skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eigen's latest performance benchmarks are also much better than the Blaze page paints.

Eigen has commit-based performance monitoring for some time, arewefastyet style: https://eigen.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Performance_moni...

I've used Eigen to play with 3K by 3K dense matrices and solve them in some cases, and it's not even blink an eye, neither in time nor in space department.
It's also just silly to get stuck on little things for too long because of ego. I've done it, and honestly it still happens sometimes, but it's so freeing to not have to feel that pressure.

In one of my previous jobs I had a great relationship with one developer in particular. We've both seen great work from each other so knew we weren't just coasting but it took one of us to just say, hey dude any idea why this isn't building? I took one look and it was something obvious - easy fix and he could move on. That didn't make me feel like a genius, it just made me happy to know there was such trust. He knew I wouldn't judge him and since then the back and forth was super simple. Greatly improved both our work, since now it's also way simpler to ask eachother for input on other things.
They define effective using a complicated statistical derivative that inverts the data. This is mostly visible in UK data and other occasional studies, because most public health reports hide the true numbers. UK does now too but for the longest time published both pre and post adjustment data.

The actual effectiveness, as defined by case rates by vaccine status, have been strongly negative for a long time. Around a year now. Vaccinated people catch COVID a lot more often than unvaccinated people do.

The reason they claim effectiveness is they use an adjustment procedure to try and correct for "bias". The procedure dates from before COVID. It breaks if people can volunteer to get tested, by making the vaccines look more effective. They don't care because it turns bad news into good news.

Also they classify people as vaccinated weeks after someone gets the shot. Negative consequences from the shot are then assigned to the unvaccinated cohort. Again they shouldn't use stats that way but they do.

Real effectiveness is negative.
> and perfectly simulate our precise physical characteristics down to the exacting neural biochemical fluxes in our brains

We'll need a new kind of computer for that, because all current computers can do from a purely mathematical POV is approximate the real world, given their limited memory and limited precision.

There's a good chance that the only way to 'simulate' a human is to physically built one.
"We base what's attractive on what we see others attracted to, and on what we're sold. A lot of that is visual"

Yes, with the model that attractivness is a universal scale from 1 to 10. Which is doing a lot of harm to teenage (and adult) minds. I think using filters for profile pictures to fit a certain unrealistic standard, has become quite normal. Leading to people constantly being unsatisfied with the way they really look.
Here’s the author’s original post about the clock:
https://somethingorotherwhatever.com/items/wobbly-clock/

This links to a Twitter thread:
https://twitter.com/christianp/status/1250454284581457923

Which has at least one other interesting clock idea, this one with floppier hands:
https://twitter.com/kangaroophysics/status/12508031830451814...
When a company motto becomes a joke it's time to move on
> are they still losing money on the e-commerce side of business?

It isn't entirely clear to me if the losses Amazon reports are accounting magic (invest rather than profit, keeping taxes low and growth high), or a genuine failure, or a mix of both.

If AWS was split from Amazon so the latter was forced to operate without its cash cow, I think we'd all be better off. I'm sure lots of us would also be willing to trade a smaller product selection for better quality guarantees; the Alibaba-reseller model sucks.
same here. the product had a literal design error, not just a faulty individual item.
> In Go, unsafe code is only possible by importing unsafe or C.

of course, this is completely wrong, for anyone reading this. that is simply not how systems work
I am the creator. Feel free to AMA
> - Under-exposure to pathogens due to living in an overly sterile (i.e. artificial) environment.

This has no scientific basis, it has been disproven time and time again.
I actually like shorts. YouTube is the only platform with this form of video that isn't always a like for like repost of tiktok content.

What I don't like about shorts is how they've been integrated.

They either appear in the subscriptions page so they're treated the same way as normal creators content or they appear in the 'shorts' tab but alongside other creators so I can't just watch my subscriptions

What I would like:

- option to show just videos, just shorts or both in my /subscriptions views and playlists (and while we're at it hide premiers and lives!)

- When filtered to show just shorts it says click here to view all from just your subscriptions

- the option to view the algorithm recommended shorts as they currently have and the option to view just my subscriptions (as tiktok does) in the shorts tab

I've actually written my own crappy playlist manager that flags shorts and let's me treat them separately which is how I've been coping so far!
Are you on Linkedin? :D
Document the bones, laser scan them, create a carbon copy skeleton for display if wanted, drill each bone for samples and after all the required information is gathered, bury his remains like the guy wanted.
Keeping all this information and bone samples is both more ethical and easier than to keep the bones around. If the items from a private collection are supposed to be kept, how does that make a difference if the items were gained illegally. What is stopping someone from stealing items a painting from the Louvre and asking another museum to keep it as part of a collection.
Ask HN: Best website to write occasional essays?
I've been thinking for a while now that I would like to write stuff from all possible subjects. Writing for myself is the point, but it does feel a bit useless if there is no way to share the product with others.

I don't want to go through the trouble of hosting my own blog somewhere, although I would like to have the option in the future to upload my writings into such a blog if it came to it.

And this brings me to my question. What is the best website to write random essays from various subjects? Something like Medium perhaps, but not Medium? (I've heard of uncalled-for bans and deletions there).
I didn’t mean just any negative impact like getting tired from context switching or feeling exhausted because the workload is high.

What I meant was: Will you lose it if you don’t use it?

Maybe you won’t, I am not certain. Or maybe you will and you don’t see it now because the “net win for syntax recall just by giving it gentle nudges towards intent” relies on your hard earned ability to understand the code which is gained partly through exercise. You’ve already done your exercise.

I wouldn’t form an opinion just yet. For now we can ask the questions.

Edit: wording of the first sentence for clarity
The return policies you've described are guaranteed by law in Europe. I'd rather had the law cover guaranteed minimum return policies across all shops.
There are even products with 6 panes.

Edit: one such product http://www.reflex.si/en/q-air
"in the HR space" is where anonymity must exist, otherwise the feedback can never be safe. A "Human Resources" department is hostile to humans (it exists to better exploit you, as an agent of your employer), so you must act as if you have an adversarial relationship with it.
Ducts are good for indoor air quality though. Keeping our central fan on at low speed all the time significantly reduces measured CO2 in occupied rooms, particularly bedrooms overnight.
> I gather Kompute.cc, which runs on GPUs via Vulkan, is the modern choice

Or you can just use Eigen via CUDA:

https://eigen.tuxfamily.org/dox/TopicCUDA.html

> Running floating point array kernels on CPU cores seems pointless these days.

CPU level vectorization can do wonders in terms of speed with right libraries (like Eigen, MKL, etc.). I can solve the same problem in seconds with Eigen where its MATLAB implementation takes hours.
What does “worth it” mean, in this context?
This is already a thing: https://blogofy.com
> Complex devices need complex benchmarking, unfortunately. You won't get a simple, single number that shows how powerful a cpu is.

This is the gist of my comment (see after the first phrase), so I think we agree.
On the contrary, I much prefer the fixed date of "2006-01-02T15:04:05" for formatting time strings. I find it much easier to write "Mon 02, Jan 2006", than what you would usually put for the strftime equivalent, "%a %d, %b %Y" (had to look it up, and at a glance it's not that obvious what it formats to). With Go, all you need to memorise is the date itself. Granted, coming from other languages it can take a bit of getting used to.
I received a couple of fakes when ordering Lightning cables for my iPhone (which claimed made by "Appel in Califona" on the box which was a dead give away). Left a review to let people know it was fake and also got the review rejected for policy violations. Like this article says, the Marketplace team clearly sees the sellers as their customers and doesn't care about the people actually buying.
You can't easily tell because it's out of stock, but other Petmoto branded items on walmart.com are actually being sold by non-Walmart sellers. There's no indication that Walmart are involved other than being a shopfront.
Birds? hahaha
Interesting perspective though
That is a good point, many specialty spoons exist, but it's not quite the same as software.

I'm sure we all have utensils we like and dislike, but the feature set is pretty much the same on all of them, especially within a category of specialty type, the difference is mostly decorative and ergonomic.

Wheras with tech, we often add things that are only tangentially related to the original purpose, and we add layers of indirection between user and the actual purpose, with millions of ways that mapping can happen.

Two variants of nominally the same idea can have totally different possible applications, like a phone with and without a GPS. These days all smartphones have GPS, but what about UWB? What about a stylus? Or wireless charging?

They're all smartphones, sold for basically the same general market rather than some specific application, but everyone has a different set of features they want, because it's not a single-function device.

Some people might like more or less ornamentation, and some people might prefer silver over stainless steel, but even most of the specialized types don't have extra features, and nobody picks them up and wishes they did, and rarely do people prefer spoons to be multi-purpose.
DeepMind proudly announces that their censorship will surpass even that of OpenAI's? These companies are sick with ideology.
It's image 3 in the linked article.
Taliban start buying blue ticks on Twitter
-> “Cuban rulers would rather its citizens starve than implement democracy.”

cuban here. please dont pretend america care about democracy. america have interests. when they need new regime they suppress democracy as needed or push for democracy. main idea to get some regime subservient to american economic interest.

why america has so many migrants at border but america do nothing or even talk about what crisis happening in central or south america country? instead they fighting proxy war in ukraine. why? more lucrative and profit opportunity in ukraine. south america not have resources or proxy war opportunity.

and given state of American government..race issues..economic issue..growing gap..unaffordable housing..America last country to dictate how other country should run.

i not favor cuban government, but your post bullshit. you idea that you know more about cuba like you on some pedestal.watch as you infrastructure crumble you homeless and drug population rise
Amtrak passengers stranded 29 hours called 911 fearing they had been kidnapped
I am also thinking small electronic components the whole thread. Once you see the pricing on Ali compared to whatever local distributor is there it's easy to regularly delay projects for a single $0.2 part.

1000% markup is by far not the worst I've seen.
Encryption still encrypts, doesn't it? Of course they could decrypt it and pass it on decrypted, but no amount of security is going to prevent that.

Google Plus had the option of sharing publicly, with a specific circle, with all your circles, or with your extended circles (your circles and their circles). This gave very good granularity in controlling who could read what. It sounds like some people at Mastodon could really use something similar, and the only way to accomplish that on an open, federated network, is through encryption.

Though it may be a bit much to encrypt it separately for 100 different people. It really blows up the overhead. So maybe don't encrypt the entire message with publish keys, but with a secret key, which gets encrypted with each public key of the allowed recipients, all of them attached with the same message. Still some overhead, but a lot less.

I don't know ActivityPub well enough to know if they already have something like this, but it might be a useful addition.
Just a few additional comments from our last exchange, based on https://project-mage.org/elevator. I prefer this elevator pitch because it gives some insight on how to proceed, beyond the stylistic choices.
(If not a rant, it's a mixed bag of all I could think about the subject, since I never really exchanged about these ideas, so I'm interested in your thoughts as well.)

The example of splitting "Hello world" into a list of words is a pretty bad example; structure as in list of words is something that text editors manage well (delete word, inner, etc).
It contrasts with syntactic information that gives you structure that expands the range of what your editor can do.
If you know something is a noun, you can give only a list of nouns to replace them, and any replace would be able to ignore any verb that is written the same way (I'm not sure what IDE that does scoped replace manages variables shadowing correctly, but this is something you should be able to do with structure).

The idea of recursive, specialized micro-editors sounds like a real good idea.
There should also probably be a way to specify that something is an encoding of a structure.
For example, escaped shell commands, or SQL written as strings (not everything has DSLs, and even then it would still be useful).
Ironically the delta diff program would correctly highlight syntax of SQL strings because it only analyzes the text, as opposed to most IDEs.
There is also some prior art in the field, which reminds me of [0].

I'm currently working on knowledge management, which I think you have to split in different subfields; there's a great deal of overlap with project and document management, yet these would be mainly distinct workflows.
I think logseq [1] and org-roam [2] tick all boxes for knowledge management, strictly speaking, but other tools are needed nonetheless.
(digression: If you split it into plenty of different subsystems with another query system on top of it, you might just call your knowledge management a computer and the shell that querying tool.
The issue you might have is that every program has its own API, so interfacing requires a custom facade, unless you directly write/eval shell commands.)

There was another idea between code editing and knowledge management, called literate programming, which had a fairly high profile advocate (Donald Knuth).
The idea would be to explain the code in the way that made sense for humans, and have the system (something in between the text and compiler, if not the compiler itself) assemble these blocks in 'computer order' for execution.
He explicitly said that literate programming is not 'documented code', which is what people usually understand by it, but does not represent any paradigm shift.
There's the Leo editor [3] that took some ideas from it, but I think it's also something that never really took off.

Again, good luck etc.

[0] https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2014/an_editor_for_composed_pr...

[1] https://github.com/logseq/logseq

[2] https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam-ui

[3] https://leo-editor.github.io/leo-editor/
If you work hard enough, you can use multiple DMA channels and stream the data in and out of GPU simultaneously, however it needs a datacenter class card (Tesla, Radeon Instinct, etc.). Also in nVidia's case, you can only do this while using CUDA only, because nVidia doesn't want you to get full performance out of these cards without CUDA.
I use some bookmarklets I made up either highlight or remove shorts from the subs page! Also deals with premiers and lives. It's not always right though but it helps!

https://gist.github.com/apricot13/0d8f0ea32138e2d36e6f5ff3de...
An answer to security theater is a performance of your own it seems.
Looks pretty easy and straight forward to use.
I myself use my phone for filming videos (over OBS), so I probably won't use it. I will recommend it to some of my fellow videomakers that could benefit from it, though.
Why is everyone talking about Tailwind? [video]
Space Tech Predictions for 2023
Commuting in London is a headache by itself. I live/work in London but remotely. I earn less than what I used to, but I think I am happier.
Just a couple democratic countries had to be murdered for those cheap cheap bananas.
I’ve worked in construction. For independent Architects, you get plan and some schematics, but that’s it. An architectural firm may provide the white glove treatment by managing the build, getting engineers involved, and basically making sure it’s done right. It is not cheap and most certainly not accessible to the average home builder.
> There's heavy evidence there's already been a mass extinction once from an asteroid.

There's evidence that many more humans have died from pollution. Then we could question whether the solution to the asteroid threat is to try to send a few humans on Mars or to prepare autonomous missions that would reach the asteroid and prevent it from reaching the Earth (e.g. by changing its course).

> but a lot of people don't want to gamble the existence of the human race if there's a chance we don't have to.

Sure. If the asteroid was one of the higher risks on the list, it would make sense. But right now the biggest risk to humans, by a very wide margin, is human activity.

> Well, you asked "why do this and not focus on Earth", so I gave you one reason.

It was not me asking, but I think this is a bad reason. It is probably much easier to prevent the hypothetical asteroid from colliding with Earth than to go live in space.
The next phase of language design is making it possible to write "data-oriented" programs which largely live within the cache of the CPU.

Ie., the next frontier is moving from RAM to cache, since CPUs are not going to get faster than programs are "already slow".

If you rewrite some OOP/Pointer-Machine-Model/RAM-Thrashing programs for modern CPUs, you can get 100-1000x speed-up.

The evolution in language design seems, then, to be about exposing more of the hardware to enable developers to target it effectively.
The others did a good job of the technical details. The higher level implication is that taking too many of the shots will appear to make you feel better in the short term but create long term internal damage, as the immune system won't fight the virus as effectively/at all and instead will let it get on with replicating.

So it seems the shots convert short term but temporary unpleasantness into long term serious problems - at which point, of course, they will be classed as not vaccine related because they didn't happen immediately.

As such the social implications of this discovery are more of the same. The population will continue to be split into camps that think all vaccines are perfect and reject any link with bad outcomes as not proven, denied by public health so it must be false. Public health bodies will continue refusing to break down incidence data by vaccine status, or will do so in fudged ways by redefining what "vaccinated" means. Other people will observe long term disparate outcomes between people who had lots of shots and others who had none, but if they try to speak about what they see they'll be shut down, told it's just anecdotes and not data and maybe fired. Polarization will continue to spiral.

Overall: this finding is bad, and the long term implications are bad.
So what are you currently making with Haskell? And is there any game engine or libs that we should be using?
> Saying Apple intentionally slowed down older devices is disingenuous.

They admitted to exactly that. They were fined millions in euros for it, and paid over half a billion dollars in fines and settlements in the US alone. Apple clearly wasn't confident their justifications would hold in courts, just as they didn't convince regulators overseas.

I'll agree that if they had been honest with users about what they were doing this wouldn't have been an issue at all, but they kept it a secret and even if it genuinely wasn't the original or entire purpose for slowing the devices the people working at apple were smart enough to have realized that slowing the devices would incentivize more users to upgrade and that not disclosing the truth would prevent users from solving the problem themselves by replacing the battery and removing that same incentive.
Please can we stop with this ridiculous exaggeration. It is actually very harmful. There is no evidence of “planetary destruction” or anything like it.
Polyamory is getting slivers of legal recognition in America
You cannot state such things without specifying where you are. In some places (and/or industries or market segments, even), architects are 'just the design person', sometimes even not really doing technical design but just function and aesthetics. In others they are engineers who do (besides design) very hands-on oversight of all sorts of contractors.
But it is Game of Thrones... simply kill off the characters as needed.

I think the issues with the next books come down to deciding:

- how the Army gets south of the wall

- how far south they get before encountering defeat (IMO they are the big bad, and if they don't make it down to the heart of the Kingsland slaughtering everything into a near-unstoppable horde, then the entire literary point of them is meaningless)

- how to plausibly defeat them

The failure of the TV series to address those three macro tension points to the whole series was the essential great failure of the series. They are the existential dread, they are old testament retribution for all the human sins on display in the series, they are nature's revenge for our failings as a species. An extinction level event where it's not just you dying, it's everyone dying. Really they are cold-to-the-bone fear that you're supposed to feel.

At this point why GRRM doesn't simply hire people to ghostwrite for him and he executive edits the final books is beyond me. There are fanboys likely of great writing ability and talent that would happily contribute for contracting money and not care if GRRM shovels the novels out the door with only his name on the finished product.
So much value, that it is already a service offered by IBM, Micro Focus and Fujitsu. :)
Yes. It costs next to nothing to illicitly register hundreds of fake seller accounts. Legitimate sellers who get caught in the bureaucracy stay banned because they are too law-abiding to circumvent, while scammers just play statistics to keep ahead of the lockouts.

After a few years of this, what do you imagine the amazon marketplace looks like? I don't think amazon deliberately rewards scammers or punishes legit sellers, but the system they have built has that result.