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On desktop/laptop my distro to go with is Fedora.

Why: It’s one of the most upstream distros you can get. Following you get latest Kernel, frequent updates with recent packages. It also comes with proprietary software, so you don’t need to mess around with Intel Microcode, NVIDIA drivers etc. It just works- out of the box.

Also interesting why I don’t use...
Debian: Outdated packages. Not suitable as daily driver on a workstation. Different branches already messed up my system, so I lost trust.

Ubuntu: I lost trust in Canonical. They used to be Microsoft on open source. Instead of working upstream, they made their own software pieces for their very own goods- and might have ditched it already.

Arch: I used to love Arch. Really, this is my favorite.
However, I’m too old or just too tired of starting a Linux “from scratch”. All the pre-condigured derivates are nice, but they waste the idea behind Arch. So, use vanilla Arch or leave it.

Suse: To be honest, I never tried it for too long. Just remember times where you had to buy a 90DM package containing 6 CDs and a manual.

On servers: Debian. Arguments already mentioned by others.
Numbers wouldn't work either.
First, I remember the demos for GTP-2. Later, when it was available and I could try it myself, I was kind of disappointed in comparison.

Second, while impressive we are also finding out at the same time just how much more is needed to make something of value. It‘s like speech recognition in 1995. Mostly there, but in the end it took another 20 years to actually work.

But still, it‘s exciting.
I'm not sure about other fields, but in Neuroscience we were taught to follow APA guidelines in our undergrad research fundamentals class. The APA style guide is very specific about things like when to spell out numbers, etc.
I imagine creating a system that watches TTs on real and artificial subjects, gets the humans guess as to if it is AI or not, whether this is actually the case or not, and feeds those results back into the test. I'm sure this isn't a novel idea of yours or mine.
All of that is incredibly inconvenient and 99% of users who aren't ye brilliant few HN users won't know how/won't bother. Content discoverability goes down the toilet as well, so information democratization suddenly moves backward a decade.
My experience (https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2020/07/11/1830) matches this to a T, from the longer hours to the shorter (typically 30m) meetings.

It bears mentioning, however, that I have been remote for a good while, but now have _so many more meetings_ that it isn’t even funny anymore.

The switch to all-on video (rather than audio conference calls, which had its own etiquette and “dances”) and the increase in context switching has made these very frequent meetings a lot more tiresome and impacted my productivity to the point where I have blocked out large swathes of “focus” time so I can actually work rather than constantly “sync” across multiple teams.

It’s not about being remote (the “old” asynchronous remote working was awesome), it’s about all the newbies wanting synchronous, high-intensity face-time.

(I get very few IMs, too. Only from other “old timers”, now that I think about it.)
I don't have a solution for mobile (not a big deal for me), but at least on desktop I just use a git repository of markdown files with Sublime Text.

My main complaint is that markdown hyperlinks are just extremely ugly to look at in text form, so I wish there was a nice editor or extension that supports hyperlinks. I've stuck with Sublime Text for the note-taking simply because it loads so fast and the keyboard shortcuts are great, but open to alternative editors (ideally open source). Or maybe there's a good Markdown extension for Sublime that I'm not aware of.
Right - assuming the server IP, or at least some other network identifying factor, is in the log, you could write some sort of regex to parse the logs and identify the correct time. Of course, that depends on someone being able to actually parse the logs with your regex
The instability of the US government is by design: no Presidents' for life; single party-rule is discouraged; three co-equal branches of government; sovereign states; and so on.

I, like many Americans, will always prefer democratic elections, rule of law, due process, right to bears arms in self defense, and free speech over government imposed "stability" any day.
Phrased like that, it makes it seem like the only reason to oppose China is due to their internal politics, as if their growing political and economic influence in the West [1,2,3,4] poses no threat.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Invasion_(book)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claws_of_the_Panda

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Confucius_Institu...

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyLO9-riykU
I use QOwnNote with NextCloud. It has a lot of features and is very enjoyable to use. It doesn't lock you down with a specific format. It just adds an additional database for tags. You have the raw files with txt or markdown format organized perfectly in your folders. And with the ability to host the sync server by yourself, you don't need to give the sensitive information to third-party organization.
Examples?

From my direct experience from a 3 weeks journey 5 years ago:

A super app like WeChat. I'm happy we don't have one because super app == super control. (BTW WhatsApp was still legal back then.)

A ban on gas powered small motorcycles. All of them were electric, some with a retrofitted electric engine, some natively electric. I wish we did the same.

I can't think about other things that were or could look better. In most cases it was the same stuff / processes with a Chinese twist.
I don't think regulation is the answer here though. I hope bringing this up and shaming or leaving companies that do thisis enough. And if it's not a service you can unsubscribe from, straight to spam it should go.
Can't say I've ever even connected Mastercard and racism in that sense.

Striping the word master out of the language completely even in contexts where it has nothing to do with race seems a little silly to me frankly.
Letter questions are atypically hard for GPT2/3, FWIW.

The input is dictionary compressed data and it only learns stuff about letters indirectly. As a result GPT2 is hopeless: it does however correctly answer color that's a fruit-- an answer which wasn't obvious to me. But you can't generally get it to operate on first letters.

GPT3 has shown some capability to operate on first letters, but it's less good than it is at other things.

GPT2/3 also have fixed depth computation, so compound requests can be hard for it (though GPT3 seems a lot better)
A reasonable perspective for sure. But I don't see it. Asked a question about the nature of magnetic force by a lay person, he saw fit to launch into a lecture about causation. He was a lecturer by trade.

Socrates, as we receive him, opened peoples' eyes about causation, too. If anyone did it like a jerk it was him. Leading you down the path of your own ideas into a contradiction, just to show you what you don't know? That's embarrassing and unhelpful. I'd rather be lectured.

Is he the friendliest explainer? Surely not. Who cares? His gifts in communicating deep ideas in science to lay people were beyond compare.
At the price point of $25, it's super tempting. Honestly not too sure what I would do with the RISC-V functionality. But I guess it would be fun trying to program a RISC-V based uC which I never done before. Would be very interesting if they add some I/O pins to it.
"None of the above" is sometimes the right answer on exam questions.
People seem to lap it up though. Most Twitter accounts consistently post snappy 1-2 sentence blunt statements and I'm always surprised at the responses.
I've heard this (well, about the drum, but the transfer roller?) but it's incidental and can be changed by changing the drum, and is not an intentional tracking device that encodes date of printing, device ID etc. such that some DB can be used to track it.
How big are the rebates?
Often the insurers not only get the majority of the price back in kick-backs, they also have more intensive to negotiate a higher price rather than a lower price due to the the kickbacks they get on the price. If you're making more than 2/3 of the profit on a product that you're just passing on to patients, then you're happier when it's more expensive.

You can't talk about drug printning in the US without including the entire chain.
This bug upsets you but things like Meltdown and CSME vulnerabilities don't worry you?

I had a 3770k in a previous machine, which suffered noticeable performance hits with the software mitigation applied.
Why is it surprising that hiring managers consider candidate age?
Anxiety and Depressive Thoughts never going away
Check out Bear. You can write notes in Markdown format but with some QoL features from traditional note taking apps, including a nicer hyperlink experience
How did they remove the correlation with sex? Did they control for the females living longer and having lower blood iron levels
Unified Communications security. I needed to work in a project for multi vendor interoperability. Security in Unified communications was a novel field back in 2010, now is taking off again.
Isn't this just part of their marketing budget? Not exactly news anyways or certainly anymore. They even had their own videogame.
Definitely worse. Instead of correcting the issue they went all in. Great point.
The solution is to build them everywhere and put the bad stuff in one of them. If you build enough then the chances of them excavating the one with nuclear waste is pretty low.
He could get Halliburton billion dollar contracts without a war. Claiming that was a reason for the war trivializes the actual thought process that led to it.
Yea, I remember watching an older (80s?) documentary about siberia, and distinctly remember mentioning hot, but short, summers with mosquito plagues.
Creating a note-taking app and/or a Todo list are effectively rites of passage. There's something aspirational both in the creation of the app and the creation of a more orderly daily existence.

Looked at this way, I think we can explain both the proliferation for, and the dissatisfaction with note taking apps.
I worry that they're doing too much. Surely shipping PineBook Pros in quantity should be the top priority.
Arguably this is analogous to asking how will you hit a payout on a slot machine if you don't play. It sort of makes sense if as someone who plays slot machines literally has no more productive use for their capital than the sensation of losing it and the hope from occasionally "winning," just as someone on twitter has no more productive use of their surplus time. Sure, it's fun, and you can take it to the bathroom with you so you don't need to wear a diaper like you might need to at a casino, but it's an impoverishing and inferior vice.

Twitter and social media platforms that we compare to slot machines should be defined as a new form or class called Strange Games, wherein the only winning move is not to play.
The Hollywood films almost by rule distort the real details, but some scripts do manage to pass the general idea.

Never trust the Hollywood details but if you are interested in any topic, search the books (or the news articles) that did the research based on the primary sources.

If you're interested in the history of older "spying" technology (as in NSA) see the books of James Bamford. Or, more recently, search for coverage of what is known due to Snowden.

Some details emerge much later, e.g. about the quality of the pictures achievable from the satellites in sixties (i.e. more than 50 years ago):

https://www.wired.com/2014/04/lost-lunar-photos-recovered-by...

For CIA topics there are also some very good researched books. I'd say, the truth is much more fascinating than the movies.
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I see so many contradictions in this.

You're saying management isn't real work, but you're also decrying the work ethic of someone who considers management too much work compared to passive ownership.

You're implying that society would be better with more sacrifices to keep coffee shops running, but doesn't this take away from improving healthcare and education? Don't we have enough coffee shops and neighborhood restaurants, in the big picture?

And the basic human factors of greed and laziness are not caused by an -ism, they're things that any -ism has to deal with.

What would you think if someone claimed that a major problem in society is small business owners who are not lazy enough? People like your friend are making it harder for all of the competitors and their employees by working long hours for little money, so it becomes a "tragedy of the commons". It's not a result of ideal free markets and things inherent in capitalism, but a result of people not being ideal economically rational actors because they value fuzzy things like "independence" and "self-determination" too much.
Makes it less likely to accidentally pick up by the hot bit something I’ve done several times when concentrating on what I’m working on and not on the insanely hot thing I just picked up.
Arguing in favor of more than one person per project is not "obsessing" over bus factor lol. I want to be able to take days off, and I want my coworkers to enjoy the same.

The kind of takeaway I'd want to see from your first example is less like "don't do the things we know will cause breakage when we can't tolerate breakage" and more like "develop runtime-gating of new features and a way of sampling or shadowing production traffic onto n+1 builds before they are eligible to become the released build".

I've also had many issues with dodgy hardware of all types forever-circling repair queues in large fleets and never had a satisfying outcome for it either. Hopefully one of these days.
My note taking app or choice is Squid/Papyrus. Works best with a stylus.

It is essentially virtual paper, it replaces a notebook, no more, no less.

But the thing it has that I've seen nowhere else is that it is vector based, with an unlimited size canevas and high zoom (10%-1000%).

It sounds so obvious as a feature. I mean, if you have a stylus, besides drawing, taking notes is the most obvious thing you can do with it. And what can a screen do and paper cannot? Scrolling and zooming. And because smartphones are powerful computers and we have good algorithms, there is no reason to limit canevas size artificially.

So I went in and looked at the most popular note taking apps, thinking: these are made by many-million dollar companies they must have that. And no. All I found was cloud-synchronized text files. None took advantage of the drawing capabilities of smartphones, or they did it in a half-assed way. The S-Note app (I have a Galaxy Note 4) is nice, but it is bitmap and with a limited canevas size, why? Can't Samsung do better?

Only one app did it right and that's Squid (previously Papyrus). And it is a little known one compared to the likes of Evernote. It isn't even mentioned in the article even though it is the closest thing to the "writing things down" solution it recommends, so I suspect the author doesn't know its existence. Otherwise I think he would have mentioned it, even if it is just to talk about how it doesn't fit his needs.
I think remote work is most strongly preferred by very experienced individual contributors. It is not the best setting for many people learning the ropes and it is an absolute crap for me as a people manager and I do not mean “I want to see your behind in the seat” style of management.

When I was an individual contributor and the work was very well specified, well contained, and known, remote work was a breeze.

Teaching new and junior employees is a constant struggle, something very critical is missing in remote work. It could be that people are wired better to learn face to face or there is a significant non-verbal component.

Managing people as in - getting them organized and synchronized is also a challenge. There is an immense value of getting everyone into the same room. I am not surprised articles points out that managers bear the brunt.
I seem to recall some of those shipwreckers getting nicked too?
I also am on Standard Notes and haven't noticed it being buggy. But I'm presently a free user and never switch editors.

It was after buggy experiences on Simplenote that I had to jump ship. I don't know if I just had too many notes, or what, but it became slow, updated in weird ways that lost things or copied the same line multiple times, jumped to the top when I tried to scroll down, etc. Just all manner of strange behaviors.
I've heard about Debian at least.
9/11 was not the first terrorist attack against the United States. It wasn’t even the first terrorist attack on the WTC.
Developing in Ubuntu through VS Code (running in WSL2)
I have the same suspicion as you, and I like how delicately you put.

One thing that stands out is a reference to a "AMD 3600" which makes little sense in the context of buying a V100. Why buy an older low-mid range CPU in a deep learning rig with a high end Pro GPU. There is also talk of "accidentally upgraded the memory to 32GB".
I'll plug my site, which visualizes solutions to the Schrödinger equation in 1d potentials. Try the first two exercises, no math required: https://ridiculousfish.com/wavefiz/#exercises
The worst is that they keep messing with things outside the language.

It is normal to have a set of tools that you like or wish to retain. There may be a package installer (rpm, apt, msi, etc.), a build system (plain Makefile, autoconf, CMake, the Visual Studio project/solution files, etc.), a linker (link.exe, the old binutils ld, gold linker, etc.) and so on.

Most of us aren't looking to replace any of that. Even if we are, the stuff coming along with Rust is probably not what we are looking for.

Cargo is thus, to many of us, an unwelcome surprise.
The title of this blog post strikes a chord although whilst I love writing with a fountain pen, transcribing my notes to computer later is a royal pain.

It's also irritating to have bunches of notes in Apple's Notes app, in Confluence, in Notion, in Google Docs and goodness knows where else.

The movement to cloud has driven a coach and horses through the whole reasoning behind the EU/US push to get Microsoft to be more open and not hold institutions to ransom with data locked within a proprietary vendor's platform:

https://www.infoworld.com/article/2618153/how-microsoft-was-...

Now we've gone full tilt towards a world of proprietary clouds where we don't even have custody of our own data and instead entrust it to a MongoDB cluster somewhere managed by the latest hot, new note taking startup.

Where are the regulators when you need them to ensure we can get our data in and out of these platforms?

As for me, I find vim or Sublime and Markdown synced via Dropbox work tolerably well. I keep toying with the idea of writing an open source Markdown syncing solution with open source clients for note taking...

That aside the proprietary nature of the cloud and especially how it pertains to note taking (and todo apps) is a real step backwards. The regulators who forced Microsoft to submit in the past would be gnashing their teeth at the situation we have today.
Could you bit expand on that? Why using wireframes is a bad idea?
A list of networked notebook apps
Eventually. Those accounts were alive and spamming for hours before Twitter was able to effectively stop them.
There is a suit company that does that already. Chino something. I've heard it's good but I don't have any first hand experience
I do security R&D. I chose security in uni because it sounded sexy. Honestly, you sound like a pessimist. I don't work with networking often and only read papers I'm interested in.

Same for neural nets, I could rattle off 3 idea that no one is working on. I don't think the field is saturated.

Just look at what you enjoy doing and specialize in that. You don't need to mixmax the decision and try to predict the future.
True, but the comment I replied to was not about that.
Seconded. I was commuting to midtown Manhattan everyday, I'm saving at least an hour each day, not being on the MTA. I do miss the Citibike commute I did in the afternoons though--that's been replaced by an afternoon run. My cost savings there are not insignificant.
Whoops, yes! Too late to edit.
I've never heard the term Cali-Mex, but I'd say that Taco Bell is way closer to Tex-Mex than any other taco places in SoCal, which are generally much more authentic.
I ran a smaller one-size-fits-all community for 15 year. I have two things to share:

First, running an open-for-all community empowers moderators and owners. You really feel like god, able to juggle people and opinions left and right.

Then, as it scales, you either automate or die. I have chosen to die. Many others did like me, but Zuck have chosen to automate. He continued the race to the bottom that so many of us, little kings of luttle universes, decided to abandon.
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And of course, in many English-speaking countries the word 'fanny' is slang for 'vulva'. ("vagina")

Only in the US (AFAICT) is 'fanny' a synonym for 'bum'.
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I didn't say they do. Just pointing that out, because your comment implied it was unidirectional.
For sound those waves are the pressure level along the line. It only really visualizes things in 1 dimension. This picture shows the relation between the wave that's usually drawn and a view of what the wave would look like if you could see the air.

https://sites.google.com/site/svgphysics/propagation-of-soun...
+10 for OneNote, especially if you use a modern pen-enabled computer. This may be the best product Microsoft has - it's without question the only reason I pay for an annual Office license. It's a real shame OneNote doesn't get the quality development attention it deserves anymore (the best version was back around Win 8.1). (How about some killer assisted sketching, or at least open up an API for third-party extensions for things like drawing/sketching? A combo of uMakeand a more advanced version of Catchbook embedded into OneNote is my dream app...)
What does your style guide say about periods? I notice none of your bullets ended with a period. As a programmer I often struggle with whether I should end my comment with a period.
I bet every sufficiently experienced engineer reading this had the same reaction as you have.
The question is crystal clear, and Feynman even acknowledges that it's an excellent question.

Feynman's detour is to explain to the interviewer that he can't give any satisfactory explanation beyond "the magnetic force exists and behaves like that" given that the interviewer has no advanced knowledge of physics. Trying to do so would invariably involve Feynman cheating the interviewer, causing the interviewer to believe he understood it better until he comes across the flaw in the reasoning.
That's a difficult question. As I am working at Google I need to consult each open source I want to publish on my behalf. This does not involve contributing to the list of the approved projects and telling about these contributions.

If you want to workaround this for now, I suggest looking into libdivide (https://github.com/ridiculousfish/libdivide), it is published with the boost license and the library contains all the needed artifacts I described in the article (unfortunately, not combined).
It needs to be said so much because people weaponize scientific studies in the pursuit of their political agenda, media twist headlines to get clicks, etc. I've lost track of the number of articles that bury the "the authors of the study caution against any definitive conclusion about causation/correlation"
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