skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I, for one, appreciated the reminder that this mathematical subject exists. and I’ve loved some of the ideas discussed in this thread.
The only thing we use processing time for in the Nudge paper is to classify jobs as "Large", "Small" or "Other". If instead of exact processing times, we had estimates, the result would still work as long as a job that was estimated to large was typically longer than a job estimated to be small. So Nudge totally works in these more realistic settings.

If the estimates were super noisy, you might be better off using Nudge very sparingly, only when you're more confident about the relative sizes.
10 with my prusa mk3s+. Being able to custom print stuff for specific use cases is very handy.
What would be the most power-efficient way to get data or code into something like this without having to take the back off or add a port? Maybe a light sensor, like the old Timex watches? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Datalink

I guess you could do it with a peltier element and the temperature sensor, if you had a lot of time. :)
And even if they did that, that's ok - CDC made a mistake. However, some people - not necessarily you - draw the conclusion to be "haha, look ... CDC makes mistakes we can't trust them!! Down with experts!".
An inside look at autonomous vehicle hardware: Advantech’s ITA-460
> And with a new pandemic, literally everyone is incompetent.

Then the right thing to do is to not pretend to be competent. Especially when speaking from a position of authority.

Fauci continues to present the vaccine as 100% safe without mentioning possible negative outcomes.
I'd argue that the fact such a simple and elegant solution as virtual memory is able to effectively cover such a wide range of use cases while eliminating the need for every application developer to duplicate their efforts is the exact opposite of "mediocre" and in fact it's the exact kind of efficiency-minded thinking that the software industry needs more of.
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Is Firebase even capable of supporting high scale? My experience with it has been that performance is pretty poor when working with large datasets.
Calling people "anti-science" is something of a canard, a trick of speech designed to belittle and demean anyone who questions the validity of current research.

I might add that "the science" was consistently wrong about many things during the pandemic.

Here is a collection of scientific gymnastics: https://yesithappened.substack.com/p/a-collection-of-insane-...
Cue Adam Savage saying "for science!" But I dunno, it could save some soldiers' lives. It's only outrageous until you think it through.
By migrating to SingleStore, we didn’t have to change any persistence logic (we were already using SQL and Laravel Eloquent). Having explored doing that for Elasticsearch, it wasn’t something we wanted to do.

Looking back, I’m glad we went in this direction. Fathom has grown beyond what we could’ve imagined. Let’s see what happens over the next five years.
What if cars were mini maglev trains (or pods), hovering above buried tracks on the road and can 'convert' into a car for last-mile delivery, and parking.

Then you'd still have the asphalt etc, but hovering over it - you degrade it less than actually driving on it. In this situation you could order up any size vehicle you need from 2 seater to 20 seater.
Former WSJ reporter says law firm used Indian hackers to sabotage his career
“Pure blood”.

Lol. Oh my god. You literally made me LOL.
Also, you people always give anecdotes like that.

It’s fucking amazing.
> The vaccines don't prevent transmission

Nothing is ever 100% perfect - no medicine or vaccine. However, transmission in vaccinated individuals is orders of magnitude lower than unvaccinated.
You might not be aware, but lots of people who donate their bodies for science don't have their bodies end up as cadavers for dissection or even traditional medical research.

Donation for science is a broad category which includes everything from crash tests to bombs.

Source: I have a friend who runs crash tests,*, but I'll give you a link I Googled anyway.

https://www.bodyshopbusiness.com/strange-but-true-donated-bo...

*Fun but morbid fact: they have a lot of trouble procuring dead babies.
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I've looked at Ardour in the past but GTK put me off from investing serious time into it. Now that there is REAPER, I have to ask, what does Ardour do better and why would one pick Ardour over REAPER?
Character sets and internationalization. I just spent a year building a one-way libiconv-ish library called cpgtou, including chasing down MS-DOS Code Page 709. https://github.com/torstenvl/cpgtou
Indirect discrimination (https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/pages/glossary/indirect-di...) is forbidden in quite a few countries.

The only reason I can see why would not be judged to be a case of that is that the actual discrimination happens after death, but I don’t think that will hold.
I only watch the pbs news hour and remember Fauchi talking about masks at this time. He never claimed they didn’t work and always pointed out it was about preserving the supply.

I suspect other news outlets didn’t give their viewers the full story. But, I’ll never know because I can’t stand most of the news.
Yes, the naming of “Incognito” or “Private” browsing could be improved, but the messaging in Chrome is pretty clear.

In addition to:

Now you can browse privately, and other people who use this device won’t see your activity. However, downloads, bookmarks and reading list items will be saved.

It also explains:

Your activity might still be visible to:

• Websites you visit

• Your employer or school

• Your internet service provider
Binance is a modern day BCCI in just about every regard except they aren't looting depositor money.
Link? To something other than a nutjob site?

I mean, I haven’t looked into it and tbh I wouldn’t be that surprised if it DOES correlate to a higher risk. But I’m willing to bet we are talking insanely low risks but people will always know someone directly or through 6 degrees who had this happen so therefor it’s an evil plot!!111
Especially one where a public servant is advancing its own interest at the expense of their constituents. IMHO, the penalties for such behavior should be harsh for both parties and prevent either from holding office again (and lobbying as well). Of the things that have had “zero tolerance” enforcement in the past, it’s egregious that crimes by politicians, law enforcement, and revenue agencies haven’t been included.

Of course the laws and prosecutors are managed by the individuals involved in the crimes, so what will change?
What I’ve learned creating a large C++ project
I think the previous comment was referring to that the people with weak immune systems/severe allergies don't make it to adulthood. And so of course in clean environments where they survive there is a higher population of people with allergies.
post https://james.darpinian.com/blog/how-see-a-satellite-tonight...
Right. Their first comment was about the similarity of, in their words, base circuits and physiology.
Understand your point about biased vs unbiased, guess I just didn’t intend to limit the patterns to being only positive or negative, just anything that’s measurable that fits within comparable terms.

And yes, of course, this is more about being more or less of X — not being 100% of X.

To be honest, core reason I presented question is that it’s not uncommon for any community to see itself as the best community; HN of course being no exception. Problem is, without an objective measure, how can any community become less wrong?
Doctors aren't nutritionists or health researchers. You can pay unethical doctors to say anything you want.

The only way to prove that this stuff works is with gold-standard clinical trials, and you show no evidence of those.

Medical doctors have sold fake cures for things for centuries. If this stuff works, prove it with data. If you can't prove it, stop selling lies to people.
No, that's exactly what I'm saying: swap was never meant to let you run workloads bigger than your physical memory capacity.
It's amazing just how accurately this describes my exact experience as a FE engineer tasked with creating a newish codebase for a client.
How can Google stop collecting user information on the incognito mode if it doesn't know if the user is using it? Do you want Chrome to explicitly advertise user's usage of the incognito mode? Even beside of the incognito mode issue is it even technically possible to serve users without collecting their information? There are bunch of regulations based on user's geographic information and at least you need to collect their IP address. Or are you suggesting that IP address is not a user information?

An incognito mode explicitly informs that "Your activity might be visible to website you visit". Unless you are intentionally trying to conflate Google and Chrome as a single entity, it's pretty clear that Google is going to collect some degree of user information. Let's stop being ridiculous here.
I wonder if anybody has ever thought about some similar project for e.g. the Nokia 3310 or the iPod
The new page tab for incognito mode literally says

Your activity might still be visible to:
* Websites that you visit
* Your employer or school
* Your Internet service provider

I know people don't read warnings, but really I don't know what they could do to make it more clear.
A web web search for "politically correct politician" says that's a thing.
There’s no point in trying to logic with people like this.

Somehow, people got it into their heads that vaccines = immunity! With 100% success!!!!

And, no? What?

I haven’t figured out where they got it from.
The point is they have different definitions:

bribery - transfer of value in exchange for official action.

lobbying - communicating with an official for purposes of influencing official action, not including providing public testimony or legally required communications

Legalizing bribery would allow transfer of value. Generally information is considered free, so has no value, so lobbying is not a transfer of value and hence is not bribery (legalized or otherwise). If you want to argue that lobbyists are giving officials hot stock tips that make the officials millions, hence information has value, I suppose it's possible, but it doesn't seem like the issue you're addressing.

What you seem to dislike is that many people are paid to push laws. But this isn't much different from other forms of sales - every company has a marketing department that tries to lobby potential customers. There is no obligation to buy and similarly the politician has no obligation to enact the suggested changes. But without direct communication it seems like it would be hard to enact sound policy. I don't see any obvious alternatives to lobbying to get the required information besides a massive "big brother" government surveillance program that tries to identify potential problems with big data and solve them before they happen.
I found that gcc works mostly alright on swap for compiling C++. I assume that data structures for template instantiations are never really deallocated, and it often falls into category 2 of your deacription.

And then compilation eventually finishes and the allocated memory is released on process termination.
This text seems to quickly get rather technical, with theorems and stuff. I would suggest looking at Golomb's classical Polyominoes first
https://archive.org/details/polyominoes00golo/page/n7/mode/2...

If you like playing with polyominoes, there is a really fun chesslike table game inspired by them called Blokus, and someone wrote an open-source engine for it:
https://pentobi.sourceforge.io/

Of course, as already noted in another comment, there's the ultimate tetromino game: Tetris (literally defined as tetromino tennis)...
How do people that got fooled into useless degrees that end up working low-wage jobs anyway factor into this? For example the people that fell victim to the likes of Devry that are only now (after decades of payments!) looking at maybe getting their debt erased due to a lengthy and complicated class action lawsuit.

There is a huge industry based around selling people on the value of a college degree. It is very competitive and aggressive and wholly uncoupled from the actual value of a degree. There are quite a lot of poor people working at McDonald’s and Walmart with student debt.

But fuck those people because some engineers might have a slightly reduced monthly payment is your line of reasoning?
> Software development is the only profession where people expect (and demand) to have fun at work.

Humans in general demand fun at work whenever they have the leverage to do so. That so many don't have fun is not an example to be emulated, it's a problem to be solved. People are more effective when they enjoy what they do. And software is far from the only profession where people are able to pick jobs because they enjoy them.

A few examples from my own immediate experience:

* In the last year our company hired a full-time designer whose express reason for switching jobs was that our project was more fun.

* My dad is a producer for a radio show. He got that job by twice switching away from jobs that he'd stopped enjoying and he now loves what he does.

* My brother-in-law went into law because he knew he'd enjoy it, and he has a blast every day. He's always telling a story about some crazy new legal edge case he ran into at work.

* My wife is a musician and music teacher and absolutely loves it. You should see her when she has her instrument out.

Instead of trying to rob the fun from the creative professions, we should be trying to find ways to help more people be able to enjoy their work. Even aside from the obvious humanitarian benefits, this would have a huge improvement on our economic output compared to the status quo where so many people are basically cogs in a machine.
Not really. Your reference is against "eating dirt" which seems to have become a popular pop-sci article shorthand for other stuff about sanitation that she says has plenty of backing. I was a filthy kid, but I didn't intentionally eat dirt (that would be weird), I ate with dirty hands.
You seem to be misunderstanding the scope in my argument. My choices for my family are at a local level, but i would not expect/demand someone in say, Singapore to make a decision that would result in the death of someone in Denmark, on behalf of my family.
It seems like I've touched a nerve with a lot of people on here by saying "games don't need more powerful GPUs"... let me explain.

My contention is not that it's impossible to use more power in games, or that developers are not working on games that will be able to fill all that compute power... but that higher quality graphics are no longer pulling the gaming industry forward like what was going on 20 years, and also that improvements in graphics are more and more about AI enhancements to image quality and less and less about having the power to push more vertices around in real time.

The market for video games doesn't really care about the top 0.5% of PC gamers that can afford to buy the latest GPU from Nvidia every 2 years. The PS4 is still outselling the PS5, if graphics power was the main criterion for the actual market of video gaming that could not happen...
It is USB-C to lightning (aka iphone). Before that, it was USB-A to lightning. Haven't seen a charging brick with a lightning port (or a double-ended lighnting cable, for that matter) ever in my life. I don't think they even exist tbh.
>Jim Stauffer signed a form authorizing medical research on his mother’s body. He also checked a box prohibiting military, traffic-safety and other non-medical experiments.

That's where it crosses the line between unfortunate and immoral.
The whole point is that list does not mention "* Google"
Meh, I think that comparison is hyperbolic. Annoying corporate bullshit (which Accenture undeniably has loads of) isn't the same thing as abuse.

I'm certainly not defending the company. I was arguably on the good side and still would never want to work with them again. But for the average American employee at least it's "just" a somewhat shitty corporate gig. Some of the practices around offshore might well be called "abusive", I wouldn't know as I had virtually no interaction with that side of things.
https://archive.ph/Szsae. Good article, thanks.
Does the BB API have public documentation? Or is that behind the paywall?
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I think the law would look at many questions like these by asking "what would the normal person think incognito mode was". Most people can't even write an excel formula. Not only do they not know this mode wasn't private, they don't even know enough to know understand the ways in which it wasn't private. Youre saying it doesn't claim to be a VPN, I'm saying that even if it was, mot people don't know what a VPN is, so they can't tell if they need it or if it's even a good thing.
Exactly. I feel like it's the equivalent of the Onion article that pokes fun at that type of behavior:

>Learned Sage Points Out That Powerball Not As Much After Taxes
https://www.theonion.com/learned-sage-points-out-that-powerb...

Whether it's mice or powerball, the lowest hanging fruit is the Learned Sage comment, noting that things aren't quite as they seem.
This wasn't a medical school.
How a Billionaire Is Producing More Than 75k Liters Clean Water a Day in Africa
Wikipedia states "according to a 2020 Philpapers survey, 29.72% of philosophers surveyed believe that the hard problem does not exist, while 62.42% of philosophers surveyed believe that the hard problem is a genuine problem"

The boring answer to your question is given your thought experiment scenario the numbers would probably change to the hard problem of conscousness philosophers being the minority rather than the majority. If everyone has a seemingly conscious A.I. best friend like in the science fiction stories the numbers will continue to go down, but you won't be able to definitively solve the issue.

Philosophers can't even agree whether the biblical God is running the universe behind the scenes, which would potentially have unadressed implications for your thought experiment scenario.

The survey results for religion are:

God: theism or atheism?

Accept or lean toward: atheism. 678 / 931 (72.8%)

Accept or lean toward: theism. 136 / 931 (14.6%)

Other. 117 / 931 (12.6%)
Bitwig seems interesting but is so expansive (speaking as a Reaper user).

Were you caught in the Bitwig drama around the release of their plug-ins last week? ;)
Lung cancer rates by state, 2017
Titles are often determined by the editor, not the author of the piece, and the direction of the change is almost uniformly "clickbaity".
You don’t need to have a daughter to be angry about this! Suggesting prostitution is outrageously uncalled for. That guy is an asshole.

I won’t comment on what defines someone as evil, but rich people do already live longer - so this would further exaggerate a gap that already exists. That’s a very safe bet.
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Are you talking about bacteriophages? What issues do they present?
An unfortunate comment.

First, GOAT means greatest of all time, which, by definition, means bring beyond impressive. Having a GOAT as a reference for how to conduct one's life sounds nice on Twitter, but in reality it is meaningless for good, great, excellent professionals. Phelps trained 8 hours a day for years, and that has no effect on what I do in my job.

But take soccer as an example, where the GOAT could be Pele, Maradona, maybe Messi. All incredibly talented players who didn't work particularly hard, surely not harder than the vast majority of their colleagues. Cruijff was an extraordinary player and then a revolutionary coach who smoked two packs of cigarettes a day and went from one woman to another. An attitude not similar to the "mamba" mentality pushed in endless videos and whatnot.

One of my favorite authors, Arturo Perez-Reverte, talked about working five hours a day—tremendous consistency, but I bet there are many "amateur" authors who write for more than five hours a day. He seems to lead a pleasant life.

And you can find similar examples all over the world.
Where I grew up, not in the U.S., there was certainly a focus on dedication, but without the toxic and reckless focus of U.S.-centric Calvinism (now unfortunately quite popular outside the borders of the U.S. as well) on suffering, exhaustion, the "pursuit of greatness," and assorted biblical stories that sound rather ridiculous to those who are not getting high on United States culture day in and day out.

"it's undeniable that the road to greatness is filled with incredible suffering." - Nah
It was a very effective amount of marketing spend. He and the company got a ton of positive publicity for this and you can see how quickly he's trying to minimize the costs.
99.9% of people under 45 (that's like 1 year old info, probably much more with Omicron) unvaccinated people survive.

So, yeah.
Anyone else remember in 2019 when AT&T got fined $60 million by the FTC for their claims about "unlimited data"[1] which was followed by an immediate $10/month rate hike for select customers[2]?

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2019/11/...
[2] https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/6/20952512/att-price-hike-c...
Nationalization of large industrial corporations (like SpaceX is) on the basis of being considered vital for industrial interests of the state was the hallmark of all nascent socialist countries in the middle of the 20th century, so saying that nationalizing a large manufacturing corporation considered vital for the state is "not socialism" made absolutely no sense to me.
Why wouldn't it? Many laws do not apply to the dead. In Europe, a famous law that does not apply to the dead is GDPR.
And an important extension to 1. are things which are arranged as a nonprofit, and don't need ads. Wikipedia and Pro Publica are examples that jump to mind.
A lot of people in the tech community are into “quantified self” and will use things like fitness trackers, sleep trackers, logging diet and exercise, etc. but that’s more general well being than work performance. Performance in a software engineering role is famously difficult to quantify. Even the relatively obvious stuff like story points throughout reflects on estimates as least as much as on efforts. At elite levels you’re dealing with stuff like presence, influence and mentorship; your “coach” on that kind of stuff is your manager.
Never heard of Tradingview (degree in finance, but no job experience in it). What does it have that Bloomberg doesn't?
It’s open source.
Show HN: The two most useful email filters
The two most useful email filters that I have on my personal account automatically move the following messages to a "from-robots" folder:

* Any message that contains the word "unsubscribe"
* Any message from no-reply@

As a side note: please do not send emails from no-reply@yourdomain.com If you want users to engage with your communications you need to give them an option to respond.
I think the real issue here is that things like Snort, Suricata, and Zeek are just not very popular as a class of security thingy anymore. Certainly, for the last 10 years or so, I'd have advised most startups I worked with against deploying anything like them. There was, in the long-long-ago, a huge industry debate about whether detection and response was best done in the network or on the endpoint. That debate has been settled: most places deploy EDR, and few places deploy IPS.
The headline is obvious bait. Europe doesn’t have a plan. Europe isn’t even a country. This is just an interview with the founder of Skype.
ASML pulling US engineers out of China operations following new US restrictions
I've used LinVST in the past to run Windows VSTs on Linux with mixed success, but it was more of a hit and miss; today I'm extremely happy with Yabridge which is a lot more polished, doesn't crap out at every WINE update and also is much quicker to operate.

https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge