skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think the problem is with society, or with the economy. The money was already available for this project, and funding was essentially assured.

The problem is that, without putting too fine a point on it, the folks running the National Institute on Aging couldn't find their rear ends with both hands and a flashlight. There is a profound degree of stagnation in some of the National Institutes of Health, and the NIA is no exception, as exemplified by the fact that the current NIA director has been in that role for over 30 years. The leadership group puts out a list of goals for their "strategic directions" every 5 years or so, and to my knowledge, they've never actually achieved any of those goals.

As outlined in the report mentioned in the article [1], the NIA's approach to spearheading this large (for them) initiative basically involved identifying job opportunities, putting out a call for grant applications...and that was it. They didn't bother to articulate any actual vision for the project, nor develop any way to account for how the money would be spent. So at the end of the six-year program, there would have been 100 different projects, storing data in 200 different silos, $300 million spent, and zero to show for it.

In the end, NIA chose to can the initiative rather than open up scrutiny to how they spend the *rest* of their money (their yearly budget is over $4 billion [2]).

1: https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-24-106886.pdf

2: https://www.nia.nih.gov/about/budget/fiscal-year-2024-budget
Tbh Microsoft hasn't done anything near as impressive as the modding community. It's nice that they are still developing the Java edition so the modding community can continue though

Check out the Create mod

If Microsoft ever adds anything as cool as that to Minecraft, I may agree with you that they are keeping it new and interesting
We Must Stop the Avalanche of Low-Quality Research (2010)
I mean I dunno, every year in Investment Banking/Trading there is a new scandal about someone hiding billions of exposure by going around the risk systems.

After Kerviel(the SocGen trader who lost 5 billion in 08) most IBs basically "shadowbanned" the Middle Office(risk/compliance/reconciliation) to trading desk lateral, precisely because a middle office guy can hide a lot of risk quite easily.
This already happened with last pass.
>clockworkmod recovery

Now there's something I haven't heard of in a while. I remember using it on the original Droid phone when messing with roms
Crowdstrike also caused some Linux distros to crash earlier this year:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/21/crowdstrike_linux_cra...

So by your measure, Windows and Linux are out of the game. Doesn’t leave that many other options…
There is a tendency to talk about "the poor" as an extreme case, and "the wealthy" as an extreme case. But in doing so you make the entire problem irrelevant. As you say, the extreme poor at that time does not write, and the extreme wealthy at that time does not care.

The question is only relevant for a more "normal" case that both writes and is price-sensitive. Say, a student, a public writer, an accountant, a letter or litterary writer.
> Serving web pages is cheap. You’ll probably hit network I/O limits before you saturate the cores.

It's hard to be network I/O bound when serving web pages. Netflix struggles to be network I/O bound when serving video, which is so much bigger and uses so much less processing.

Epyc started off with 32 cores on PCIe 3, and quickly moved to 64 cores on PCIe 4. When we hit 256 cores it's probably going to have PCIe 6, which means it's still the same I/O per core.

But those numbers are crazy overkill for web serving anyway. If you wanted to allocate about a gigabit per core, with 512 cores across two CPUs, using PCIe 5 to be conservative, you'd need at total of... 16 lanes, for a single 400gb/s card you can buy today.

(This is assuming you mean the I/O from the server to the network. If you're talking about I/O outside the server, then upgrade your switches. Using denser servers doesn't increase your network load, it lets you take the same load and send it to fewer racks. You're already handling the total data somewhere.)
I love this, specially the minimap idea on the table. Have you considered a different way of adding/removing/moving columns with too many columns (100+)?
I'm a big fan of raclette, which also falls into the "lots of melted cheese over starch" equivalence class.
I love plotly for all my graphics needs (mainly 2D but supports 3D too)! Can export to a standalone interactive html file, can be used as a pandas plotting backend, can be easily extended with some client-side JS if you want to add more interactivity to the final result
Very cool to get a peek behind the curtain!

I've never been as productive and free as when I was mind-melded with FastTracker2 in the 90's

For a peak couple years I was generally writing 100s of (unrefined) 5-14 min tracks every month. Total unbound freedom to experiment at (close to) the speed of thought.

For anyone who's not had the pleasure, It's like when you first get good at touch typing and find you can suddenly put down thoughts dozens of times faster than ever before - it frees up your self-expression and gets The Censor out of the way.

Renoise is pretty cool, but I never fully glommed with it to the same level - might be time to try again! Recently started playing with a Polyend Tracker - pretty neat to feel those old synapses waking up. There's no way it can ever approach the speed of full keyboard-operated Tracker programs but the chance to revisit that beloved workflow in a solid and portable unit is so far really compelling.
This is the future. Traders staring at 60hz rainbow static and making completely grounded, data driven trades.
I was of the understanding that these sync APIs are only available on Windows filesystems, so a fat32 formatted filesystem wouldn't suffer the same performance impact, which is why windows provides "virtual drives" for performance on their cloud instances that give you extra performance... Precisely by formatting them with a filesystem that doesn't support these sync/blocking Apis.

But I'm not particularly knowledgeable either on this topic, just a (forced) consumer of the operating system with the occasional reading on the side
Nah, Walthamstow Post Office.
A portfolio of mean-reversion strategies that delivers 26% CAR since 2010
I would normally, but unfortunately this product is proprietary.
Just what I wanted, additional overhead and a five-second delay.
Presumably:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
Especially operating systems that also let you do stuff beyond listening to Spotify while doom-scrolling Instagram or Tiktok.
It's nice to see an old-fashioned cheer for humanity. Here's my nitpicks:

Early human innovation was incredibly slow, and looks more evolutionary than innovative. Traditions were kept up for thousands of years. Progress itself was invented, and not all once (perhaps we're still improving the concept).

Then there's this:

> We create so much noise that everyone in our world is freaked out enough to work on it.

That's paradoxical. Should we freak out or not? It seems to say that we can relax and stop freaking out, because we're freaking out, so everything's OK.
"In the old days, the Olympics was a venue were aspiring athletes got to get a second chance of turning pro, or at the very least a way for them to get recognition for their hard work. Now in many cases, it is now a bunch of multi-millionaires feeding their somewhat narcissistic drives."

This entire sentence is ridiculous and inaccurate.
The Army doesn’t need to worry about going out of business I guess, and I’m sure they’ll find a way to recoup a good chunk of this, right?
Never played. No idea. We're big lego fans. Where should I start? Anything to avoid?
You are thinking about this from a end-user perspective, not a power user. It's the difference between eToro and Active Trader Pro. Or Fidelity's own app and their Active Trader Pro. There's is no right and wrong, they just target different audiences with different priorities.

That's why we like btop and htop, but a normal PC user wouldn't understand anything.
Discussion (32 points, 2 months ago, 20 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40497496
The appeal of having it on a wiki is that you can browse to related items and topics that can inform how you play the game. Serendipitous discovery of information, something the internet used to enable.
people always say that C++ is not a good fit for kernels, but so far this is the only language I know where small teams or individuals are regularly able to create non-trivial hobby OSes from scratch that go from zero to GUI:

- Serenity (https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity) - not really a small team, but it managed to get to GUI as pretty much a one-man-show

- Skift (https://github.com/skift-org/skift)

- hhu: https://github.com/hhuOS/hhuOS

- MaxOS: https://github.com/maxtyson123/MaxOS

- MorphiOS: https://github.com/syedtaqi95/morphiOS

- Macaron: https://github.com/MacaronOS/Macaron

- Ghost: https://github.com/maxdev1/ghost

most big ones in C don't manage to get to the GUI level, except toaruos: https://github.com/klange/toaruos
I love most of his work. Drukqs is his weakest (but still good!) album IMO - Avril 14th is a great track. His Analord series is also amazing and Rushup Edge under another alias - The Tuss.
I've heard it said that there are two kinds of Software Engineers when it comes to Factorio.

There's one category who say "this is just like work, but I'm not getting paid to do it; why would I do this?"

Then there's the other who say "this is all the bits I enjoy of work, with a faster and more direct feedback loop and without all the admin/management/other-people bullshit; I want to do this for the rest of my life"

I am very much in the latter camp, but I can absolutely understand the former.
When life throws me lemons I play aisatsana on piano.
Now they're happy to trump up some BS about "America innovates, Europe regulates"

It's easy to "innovate" when you're starting from a "clean slate".
okay so lets look at how she could have gotten away with this for longer than 6 years, here are the primary issues:

1. the corporate structure. she formed an LLC whose address was a UPS store mailbox, but deposited the checks into her checking account.

2. she also did not file taxes on this income. while filing taxes on this income likely would have been a problem, so a pass through entity like an LLC would still be some sort of folly.

3. her lifestyle increased eventually, and this was the actual flag according to the quote in article. maybe the indictment is more particular.

4. she didn't stop

so, with 3. being the primary prong, the mere existence of a paper trail isn't really the issue. Statute of limitations can run out even if things are subpoenable, so you just have to run out the clock.

but even so, you can likely obfuscate this with domestic entities legally too.

for example. the LLC isn't inherently a problem, as an LLC can be owned by another artificial person, such as a trust or non-profit.

an LLC owned by a South Dakota Trust could have no information at both levels, so the application for the 4-H grant could go there and pass through to the South Dakota Trust. The Trust pays its taxes if it is a taxable transaction. The interest of the government would have stopped there. But if for some reason a subpoena was generated, you'd have to go further to reduce the intermediaries involved in paying you, or the information that the intermediaries have.

and of course, if the trust was a non-profit, then there wouldn't have been taxes to pay. an additional LLC can contract to the non-profit as long as the government doesn't think you are a director of the non-profit too. the LLC would be disclosed but this wouldn't be a flag on its own.

real question is I wonder how many people are doing this
I guess being at it for 6 years and having no consequences? Kinda wild that if she had "just" lived a modest life stealing enough for an ok house and a nicer Camry she might have gone unnoticed.
TikTok Collected US Users' Views on Gun Control, Abortion and Religion, US Says
Taken to an extreme, this would exclude any game with any element of problem solving, leaving just... cookie-clicker- and twitch-reflex-FPS-style games.
Hope you managed to preserve these, I’d be keep to take a listen if they’re hosted online somewhere. I’ve been using renoise for 15 years on and off and while nowhere near 100s of tracks a month I fondly look back on the first year I used it similarly - that combination of youthful energy and tracker software is really something special. Renoise has come a long way and is a joy to use.
#! env bash at least makes it path independent. But I think the parent comment is in jest.
Absolutely agree people should learn to negotiate well. But comparing apples to oranges isn't a good place to negotiate from.

Employers don't set employee pay at some lower percentage of consultancy pay. And neither do they set consultancy pay as some higher percentage of employee pay. They are distinct markets. You won't get far as an employee if you try to negotiate based on the consultancy pay rate.
> That's a neat way to twist the criticism. You're taking what is a very sensible position of "the public should be wary of published headlines which make extreme predictions" and then narrowing it into some specific claim about computer simulations, which "the public" almost certainly has no experience or knowledge of.

No, an extreme prediction would be "the oceans are literally boiling". We don't have such headlines. Instead we have headlines reporting extreme facts such as: Copernicus: 2023 is the hottest year on record, with global temperatures close to the 1.5°C limit (https://climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-2023-hottest-year-r...) or Last 12 months have been the hottest ever recorded on the planet (https://www.lemonde.fr/en/environment/article/2024/04/09/glo...)

> > Now where are you on my list:

> If your goal is to inspire people to care more about the climate, I would suggest to you that this is precisely the opposite way you would best achieve it.

I am past trying to convince climate change deniers to care more about climate.

Quoting myself again:

> With climate deniers and complotists I always suppose they hide their real stance and it is revealed through small hints they let out. I strongly believe these small hints are baits to see if the other party has the same beliefs. They will be lying until they think there are in like-minded company (or are too drunk and let it out).

> Yeah, I have been burned hard before by climate and covid deniers who lied right out to my face. They are dishonest and advance in disguise (with loaded questions and fake scepticism and the whole arsenal of arguments coming from fabricated doubt factories).
Seconded - Drukqs is spectacular!

Random tidbit: around when the album came out I chucked it on my friend's CDJs (IIRC I skipped straight to Mt St Michael) - by chance the CDJs were set at some lower speed, maybe 50-75%

Highly recommend trying it out - being able to hear how much groove and complexity sits behind those super fast tracks is quite enlightening. We ended up listening to both discs of the album like that, just boggling the whole time

The track in question: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6kN4zRfnHm8

PS. Whilst YouTube has playback speed it's unlikely to give the same benefits - but if you've no other options it could be worth a shot
I idly wondered what the stolen amount to years sentenced ratio was for Madoff, and using $65 billion stolen to 150 years sentenced, he was put away at a level of $433M per year sentenced. So Mello is put away at about a level of $7M per year sentenced.
The same principles are used and airwaves are just another physical medium. The problems are this is shared media with everyone else and also it's somewhat inefficient media (EDIT: and noisy).

Your hypothetical high powered handheld transmitter (e.g. you cellphone?) is limited by the amount of power from your batteries and other factors.

EDIT: The bandwidth of radio waves is also limited and there's noise which limits the total amount of data you can broadcast.
Believe it or not.

On a 4090 gpu, average of 20 runs of SGEMM_CUDA:

size tflops_cublas tflops_my diff
4096² 50.8-50.9 61.8 +21%
8192² 56.3-56.4 67.1 +19%
16384² 53.6 66.7 +24%

I guess the right thing to do now would be to hire a B2B salesman and figure out, which company needs it.
That's a completely incorrect line of reasoning.

The actual reason is because pistols without explicit manual safeties have other safety features that make up for it (grip safety, trigger safety, firing pin disconnect etc.,) that provide the ability to carry the weapon safely in a way in which you don't need the time and muscle memory training to turn the manual safety off when you're in an adrenaline packed life or death scenario, you can just draw and pull the trigger.

There's a lot of personal preference in whether you consider the other safety features "enough" or whether you also want an explicit manual safety.
Normalization of deviance. You get away with it for a while, and it becomes the normal state. Your sense of the risks you are taking is completely diminished.
You might be just describing packet radio, which does exist, but it's extremely slow due to the physical size of the radio waves involved, as I understand it. The frequency of the waves, due to their extremely long wavelength, is very low.

The trade-off for the long wavelengths is better permeability of the signal, which is why the author of the article is able to transmit so far on seven watts, but your Wi-Fi (high frequency and very short wavelength) has trouble getting through walls.
Possibly off topic:

"Look up the source" in 2024 is a symptom of a wider problem. Ruby was innovative in the 1990s but it is starting to fall behind the times.

Those of us who are old enough to remember the euphoria that greeted the release of Ruby on Rails in 2004 are mostly surprised to see Ruby's current, limited market share. There was a moment when it seemed like Ruby was going to sweep the whole world of software. But that didn't happen. The mutability that made Ruby so fun also makes it difficult to maintain Ruby codebases over the long-term.

For awhile Ruby seemed relevant in fields beyond Web development, such as devops. I recall 12 years ago a startup tried to recruit me, they were going to revolutionize devops by building automations for Chef. But the metaprogramming in Ruby made it less than ideal for devops work. That startup failed. In most places I now work, a combination of Ansible and Terraform dominate, save where the company uses the constellation of tools surrounding Kubernetes to manage everything. The places that use Chef have been using Chef for 15 years, no new company chooses Chef today.

There was a stretch after 2004 when Ruby was trying to break into new areas. GTK bindings for Ruby were developed and some people experimented with desktop Ruby. But that never took off.

Many of us who loved the metaprogramming in Ruby, but wanted a better structure for that metaprogramming, moved on to other languages such as Clojure.

Some of us loved Ruby because it allowed easier polymorphism than Java did -- after all, you could use higher order functions to produce functions, but without having all the ceremony of building a Factory. But folks who just wanted the polymorphism of functions returning functions eventually moved to NodeJS.

Ruby always felt fluid and magical in a way that made it seem vaguely unsuitable for data science, and eventually Python came to dominate data science.

The Ruby community witnessed the conflict between Rails and Merb, and their eventual union, and eventually Rails became a comfortable framework for quickly generating an API. But for anything that needs high levels of write throughput, no one would chose Ruby, and so other languages have taken some of the market share.

Even on the Web, some big companies (Twitter, AirBnB) either gave up on it completely, or now only use it for templating the frontend, or offering an API to support the frontend. For backend processing, many companies have moved away from it.

In short, Ruby has been losing market share for awhile. In some fields, such as devops, where it used to be competitive, it has almost completely disappeared. It survives only in Web development, and only because of Rails.

None of this can be very inspiring for Ruby developers.
We'll never know because there is no transparency. Public funds should not be distributed in cash or with checks like in the 19th century. The technology to make stealing our taxes impossible exists, but interestingly politicians of all people have been fighting against recognizing and properly regulating it.

Food for thought.
i lost interest when athletes were forbidden to publicly write about their events because that violated some sort of "exclusive media rights" package that had been sold by the olympics. to be fair i was never particularly interested in the first place because i find sports pretty dull, but i used to at least keep up with news about the olympics before that. afterwards i simply stopped paying attention altogether.
Declining fertility happens to every country that industrializes. It’s a function of the pill. Not any of the other things people grouse about.
As a Canadian, this is utterly embarrassing. I can't believe it was happening for years, even at the under-16 level, and was common knowledge.

I think they should withdraw from the Olympics voluntarily. I get that it sucks for the athletes, but at this point, the best thing they could do is set an example for younger kids. I've seen high school teams get booted from tournaments for less.
Spying on the competition is unsporting, this isn't something new. Just new tech being used to violate old social norms.
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Lot of us do. And with the defense, it is still relevant.
Sure, but no actions that affected me as a customer.

(and CCP is always involved in some way anyway, no matter what you pick, some part always comes from China or invested/owned by.)
The "Perfect Score" Script (2017)
Why are you giving a free hand to China to do as it likes and then blame the west for following its interest? Why do you give China a pass at forcing any western business to always enter a joint enterprise with chinese firms if it wants to do business in China? Seeing a lot of critique about the blunders of the west for trying to have more leverage and no critique for chinese practices.
Singapore cracked the housing problem for citizen but the rest of the world doesn’t like the policy, I can imagine most of the people commenting here won’t either.

Just read the comments, “housing provider” you can’t even admit your a landlord, it is amusing to read comment like these, very interesting to see how NIMBYs think.
Errr..

> https://www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/a37039437/1904-...

And the IOC has been infamously corrupt since I was a kids in the 80s watching the US/SR win/lose in the most ridiculous ways...
What is inaccurate about it
Back in 2018 I spent a week or two messing around with this idea, and produced a hacky proof-of-concept.[1] It's not intended for real-time or production use, I just made a prototype to see if it could be done.

The README explains the method: once the contaminating song is identified, it syncs up the recordings in time with a correlation analysis, adjusts for frequency-dependent gain effects, then subtracts the undesired content.

Warning: I'm not an audio engineer, the output sound quality is NOT good! This was just a toy project in my early days of learning to code. I assume there are much better ways to approach this that would yield significantly better results.

[1] https://github.com/mitchellpkt/tracksubtract
Even if the TPM is involved, it can be cracked. But as with any hack, once someone has physical access to your computer, all bets are off.

The odds of someone stealing your computer to hack into your accounts instead of simply selling it on eBay are practically zero for most people.
Yeah, a True Intellectual