skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah mainly GPGPU. C++ still has an advantage in that there are quite some convenient SIMD libraries available (like Agner Fog’s vectorclass, and Google’s Highway that you have mentioned), but you can still write raw intrinsics in other languages (actually Zig has vector types baked in so you can use this instead).

Though on second thought: for this particular company’s usecase, since they only need this for the server backend it would be best to stick to a certain hardware configuration and optimize the hell out of it. For example they can just stick to Xeon servers and use raw AVX512 intrinsics which can be particularly fast for number crunching. And since GPUs are incredibly expensive to host (and also has latency costs associated with it), it might be best to just stick with CPU SIMD.
Article says they heat sand up to 500C, which is not very possible with water.
It can't happen fast enough. Chinese labor costs are rising far faster than their productivity and everything else in the region has far greater security problems. The only real question is how much of our arm is still inside the blast door when the next major Asian conflict slams it shut on us. It could be Chinese demographics in fifteen years or it could be Taiwan next year. Tick tock.
Is that total? Or an average per moderator? The article doesn't really make that clear, and yet that makes a pretty massive difference.
I don’t think any foreign tourist from cruise ships or already travelling from nearby italian cities will be discouraged to pay 10 eur to go to venice. I assume only italian people will get affected.
Interesting Product, I like it
The reason insurers require a referral is to keep costs down. That even happens in places with universal healthcare.

It doesn’t make sense to pay for a dermatologist at $150 for a visit to look at a rash when a GP would do at $75.
Embrace the red also has a couple of good write ups to learn Offensive eBPF:

https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2021/offensive-bpf/
I think you missed the point.

Irc is basically a ghost town apart from random noise compared to other popular communication channels.
I'm fairly certain this is a really old site...
Yeah Munroe is wrong on this one. Non-newtonian gravity fits more data.

http://astroweb.case.edu/ssm/mond/mondvsDM.html
It was Trump through a regulatory change by HHS.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuacohen/2020/11/06/on-healt...
HSA for those who are “international”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_savings_account
This lockdown mode means they can support those other browsers in a non-lockdown mode. All they have to do is have lockdown mode disable all non-webkit browsers.
If you go over on bandwidth, you do get billed for it.

I assume the CC requirement is mostly anti-fraud. Easy(ish) to create thousands of Google accounts and abuse the free tier, harder when you can start correlating credit card numbers.
the examples are certainly nice but it only takes a second to resize your browser when testing your own site
Used to happen to me too!
Not sure you need to expose them - everyone is pretty much aware it’s a shitshow. Not only in billing but quality of care and treatment of staff also
By what measure of simplicity is x^2 simpler than abs(x)?

Its description is shorter in English and in most programming languages, mainly because it doesn't have a conditional. (Which is related to it being differentiable everywhere).
I don’t think they would be. People who live in these areas already know how badly drivers behave.

The system more-or-less is working as ‘intended’ and anything that might undermine the hegemony of cars or even just slow them down faces massive pushback.
Unless it's different where you are you can still pull the Super Bowl rental at Costco. Returns on electronics are still accepted, just time limited to 90 days instead of "forever".

What it was to prevent was lifetime free warranty and upgrades. Buy a laptop, use it for 3 years, come back and say "I don't like it anymore.", get your money back, buy new laptop with upgraded specs... repeat.

And before you think this is theoretical, when I worked there we had a guy return a TV. It was a ~7 year old rear-projection TV that was bought before the 90 day policy was implemented. It had died well out of warranty.

So he returned it, got his ~$4k back, walked out on the floor and grabbed a $2k LCD and went home with a brand new LCD TV and $2k in his pocket in exchange for his 7 year old broken TV.
Everything's a right these days.
No such right exists.
That 14 TW is just what leaks out naturally. But earth is an excellent insulator. Drilling down deep, all the energy extracted would be in addition to the 14 TW, and really as many TW as you could ever use.

The main problem with geothermal is that it is quite a bit more expensive than solar and wind, with an "opex" renewables don't have: regular overhauls of the steam turbines. So, a bet on geothermal would be a bet that storage built after there is enough renewable generation to charge it from will not also be cheap. Not a good bet: storage is, for the most part, just E = mgh and E = Fx, requiring only mid-20th-century engineering. (That is not to say more exotic methods won't also be used. Synthetic ammonia, good for fuel and fertilizer, is also a good storage medium. And, better battery chemistries surface all the time, with megafactories for certain of them already under construction.)

Just now, most storage schemes you read about have not had the professional engineering treatment, so are over-complex and expensive. When actually built out, much cheaper, simpler, and more reliable versions of those things will be used. (But Energy Vault's will not be. I predict they will pivot to something orbital soon, to string the saps along.)

Drilling for geothermal might get a lot cheaper, using the tech described in the article, but you still have the steam turbines. That new gadget that turns heat radiation directly into electricity with no turbine might eliminate that expense and make geothermal competitive, but it also might turn out too expensive to use.
Presumably you want to discourage people who won’t spend as much. Cruises are costly.
IRC sucks for async work.
Why does it matter if something changed? If they weren’t free and fair in previous years, that can still make them not free and fair this year.

> …not being free and fair…vote for vlad…or we will kill your whole familiy or votes being thrown in the bin…

You gave an extremely specific coercive tactic and basic corruption. How does it follow if neither happening, then, what, things are fine?

This is reminiscent of the neoliberal moderate to conservative status-quo-seeking intellectual and incredibly lazy common talking point. A point echoed by Bill Maher to Jordan Peterson to Bill Gates. “Things aren’t so bad. So be okay with that.” The classic Stephen Pinker elitist “optimism”. So a point made since forever.

> Its pretty bad faith…when Dems say its Not a Free and Fair Election that it is an irrefutable evidence…

If Dems say they are ‘Free and Fair’ with anything, they are liars, as usual. I am going much farther than you in my denigration of the Dems. What’s the point of this paragraph being written to me?
I was going to say. Singapore has universal healthcare and they want all patients to have “skin in the game”.

So even if you’re destitute you need to pay something within your means, even if it’s $5 for a hospital stay.
Yes. Also, regularly doing a factory reset is another good hygiene habit to have, this will clear the more rare but persistent forms of malware, often brought on board by legitimate software you installed a long time ago but no longer use.
This argues that off-world activity will be mostly conducted by robots. That doesn't conflict with my point about the vast stores of resources available to human civilization outside Earth.
So when EFF goes and talks to their Senator to ask (“lobby”) for privacy laws you call that “bribery”?
This is a fairly complex topic. In my youth, I certainly didn't enjoy homework. Even in subjects I was passionate about. I much rather study the topics that interested me in my own way and pace than doing assigned problems from a textbook. Even if that meant doing all the problems from the textbook lol

More recently I discovered that the school I went to abolished homework. Kids there are supposed to complete all school activities within the allotted school time only.

However, homework may be valuable in the case where the student would otherwise not study on their own...
Nearest I can tell the guy earlier thought what mdevctl is (echo uuid >> /sys/mdev_bus/$pci-device/available-types/) is the same as what we are doing.
That couldn't be further from the truth.
I tried explaining to him we arbitrarily define the available types on behalf of the vendor driver via user configuration. It’s the difference between picking from a pre-made list of things someone else says you’re allowed to do and making the list of things you’re allowed to do yourself.
> better than anywhere else in the world if you have money and a chronic condition.

Which isn’t saying much. Even for wealthy people in the US, chronic conditions get you labeled anywhere from annoying to chronic drug seeker to mentally ill. Many doctors simply don’t believe that conditions that thousands to millions of people have are real, and no amount of money will change their minds. You do however get targeted for all kinds of scams!
Hospital IT systems are incredibly locked down, especially from a network perspective. And DICOM images (the format things like x-rays are stored in) are very large, and not readable by most image readers. I honestly don't know if there are even free DICOM readers out there, but there probably are.

CD is honestly the easiest way for them to send the images to you, because you can give them to any doctor and they can load them within minutes. For the hospital to send them directly to another hospital would literally take weeks (at a minimum) of back and forth between two overworked and incompetent IT teams.
Ask HN: Anyone went into CS through an unconventional path?
By unconventional I mean not a typical undergrad degree in computer science from some university.
Mostly self taught.

Your definitions may vary a bit.

If you fit the criteria please share your unconventional path.
We had an employee compromised by a similar attack-executable linked in a Pdf.

Basic flow was-phisher asked employee to sign a document relating to customs. The phisher had gathered that this employee works with shipping claims and returns, and surmised that they need to deal with customs documents requiring signature. There was a link to an exe hosted on a European cloud service in the PDF titled "install fake signature certificate company to sign this document". This directed to a download of a basic ransomware executable. This did get past our AV to the point of encrypting the employee's machine, but thankfully was blocked from spreading to the rest of the network.

The employee's machine was toast, but I was able to restore from the prior day's backup and no major harm occurred. I was able to see the phishing attack since we use gsuite email so the ransom ware didn't erase the employee's inbox, but they did lose a half-day work and I updated our training. The attack itself was clever from a social engineering perspective, but the technical exploit was something any script kiddy could have downloaded from the open web, nothing advanced at all. But Gmail doesn't always scan links in PDFs, so a clever ruse was able to bypass Google's scanning as well as our local scanning.
I feel like an impostor because I don't write blog posts, I am terrible at public speaking and haven't done anything noteworthy in my field that is recognized. I do think unless you are well recognized by others there is some truth to the imposter syndrome. It may just be your subconscious knowing you could do better.
In slack the default communication is the channel where multiple people get the same message. That's why I compare it with a no soy open office concept were everyone yells at each other.

In email the default communication mechanism is the message to one person... That's why I compare it to a cubicle with a door.. you can close the door... Ie have your email client only check for new messages once a day or you can leave the door open ie check your email client multiple times a day.
Hahaha, he's your problem now!!

Just kidding, I hope everything goes well for him and I've really enjoyed following his work and reading his blog throughout the years.
Cool theory.
Ask HN: Evaluating if an idea's attractive because it appeals to your biases?
I recently read a piece that painted a doomsday scenario for the near future. I found afterward I couldn't trust my cognitive evaluation ("believable, accurate, likely to happen") because my existing root-level emotional biases about "the way the world works" were influencing my mind's cognitive evaluation of the theory, making it more likely.

If you've seen ROBOCOP 2, I can kind of explain this more simply. In ROBOCOP 2, Murphy awoke to find that he had 200+ new instructions now each as important as his original three. His brain from moment to moment had to treat those instructions as 'true', cognitively.

Similarly, my brain seems to treat some of these emotional biases as automatically root-level 'true'. Murphy threw himself against a power grid to reset the problem. I'm not looking to get electroshock anytime soon.

I'm interested in mental habits, routines, or steps - either in the form of your anecdotes or of references to classic or modern approaches - that help you discern if your own root-level biases are causing you to misperceive or incorrectly evaluate a situation.
Not really that bad. San Francisco used to have crazy bills. Trauma response fees go up to 50k even if nothing is wrong.

I can get the price of my fast food burger to the penny - but good luck getting a quote on something that will cost 50,000.

I did medical billing for a bit and in my space 70% of the issue was stupid politics
> Retail business do not earn 2-4% profit margins because they want to, they earn them because their customers will go to the store next door if they try to take 5%+.

Have you seen Home Depot's and Lowe's profit margins? Consistently 5-9% for decades. Kroger, Walmart, and target all earn 1-3%. They hardly ever earn 4% nowadays. Perhaps after all of the cashiers and stockers are automated or made redundant. They are all heavily investing in automation, delivery, pickup, and supply chain tech.
A great gateway series to Feist!
This is such a bad use for touch screens. I worked in a building that installed them on the elevators and it was such a terrible experience. They were properly calibrated capacitive touch screens, but it was still very likely that you wouldn't get the selection you wanted. Humans can't actually aim their fingers that accurately.
I didn't know that, I've perhaps wrongly been under the assumption that Android is inherently less secure than iOS.

It certainly feels "cheap" by comparison, but admittedly this is a horrible and stupid way to assess anything.

Play store doesn't seem to give much care about privacy compared to iOS.
Eh, yes I'm aware. You're right, I should have said dynamically typed. I was just thinking faster than I was writing. Kind of an annoying nitpick but I guess it's on brand for HN.

edit: or writing faster than I was thinking? Potato potato.
I live in South India. The temperature is often 33/34 C with 88% humidity. That is getting very close to the limit of human endurance. It’s really difficult to work mentally or physically with no air conditioning. I work from home, and my wife and I mostly do our household chores (where the use of AC is not feasible) either early morning or after sunset. During the day it’s really hard to work without the AC.
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It felt like basically all of them even 5 years ago. I can only imagine by now it’s a completely barren wasteland apart from a few scattered private survivors at this point.
I've worked with many, many hospital IT departments as a consultant, contractor, and vendor.

It's absolutely stupidity.
Apparently it can’t handle dates in 2020. Got a lot of NaNs…
https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/pages/glossary/right-free-...

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/factsheets/en/sheet/147/free-...
Diagnostic Momentum
Everyone's talking about goods being so worthless that suppliers don't want them back, but the answer seems different to me: blatant abuse of return policies must necessarily be so small in proportion to real sales that seriously fighting it just isn't worth anyone's time.

Similarly, really pursuing shoplifters who are dealing in the hundreds of dollars of physical goods just isn't worth it -- because a seemingly high enough number of customers aren't malicious and do pay the bill with no hassle.

It must be so if a 1-5 cent margins can translate to enough sales to cover writing off the merchandise grifters want to get a hold of as well as torching the stuff that slips past QA.
Ah okay right. I just read up on Wachovia and it seems like that’s what the Govt tried doing with Citi. Then WF came in and paid much more. I’m not saying this to say you’re wrong, just what I read as someone who doesn’t know this stuff. And overall your point is correct the Govt was trying to do that and then it seems they then didn’t let Citi fight for Wachovia properly because they were happy WF was buying them.

Yeah the Merrill Lynch one I am more familiar with and how much it has cost BoA
considering the price, wonder if base M1 PRO is actually a better deal considering the HW, Display & Sound.
I think there's a middle ground to wanting to make money or contribute to humanity and not being a fucking sexual predator
Which isn’t fair.
My spouse is on a very expensive treatment. For the first 5 years or so, the insurance company would call us every six months to ask if we had other insurance because they do not like paying for it. I think they’ve finally stopped asking. Next, they started harassing our doctors telling them to switch her Rx over to their (fucked up) internal pharmacy. Luckily the doctor knew they couldn’t be forced to do it and called us about it. We had to call the insurance company and tell them we aren’t changing pharmacies and to stop calling us or our doctors about it. They continued to call for a few months but have apparently relented.
Sorry if I missed it, but I was sure they would have introduced touch screens along with M2. Normally I don't care for touch, but surely it would be good for running iOS apps more seamlessly.
But if their claim is along the lines that all JIT compilers are vulnerable, that's a strong case for never allowing V8 or any other engine in the app store.

I’m okay with this; I’ve always felt that dealing with the security issues of 3rd party rendering engines and JavaScript implementations is a valid reason to not allow them on iOS.

Since Apple is the platform vendor, at the end of the day, if there’s a vulnerability, it’s their responsibility, even if (in a hypothetical future) it’s Google’s or Mozilla’s JIT that allowed the the malware to be installed on a user's device.

Of course, since all browsers on iOS use WebKit and JavaScript Core, they all get Lockdown protection for free.
I also worked on Excel and in the calc code. XOpers, LBLs… it’s all coming back. We never figured out what the Hungarian prefixes kml and ptg stood for. There was a rumor kml might be the initials of duanec’s girlfriend

Recalc or die
That's something I've always been very curious about as someone who doesn't live in the US and was very unimpressed by the healthcare there when he lived there and had to deal with issues with my Asthma.

What documentation/studies did you find in your deep dive?
If I’m reading this correctly they weren’t an “Airbnb” rival - they were instead just a mega host buying and furnishing properties and then listing them on multiple short term rental venues ?

If you’re listing your property on Airbnb … and your model is buying and renting properties not connecting owners with renters… I’m not sure you’re a rival of Airbnb and instead not just a large customer ?
I'm not changing the conversation, I'm pointing out the simple, currently-used-against-dissident attacks that are not possible if there isn't a clear connection between dissident and device. It certainly provides pretty good protection compared to having an always connected device with a unique ID carried on you at all times. Security is oftentimes about making reasonable tradeoffs based on your risk levels.

And I think you may be overestimating even the resources and capabilities of nations.

Let's say you lived in Philadelphia. You could drive down to Baltimore or up to NYC in 90 minutes. Within that range, there are literally over 10,000 individuals selling 1 or more laptops on craigslist and other sites that I did a cursory search over. And that's not even counting all of the small mom and pop shops that are selling laptops, as well as the big box stores.

How should the adversary state figure out which of those people you're going to purchase from? Should they purchase literally every laptop in the region? Okay then...what about when people start selling more laptops they had in storage because the market is red hot?

What do they even do when they have the laptops? Do they have exploits for every BIOS for every type of laptop for the past 15 years? How do they sell the laptop to me? Do they have their agents sell them? Do they have hundreds of agents who are deep undercover in America, who could lure me in?

I just don't see "buy every laptop in a region, exploit it, and resell it, hope your target picks one up" as a viable strategy, even for the wealthiest of nations, assuming you need to do it discreetly.
Much of the green movement, yes. Elon Musk is part of the green movement, but highly philanthropic.
Because it literally is a right within the EU. The US calls it the right of free movement which is a derived right from the privileges and immunities clause of the constitution.

If you think this wasn't a right have y'all never wondered why states don't simply ban people they don't want?

As for the justification for why it's a basic human right

https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-huma...

> Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.

https://www.usconstitution.net/constnot.html#travel

> It is interesting to note that the Articles of Confederation had an explicit right to travel; it is now thought that the right is so fundamental that the Framers may have thought it unnecessary to include it in the Constitution or the Bill of Rights.
But how can you ensure that it is operating in an autonomous fashion for you as opposed to someone else who has commandeered it whether through physical force cyber means?
Wow two consecutive days on the front page Neal Agarwal. I don’t think I’ve seen that before.