skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you have a drive fail, you don't want to replace the failed drive with one that is slightly smaller. It won't work. So they pad with swap.

What advantage does padding with swap give over leaving some unallocated space?

> Yes in case the drive fails with the swap on.

There's no scenario I can think of where I want swap on a spinning disk.

> You don't want to use ZFS for swap, it can require extra memory to allocate blocks. Not what you want when you are out of memory.

Is that even possible? Do you mean putting swap on a ZVOL?

> Perhaps, but you are assuming their reasons are not as good as yours without knowing their reasoning.

If anyone can justify a reason for putting swap on a spinning disk in 2023 I'd love to be enlightened.
Gergely reports that Cloud Domains is to be shut down as part of this: https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1669726481130434563
Awakening from delusion is appparently not worth it …

Jed McKenna’s interpretation of the movie :

https://youtu.be/4V1E91GHCF8
or get a kobo
So this must be where these things end up, after a priest wakes up bleary-eyed after too much sacramental wine on the floor of the church, discovering his organ has been stolen.
There's no sideloading? Typical. At least the EU will fix that soon.
I actually think the killer feature for this thing is already there: a hands-free, mostly passive consumption device that can seamlessly switch from full attention entertainment (or work) to partial attention consumption.

I think it will work a bit like wireless headphones with audio passthrough. I can sit at my PC and hear audio from whatever I'm doing, but I can also get up and move around and still hear that audio. The audio passthrough, even though it's not perfect, is easily good enough for me to hear my environment and even carry on a conversation without having to take them off, and I can pause whatever music or podcast or video I'm listening to just by pressing a button on the side.

I think the headset will provide a similar experience in that you can push whatever random YouTube video you were watching out of your direct line of sight, and then get up and go make yourself lunch while you're still half paying attention to it. Not only that, but you can interact with it using your eyes + minimal hand gestures.

The really intense, fully-present experiences (like gaming on a current headset) will probably still happen, but I think most people won't be spending much of their time there, similar to how the total amount of time spent in modern, intense, realistic gaming is tiny compared to how much time people spend scrolling feeds and mindlessly consuming content.
SpaceX has explicitly very different approaches for crewed and uncrewed crafts. Uncrewed rockets are pushed to the limit over and over and over again, to drive innovation and thoroughly test them. As soon as a single person is on board, their margin for error goes to zero.

I'd argue this is in fact superior to NASA's approach, which rarely allows for uncrewed testing (and spectacular RUDs), leading to technological stagnation and catastrophic organizational risks. (i.e. internal resistance to doing anything about the O-ring problem on Challenger, even though they had been alerted about the potential issue).
I've been experimenting with using LLMs to map Figma designs directly into a working production-level codebase. There's quite a bit of compression you need to do in order to convert the raw Figma JSON into a format that an LLM can understand, but overall it actually performs quite well. Here's a quick demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9JRBw7kR9g
I have an inner monologue, but it's just one of many different ways to think and I don't always choose to use it.

What happens when you consider a spatial problem like an IQ test? Do you have to talk your way through it? If you see an art piece, do you only appreciate it through the monologue, or does it feel beautiful in a non-verbal way too?
That assumes they know what needs to be there are aren't using substitute nutrients.

There's a lot of things in animal meat that won't be in lab meat. And given what they charge for oat milk and impossible burgers,.I doubt it will be more cost effective for the public.
That they are content with mediocrity, I have observed, but they deserve to be called mediocre. "It's Electron" is not an excuse.
The linked article just looked at collisions that happened and compared danger by vehicle weight. If I had to guess, I would assume lighter vehicles generally have a shorter stopping distance and hit pedestrians less.
does selling a business release the business from it's contractual obligations (including EULA/data privacy+processing) to its customers?
Can we get arenas yet?
Is that you, Mark ? Sam ?
Extremely well put-together article. Contains many examples I've seen in disparate sources before.

I will use it as an example of how data visualization can distort.

I often wonder if similar things happen with tabular data, but we just can't "see" it so clearly.
Yes they do. I changed companies, was eventually asked to re-verify, now have no access to old company's channel
Interesting. I wonder how far we can push the "AI-generated UI" pattern with today's models. Is GPT 3.5 good enough for or will we need GPT 4, and if so, will it be fast enough (I assume yes, eventually)?
I do think when a company is bought by another, you should need to 'opt-in' to continuing your business with them.
There shouldn't be an assumption that consent is transitive and that if you consented to Company A having your information, that you're also happy with Company B that takes over also having it.

It's the same thing with time; consent when given should not be eternal.
I don't want to be contacted by a company I signed up to 12 years ago and forgot about to contact me about a new product.
Maybe he is to blame, but the social sciences in general are inherently vulnerable to this sort of problem. There have been many instances of similar incidents over the past few decades or so. not just overt academic fraud but misconstruction of data, excel errors, poor methodology, publication bias, etc. This calls into doubt if anything in the social sciences can really be trusted.
You’re sadly right, but many of these apps have a freemium model.

BetterHelp isn’t free at all, it’s actually fairly expensive; so one could argue they should not need to phone in your data to so many third-parties.

I pay my therapist for their services, assuming there’s a high degree of confidentiality in our relationship. These apps, even paid ones, behave like any other app in terms of data sharing.

And not to mention that some of this information might be covered by HIPAA?
Diminishing Returns in Machine Learning
> would be to point that "teaching to the tests" concerns started and continued through a time that tests scores have decreased

This is false. The concerns of teaching to the tests, from my memory, peaked around 2005. No Child Left Behind was a major driver of these concerns, passed in 2001. Test scores peaked in 2012. This is exactly what you would expect if "teaching to the test" yielded a short term benefit but longer term harms, and was increasing during this interval.

> Worse, I've seen students that did a lot of these supposed better methods fall flat on their faces when in a new environment.

NTL did pretty simple experiments: teach something various ways, and see what ones resulted in best performance 6mos and 12mos later.

Having students themselves pair off, teach, and explain ideas is the most durable thing we know. It requires active engagement with the material in order to reformulate it to help someone else through understanding. It requires being able to do this while multitasking and attending to social cues. And it can be a powerful motivator for students to fully understand before undertaking explanation.

> (And a big "f you" to "sight words."

I can't figure out what you're saying. "sight words" are a classic example of a hyper-focused rote memorization practice.

I'm not saying rote is worthless. From my perspective, a perfect math class equally emphasizes intuition, rote practice, and rigorous explanation. What we tend to get, instead, is that once a student falls at all behind, they get 80+% rote practice. Worse, this practice is often subtly faulty and on topics that the student doesn't have the higher level explanations necessary to monitor their own performance.
If I read this right, they’re increasing the maximum non-prescription dose of vitamin D from 1000 IU/day to 2500 IU/day. This seems to be the official dose on the label; nothing prevents you from taking extra pills. There’s some discussion of methodology; the new limit seems to be a maximum known-safe dosage for someone in the 95th percentile of vitamin D intake. There’s a fairly large safety margin built into these numbers for risk tolerance.
Yeah. IMHO this thing should have gone unmanned to the bottom a gajillion times, and exposed to all variety of stressors, before a paying passenger was on board. Maybe that's not possible? Maybe it was in fact prohibitively expensive? I'd love to hear why I'm wrong, but it seems wild to me that paying passengers are along for a ride after only really a handful of successful trips in this thing, ever.
I like wearing shoes inside your house for the same reason I like wearing shoes outside: I don't know what might be on the floor and I don't want certain things that might be on the floor on my socks or skin. But of course, as a house guest I will respect the host's norms.
There is absolutely no guarantee that the sum of two quantities with compatible units makes any physical sense.

The issue here is that angles are inherently unitless geometrical quantities. "Radian" is merely a reminder that a number represents an angle. There is no way to make it a consistent physical unit.
That is the point. Google acquired them to kill waze, and they did.
Look up "barefoot shoes". They're usually like you described and additionally undampened (requires different walking technique, no heel-walking anymore).
What sort of use case do you see for non-float64 math operations in a Go application?
He's mostly self-made, so I think he has demonstrated ability. I think this is more a demonstration that ability in certain areas does not equal ability in other areas. And that even talented people make errors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masayoshi_Son#Early_life_and_e...
yeah but we had that really comfortable era for awhile there, where mass information dissemination was centralized in the hands of a few major institutions, so everyone was more or less on the same page—all you had to do was pick up a newspaper, or listen to the radio, or watch news on television.

this gave us the illusion that we were in a world of Truth, because why would these centralized corporations ever lie to us, or massage the facts in any way? it's The News, of course it's inherently trustworthy.

then the Web came about, causing some to see cracks in the foundations. then the iPhone was released, social media took off, and now the news monoculture is almost (but not quite) dead, and we're back to fending for ourselves in this onslaught of information.
It's like someone took a dystopian sci-fi and thought it is a how-to guide
Boy the this timeline is turning out to be very cyberpunk.

I wonder how long before people start bumping into lamp posts because they are distracted by one of these.
I just skimmed the release blog post for Copilot Chat, and I don't see why it can't be implemented in a terminal based editor. Copilot itself was.
New opportunities for abuse do exist with Vision Pro. If you allowed free reign access to the sensors people could record the inside of your house/work, capture your face, fingerprints, retinal pattern etc.

And again with Objective-C it's impossible to prevent private API usage unless you have some sort of App Store model which can inspect the binaries and prevent abuse.

So it's ultimately going to be the same as iOS.
I don't think anyone thinks AWS pricing is justified and in fact many complain about it, but AWS is a behemoth and if you want to reach your customers, you're going to spend money with them.

With AWS you get charged on consumption only. If you consume 10GB of bandwidth, you get charged $0.20. With ISP's you pay $80-120 upfront for 1TB whether you use 10gb or 500gb, and then an extra $50 for unlimited on top of that. Why offer 1Gbps service, if your customers are not supposed to use it and would max out the data cap within a day of actually making use of the 1Gbps service?
I think it's pretty exciting. Don't have to keep using regex or weird parsing to get the key values from logs that one wants.

Also a bit surprised how fast it was added to the stdlib, but perhaps there was a lot more consensus on the api compared to other golang proposals.
Do you mean because all of the 74H* series registers would have within them lots of different logic gates? I don't think this invalidates the premise -- ie. if you were using a CPU you'd still have registers.
I feel the computer revolution was seen by many. The Vision Pro won't be nearly as explosive, if at all. It's essentially an interface for personal electronic space, and that space is being explored by hackers every where with all kinds of devices. So 'figure out what its for' is being explored by many, and doesn't have to be exclusive to Apple devices.
You take an absurd example, then arbitrarily decide that my logic leads to your absurd example, and therefore conclude that my logic is absurd? That's interesting :-).

In case you care at all: I don't think my logic leads to your absurd example.
Tbh, this paper is a bit much, unless you have a lot of time on your hands for it, and also the necessary understanding of CPU architecture to really grok it.

I think there are better blog posts out there that explain the concepts. "Cache locality" "memory cost of context switching" are some terms to put in search engines. Maybe add "thread local storage" in there too.

The big takeaway from this paper though, at least when I first read it, and the concept has risen to prominence in the years since- backed up by benchmarks- that Big O isn't really the end of the argument when it comes to performance.

The way CPUs work is that its extremely fast to rip through contiguous datasets. Jumping around to random memory addresses is way slower. A corollary to that is that jumping between threads is very slow for the same reasons- loading and unloading random chunks of memory. There are a lot of details around the specifics of why though- different cache levels and their latencies, and what happens when there is a cache miss, etc..

This lead HFT type programs to favor linear arrays to store things, and pinning threads to CPU cores, amongst other things, but that's the gist of it.
Sure, I agree. But in the meantime, it's on us to protect ourselves as best we can.
Of course, I'm not saying that the lower order skills are not important -- as you say, they're foundational. And I'm not even saying that it's a bad idea to test lower order skills. But they're not the only important thing, and "teaching to the test" tends to treat them like they are and prioritize them over critical thinking, synthesis, and creative skills.
The City of London does this. For purely municipal matters, in places with a large commuter population, this can make sense—it gives voice to the people who work alongside those who live there. (Given present politics, a vote for workers might play better.)
I do something similar and just dump everything into a giant chaotic document. It works well because I intuitively understand my own personal brand of chaos, so I know how to easily find everything.
Individual researchers have huge incentives for fraud, but large universities are the ones who most need to look inward here. HBS could become a beacon for stronger research practices in this area - requiring study preregistration and data collection methods that carefully trace provenance and changes. If HBS has fewer but better quirky marketing psychology studies, their reputation will do well. However for an individual researcher, the benefits to using extremely rigorous practices are not as clear, while the costs are high. A random grad student is not going to be able to establish a norm of data traceability.

I worked in this area (at Harvard as well) a bit as a grad student and can absolutely understand the temptation for the lighter version of this. If you can drop one outlier group, you get a cool story and a job at a top 10 b-school. Or keep it, get a muddled result, and try again for a better paper next year. I ended up just leaving the field entirely as the whole "our system massively rewards dodgy practices" vibe really bummed me out.
I was a bit shocked when I first saw photos of adults with unmodified human feet, that hadn't been molded by Western standard shoes as they grew up.
> Meta is struggling to get customers to adopt the Oculus hardware when its an order of magnitude less expensive

I rarely use my Rift S these days - not because the hardware isn't good - but because the software experience is an absolute dog's anus. Wanted to play Beat Saber the other day. Turned on the PC. 25 minutes later, ready to open Steam. Whoops, now the Oculus app says its out of date. Another 10 minutes faff because what it actually meant was "you need to migrate to a Meta account". Then I had to sit through the tutorials again. Then Steam decided Beat Saber needed updating and took 45 minutes to download 800MB on gigabit fibre. Finally, after just about 90 minutes, I could play Beat Saber.

$3500 to not sit through that absolute omnishambles of a torture ever again? Sign me up.
Just saying, Microsoft already tried this with the HoloLens, and pivoted hard and fast into B2B only.
Americans don't walk, they drive so their shoes are very clean.
You can, actually. See "Mac-only license" in their pricing [0]. Just as before, you get one year of updates.

True, when Sketch started switching to a subscription model, they've buried the link to renew the license very deep so it was really hard to find, but I guess they've came back to their senses and it is now available right on the pricing page.

[0]: https://www.sketch.com/pricing/
In VR gaming there's already a huge variance in UX. Many developers treat VR as just a mouse look + gamepad. Only the top few games design bespoke interactions where you move hands naturally interacting with the world, instead of pointing at things and pressing A/B buttons.

I suspect majority of visionPro apps will be mostly iOS apps with iOS gestures, maybe with one or two 3d gimmicks.
As someone that did shadow work, this is disingenuous and unhelpful. People undergoing depression or PTSD can’t be told to “man up” and work on themselves alone. Therapists are usually very careful with confidentiality.
That describes the basic feature set of C++ very well.

People complain about C++ that it can do much more. Yea. But there is no need to use template meta-programming, multiple inheritance and other special features. Actually I think programmers shouldn’t use them in productive code.

Recently some projects switched the compiler to ‘g++’ and use the basic subset of C++. Makes sense? Maybe Herb Sutters “C++2” will evolve, main features are safety and simplicity.

I’m fine with both C and C++. They do a good job. Address-Sanitizer is a game changer! But I want more.
I've been using it for a few weeks now. Overall pretty happy with it. Has good default API, and can be basically arbitrarily extended as needed. We even have a custom handler implementation that allows us to assert on specific logs being emitted in our stress/fuzz testing.
> Perfect pitch is very much not required to be a professional musician, and seems to help only in a few areas, and only by accelerating your musical education a bit.

It's certainly hard to see how it's useful in musical performance.

Hand - eye coordination, hand dexterity and to a lesser degree span, which btw up to an extent are as genetic as AP is -no matter how many grifters occasionally come up with Get AP as an adult with only 10 courses! scams, are going to be much valuable traits to possess when it comes to playing the piano.
> When you turned on the computer, all you got was a flashing cursor wait for you to program in BASIC.

> from my point of view “figure out what it’s for” is the ultimate computer hackers playground

I don't have much to add to this fantastic comment.
I can't believe Google hasn't sent any information to Domains users so far. All I've learned about this has come from Twitter, HN, etc. Google Domains website doesn't mention the sale at all. Seems sketchy af.
I agree with the sentiment, but disagree with using "gaslighters" as the term. VERY few people online seem to have a grasp of what gaslighting actually is, and when we want to describe dishonest/disruptive interlocutors, better terminology already exists.

As a headline I feel like that's easy to ignore or deride, when it makes a good point which reflects the general consensus in academia and beyond.

Don't. Feed. The. Trolls.
1/14 is not bad. All you need is 1.
Wow, it’s a sourced quote too (rare for Einstein on the internet). How do you write a paper without thinking in words? I need to talk to someone who doesn’t think in words, I just can’t believe it otherwise.
How many is many?

Thanks for the correction on the title.
Half as much is still no where close to where they need to be to get mass market adoption.
Brave’s worse. It injects affiliate links without notifying users. Honestly, I can’t understand why do people still use brave as a “privacy browser”.
Just as a word of warning (because I can't tell if this is satire): NixOS does not provide the same experience as a typical Red Hat or Debian-derived distro. It's a vastly different paradigm where your system (including its configuration, packages, etc.) consists (almost) entirely of the output of a program you write in a functional language.

I think it's phenomenal and worth a try (or multiple; I didn't get it the first or second time but now I wouldn't want to go back to something else). But if you go in expecting a traditional Linux distro, you will be disappointed/confused.
Yeah, it must be the Mercator projection why the global south is poor.

Never mind New Zealand and Australia...

Never mind that the whole post-USSR Asia is on the same level as some African countries...

It must be those damn maps.
A killer app might be:

"Better Than Life: Las Vegas"

Games, gambling, shows, and porn all in one "so immersive you won't want to leave" experience.

"Disney ain't got nuthin' on this!"
A cruise ship is on international water but there are still strict laws about what cruise ships can operate at US ports or can advertise to US consumers.
> This is why many southerners know it as "The War of Northern Aggression."

That's called spin/branding.

The initial acts of violence and aggression were taken by the southern states. The southern states could have chosen a legal or political solution. Instead the CSA decided to unilaterally succeed and then used violence to take a fort that they were unsuccessful in negotiating for.
Maybe it's because they are better at uhh.. hitting kids who are naughty? From experience, flatter shoes hurt more lol. Not sure though, I'm puzzled myself!
I meant once you become somewhat popular, it's got to be terrifying. Not necessarily that it's terrifying before you start. When you first start out, there's a billion things happening and this isn't one of them.
I thought so but what about the camera position not being same as your eyes, would you be able to drink from a cup of coffee and coordinate?

Or have a similar experience to the living with lag video, this time no because time lag, but eye hand not coordinating.

https://youtu.be/_fNp37zFn9Q