skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally agree. Helps these engineers have empathy for their users. I once worked with a staff level engineer on the team was on. He lead that team. He said many times: “I don’t care about users. I care about the code. The code has to be perfect.” Yikes.
Happened to continue my browsing for compiler history and found also this interesting rationale for a new version of the Dhrystone benchmark from 1988 where they say that the previous version was too badly broken by optimizing compilers: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/47907.47911

The languages are interesting as well (versions for C, Pascal and Ada).

So this places the wide use of optimizing compilers earlier than the 16MB era, 1988 was sub-1 MB era for personal computers, VAX class minis might have had 16 MB (but in multiuser context, compilers probably wouldn't use nearly that much memory)

But of course the later Dhrystone was also later broken by improved compiler optimizations, supporting the notion that compilers did keep improving as well.

Also as another tangent, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMU_Common_Lisp the CMUCL Python compiler (famous for its optimizations) was started in 1985 and had to be fairly good at optimizing already by the mid-90s 16MB era. I found some release notes from 1993 that talk about optimizations: https://trac.common-lisp.net/cmucl/wiki/Release17c (summarized as "Improvements in compiler source-level optimization, inline expansion and instruction scheduling")
Supposedly higher latency and worse experience when writing(also supposedly). I own Remarkable 2, and unless they can replicate same paper feeling, it won’t a replacement for Remarkable.

But it is a nice eBook reader, yes.
looks confusely at 1992's 27th amendment
Programming Lessons from the Past
Highly Intelligent but Socially Handicapped: The Psychology of the Nerd
You confuse consensus with "if we agree with the other guys we'll lose votes" - they aren't the same thing.
I’ve given friends sets of Wera tools. Many people really appreciate high quality screwdrivers or hex keys.
“Why aren’t you able to dial in with just your computer?”

“Oh, you know, I’m a bit paranoid about my microphone being hacked so I disconnected the microphone internally. If you give me 10 minutes, I can put it back together real quick”

Not the vibe I personally wanna be giving friends and colleagues.
Remember when gnu.ai.mit.edu was "open to the public" in a very real way, because everyone could -- and did -- log into Richard M. Stallman's passwordless account?
Or they’ll just install the .apk directly?

iPhone users are screwed until sideloading becomes a thing, but iPhones represent a tiny market share in India, AFAIK
In our case, the adult themes went straight over his head and we just enjoyed the (frankly terrific) team-driven gameplay. The art style is very cutesy in a way that seems to appeal to kids, and there’s no swearing in the dialogue.

Ymmv, though, this stuff is highly subjective. If you’re particularly concerned then better just to stick to Nintendo first-party stuff - their whole brand is built around keeping everything wholesome.
Shuzo Fujimoto’s 100th Birthday
Do you happen to know where in Japan your friend got that from? I know someone (including myself) who would love that as a gift.
True. Recently I noticed that std/sha1 takes 8x the time on M1 release vs danger. Yet on amd64 it's only a <10% difference.
I think it’s the fallacy of being in the tech industry. Before I got into “tech” aka a software engineer job I thought how cool that people work together on OS projects and build interesting tools and hack some random device to run doom.

Then I got a job and found that all these cool OS projects were used for commercial purposes or re-engineered to work for the company. Over time this kind of mindset of making everything “work” (like, for money) took over and it made me cynical.

Now I’m personally focusing on the hobby aspect and making cool apps and backends for apps that I think would be great for the world. I’m a community minded person and I really love seeing people get along and thrive, so how can I build something to motivate that part of living in a society? I’m not sure it will go anywhere but I’m going to keep learning all the things to make what I find interesting. :shrug:
> Believe the media, let alone the internet, and one would imagine we have 8 year olds building nuclear reactors

On the one hand, we do[0].

On the other, what you're describing is why I don't feel bad about the fact that, 15 years after I had the idea, I've still not learned to use MHD modelling software to experiment with an idea I've had that might make fusors a little more interesting.

[0] ok so they were 12 not 8: https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2020/10/middle-sch...
One thing about the Remarkable is that it, like many other eink tablets uses a Wacom EMR layer so almost any third party Wacom pen should work ($25-50). The Lamy Al-star is pretty good and available worldwide. I like the Staedtler Noris jumbo pen as well (although the nib is significantly softer/rubberier so it might not appeal to everyone). My favorite pen atm, which might not be available globally, is the Wacom CP20206BZ - it's a stylus embedded in a wooden Mitsubishi Hi-Uni shell, and it feels awesome in the hand.

I was a Remarkable 1 early adopter and am grandfathered in on their cloud plan but I actually ended up not using it so much (their software sucked for most of the device lifetime). A couple years ago I ended up switching to a Boox Note 3 instead of a RM2 and it's responsive enough for me (the competition mostly caught up on latency) and as a full Android system, it's much more functional for me. It's been easier for me to keep my PDFs/papers in sync, I can read all my Kobo and Kindle books, and it's fine for notetaking. There's a small niche of YouTubers that do in depth reviews of various eink tablets (My Deep Guide is probably the most in depth) which I'd recommend for anyone in the market.
I have taken the time to watch the talk.

What I have learnt (to my dismay): Complex hardware has their own software, like IME, but they do important things you can't turn off. The danger in this: hardware-based exploits. In other words, the security of an OS is irrelevant if there is some shoddy closed-source software on your system running hardware components. Linux already has lost the control of hardware. It's like virtualization, but on the hardware level.

People talk about switching off the IME, but that's barking up the wrong tree.

What's proposed: redesign hardware and write an OS encompassing all hardware functions. Don't accept opaque SOCs where your OS is just an API consumer.

This is controversial because of course DRM components want to be a black box, for example.
Can confirm (though only anecdotally). I was bullied a lot in middle school. But in high school I got into customizing Sony Ericsson mobiles (changing the font, making custom themes with their SDK), javascript programming (entered a few competitions with some fellow nerds), music and singing in the choir and the theater. Somehow those things got me respect, admiration, and a girlfriend. As the "to cool for fun" kinds were slowly adulting up, they realized I have lots of opportunity to learn stuff and to socialize, lots of confidence too (most don't even dare to sing in music class), and will get into whatever college I want with whatever customized resume I want. I had a straight vision for a career in mechanical engineering (though am currently in IT), while they struggled to find a path in life in college application season.
I use Type to Siri on my Mac; all I ever use it for is "Play [song]". 70-80% of the time it goes: "something went wrong..."

When I try typing "Play [song] on repeat", it never understands that; it plays it, but not on repeat.

There's zero excuse due to mishearing me, since I'm typing everything. Siri is just defective, and I think it's a great measure of how dysfunctional Apple and poorly-run is. Why are all of Apple's AI and online-service efforts amateur hour?
I'd like to thank them for making it harder for people with ADHD to access medicine.

I've always wondered why privileged people like to abuse Adderall or Ritalin when methamphetamine is clearly better, and more readily available. Programmers, law students etc.

Is it because abusing prescription drugs is considered bad, but not that bad, in their circles, but using meth is a bridge too far?

Or is it just a way to lie to yourself?
I used to have the earlier version of Kindle, it was called Kindle DX (much bigger screen compared to new kindle editions). When that one broke down I didn't get another e-reader until now. Now I see that I can get something in that size with possibility of taking notes. :).
I wait to see how Scribe stack against RM2 and then make a purchase.
> OK, you want to argue both against the _should_ and the _could_, I guess?

OK...? Strong AI is not possible for reasons given. Strong AI, if possible, is slavery, thus unethical.

> About the Chinese Room: sure I can replay the standard arguments, if you want me to. But if you already reject the validity of the Turing test, there's not much to discuss on that front, I guess.

Straw man, I have not rejected the validity of the Turing test, merely making the observation that a program passing a Turing test is merely fooling a human into uncertainty whether they are interacting with a human or a program. The Turing test itself is not proof of consciousness, it is only proof of a human being fooled.

> How do you know that you aren't the only conscious being in existence? How do you know whether other commenters on HN are conscious?

Solipsism and problem of other minds, and as such, a trap. Knock yourself out:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/other-minds/

> Aren't you assuming what you want to prove here?

Nope.

> Btw, would your argument still apply in this form?:
> [...] there is a human involved, and most counter-arguments get tripped up here forgetting that it is metaphor and there is no human inside a [brain] where these types of counter-arguments would ever come true: no matter how much [of anything] you submit [a brain] to, there is no mind to begin with that could ever become aware.

No, this is building a straw man and sounds a lot like homunculus theory.
Via that same logic Telegram has ironclad E2E encryption ‘because secret chats’.

99% of people have iCloud backups turned on.
Pumped hydro reservoirs do not, as a rule, require concrete, or overmuch digging, unlike your typical hydro generation dam, which people seem often confuse them with. (But as with most things, you can spend as much as you like, and some have.)

It is wholly possible that, in the fullness of time, some battery chemistry will undercut pumped hydro.

The main problem with chemical batteries is that the cost is linear with capacity, where pumped hydro cost tends to per square root of marginal capacity (for dike construction), but also costs per watt for the turbine-and-pump(s), with a fixed up-front cost for the penstock.
I don’t think that’s true. I believe they want you to explicitly define how you want you compare strings. Comparing Unicode strings isn’t as straightforward as comparing individual bytes or code points. For example, there are multiple Unicode strings that will yield the character “ï”. If you use a naïve comparison function, you can’t be sure that it will behave as expected when it encounters the word “naïve”.
I'd assume that India has its fair share of smart people who are able to spot fallacious rhetorics and want to see the bank accounts of officials in return.
HP 12C English Calculator
I would encourage you to read the current literature. The evidence is more compelling than you might expect. Actually Meltzer’s 2020 paper (linked in my previous comment) touches on this exact concern under the subheading, “Getting past the Impasse”. There was another good paper that broke down how the end of the Pleistocene was radically different from previous glacial transitions and how the effects of that likely played into the extinctions. Combined with the revelation that most mammoth “kill sites” were actually more likely to be scavenged… it’s not at all an unlikely picture.
the ability to create and send an object that cannot be modified
I've had a Boox Note Air 2 since launch and I can't discern any drawing delay. It's fantastic to write / draw with.
No, what the government says is "use of X is sufficient evidence to support a warrant", then the fact the everyone does it is irrelevant - you only use it against enemies so that's the only time it comes up. Because this is likely government triggered invasion of privacy, it's easy to see how a government can then make it appear that a given [ab]use of the law be "legit".

In CA for example the standard highway speed limit is 65mph, but everyone drives well over 70 (this isn't a silly "everyone does it", it's a "if you're doing 65 you may well be rear ended"), this means that the CHP can basically choose whoever they want to pull over, despite everyone breaking the same laws. Essentially they've created a system where everyone is breaking a law so that they can then selectively charge.
Same exact thing for me. Nerds definitely weren't getting bullied, if you were good at maths and physics maybe girls weren't into you but the "bullies" didn't really mess with people who were good at sciences(I guess partially because they had to copy their homework from someone, so keeping good relations with the "nerds" was actually a good survival strategy)
Idk its a very short video and doesn’t show any part of how to work is. Isn’t a bit like tacking a selfie. You take 10, pick the one that looks best, and you only take them when you are standing in the Grand Canyon.
Alternative version: HP 12C Platinum Calculator (https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/pdp/hp-12c-platinum-calculator)
It rules.
I'm not sure about your first quote (the only google results were for this comment), but the second one was a demonstration of a feature that was not and is not available!
I did not noticed nerd vs jock dichotomy the way Americans write about it on discussion forums at all. Nothing similar to movies stereotypes either.

And my experience from my school is not like that either. You could have been "geek" or "nerd" or onto something and no one cared. Being good at something was cool or neutral.
I just want to add a hearty “+1” to the everything rzimmerman said here!

I do not recommend people pay for summon/autopark/fsd/navigate. The basic autopilot is pretty good for highway driving and great that Tesla includes it free though. The simple summon is fun and works most of the time but not worth paying for.
'planning' does not go well with 'guarantee', does it?
255Tbps exist in research labs. 100 Gbps is COTS hardware.

Benchmarks are usually performed locally between a load test program and the local server. Bottlenecks are imposed at the boundaries of storage iops, memory bandwidth, cache bandwidth, cpu context switching, external io, cache miss/hits, and overhead of the program.

Anything production and performant likely leverages DPDK and multiple 40/100 Gbps nics/hcas but doesn't need to serve that much because it has CDNs and "cloudflares" in front of it. Apps with dynamic data have to be sharded in such a way that they can be horizontally-scaled. WhatsApp scaled nicely with Erlang BEAM/HiPE on FreeBSD on a low hardware budget for the volume of traffic. HiPE isn't particularly fast or efficient compared to Rust or Azul C4 JVM but it saved a lot of thread contention by making copies and saving cache invalidations by making almost everything immutable.
It would be interesting to save every single thing you ever see online to a local cache and index it using machine learning so you can search by topic. This is the kind of storage I imagine you could use for something like that.
Yes. You can also do this even if you lose your Apple ID password.
I have to agree.

If you want to do something nice for a friend like this then genuinely engage with them about their passion. Suggest going for coffee at the new interesting places that are opening up. Be open minded to their suggestions. Nerds like sharing their knowledge and enjoying their little niche with others. It makes them feel understood and makes their world a little less lonely.
I thought bout that at the time and preferred pushing an extra half hour away from Sydney. It corrects the half-hour minor inconvenience, while putting sunrise at a better time for more of the state, and more in line with what is normal in the eastern states. The interstate business hour compatibility arguments of the past don't seem to really hold in the modern era, but people getting up for school and work is still the normal.
> Again if you have to touch a wheel on a ACC system, just drive the car haha.

I disagree with this. I use to get RSI type pain from long drives. The constant, small tweaks really took a toll on my hands/wrists/forearms.

When my car's lane centering isn't perfect, it still takes 90% of the force off. It's even more noticeable in windy conditions. Lane centering fights all of the gusts automatically.
https://youtu.be/Ggz_gd--UO0

Scalia has a great speech on this. Our Constitution has been outdone several times over the centuries, even by Russia. Ours is the best, though, because ours is still standing and the others are not. The bottom line is that the gridlock and glacial pace of progress that others decry is what gives the Constitution its robustness that other lack.
I wish this was true but unfortunately, I must disagree with saying that it is different in Europe. In France, 10 years ago, high-school was a constant lookout for who's the 'popular' kids (literally called like that). And reversely, nerds kid would often be made fun of, or socially excluded from breaks / activities. However, i have talked about this before with my wife who's from Italy and said that she never experienced this in Italy, apparently it was like you described: groups of friends, into studying and trying to make it to the next year. I wish it was like that in France.

However, I very much enjoy the original's post analysis about 'being into things', I think it's just brilliantly exposed !
As a pretty nerdish guy (Computers, space program, star trek, electronics, miniatures painting) in our central European equivalent of high school, I don't remember instances of bullying against me. Bullying was something that we were aware of, sure, but it seemed to come from (US-centered, go figure) media, and henfighting between the girls.
I don’t use cloud and find it perfectly usable without it.

I think there’s also a way to setup private cloud.
Crash Bandicoot taught me to stay away from the voodoo.™
> I don't care about money

I’ve heard this statement used frequently in business. I think this statement is incomplete… what if instead you said something like “I don’t care about money as long as you get it done before the deadline”, wouldn’t that sound as reasonable? Think of money as a tool, when used responsibly could do good things. I see a lot of people being cuffed not spend money just because it sounds “expensive” but really if you 2x’d that spend then it’s money well spent.
Ice been using PM2 for years and it's probably the best I've found. I remember trying this earlier but didn't really deliver the kind of Performance it was promising.
I have been wondering how censorship resistant matrix is. As far as I know, groups are not hosted on any particular server, it’s some kind of shared consensus.

I suppose the moderators would still be at risk of hosting platforms and ISPs dropping their homeserver.
> I do not have time (haven't) to even get into reloading.

Can I ask what 'reloading' is? I'm guessing it's making your own ammo yourself, yes? I'm curious to know more, if you (or anyone else) wouldn't mind sharing.

"I don't have time to reload" sounds like you're just throwing the entire gun away instead of putting more bullets into it but that can't be right (although I could see someone doing this in an action movie :) )
Tech companies will make all sort of noise when India, China, Turkey ask to have access and control over the data of their own people. However when NSA comes around with their secret laws and courts, they all bend the knee ...
> iMessage is encrypted, the encryption is end-to-end, there are no backdoors.

How would/could we know? If the NSA doesn't have a backdoor (whether that's in the non-public iMessage code, the hardware RNG on iPhones, or somewhere else), what are they even doing all day?
The security principle is largely based on OCAP-based permission scheme, where implicit access to an object is equal to the right to access, and freezing said object limits its use.
Question from a fellow Note Air 2 user but is there any note taking app replacement that can do the handwriting recognition better than the default app? I'd like to recognize only part of the notes (not the entire page, if I write figures or math formulas that function blows it up ) so that my notes become searchable
It's a version of the English Bill of Rights 1689 so I'm not sure where you get the idea it's version one as the 1689 one wasn't even version one for England.
It means they'll get banned from the app stores and have their server IPs blackholed.
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Thats why decentralised value exchange is important. Any centralised solution is subject to arbitrary imposed limitations. Imagine if Paypal controlled the air you breath.
iCloud Backup is effectively unencrypted and on by default, and sends the end device keys to Apple. Apple knows this, and went about encrypting iCloud Backups (like Google does on Android) but then stopped to preserve this vulnerability to avoid antagonizing the FBI, leaving Apple in possession of cleartext endpoint keys of all of their customers. Approximately nobody uses local iOS backups because iCloud Backup is enabled by default (even if you don't want to use iCloud and only log in with your Apple ID to install apps in the App Store).

If the middle relay service has the keys, it's not end to end encrypted.

The non-e2ee iCloud Backup does include your photos, includes your messages (if you have Messages in iCloud disabled) or includes your message sync keys (which are equivalent to your messages) if you have Messages in iCloud enabled. Your photos, contacts, calendars, notes, etc are never end to end encrypted and don't even pretend to be.

Even if you disable iCloud Backup and do only local backups: everyone you iMessage with will have iCloud Backup still enabled, sending either the sync keys (Messages in iCloud on) or the messages themselves (Messages in iCloud off) to Apple in plaintext in the backup that is done automatically each night.
I forked otranscribe to help with this: https://otranscribe.netlify.app/

Source code: https://github.com/Leftium/oTranscribe

A lot of online courses didn't offer transcripts, so I'd get autogenerated transcripts from YouTube, then convert them to a format that otranscribe could read.

Transcript Converter: https://github.com/Leftium/otrgen

This doesn't solve all your problems, but this lets you easily search the transcript, jump to that part, and add notes.

(You can drag and drop OTR files into the text area)
This should have been just a string of snarky tweets - what a truly petty article, and I don't much like Elon myself. I am mildly amused that this brave "reporter" went as far as patting themselves on the back for having read through thirty pages of tweets as part of creating this masterpiece of critical media, as if that was some kind of ordeal and not something they do on a daily basis over a latte at Starbucks.
About navigating space, I have no comment, but about driving a car safely:

My non-blind and somewhat functional 90-year old uncle can sit in a car and drive it quite legally at the moment.

I'm pretty sure self-driving cars are less dangerous on the roads than he is, but we're not willing to test that assumption.