skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ubuntu for day to day. I used to have a lot more free time and was able to sit at night and debug all the issues I might have encountered. Nowadays however, I just don't have the time like I used to and prefer things to just work.

If you have any sort of machine learning pipeline it can be especially frustrating to work with anything other than Ubuntu. Nvidia drivers :(. Arch is fine with it but upgrading again is just more time spent that I'd rather be busy researching.

I love Arch, I love the community and they have the best documentation. However, for me personally being on a rolling release is too time consuming :(.
It’s not apple that matters here. At all. Ever since they took ARM in house for their devices it’s clear they don’t want to be dependent on another corporations chip design.

What this misses, gravely I think, is that from the armchair CEO angle, I would want to go after _Qualcomm_

They’re the biggest vendor in this space for mobile as far as I can tell. All the major Android vendors use them, including in high end devices, and they’re apparently incredibly hard to work with from what I understand. This would be the way in for them to muscle into the ARM market but supplanting Qualcomms dominance.

That would make more sense to me if I was running Intel. Then again, they ditched their cellular unit so it seems this might be questionable all together
Yes, plenty of other tools exist. However, Facebook is the one that everyone is already on.

So if you want to raise some money for a friend who has cancer you can start a GoFundMe campaign and spread the word via email. It's going to be more work, though, and I bet you won't get as big of a response due to the friction of the medium.
On the point of buttons that "Open a new window somewhere in the world" button really needs moving to the bottom right corner. Despite being transparent it's blocking and spoiling the views.
Largely agree, though my experiences in Paris have been almost universally good (we usually stay in District 7, which is roughly similar to Manhattan's Upper West Side demographically). My first visit there a couple decades ago opened my eyes to how backward American cuisine was, and is. Hate to say it, but to me the French still feel a hundred years ahead of us.

Also have super good luck with a bunch of lesser-known Asian restaurants in the Seattle area, and even a very famous one (Din Tai Fun).
The vegetables gardens were there literally 90 minutes ago when I took a photo of them.
>I find idle games odd.

Dopamine traps. To bring back to the article, there's a decent ST:NG episode where Wesley saves the day...
I ran a lot of distros until now, since Conectiva 3.0. I am now using Ubuntu on servers, and just gave up Fedora to use Linux Mint now.

I couldn't put Fedora working with Docker the way I like, but someday I'll be back to.
I use a mixture of PaleMoon (forked from old Firefox still using XUL) and Vivaldi

But modern Firefox is also nice

I never got attached to Chrome (due to tab bar design and its privacy issue)

I definitely won't try Edge with Vivaldi around (or Brave)

I use Windows so won't use Safari
This is the best kept secret in corporate America. The McKinsey and private equity crowds like to think of themselves as these innovative and wild capitalist cowboys, when really they're just a bunch of Soviet rent-seekers with better haircuts.
I lived above it. I can answer some questions.

Proof: https://imgur.com/a/7hKqmUe

Authoritative Sources of information:

- https://www.capitolhillseattle.com/

- https://twitter.com/Omarisal

To kick things off:

- Local business hired a PMC/Local Armed Security group (don't remember the name) to provide real security after Car Tender was attacked. On the night that happened, they had a dude with an AR15. What happened was some junkie/non protester jumped a fence, started a fire, took some cash, and keys to vehicles. The owners (dude with a gun) detained him, but protesters started mobbing and forced them to release the dude who broke in. Some stuff was recovered by the mob.

- There was at least two armed groups of volunteer security. One organized one (the gun club mentioned and the now well known picture of the dude with the ar15, vest, and green bandana- this dude: https://libertyunyielding.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/arm...) was part of it. From what I've been told, they were organized and mostly on the roof providing overwatch and sniper support in case something happened. The other group was possible gang bangers- these are the people who shot the white jeep and most likely executed one person. Then there is "Raz." I am unware of his involvement other then breaking multiple state and federal firearms laws.

- Towards the end, a majority of the population was a mixture of homeless, gang members, and non-local people who came to support the vision of CHAZ. There was protesters, but their numbers deminished
Datasets and Evaluation Metrics for NLP
NY Times is truly a sham, it's downright insulting they want people to pay a subscription for such trash. Just look at the Russian bounties thing. Completely uncorroborated and false on every level and yet they their headlines push it as fact.
Albania has been a member of NATO since 2009, and (just this year) has begun negotiations to join the EU.

Not every "Western" country is a NATO member, but NATO members are usually counted as "Western". Similarly, EU member states generally count as "Western", and a country formally negotiating to join the EU probably falls in that bucket too.

Turkey is possibly the big exception to the generalisations that "NATO member"="Western" and "negotiating to join the EU"="Western". However, Turkey used to have much more of a pro-Western orientation when it was ruled for decades by secular nationalists. It is only in the last 20 or so years, with Turkey being ruled by the religiously conservative AKP, that Turkey has been moving away from a "Western" identity. But Albania's politics are very different from those of Turkey. Albania's politics are dominated by secular parties. While both Turkey and Albania are majority Muslim, the kind of religious conservatism which is the driving force behind the current Turkish government is far less popular among Albanians.
I use whatever the latest Ubuntu LTS release is (Ubuntu 20.04 at the time of this writing), mainly because it works well enough, it has broad compatibility with open source and commercial software, and I can spend my time focusing on my project rather than my computer.
There's so much fake stuff on eBay in the IC world. As someone who was looking to get into the retro electronics hobby, I'm bumped into a ton of fakes on eBay. I'm amazed that there are sellers in China who find it worth their while to fake "ancient" chips like the Intel 286 and Motorola 68040 and 68060. In the former case, they took lower speed parts and rebadged them as higher speed components and in the latter case, some are downright fakes that don't function.
It isn't in general, and never was, is my point. Merely fashionable to think of it as so.

My local McDonald's probably does 20k+ days all week too. What of it?
Even taking your comment at face value, that's not what the first line of that comment says. It says "continuing to read", indicating a decent chunk of it was read.

The remainder of the comment indicates at least 1/3.
There's also neglecting that a corporation can spend millions of person-hours a year on problems.

No individual line of code produced by a FAAMG is superhuman, but producing codebases of billions of lines of code is definitely outside the ability of any lone human. If you find yourself in court facing a corporation, you'll learn they can spend multiple human lifetimes learning relevant precedents, processing discovered evidence, and constructing their arguments.

It may not be runaway ever-improving superhuman AI, but pretending it is only as intelligent as the humans that make it up is missing the forests for the trees.
LXD – next generation system container manager 4.3 released
Workstation: OpenSUSE Tumbleweed

- Rolling release with QA. If a package has issues the update will get delayed. It doesn't just update to the last commit blindly.

- Btrfs root partition with automated snapshots. Ext4 and XFS for my home folder. GRUB integration for snapshots so you can reboot to a read-only snapshot and rollback.
It's all installed and configured automatically if you want.

--- https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Snapper

- Zypper package manager

--- https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Zypper_usage

- Automated QA (even for graphical applications)

--- https://openqa.opensuse.org/

- Free build service

--- https://build.opensuse.org/

If you want to install TW I don't recommend the net installer, breaks often and mirrors are slow. For updates switch to a TTY (or use GNU Screen) and run zypper dup, do not update packages in any other way. There's YaST but I don't like using it except for a few tools like Software Management to study package relationships.

>What problems do you face with them and what changes would you like them do make?

It could be my lack of knowledge of the package manager but sometimes I can't remove some packages without removing a lot of related ones (it's not a pattern), or they get reinstalled even with zypper lock. Other than that, best distro I ever used.

Server: I want to move away from Ubuntu (fuck snap btw) but I still haven't decided to what distro. I might just use a container based OS.
Not advanced, but works solely on Linux.

I use openSUSE Tumbleweed.

1. Biggest benefit: snapper rollback is so convenient.

2. Yast.

I hate doing sysadmin stuff, so I tried my best to avoid it. As a result, when something came up that forces me to do it, I could never remember where is the config file or what key was to be changed, or what command to run afterwards, since the last time I mess with my system was months ago.

Yast solved that problem for me. Don't have to remember anything, just mindlessly use the GUI.

The drawback would be that a few software don't have an openSUSE package. I'll have to compile it, or not use it.
Limited liability allows companies to take risks that no sane individual or group of individuals would take on their own.

Limited liability is precisely the factor that lets corporations act as agents instead of extensions of individual or group human goals.
For any serious person trying to develop a little bit beyond hobby projects: Think about an hourly rate of $80/hour for yourself. If you have to spend an hour trying to fiddle with subpar shady parts, you've already paid for the shipping 8 times over.

Also, it is painful to wait for these packages from China. Digikey ships same day and its at your door step in the morning (I overnight it) and if you use $7, it is usually 2-3 days.

Plus, you're supporting legit businesses and not the shenzhen market.

I can understand total hobbyist who cannot afford $7 shipping often. But even then, you can bundle all your parts and order once.

Any engineer who earns a salary can afford $7 shipping. If you're a business, there is absolutely no excuse to penny pinch here. You're losing money by using unreliable parts, if not now, at some point in the future.
> My thought is that a lot of humans might have understood more about those forces in the past but were unable to effectively pass that information for the next generation to build upon.

This sounds incredibly unlikely. When do you imagine that these people lived? What data were they using to derive their scientific theories? What technology were they using to generate that data?

You can't hope to explain the universe without observing it first, and humans are quite bad at observation without the aide of technology.
They may not be as much money in Semiconductors as there used to be, but there is a lot of power. If you end up in a war and your enemy can produce semiconductors while all you have is Facebook and Twitter, that's going to be a bad day.
Next generation systems container infrastructure
The Wt backend spits out HTML/JS (or sometimes PDF or svg for charts), like any other server-side framework. It's not replacing the browser's renderer.
Yes, I was also surprised about that particular definition of "theory of everything", but it is the one used by the article.
I've always been a fan of Heavens-Above for this kind of thing...

https://www.heavens-above.com/SkyChart.aspx?lat=47.6&lng=-12...

https://www.heavens-above.com/comet.aspx?cid=C%2F2020%20F3&l...
These are good points and I think you are right. I just wish it was possible for such a dream place like I wish for to exist.
Is this a Seinfeld reference, or something else I’m not understanding correctly? :)
We've spoiled ourselves with CCP subsidy. It wasn't like that about 20 years ago.

You'd pay a pretty penny for things and support local/national businesses. Now, you're funneling fuel into the dragon's mouth. For what? A hobby project? Just spend the $7 shipping and get it from Digikey.
Much appreciated -

The minimum commitment of posting once every 25 days is mostly an incentive to keep people active. In my experience, if these groups go a certain amount of time without activity, they're effectively dead anyway.

Regarding the requirement to post an introduction - it's my experience that without this requirement, there's often barely enough activity in the beginning to even get things started in a given group. While I do lose about 30% of people who sign up and decide not to post an intro, the introduction posts are usually the nucleus for all discussion that follows.

As far as half-ass writing an intro - that's completely fine, and a lot of people do that too. I should make it more clear that that's 100% fine - if you want to write "hello, just curious about what's going on here" that works.
Run the ad in your local newspaper. When you place the ad they look at it and say "well that isn't obviously snake-oil"

If it turns out that it was snake oil in disguise, the defence of that not being obvious to a reasonable person is a thing. You know much the same way the genocidal maniacs can't advertise genocidial mania in the new york times. Or your local newspaper. Is that ok on facebook or do they actually stop that? If they don't they probably should. If they do then they should keep doing it and extend to snake-oil frauds and such like.

It benefits the small players as the cost reduction to google and facebook from the sheer scale of not vetting anything much is diminished encouraging publishers to run their own ads rather than outsource to the huge players with all the associated problems with that. (e.g. just one aspect, How can your advertising startup possibly compete with google given the status quo? With a diminished advantage of scale you have a better chance of setting up your advertising company in some particular niche or other).

Beyond that I have no issue with small, local internet advertising being more expensive - if that even is the outcome, which I'm not convinced about. So running a small, local campaign pushes people and their advertising spend to local non-internet campaigns? I'm completely fine with that. I think that is a good thing, myself.

More competition for advertising spend is a very, very good thing, in my view. For so many reasons. Censorship mitigation among them. A wouldn't publish the ad, B was unsure, but C said it was ok so I went there. Better than FB said no on a whim so now I can't advertise competitively.

See, sensible discussion. I don't require you or anyone to agree with me. Just be civil, and not put words into others mouths they did not say e.g. "...because you don't like ads"
Intelligence (artificial or human) as a plague - is an idea that's spun out interesting storylines already.

On a geological timescale scale, it's very likely that's what the historians of the hyper-intelligent shade of the colour blue will write about us:

"There was once a virulent disease emerging on a single watery planet 1/3rd of the way along a spiral arm in some uninteresting galaxy. Fortunately the Universe's immune system never even needed to take action. It was greedy and short lived and starved itself of resources and died out before it had even metastasised much beyond it's own gravity well, it barely made it to it's next closest planet, and sent nothing out of that solar system's gravity well but a couple of primitive machines and all that daytime TV that was fashionable for a brief period a few Type-O main sequences ago..."
The axe man T-shirt
I agree that racism is a spectrum, spanning anywhere from microagressions that contribute to systemic racism, to overt dismissals of human rights. Generally, the term "racist" is used to mean "exists further than X on the scale of racism". Whether or not somebody is racist by virtue solely of voting for a blatantly racist candidate is a matter of discussion for where that line of X is, and is covered under my comment about option (C).

This also gets into the point where racism will continue to exist so long as "not racist" is seen as one end of the spectrum. Rather, in order to be appropriately egalitarian, one must be anti-racist wherever society is racist.
Did you just say "said nobody ever" to someone who literally just said that? There is clearly at least one person who feels that way.
That was an incredible rollercoaster ride of stuff that's absolute garbage art theory and stuff that's genuinely insightful. I went from, "WTF is wrong with you?!" to "That's a really good explanation of how things are." at least 15 times.
Apple doesn't want other vendors using their CPUs.
Disclaimer: I work on AMD ROCm, but my opinions are my own.

There's also HIP[1], which can be used as a thin wrapper around CUDA, or with the ROCm backend on AMD platforms. It doesn't yet match CUDA in either breadth of features or maturity, but it's getting closer every day.

[1]: https://github.com/ROCm-Developer-Tools/HIP
WSL is pretty nice. It's not a bad transition. I tried it, but moved back to Pop OS.
You seem to not be taking the limits of a human brain into account.
They don't get lazy.

Think of it like a career change at age 42.

Imagine being married with a couple of children and at 42 you tell your wife that you are going to spend all of your free time, and a lot of your money working on becoming a lawyer. You want to do this because you think your current career is topped out and you want to be prepared for the future. In 6-8 years you'll be ready for the career change, but you'll need to start at the bottom of the laywer pool and work your way back up, your expenses won't change, nor will your obligations, just your income, and it will go down substantially.

I worked in a startup and we had a product that cost $1k per seat and it was full featured and slick as hell, but we started getting competition from a company that was selling a bare bones product for $99 a seat. Our customers really liked their price, but they wanted our features, in the end price won and we started losing business to the competitor.

Because of my company we actually legitimatized a market for an certain type of after market computer cards, we spent a ton of time and money helping to build the surrounding ecosystem so that our product could have a market. Once we invested all the money, the competitor came along and could ride the ecosystem we built, but we still needed to cover all of our costs, hence our high price.

I spent a ton of time arguing with the BOD about pricing and volumes, but they had financial models they had to meet and an $89 product had no place, luckily for us we got acquired because of our expertise and the work that we did to create the market. If we hadn't been acquired we would have been overrun by our competitor, and it had noting to do with lazy.
Has anyone read this book? I saw it mentioned somewhere else recently.

https://abakcus.com/book/finding-fibonacci-the-quest-to-redi...
I'm mainly a Mac user, but recently bought one of these Ryzen laptops. The performance is amazing, especially for a low end / "budget" laptop.
To be fair, a Fiat is a qualitatively worse car than pretty much any other car.
Employ discipline, hard discipline in everything you do. Don't cut corners, if it feels difficult - no shit, that's a good thing so it prevents others from doing it. Go through it and you'll see real success. If you give up because its hard or get bored of it or get distracted, you're gonna be a bottom feeder for the rest of your life.

Also, face competition. Don't shy away from it like a lot of silicon valley advice. Do it better than anyone else and do it so much better than others, that they won't be able to catch up after a while. Competition is the engine that drives you. Without it, it is a pretty insipid endeavor.
pfft.

The concept of "user friendliness" dates back a lot longer in ww2. During the industrial revolution industry went on a binge of making things more "user friendly" because it reduced human error and reduced downtime spent fixing machines and hosing former workers out of them. This is why, for example, on a lathe you traditionally have different shaped Z and X handles. It prevents you from crashing the machine by having your hand on the wrong handle when you go to make a rough adjustment.

A bored journalist could write the same article about user friendliness in the early industrial workplace, it would just be harder because there's no one big story to base your article around and the sources are harder to find.
How this is different from local taxes? When you stop paying taxes the trouble starts. The problem arises when there are competing "protectors."
>> they're propelled out of a tube with an explosion that can compromise the shell

I've always wondered why large fireworks use explosive 'lifting charges' rather than a proper rocket design (slower burning fuel). Is it a legal limitation against creating missiles?
OK but why does this even exist. Why would girls need something that costs $80 when they can an Ardiuino for $10 and learn how to solder at the same time. This just seems like pointless sexism to me.
How can a disease with 1% mortality shut down the United States?
openSUSE for desktops. Typically Debian for servers. Sometimes Ubuntu for VMs for stuff that's "We tested it with Ubuntu 14.04/16.04, take it or leave it".
This particular sensor isn't used in mass produced devices AFAIK. NTC thermistors are cheaper and easier to design for using cheap analog components. Reading DS18B20 is quite an exercise when it comes to $0.05 microcontrollers used in e.g. household appliances.
>I believe some people would actually prefer that system

They prefer private entrepreneurs rent seeking, rather than a representative government doing it?
It's the question of what is consciousness.

As far as I (crudely) understand it, we don't know what exactly the cause is, other than it's tied extremely tightly to the brain and seems to be an accident of evolution/an illusion.

My guess is that as long as the neurons keep firing continuously and the illusion is unbroken, the "you" that is you right now will remain you. So you may well be able to go full ship-of-theseus and piece-by-piece completely replace the physical layer without breaking the consciousness, but if you stop it completely with an upload/download* , continuity is broken and the new "you" will be an exact duplicate while the "you" right now will cease to be. Because it's an exact duplicate there would be no way to confirm this, though - the new "you" would think it had continuity due to how complete their memories are.

* I'm thinking of switching to a robotic brain all at once here, instead of piece-by-piece. I'm not going to touch a transporter as suggested in your comment, as that probably depends on technical details of the transporter for what exactly is going on.
Touchscreens have their place but not to replace controls you can activate by feel alone and access with less distraction.
> I live in a leafy Seattle suburb and am constantly smug about how lovely it is here.

Submit your window to the linked site, so others can enjoy it too if you didn’t already :)
The SNES controller has concave XY buttons (and convex AB buttons).