skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LG 43UD79 display (I believe the newer model is 43UN700), Kodi on NixOS pulling from an NFS mount, N3700-ITX motherboard (started its life as a low power server, then a router, now this), 2U black rackmount case with the ears removed that looks right at home in the entertainment center. I only do 1080p, if I wanted 4k I think I'd have to change the motherboard for a CPU with better decoding hardware.

I've had it in my head that I wouldn't mind a larger display some time, and from what I've seen I certainly can't rule out having to suffer some crapware UI with a glacial turn on delay. The important bit is that I would never connect such a device to the Internet where continuous updates invite manufacturer malfeasance.

In fact this is exactly what I've done with my receiver (Marantz NR1605). It was sold with various streaming capability gimmicks that didn't and don't matter to me. It continues to perform the same function that I bought it for nearly a decade ago.
For those who liked this, I frequently come back to this visual which displays the distribution within a city in an arguably more visually appealing format:

https://www.vox.com/2015/1/2/7480993/population-density-visu...

It helps explain the low-density feel that a city like London has compared to most large non-European cities.

The original source is the third panel here: https://issuu.com/lsecities/docs/hongkong2011newspaper/9
From the article:

The fallout from the hack of a little-known but pivotal health-care company is inflicting pain on hospitals, doctor offices, pharmacies and millions of patients across the nation, with government and industry officials calling it one of the most serious attacks on the health-care system in U.S. history.

[....]

Change Healthcare is a juggernaut in the health-care world, processing 15 billion claims totaling more than $1.5 trillion a year, the company says. It operates the largest electronic “clearinghouse” in the business, acting as a pipeline that connects health-care providers with insurance companies who pay for their services and determine what patients owe. It supported tens of thousands of physicians, dentists, pharmacies and hospitals, handling 50 percent of all medical claims in the United States, the Justice Department wrote in a 2022 lawsuit that unsuccessfully tried to block UnitedHealth from acquiring the company.
You’re right, but I fear this idea has become prevalent in audiophile communities where they only want to listen to files that are 96kHz or higher.

In my opinion, having a high sample rate only really matters during the production phase and does not have a noticeable effect on the final form factor. If the producer uses high sample rate during the creation process, I see no reason why the listener would care if the file they’re listening to is higher than even 44.1kHz unless they are planning on using it for their own production.
Would you kindly…
For those that would try to talk themselves out of it and ^C the process, it could be useful to make things a little bit harder by putting the process in the background :)

There are multiple ways to achieve this:

nohup focus.sh &

nohup stands for "no hang up". It will run a command/script in such a way that it ignores the SIGHUP signal. The SIGHUP signal is typically sent to a process when the terminal is closed or the session is terminated [0].

Another way could be to put the process in the background and then use `disown`, which removes the job from the shell's job table [1], effectively disassociating it from the shell session. This prevents the job from receiving SIGHUP signals just as before.

./focus.sh &

disown

Finally

setsid focus.sh

This will launch the script in a new session [2], so that when you close your terminal it won't receive your current session's SIGHUP signal.

A very good StackOverflow explanation [3].

EDIT: actually, ^C the process already is a bit of a PITA since you would then need to manually put back the original /etc/hosts file :D

- [0]: https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/nohup.1.html

- [1]: https://linuxcommand.org/lc3_man_pages/disownh.html

- [2]: https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/setsid.2.html

- [3]: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/148698
Having worked in HROps, it’s almost entirely due to the lack of coordination and integration between the recruiting team, HR, and hiring managers.

Even in F500, the degree of process breakdown can be extreme.
Here is a higher-resolution picture:
https://c7.alamy.com/comp/A675JC/chemical-dinner-party-A675J...
You can see they have all plates of pills.
I see it as an open-source product that you are free to run in whatever fashion you like, behind SSO or not. For a place for contributors to chat about an open-source project, for example, it’s hard to see how SSO is a must.

Demanding SSO from Zulip would be like demanding SSO from self-hostable Discourse, Jitsi, etc.
Relatedly: The Second Eigenvector of the Google Matrix

https://nlp.stanford.edu/pubs/secondeigenvalue.pdf
I think a better way to think of this is breaking habits. While some people do an innate struggle staying on task, there's also a large portion of people who have built the habit of task switching and just need a tool to help them break that habit.
> Those chips still make their way into China

Not at the scale you need to build a world-class AI.

Let me know when Huawei is able to place an order for 300,000 GPUs.
Ignorant question: is it just bare speculation priced there as a component?
East Asian countries aren't exactly known for their creative, sexual expression either
Why do you need to bundle these, is it to simplify iterating on frontend and data loaders simultaneously? Why not run them separately?
Attitude Bias at Procrastination's Root
>Do I want to do this now? Task delay as a function of valence weighting bias

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01918...

Abstract

Across three studies, we use behavioral measures of task delay to demonstrate that valence weighting bias predicts the extent to which individuals delay initiating a task, particularly when they lack the motivation and/or opportunity (e.g., mental resources) to deliberate on their initial appraisals of situations. Study 1 revealed that people with a more negative weighting bias delayed submitting tax returns to a greater extent. In Study 2, students with a more negative weighting bias delayed more as they earned course credit as part of a research experience program, with this relation being all the stronger among those low in trait self-control. Finally, Study 3 provided causal evidence for this relation: within a sample of students recruited for their procrastination, shifting the valence weighting tendencies of the strong procrastinators toward a more neutral, objectively correct point led to less delay in the context of participation in a research experience program.
Interesting, NYC vs Tokyo. NYC is winning up until 20km. We need higher density queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island and Jersey.

I don't think this takes into account water around cities. For NYC harbour south of downtown pull us down?
Wow, cool to hear stories like this.
Former AWS here.

My literal job for the last part of my time at AWS was "help triage bugs in the AWS SDK." This is by far the best repro I've ever seen for such an in-depth event.

Most of the tickets you get in open ticket trackers are incomplete [ https://github.com/boto/boto3/issues/4011 ] nonsensical [ https://github.com/boto/boto3/issues/4018 ] or weird [ https://github.com/boto/boto3/issues/358 ].
> Just a month ago, the notion of individuals donning AR/VR headsets while walking down the streets seemed far-fetched.

Maybe you missed the Google Glass phase a decade ago.
> Anyone can order a few tons of rebar, but ask for 10,000 tons of plate steel suitable for ships and you will be laughed at.

Sounds like yet another reason supporting concrete ships

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_ship
works great for me
What browser does it work in natively? I tried this a couple of years ago and a few people claimed that it worked in kiosk mode for Chrome but I couldn't get it to work in any browser.
Just typeset a webnovel for print so I could read it physically using Pandoc, CSS, and Prince and honestly the experience was really nice. Way better than any other option I'm aware of.
I used to drive crazy on amphetamines and ecstasy .... (25 years ago)
The world wars were also about Total War.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_war

We definitely seem to be in a build up to a possible total world war.

But this might be more like Hitler's invasion of Poland than full blown world war.

As in the pre-skirmishes.

Perhaps the prelude to world war, but not yet full blown...
The American revolt against green energy has begun
Okay:

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Business-Spotlight/How-Chin...
AG Designates First Chief Science and Tech Advisor, and Chief AI Officer
Even the term "oversampling" implies that sampling beyond Nyquist rate is excessive. I think you would agree that one is not being excessive. It is necessary to sample well beyond accepted "Nyquist rate" in order to reconstruct the signal.
Astor Place Riot
Then do the obvious thing - don't start with 50kt cargo ships. There was a funny article the other day about how some group - possibly the Columbians? I forget - was getting into sub manufacturing because they needed to transport drugs. That isn't military grade nuclear subs but it is on the path to them if for some weird reason they keep chugging away.

No company in the world starts with massive state of the art. It is a recipe for failure, the engineers need to learn in a lower-risk environment.
Don't forget Rankine, although you are making equally bad decisions as Kelvin there
I've been test-driving the web pdf build tool for Asciidoc, asciidoctor-web-pdf[1], for a few years, which uses Paged.js as the template engine before CSS PMM has its go. I like it - I like it a LOT[2] - but Puppeteer-Chrome bugs breaks the build on the regular, or requires a rework of templates. So the web-pdf team started just releasing docker images that include a tested Chromium version (among other things), so as to keep that from being such a PITA. Which is fine. Howaaaayyyyyyyver . . that shines a spotlight on a problem with this workflow[3]: the dependency on browser rendering kit.

[1] https://github.com/ggrossetie/asciidoctor-web-pdf

[2] Asciidoc has four major PDF pipelines in some form of maintenance. The vanilla, asciidoctor-pdf, is a Ruby-based Prawn PDF generator, and it's good but limited in terms of layout - you end up having to extend the core Asciidoctor processor for a lot of tricks like LoT/LoF. Asciidoctor-pdf, and I really want to emphasize this, is the official PDF pipeline for adoc files. The older pipeline, FOPUB, is based on DocBook, which Asciidoc has equivalency with. But DocBook means XSL, and XSL means cheating on Russian roulette because just one out of six chance of ENDING THE PAIN is not enough. The odd man out is DBLATEX, which goes Asciidoc->DocBook->LaTeX-> PDF, and . . whew, ok man, you're jumping three markup languages, dude. Other than that, LaTeX is pretty much the gold standard for layout markup. Finally, we got this thing, asciidoctor-web-pdf, which honestly is more or less dead in terms of activity, which sucks. Web-pdf gives me the flexibility of DocBook-XSL (and then some!) but with CSS and, if I need it, JS. Unfortunately, LoT/LoF still needs Asciidoctor extensions . . but you get a lot of toys that aren't possible with asciidoctor-pdf/prawn.

[3] Shared by vivliostyle and a few others.
Who were the existing providers in the space/rocket industry? NASA and their foreign counterparts?

Shipbuilding is much larger. Shipping is a huge industry with many parts. It is not necessarily impossible for a new company to come in to any single area, but they wouldn't be able to break into something like military ship building.

A possible avenue for 'disruptive startup' is the USV area, see Anduril. But even then that required immense amounts of capital because you are competing against the big dogs (Raytheon, Northrop Lockheed, Boeing, BAE etc.)
We all laughed at the first kids in our high school to buy cheap-o Hyundai Excels and today Hyundai is a top global brand for tech, safety, and customer satisfaction. Sure that took 20 years to get up to speed but China can probably move a lot faster given their solid digital goods footing and existing supply chains. We'll laugh at the first ones brought in from Mexico or whatever, but 10 to 15 years from now, if the Chinese are allowed to sell on reasonable footing with other foreign makers, Chinese EVs will be commonplace on US roads.
Depth of field is a human eyes thing too. Though I'm with you on lens flare and film grain added just as stylistic flourishes rather than to convey "this scene is camera footage". It's like deliberately adding simulated compression artifacts.
As someone who lived through that era, I agree, the 486 murdered almost all of the competition (and nearly even killed Macintosh). Practically everyone I knew who played console games bought a 486 to play games on instead (and also that newfangled Internet thing didn't hurt, which was much nicer on a 486)

Further, Commodore made a big bet on the CD32 but 3DO was already out there, Sega Saturn was coming out and PlayStation was looming (and would have finished Commodore off had it lived another year)

Like Atari Corporation, Commodore failed to innovate enough and the result was not unexpected.
Audiobooks make it possible to partake of books - non-fiction as well as fiction - while doing 'dumb' work. When I built the bathroom in our house I listened to The Gulag Archipelago. This is as long book so it was a good thing that the job involved lifting one corner of the (log-built) house using 2 20-ton hydraulic jacks to replace some rotten beams, rebuilding the floor beans and more of such. Some 5 years later I listened to the same book while installing PV-panels on the roof of the barn I built the year before. I listen to them while turning hay on the tractor, while running the snow plow, etc. I tend to have a mix of netcasts and audio books on the go so I can switch between them depending on what I'm doing and what I feel like listening to - currently 'Neuromancer' next to an interview with Eylon Levy (Aron Flam's Dekonstruktiv Kritik, a Swedish netcast) and The Corruption of Stakeholder Capitalism (New Discourses netcast).

Veni, Audi, Vici
Democratic governance and global science: international research collaboration
Well there's the annual concrete canoe competition but we'll need a lot of canoe to replace a ship.

https://www.asce.org/communities/student-members/conferences...
Definitely going to be stealing this now though! :)
This looks interesting, I have been meaning to try RISC-V outside of an emulated environment. I have a visionfive board on my desk but gave up trying to figure out how to flash a production OS. There was some shady version of Fedora they offer but I prefer to flash my own via buildroot or yocto.
Can you expand on why it sucks?
I know "vos" (which I think voseo means, from this discussion?) is also used in Guatemala, and someone else here mentioned it as used in Paraguay. I read years ago that such things originated based on in which century and from what part of Spain someone migrated.
What was I joking about and what was absolute in terms of outcomes?
> Thirty percent of Americans claim, despite all evidence to the ­contrary, that the last presidential elections were “rigged“

The election example is a bad one because it’s more about American’s being innumerate. They are incapable of understanding statistical data. E.g. https://news.gallup.com/opinion/gallup/354938/adults-estimat... (“In fact, 41% of Democrats replied that at least 50% of unvaccinated people have been hospitalized due to COVID-19.”).

When understanding “who won the 2020 election” requires understanding why Trump could have been ahead with 80% of the vote counted, but Biden pulled ahead overnight due to mail in votes and urban precincts, Americans are basically unable to understand that result. “Who won the election” is more a question about “who do you trust to report the election results to you?”

The approach suggested in the article is unlikely to address the real problem of lack of trust.
You’re talking about profiling a normal running program. If you’re profiling a benchmark that’s always executing the hot path, where exactly the hot path contribution lies becomes less clear. This is because you run into aliasing with the samples being collected at unhelpful points. Maybe if you run long enough you start to see a picture but at 1khz you’re going to have to run for a very long time. The other way aliasing comes into effect is that it becomes to see the impact of “individually cheap” but often executed pieces of code (eg a simple bounds check may not show up even if it’s responsible for a 20% slowdown because the probability of your sampler hitting it is small when that bounds check takes nanoseconds to execute vs your ms profiler sample rate.

Basically a 1ms sampler can pick out a signal that’s 2ms or longer in periodicity if sampled once (all faster signals will get aliased). To get to 1ghz (once a nanosecond) would require capturing 1 million times more samples and you’re still dealing with aliasing screwing up the picture you’re getting (although maybe with stack sampling you get disambiguation to combat aliasing? Not sure).
That is the term, however. You see it in many contexts where a higher sample rate is traded for some other desirable attribute. (For example, it's often desirable for an ADC to sample faster than the higher frequency content you care about in an analog signal, for the reasons detailed in the paper as well as because it can give you a lower noise ADC. delta-sigma converters being an extreme case of this, helped by a seperate trick of noise shaping).

It's worth noting it's a tradeoff, even in pure processing: almost all non-linear transfer functions will create an infinite number of overtones, so it's impossible to avoid aliasing completely: you can only reduce them to some threshold which is acceptable to the application.
Currently my employer pays for it and it saves me some time, so it’s fair and good enough.

But Id never pay it myself, it’s not worth it with current quality.
> Also, the combined dereferencing and member lookup operator (->).

That's actually a dud. The motivation was likely caused by the silly choice of the dereference operator being unary/prefix, requiring parentheses in (*ptr).memb.

Compare with Pascal's ptr^.member where no parentheses are required.

But ptr.memb can just work as well as value.memb. The operator statically knows whether the left operand is a pointer to a struct/union or a struct/union value.
> I know I have my biases, cultural and otherwise, so I shouldn't say that one way is right and another is wrong, but...

I think the point of acknowledging biases is to correct them, not give carte blanche to lean into them.
No, you are right. One solution is that the readers access the buffer through a shared_ptr and can hold onto the old version for as long as they need it while the writer makes changes and creates a wholly new data structure. It is also possible for the writer to block new readers while doing the swap. Tradeoffs everywhere, depending on if you need readers to see changes that occurred after they started accessing the data.
KYC/AML is not some made up concept in order to further some conspiracy. There is genuine harm caused by money laundering and the fraudulent use of the financial system by bad actors.

Likewise anonymous use of shared infrastructure is a central part of the scam/spam/malware ecosystem which costs the global economy $10+ trillion a year.

At some point given the impacts to the most vulnerable in society we need to simply ask that people prove who they are.
The 500 was developed to compete in the 'desktop gaming' market but the original 1000 was designed as a productivity machine to compete with the Macintosh. Later 'expandable' Amigas were similarly targeted towards graphics professionals.

The Amiga models targeted toward consumer gaming did not AFAIK have the ability to add a video card, being in the more classic integrated keyboard form factor.
>That does not make distilled titanium "supernatural", merely organized

Supernaturally organized and supernaturally spoon-shaped if we're to accept the parent's terminology. Which, you'll note, I have not suggested we should do.
I was curious what happened to the leader of that peace delegation, seems like an interesting story: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/magazine/1641401/david-if...

Why can't we all get along is a good question. I had no clue when I was the age of those students, and I still don't.
Author draws a comparison right in the front page:

> My method stores data within a deck of cards, whilst his uses the deck as a key to encrypt data kept elsewhere. His method is more useful if you want to encrypt a lot of data, while mine could be more useful if you want to smuggle a shorter hidden message without any possibility of detection
Police raided my house. Australia.

They didn't know I had kids in the house. They knew nothing about me except for the data that was rubber stamped as "enough" to justify eight police officers coming onto my house, taking $10k worth of computer equipment, and keeping it for eight months whilst they analysed it all and found nothing.

One side is the trauma to me and my family. The other side is the time, effort, and taxes that went into this rather than on anyone more likely than someone in my household.

All because that rely on potentially incriminating data only, without consideration for contra-indicative data (in my opinion).

My opinion of law enforcement competence dropped to near zero. And it's not necessarily the individuals, it's the system around them, the decisions about process etc. which is where stories like this article feel like the same root cause.
The reason they didn’t do a full 640×480 was because they were focused on TV-compatible video hardware, not because an 8MHz 68000 couldn’t handle it.

Even without Commodore’s terrible corporate structure they would have had a rough time improving Amiga because they painted themselves into a corner with an expensive chipset that developers had to work with directly for good performance and that didn’t have a lot of room to grow in a compatible fashion—the first real revision to the Amiga was 1990’s A3000, the A500 was just a value-engineered A1000 while the A2000 was just an A1000 with internal slots. No real change for 5 years would have prevented market growth, even if corporate management had been at all competent.

They would have had a lot more leeway to make more interesting systems faster without the crushing weight of compatibility engineering. Apple was incredibly smart on that front with Macintosh—and the early introduction of Mac XL helped ensure developers didn’t ignore the “don’t touch the hardware directly” directive, at least for business software. That made the Mac II possible in 1987, and by the A3000’s release in 1990 Apple had an entire line of full 32-bit workstations that ran virtually all Mac software without weird caveats. And Windows 3.0 was also in the mix at that point on 386 and better PC hardware…
For me, procrastinating by looking at websites is usually a sign that something else is wrong, e.g. I don't really see the purpose of the task I'm supposed to be doing. When I'm excited by a task I find I don't procrastinate. Unfortunately it's not always possible to choose just the exciting tasks for my plate!
oh, yeah, that makes sense. you could probably fit most of the standard cp/m or unix filesystem utilities into the remainder; cp, rm, mv, cat, head, and so on. maybe nsweep

i'm, eh, not dead