skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very very few young and healthy (eg sensible bmi, some exercise, no smoking) people died of COVID. I think it was about a dozen in the UK.

A few hundred young people had heart damage from moderna: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/rare-heart-related-side-effects-h...

Probably no deaths though: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthan...

Disclaimer: I think on the net it was sensible for young healthy people to take even Moderna as COVID can cause serious long term damage, but it wasn't costless and we aren't completely sure that it was a net benefit to the healthy young for them to vaccinate (this is ignoring the large effects from things like them infecting others or taking up healthcare resources).
To be fair for learning Ruby it doesn't matter. If he wants to learn modern Ruby he could just cold start in the tutorial section. If he wants to learn why ruby is ruby the age really doesn't matter.
I read “learned 32-bit first” as “learned on i386 machines”, not “learned what the 32-bit instructions do on 64-bit computers”. There’s a big difference between these two, because the way you write code for a machine that doesn’t do 64-bit is quite different, since you have many more registers, the calling convention is pretty different, etc.
I'm surprised Dropbox isn't on that list. Didn't they have a tiny headcount around the time they hit 1B valuation?
If it is propaganda, it is to detract from the fact that we could actually be on Mars already, if we hadn't spent a Trillion dollars a year bombing the shit out of everyone for the last two - or so - decades ..

People tend to forget that we are still murdering each other over this planet.

Getting to Mars would either be a solution to that problem, or just an extension.

I guess, therefore, it matters who gets there first.

(See also: Psyche 16)
They used Cinebench. It's a terrible general purpose CPU benchmark. It measure the performance of CPUs for Cinemark which is a niche of a niche piece of software.

See why Cinebench sucks as a general purpose CPU benchmark: https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/pitid6/eli5_why_d...

Geekbench is better. SPEC is the best.
As organizations grow, they do things not because they are good for the org, but because they are good for someone's career ambitions.

Things get markedly worse when you jump from 3 levels of the hierarchy to 4 and get middle managers reporting to middle managers.

The whole thing is worth reading, though.
> No downloaded repositories contained customer data, means to access customer data, or Slack’s primary codebase.
I was gifted with a paper notebook that has a 3d effect PCB printed on it as its cover. From the chips' inscriptions, I found the source, and it's a Sound Blaster sound card :) Best gift ever.

Not my image, but I have the same one: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/pcb-notebook--5410653427112781...
Getting CORS issues on my end.

Response body is not available to scripts (Reason: CORS Missing Allow Origin)
Being 30% faster is the easy part. Being 30% within the same thermal behavior is the hard part.

"AMD chips configured with Ryzen AI are 20% faster in AI tasks than Apple's M2 chip while being 50% more energy efficient, according to the company."

What about general CPU performance? That's the AI engine...

"To showcase the new chip's performance, AMD compared the performance of a high-end Intel chip, the M1 Pro , and its new Ryzen 9 7940HS processor rendering an object in the popular application Blender."

With CPU rendering or GPU rendering?

Also note how the M1 Pro is a year old by now, while the new AMD chip is not even on the market yet. Besides M2 Pro is already under production (as is M2 Max). Plus, the M1 flagship is M1 Max, which AMD didn't compare to.

Let's say AMD might be close, but it's nowhere a 30% win over Apple's chip state of the art in general as the title might mislead someone to beliebe..
No way, I just googled trumpet and trombone, and those are different instruments. Electric guitar and classical guitar are just different flavors of the same instrument. Most guitarists play both, if they've ever touched a classical guitar. Playing electric is both easier and less loud, if you don't plug in the amplifier, so they're a lot more suitable for kids than classical guitars. The association that parents have that electric guitars are for adults and acoustic for kids is insane. In my experience good electric guitars are also cheaper than good acoustic, but I have to admit I haven't tried to buy a classical guitar in 20 years.

Spring on a name brand second hand electric guitar for your kids you won't regret it. Electric guitars are basically inpossible to damage, and a second hand guitar will retain its value so you'll get those $500-800 bucks back when it turns out your kid wants to do something else. Higher quality guitars have lower action and more comfortable necks which makes them easier to play rewarding your kids more for their efforts.
It doesn't matter, it can still be extremely helpful.

For instance, I had fragmented memories of a movie, described what I knew about it (about a boy who lived in a trainstation), and it helped me find a couple movies and then narrow in on the one I was looking for.

These types of queries can be super painful with modern search engines but was easy with ChatGPT and a pleasant experience.

I think people are thinking of this AI in the wrong way - where it is "an expert". To me, I like to think of it as a companion that helps us shape and refine our thoughts and ideas.
You can use WifiBox[1], being a user of FreeBSD myself (Laptop, Workstation and many servers) it would be nice to have "native" ac/ax.

[1] https://github.com/pgj/freebsd-wifibox
I get that in this context "patents" should be seen as the announcement of a new innovation, a surrogate of the innovation itself if you will, but setting that aside for a moment I'm struggling to imagine how patents could ever do anything but slow down disruption.

Take any revolutionary discovery. Compare making it freely available to anyone, or limiting the availability to those holding the patents. EDIT: And perhaps more importantly give people the freedom to innovate on top versus stopping anyone who does. Shouldn't the former always be more disruptive of the status quo? I can imagine this is an oversimplification though so I'm open to hearing counterintuitive examples where the opposite is true.

And to be clear, either way I'm not saying this is good or bad in and of itself - in some cases it might slow down essential improvements, in others it might be good to have speed limits for change so that things don't break.
I've worked with a rails core developer while I learned rails and while he likely never used scaffolding (he might had a Emacs routine setup doing more or less the same) it was definitely ok to use scaffolding.

I am lazy I still use scaffold these days, but then I also take 5 minutes to reiterate over the created files to get them the way I want them.
The interesting thing here is that once van Meegeren was exposed he became famous in his own right and his 'fakes' became valuable, not as fakes, but as genuine Han van Meegeren originals.
It's a fair question, but likely not.

There are "application credentials" or "API tokens" that get generated for various purposes and live long.

There are many programs that do not support "credential helpers", abd those would need you to input an API token that is generated usually just once and has almost always has enough permission to clone a repository (at a minimum).

The `hub` and `lab` CLI tools work exactly in this manner.

If you are familiar with intellij: certain plugins that integrate with github or gitlab also require the generation of an access token so that you can do API calls to see merge requests and such: https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/keeping-your-accou... & https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/profile/personal_access_toke...

Applications that support credential helpers are docker (for optionally authenticating with docker registries) and git itself.
Plus, there is a large degree of "orthodoxy" in these grants, even most of them proclaim that they are "high-risk, high-gain". In the end, it seems that if you are too much on the "risk" scale, you will not get the funding since committees prefer "a little more of the same, please" to more wild ideas. I realise that such ideas are of course hard to classify in terms of their feasibility, but that's the main purpose of science, right? Venturing boldly into the unknown and all that; sometimes you come back with the treasure, sometimes you come back with lessons learned.
I agree but I guess we could make the same claim of "survivor bias" for these big NASA projects as many are making about small teams.

Really I think the success is down to how well managed a team is and how focussed they are on productivity.

It's much easier to manage a small team because there's just fewer lines of communication and places for problems to hide.

The larger the team the more you are going to have to organise work if only to distribute it to members. It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking that management activity itself is productivity but it's not.

It's necessary but it's just admin. A bit like single vs multi-threading.

You should do as much admin as needed but no more.
What I mean is that in past cycles companies suddenly found themselves in distress they did not expect.

This time however, everyone is calling for a recession so are battening down the hatches while earnings are still very strong. It’s unprecedented and shows how societies adapt as they learn and focus on new factors.

When the yield curve and the relationship between fed policy and the economy was little known and ignored and instead most people focused on trends in earnings or real estate or whatever the hot thing of the day was, the significance of fed policy and rates was huge. Now everyone is laser focused on the fed which changes behavior which changes outcomes.

The worst recessions blindside virtually everyone and are so severe precisely because people are taking the most risk when things are most dire. Think the lead up to 1929, 2000, 2008, the Florida real estate boom of the 1920’s, etc.
I was fat/overweight all my life until I was about 24. I had enough of it and I went from ~94kg to about 85kg quite quickly (through calorie deficit), then over 1-2 years I went to a low of about 72kg. I am about 75-76 now, and have been oscillating in the 72-77 range for the past 5 years or so. It still requires me to be mindful of how much I eat, which has become part of my daily life. I'm not very strict about it, I have days when I eat more and then I compensate by eating less.

I think the mistake people make is they think they can go on a diet temporarily, then go back to the old eating habits and not get fat again. That is nonsense of course, which is why dieting doesn't work. Dieting implies something temporary and you need something permanent.
>Some years ago they claimed to be fast.

It is fast, maybe the fastest of all BSD's:

https://www.phoronix.com/review/bsd-linux-eo2021/2
The idea that you can at all limit your liabilities by contract is an artifice that originates in the idea of the limited liability corporation. You are not contractually allowed as an individual to limit your liabilities by mutual agreement in general because a great many rights and claims cannot be alienated by contract.

The vast majority of capitalists and libertarians have no pretence of being able to get rid of the LLC. The rest have an incoherent understanding of the situation, where you could somehow do it by mutual agreement while still having inalienable rights be a thing. Legal personhood is the only way to deal with that because you can then redirect claims and rights instead of trying to alienate them.

So you have to choose two between inalienable rights and claims, not having legal personhood, and being able to limit liability by agreement.

A simple example would be an organization which caused a personal injury by negligence. You can't alienate your right to life and health, so you can't possibly make a contractual agreement to limit such liability. If you remove the possibility to limit such liability, then who in their right mind could, for example, invest or agree to work in a hospital? How about a mine?

So the question is inevitable, and it turns out that legal privileges for groups that organise capital are necessary for practical capitalism. In the real world of course no libertarian can articulate a coherent way of either completely doing away with the concept of limiting liability or a way to do so without legal personhood and without allowing people to sign away their rights, which is why serious opposition to the concept is exceedingly fringe amongst libertarians.
It’s a respectable position. From my time in China, many people felt this way. The streets feel and are extremely safe. Surveillance makes low-level crime hard to get away with. It genuinely raised serious questions for me. What good is privacy if I’m getting stabbed in private?

What I can’t get my head around is the second-order effects that this has. With more surveillance, it shifts power from the watched to the watchers. The squishy parts, who may have their own personal motivations. I’m not entirely sure democracy can survive such a severe imbalance.

Maybe the answer is to replace democracy with a computer.
CEOs and various intellectuals very much are hyped up.

Then we realize they’re like anyone else and they’re massively demonized
Wow, what class?
No OP, but another former physicist. There's not much career opportunity in that field, but physicists are eminently hireable in software engineering or investment banking.
Sony patent: Say “McDonalds” to end commercial
I was once burned by a Samsung TV whose backlight LED's got so hot they melted the innards of the TV...

Any engineer designing stuff with high power LED's knows how important thermal design is. The LED's should have had temperature sensing and software feedback to reduce the brightness to stop everything melting.

That could have been implemented by measuring the forward voltage... Or with a dedicated temperature sensor.

But on a $1000 TV, Samsung didn't want to pay the 1 cent per unit plus a day of engineering time that would have taken.

And as a result, the TV's had a high failure rate and they lost me as a customer.
Half of the top level comments are green accounts praising the service, making what’s already a sketchy concept even more suspect.

Edit: Interestingly, one was even deleted after this post.
I don't need a crow - got an African Grey in our house - not my choice but the wife said it was either that or a new dog.

They are intelligent but rather annoying esp when they go into "let repeat all the words or new sounds I have learned the last couple of weeks" but I am rather glad they are so much smaller than their dinosaur ancestors.
Wow, great detailing on the cleftal horizon. It's interesting to see this expressed mathematically in this way.
This is a wonderful, wonderful book, and the Louth church is of course in it:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fifty-English-Steeples-Medieval-Eng...
I cannot put into words how much I want Silmarillion read by Scarlett Johansson.
Interesting it only has 4 AUX ports - the Xbox Accessible Controller has 14, one for every button plus the dpad. They've gone for including more buttons on the device itself and less extensibility. I wonder if that's a worth tradeoff - or if they couldn't have just done both?
Reverse Engineering the DualShock 4
I checked back again and it works now. Could have been a HN hug of death?
I remember applets being used for roll-over buttons on web pages and always knowing that an applet was being used because Internet Explorer 4 hung when loading the page, waiting for the JVM to fire up (with much disk churning).

Kind of nostalgic for it!
As with developers doing resume-driven development, designers need to build a strong portfolio to land their next gig.

So aesthetics comes into building their own distinctive "brand" (as opposed to the brand of the client/company they are currently working for). That's not to say they won't justify their design in terms of what the client needs, it just pushes them away from using "boring" aesthetics - for example, pushing for a trendy-looking design for a backend admin dashboard that would have been just as usable (and cheaper) to build with a bog-standard Bootstrap theme.

This isn't to blame designers, that's just the economic reality of the business.
Before I invest into reading the paper - does it say why precisely the hunters wanted to record the breeding cycles? Is this NOT to target the animals at that time or is it because they thought they would be easier prey?
Doesn't sound too bad to be honest
> Show business had been one way of establishing identity by just put-ons. And without the put-on, you're a nobody.

It always felt disingenuous to "smile for the camera" when really my life circumstances were plainly miserable at the time. However, by refusing to participate in fraudulent representations of your identity, you now become a nobody; a digital vampire, without a reflection in the black mirror.

> Role-playing has become the normal mode of survival in the business world.

You adopt an alter-ego. In the modern information age and WFH era, this is a non-corporeal identity whose representation is purely digital.

> When you're on the air, you're a discarnate being.

It may or may not have any correlation to your "actual" (read: corporeal) identity.

> Everybody tends to merge his identity with other people at the speed of light.

In modern censorious culture, the boundaries of your non-corporeal identity are being violated without consent - in order to have an identity (read: participate in most mainstream social media on the Web), you must adopt the ethics of the Moderator class and the masses of Users that uphold the group identity.

Failure to accept the group ethos and install it into your non-corporeal identity leads to a deprivation of that non-corporeal identity; whether you were banned or merely refused to sign up on principle, the effect is the same - you are a ghost without a digital representation.

> [...] and this, I think, has been one of the big effects of the electric age. It has deprived people, really, of their private identity.

What makes this uniquely more dystopian in the COVID era is that identity has progressed to Baudrillard's third order simulacrum: "it masks the absence of a profound reality." Whereas the distinction between one's non-corporeal (digital) identity was clear in decades prior, due to, e.g. low megapixel cameras; low video resolutions & bitrates; historical groundings in BBS, mailing lists, and fora; etc.

...it is now becoming easier - tacitly assumed, even - to conflate one's digital identity for the "real person" (discussions of what a "real person" is notwithstanding). Indeed, for many people we encounter, our only interactions with them will be digital; especially during that time where in-person interaction was in fact forbidden, for reasons of public health. Thus, failure to assimilate into the group identity and uphold its manner of thought feels much closer to a direct assault on one's personal, corporeal identity.
Star Maker, by Olaf Stapledon also touches on this.
I'm guessing that the main reason they require you to go through their "preferred partners" is that their job is to insert annontations that the speech generator needs to make it sound good.

I wonder if this is because it's difficult work, or if the tools aren't user friendly enough to put in the hands of untrained users. If it's the latter I suppose that sooner or later we won't need to go through the partners.
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You could argue that there is more economic incentive to invent new things as discoveries are worth more if you alone have the right to use them. This in turn could lead to more investments in research that lead to more inventions that increase disruption.
Many thanks for the write-up! Sequence of writes is not something I had considered. Hoping to get around most of the drama by leaning on KV workers from cloudflare
It's just couple million a year business, so nothing that extraordinary
For me, sometimes “doing nothing” is literally doing nothing: neither napping nor thinking. Other times, “nothing” means surfing Reddit and making music.

It’s all about intent. Abandon plans! Stop scheming! Without expectations, everything and nothing are equally unexpected.

Imagine a beach ball on the water. It’s incapable of doing anything, and yet it responds to every force with an appropriate reaction. Dive in the pool, and it rolls with the waves. Pull it underwater, and it shoots back to the surface!

It’s fun to live like a beach ball. By doing “nothing”, I find myself bouncing from adventure to adventure.

When I stop doing things, it gives the universe a chance to play with me; I become like a kite in the sky.

[1] https://taylor.town/nothing

Your shopping list and to-do list and bucket list are bottomless. Your lists grow until you decide they’re complete.

Decide that your TODOs are already complete! When nothing remains on your lists, there's only "nothing" left to do :)

[2] https://taylor.town/nothing-fulfills
For anyone interested in drawing/sculpting with math, I would highly recommend this channel. There are some amazing things.

https://youtube.com/@InigoQuilez
I swapped to using RawTherapee years ago and never looked back, at least for my workflow it's miles better than Lightroom. Blender is best in class when it comes to FOSS creative software, a real exemplar of the best case.

Inkscape on the other hand is like shoving forks in my eyes every time I try to use it. I started working on an web-based SVG editor just to cover my own usecases. I'm just using the browser renderer because the Inkscape frontend is a total joke. There's tearing when I try to resize a rectangle, and it updates at like 8fps. It's actually embarrassing that software can be that slow doing something so basic. It's incomprehensible to me, I can render and display these staggeringly realistic game worlds at 240fps and the very same hardware struggles to resize a rectangle.
Most programming jobs are utterly boring. You are hoarding yes men and people who are good at lying.
Not 6, 9. There are three more at the top of the side bar at the right.

The most prominent one is the FAQ, though. I don’t think that’s the best starting point.

One could also argue that giving people so much choice isn’t the best idea.
The MFM and ULAM repositories are reasonably legit, providing the simulation engine and the compiler respectively. FWIW, there are Ubuntu packages at ppa:ackley/mfm. I apologize if you found the T2Demos repository, yeah, that's a permanent WIP mess.
We have a couple. They're pretty good.
Off-topic: The article uses an image generated with DALL-E (Image credits: "Midjourney / DALL-E 2 prompted by MIXED"). I'm not surprised. However, it's the first time that I see that in an article that is not about DALLE-E or Stable Diffusion, a sign of how these models are changing web publishing (and stock photos/digital illustration work).
I might be helpful for you to expand on what you actually meant and why you felt I misunderstood your position, because I’m not quite sure what I missed. I’d be happy to do the same for my comment: my point was that being nice is not something that really has a floor. It’s what you do to seem agreeable and pleasant. It’s also something that varies from person to person. I’m generally pretty accepting of not having enough niceness but I will still note that on the scale of how to phrase a request it’s on the ruder end, just a step up from actively demanding things from people. It doesn’t hurt to be more polite than this.