skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I absolutely love that the ISS crew are so involved with amateur radio activities. It was a huge motivator to try out some new stuff, and it was super exciting to pick up actual image transmissions[0] from the space station!! I honestly couldn't believe it was for real until the image was actually coming through. As someone who had almost no experience with radio stuff, this was, as someone else said in this discussion already, "like magic". :)

[0]: https://twitter.com/amatecha/status/1157891660648370176
I love the name! It's pretty similar to one of my projects: Cloudgate
a fast multi-threaded web application server and API gateway for Node.js

https://github.com/elestio/cloudgate
These are ideas that could affect change but it has to be a process. We didn't get here overnight and we won't solve it overnight. It seems like slow adding and raising a plastic tax based on packaging containing any plastic would work. Consumers have to decide if they will continue to pay more and more for convenience year over year. This tax money is used to develop technology to recycle and breakdown plastics. Basically, you slowly pay the consumer to pay up for their laziness.
It does when music gets taken off the catalog, which happens pretty frequently in my experience.
I'm not sure that's the case at all. And even if they did assume that they got the full value, they would be quickly corrected of that belief when they actually filed their taxes.
That's a little more ambiguous. Until very recently I was primarily a Cocoa developer (took a full time iOS dev job a few months ago), and it still makes up a significant portion of my side work, so I'm biased. But right now, the alternatives are SwiftUI and UIKit/Catalyst. SwiftUI nicely integrates with AppKit/Cocoa, but anyway, it's in pretty rough shape on the Mac at the moment (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24472063 for example). Catalyst is (IMO) basically garbage if your goal is to make a great Mac app. Its purpose is to allow easy porting from iOS to Mac, not to create truly good Mac apps.

Obviously, the presence of these two technologies, and Apple's pushing them is evidence that Cocoa may be on its way out, but it's not deprecated, and is still officially the recommended way to build true Mac apps. Undoubtedly it's SwiftUI (not Catalyst) that will eventually displace it, but especially on the Mac, SwiftUI is not really ready for production yet.
> You don’t know what you want, what the job really is, the or application process isn’t properly structured.

I interviewed at Google. The position description versus what I was interviewed on were two worlds apart. Like the position mentioned front end CSS and HTML. I was grilled on SQL in two of the 4 interviews. This wasn't a SWE position, it was more of a client support role, but I was given a coding test. I did poorly on the test, but I still consider it difficult for a role that was not a SWE.

It didn't even seem like Google knew what role they were hiring for they just wanted "someone technical" to do something. I left this process feeling pretty confused and turned-off at their hiring process and questioning if I really wanted to work at a place like that.
This isn't true. NP-completeness and Turing-completeness both limit what an AI can reason about, and there's no reason to expect that AGI will spontaneously break those barriers.

To use the meme, an AI won't be smarter than us; it'll be faster at being stupid.
Op specifically used the word "unimpressive", not "unimportant".
GitHub BLM Survey
Not doubting you for a second[0], but I didn’t see anything anti-Semitic in that post, so am I missing some internet meme or American cultural reference?

[0] Footnote in case it is necessary: antisemitism must be stamped out wherever it is found.
Yeah, it's casual, more for the Nintendo Switch crowd than Xbox. If you're into AAA games, then Apple Arcade doesn't have much to offer.
If you'd actually bothered to read the two 'spam' links as you called them you would understand the point I was making.
Link one: FT oped by Gates published today about Covid19 Vaccines
Link Two: Article about Gates rapidly growing fortune and how difficult it is for people as rich as he is to give away money.
Here is a recent Frontline on how the petro-chem industry fooled consumers: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/plastic-wars/. Advocates may be gearing up for a lawsuit, similar to what happened to the cigarette companies.
I do the same thing with a shell alias called `SUCCESS`:

alias SUCCESS='echo -e '\''\n\nSUCCESS'\''
&& bash -c '\''mpv ~/bin/kazoo-fanfare.mp3 &'\''
|| echo FAILED' # or play sad trombone sound
# (some escaping might not survive ...)

It's an always too-loud and too-annoying "Tadaa!" style fanfare that is very clearly NOT my music, and I will very frequently use it in the context of `make test && SUCCESS` to monitor long-running test suites while I do other work.
The notion of comparative advantage that's presented in the article is a little facile though. IMO there are quite a number of real-world practicalities that derail the analysis:

* The infant industry argument. The analysis in TFA assumes comparative advantage is fixed: in reality advantage shifts all the time. Fifty years ago China had a comparative advantage in farming and not much else.

* Measuring comparative advantage: in order to make a good policy recommendation, we don't just know what each country does produce, we need to know how much each country could produce under a huge range of scenarios. Does anyone honestly know how much value a given country could produce if it decided to shift its entire economy in a new direction?

* Mobility of labour: instead of trading with other countries, why not just allow their workers to work in your country and reap the benefits at home? (I recognise that some advantages don't come directly from labour, but we do see this happen in low-skilled jobs). Even Ricardo recognised that labour mobility hurt his argument.

For what it's worth, I'm not saying that trade doesn't usually benefit both parties: I'm saying that _this argument_ isn't the smoking gun that demonstrates that fact.
I have no idea if Apple should buy Peloton or not, I was just objecting to your reasoning. It's completely normal to get acquired by another company and keep on working on the existing products as is, that's all I'm saying.
Francesco, actually.
> He's saying that whoever sold you the phone shouldn't be able to control or limit what happens to it.

I can't speak for the OP but I would generally agree with this statement. Selling something implies turning over control to the new owner. If the device still answers to you after the transaction you haven't really finished your part of the sale. This is somewhat like the concept of inalienable rights, where e.g. you can't voluntarily transfer ownership of your body to someone else while you're still alive because regardless of what you claimed to agree to you still have effective control over it. Except in this case their control is alienable but they simply choose not to relinquish it. One can make a reasonable argument that claiming to sell a device while actually retaining control over it is a form of fraud—that this isn't a sale but only a lease. Imaging selling someone a house with unbreakable locked doors, and keeping the keys to those doors for yourself, so that the new "owner" must beg permission from you to enter. This make a mockery of what it means to own something.
My guess would be tight software integration between Nvidia Arm CPUs and Nvidia GPUs that would not be available to other Arm vendors or users of Nvidia GPUs with Intel CPUs.

CUDA provides software lock-in to Nvidia GPUs. This would provide software lock in to the combined Nvidia Arm / Nvidia GPU platform.
We need to build thousands of these immediately to provide baseload power and decommission all fossil fuels
Well, it would be more obvious. Right now, one of the first things the eyes are drawn to on a repository is the date of the last commit. I know I'm I have an internal bias against projects as soon as I see "Feb 23, 2016" as the last commit, it can make me stop scrolling without thinking about it. It would be nice to have a badge that is more obvious than the last commit date to supercede that.
Thanks. I’ll try it out.
Seems like his life mission was to become a communist on his own accord, and now that he has achieved that, he is happy. Good that worked out for him.
>rather than more so!

This is a very unusual product area for Apple. This end presumes the service will be a success.

There is many a slip between the cup and the sip.
You always have to wheigh things against each other. The people I am teaching study arts. They don't study to work in a studio, but to work on their own. Blender is a better fit for that than Maya here. If one of those students is really commuted to get a studio job learning Maya will be the smallest issue.

I earned my living with Blender as a VFX Freelancer (in Europe), so saying Maya is a must here is a bit outdated IMO.
The radio playlists also take into account your ratings; I've found them to be quite effective.

Also looking again at my Music app there is a Favorites Mix that isn't a radio station but appears to be what you seem to be describing with Spotify Discovery. I'd be shocked if both services didn't have similar functionality at this point.

EDIT: Actually there is a whole "Made for You" section apparently I never paid attention to before that is full of different automatically generated discovery type playlists. Neat!

EDIT2: There are even more sections I hadn't noticed - yearly recaps, what my friends are listening too (that one is scary; I have some friends with odd tastes apparently) and more.

I think I need to spend less time in youtube and dedicate a bit more back to music. Lots of good stuff I need to catch up on.
> I had so many times when I had a problem with a software under Linux and basically you have to spend hours in Google trying to find that stackexchange/reddit/askubuntu thread where you might find your answer, or not.

In my experience, the only way that differs from proprietary software is that developers of free software are less likely to ban you or threaten legal action for drawing attention to said problem.
Thanks, fascinating.

Unfortunately looking at his logs I fear he may be a silent key. No contacts in a year.
Paracelsus: "All things are poison, and nothing is without poison; but the dose makes it clear that a thing is not a poison."
You shouldn't believe me, I was being flamey, and yes, I would probably refuse to because I wouldn't want to without being properly told why it was worth my time, which was the point of my original comment.
I think he's not a dispassionate observer of WFH trends. Lies have an underlying motive, and he's shown before that he is willing to lie in high-stakes testimony to avoid a negative outcome.
Dimon's WFH assertion was made to analysts, and in his role as a leader at JPMorgan, presumably for a positive motive (market sentiment, boost morale, ensure a return to normalcy). This wasn't an off-the-cuff observation. By equally likely I mean he was in a situation with a clear motivation so the likelihoods are between truth and falsehood. In that frame, 50% is generous.

Edit: the above does preclude the idea that "truth" can have a motive behind it as well, but I don't particularly think he deserves the benefit of the doubt.
> People criticize billionaires. Full stop. Criticism of their philanthropy is not selective...

And Scott's point is that non-selective criticism is dumb. If you don't want your dog to chew the carpet, criticizing your dog, full stop, as you say, is a terrible strategy.

If you're opposed to dogs or people richer than you in principle, then you can make that claim too I guess. But you won't get much sympathy if you do it when they're doing their most praiseworthy things.

Just out of curiosity, do you just think that billionaires are evil, or does that also extend to people in rich countries making six figure salaries in tech, who are also ridiculously richer than most of the rest of the world?
In the quoted context I'd agree it isn't a great use. However I do think it's something worth knowing about.

Another economic topic would perhaps be marginalism, so we don't keep getting flooded with "but why is water cheaper than diamonds, it must be injustice/bad values/conspiracy".

And perhaps some kind of history of thought on value, so we don't get the simple version of labour theory, or the Fisher-Price version of utility theory again and again.

Perhaps I sound like a snob, but I find a lot of economic discussions are derailed by having to clear up confusions that appear repeatedly.
So the manager exposed the slacker (the first engineer) for what he is, and he squeezed the third engineer for all he got.

That's some dark humor, there.

But in terms of "exposing" how many managers in the industry think -- so true, so very true.
All the cost/energy benefits listed are exactly the type of short term business arguments that enabled companies like Coca-Cola to transition from glass bootles to producing 110 _billion_ PET bootles, every, single, year. [0]

There are a number of long-term costs not captured in these business decisions:

- The energy cost of recycling a PET bottle is much greater than producing a brand new one from crude oil. This creates the wrong kind of incentives for recycling

- Plastic degrades everytime it is recycled. Google plastic "downcycling". In an ideal circular economy old plastics would still have to be replaced with "new" crude oil plastic with additional energy and emissions costs.

- The cost of plastic collection and _sorting_ (which manufacturers aren't paying for)

- The environmental and disposal costs of unrecycled plastic, a PET bottle will take at least 450 years to fully decompose. [1]

- The Health costs of the calamity of micro-plastics contaminating our food supply and ground water. Simply google "plastic endocrine disruptors".

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/02/coca-col...

[1] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/08/plast...
This is a good thing to do, but for once, I'm not sure the Internet Archive is the right entity to do it. I don't think the IA can ensure permanent access to anything at all right now since it's facing an existential threat as a result of its "lend copies of books that belong to other institutions" stunt.
Another similar product: https://www.epill.com/timecap.html
Unfortunately public taps/fountains seem to be far more rare than drink vending machines in this world of ours.
Trevor Milton also bought 14,000 shares today by pledging the shares he currently owns as collateral and borrowing money.
I think that this is the beginning of the end.
I was just reading up about this a couple days ago. The PS/2 comeback for gaming keyboards stems from the fact that the PS/2 connector is interrupt-driven from the device, whereas USB is polled from the host. So in theory, PS/2 latency should be lower. But in practice there are numerous other factors that tend to outweigh any potential benefit: key debouncing logic time generally overwhelms the total latency, the low ~10kbps throughput limits the effective minimum latency of PS/2 bus messaging, and the fact that even if the bus is interrupt-based, keyboards use polling internally to scan the state of the key matrix. It turns out that the implementation details of the how a keyboard scans the matrix is generally a bigger factor in keyboard latency than which bus is used.
thank you very much! any feedback is welcome!

Re the maze, I've got just the terrain so far - I'm working on the gym environment.. I was thinking to write 2 different versions of it, one in which the robot has a map of the maze and navigate it using a path finding algo (probably A*) and another version without any map (I'll probably need a lidar for this).
I'd take a look at this post from a few years ago about why SwayWM does not support nvidia gpus using proprietary drivers (nouveau works).

https://drewdevault.com/2017/10/26/Fuck-you-nvidia.html
Exactly. Yet if you listen to HN you get the impression 80% of the industry can't even do their job. Yet, if that were the case how the hell are they hiding that from their current employer??????

I've met one developer who couldn't do their job, and he moved into a pre-sales role shortly thereafter.

Everyone else was fine and did a good job but send them unprepared to a random interview on any given day of the week and I'm sure it'd be another one of those "well we dodged a bullet there".

The signal to noise ratio is Garbage.
This was covered before but it's very good news. More of these (with different designs) are in the NRC approval pipeline.
I miss the geek-ish, designer-ish old Apple.
If the plastic is sequestered in a landfill, then what is the carbon externality?

Does decomposing plastic emit methane?
> The basic argument against the estate tax is moral. It taxes virtue – living frugally and accumulating wealth

Only insofar as you believe taxation to be a moral commentary. If one thinks taxation is punishment for a decision, then I can see why one might see it this way.

I don't agree, though. Taxation is reinvestment into the society that makes the usage of that tool–money–possible in the first place. I think it's morally wrong to sequester a social tool in the hands of a few people who never made the investment to get that return in the first place, i.e. children of wealthy parents. I think it's morally wrong for anyone to get to pick and choose who will start out having already won the race. This is different from me being a bad business owner and people choosing not to do business with me.

Should parents be able to spend their earned money on their childrens' upbringing? Of course. If a wealthy parent dies should they be able to leave money behind for their children to have a decent shot at life? Absolutely. Does that require millions or billions of dollars to be hoarded, unused, passed from hand to hand, contributing to a skewed money supply that forces the fed to print more, play with interest rates etc to try to keep the system stable? No, I think there's a reasonable amount that the government can request returned.

Now, the _amount_ of tax is certainly debatable. But to take the extremist position of repealing the tax altogether is absurd IMO.
The article implies that the previous the ham rig on the ISS was the Ericsson handheld. Wasn't there a Kenwood D700 operating for quite a while?
WTO finds Washington broke trade rules by imposing tariffs on China
> Whatever your school is/was using Microsoft for is not a $1M/year expense. It might not even be doable for $100M/year.

so how come the university i've been (Bordeaux, ~55k students / 3k staff) almost exclusively uses Linux and free software and does not have a computing budget in the hundred thousands ?
Weird, I was actually searching for a function that would do a "permutation of a list with exactly one cycle" an hour ago. I found Sattolo's, but found its use of random() disagreeable - it would depend on external/stdlib code and generate a new sequence every time if the seed is not fixed.
Instead I looked into key schedules for cryptographic ciphers and found an easy solution - the key schedule function for RC4 for example. (My use does not care about the flaws/biases). It's a couple of lines of code, generates the same permutation for the same input+key - just use a couple of arbitrary hardcoded bytes as the key and you are done.
From what I understand, PhotoDNA is used to recognize _known_ images of child exploitation. It will never recognize any pictures a user takes themselves, even if they show child exploitation, unless that photo’s hash makes it into Microsoft’s database.
Typically those billions aren't liquid, they're usually shares in some business you've built which you may not want to sell because it'll dilute your control in the business.
We're playing a sequential game. No one is going to happily lap up GPT-3/4/5 generated articles in the long run as their primary reading unless they only read articles that take the form of "X happened, then Y, and A said B" (which actually is a lot of people, but they're not really readers anyway).

GPT will serve as intellectual humiliation. Some people will be embarrassed to find out that most of their reading materials can be generated by robots. On the margins, that can lead to people deliberately seeking out more intellectual content. That includes long format materials such as books. On the labor side, writing talent will be allocated away from shallow topics. That's a plus to me.
This seems more likely to me.

Apple would want to design their stationary bike from The ground up w their bicycle experts. (They may already have done this a few times)

Also, letting Peloton do it’s thing is a small safety valve on the anti competitive question.
Lessons from Scaling Data Science from 0 to 4M Covid Tests
'Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?' -Sir Pratchett

Given how much weight most folks put in defining themselves through other people...
Seriously! Replace "government" with "Donald J. Trump" and all of a sudden it doesn't seem to appealing to have government in charge of healthcare, education, and Chuck Feeney's fortune, at least to a lot of the people making the argument.
Your point seems invalid, in the face of a large chunk of HPC (neural nets, matrix multiplication, etc. etc.) getting rewritten to support CUDA, which didn't even exist back when Itanium was announced.

VLIW is a compromise product: its more parallel than a traditional CPU, but less parallel than SIMD/GPUs.

And modern CPUs have incredibly powerful SIMD engines: AVX2 and AVX512 are extremely fast and parallel. There are compilers that auto-vectorize code, as well as dedicated languages (such as ipsc) which work for SIMD.

Encoders, decoders, raytracers, and more have been rewritten for Intel AVX2 SIMD instructions, and then re-rewritten for GPUs. The will to find faster execution has always existed, but unfortunately, Itanium failed to perform as well as its competition.
It's normal, yes, but is it preferable for the buyer? I'd see it as a potential reason not to buy.
So you know the context. Can you please tell us, why exactly the blog author was banned?
I heard this in a podcast recently, imagine working at Bell Labs mid 20th century and calling a meeting with Nyquist, Hartley and Shannon.

Even if they didn’t show the invite would be a keepsake.
MLK is being used disingenuously by the right[1]. He was treated very similar to BLM during his activism and his death was openly celebrated by some political figures on the right. BLM has very consciously decided to foster a leaderless movement to prevent the vilification tactics used by right wing media to discredit movements (see AOC, Hillary, Kaepernick, etc..)[2]

[1] https://therecount.com/watch/revisionist-history-martin-luth...
[2] https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/22/black-lives-matter-...
Damn. That's like a glass of water being dumped on a driveway...
The watch thing is just Spotify not working on it anymore. They're focusing on their iPhone app and it's their decision. Pandora has a Watch app and the APIs allowed them to background play since Day 1.

Apple TV+ came much after Netflix and Prime Video. Are you saying Apple harmed them post TV+ release?

Messages, Music, Calendar etc, all have their own counterparts and I don't recall any history of Apple hurting them!
Pretty groundbreaking for them as a company. It’s not a core competency but they can certainly throw enough money at the problem to get it right. This will be the first major execution test since jobs. It’s definitely possible this flames out entirely.
Git for Grown-UPS
There's probably lots of people reading this comment who are worth two million dollars, but I bet there are none who are worth eight billion dollars. Knocking yourself down from the 99.9999th percentile to the 90th is a real change.