostly consisting of 'old' parts).