skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I was eagerly following Apple Watch Series 6's release. But given that they still haven't fixed their battery life, it's very likely my next watch will be a newer Garmin.

The problem here is that, short of a revolutionary tech upgrade, Apple can't "fix" the AW battery life.

They could maybe increase the official battery life from 24 to 36 hours. Then people would forget to charge in the morning/evening and run out of battery midday -> Angry customers.

The same will happen for every value short of "one week", which is most definitely not possible with the current form factor and hardware design.
DuxkDB's query engine is inspired by the same paper! You'll be surprised what you can process on a single node with DuckDB - it takes 33 Spark nodes to match performance! That still puts it ahead of Photon, and it is open source.
Facebook is giving perspectives that aren’t even rebuttals, just rewording the same thing and that’s hilarious

“What we really mean is that we keep it free for you [because you are product exactly like they said, this is the only reason advertisers come here, not for the traffic but for the precision targeting]”
I know quite a lot about IVF, we are currently going through it.

For IVF to work, you need good ova (eggs). You can stimulate the woman to harvest eggs, but in women over 35, the share of ova that have unrecoverable genetic errors (aneuploidy) grows fast and women over 40 hardly have any good eggs.

This might be amenable to future therapies, given that old mice were currently medicated with NMN (a NAD+ precursor) and produced many more good eggs compared to the control group. But as of today, this is the hardest biological limit on IVF efficiency.
They persistently allowed ads aimed at influencing elections in nefarious ways and misusing their users' data.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica
I bought a Phillips dumb TV about 2 years ago after spending way too much time searching for a TV. The caveat is that it’s in the low cost range, otherwise my alternatives were extremely limited.

In the TVs manual they mention multiple times and in a fatalistic tone that I must register my purchase with them and always install the latest updates. The register form needed my full address and phone number. And that’s not I want. I want to purchase a device and my relationship with the seller ends there, unless it needs repairs.

My kitchen appliances are 10 years old and they are starting to give up the ghost. I had to replace the dishwasher last week and was looking for a very specific feature (that the door pops open itself after it finishes washing). Incidentally this feature is a premium feature which mostly limited my options to the upper end of the price spectrum where, you guessed it, most dishwashers connect to the internet. And it’s marketed with some type of Cory Doctorow type of bullshit like “we’ll just order cleaning supplies when you’re done”. I had to eventually cross research based on keywords and read the .pdf manuals of about 20 dishwashers to make sure they 1) have what I want and 2) they don’t connect to WiFi
I used to use Feedly, but it was too slow for my taste. Started using Inoreader a couple of years ago and I love it enough to pay for it. Has all of the display and sorting options I could want, as well as keyword highlights and more.
You spent at least $720 on the Pis not including case, network and console cables, storage, PSU and PDU harness, switch, (missing) thermal management and a management system.

Congrats on not saving any money (or power usage) over buying a Ryzen 5 desktop, which would absolutely murder the Pi4 cluster performance-wise. Better memory bandwidth, AES-NI...for about the same wattage.

Seriously, go look at the benchmarks. For compression, a Ryzen 3600 is TWENTY times faster than a Pi4, just to give one example.

On top of performance you wouldn't have to deal with hardware consoles, slow disk IO, the network config would be virtual and have a fraction of the latency with much greater bandwidth...and 8x8GB of ram is far less flexible than 1x64GB of ram.

You could put the whole thing into sleep/suspend mode when you aren't using it, too.

Pi4s are cool but I'm so sick of people using Pi's because they're trendy and will get them attention, instead of them actually making sense for the application.
I was originally appalled at the software limiting. But according to Tim Dettmers who has a solid record of predicting and comparing NVIDIA cards for deep learning performance, it's not really a big deal.

You can read his analysis here: https://timdettmers.com/2020/09/07/which-gpu-for-deep-learni...

and his tweet about this here: https://twitter.com/Tim_Dettmers/status/1311354118514982912

Essentially from my understanding it's memory bandwidth which is the real critical path on performance in most cases. The previous generation of Turing cards had more compute than was necessary so they were an underutilized resource.

Also, this Puget benchmark is using an older version of the CUDA drivers. I believe performance is much better in CUDA 11.1.

This new benchmark which is running on the latest CUDA seems to confirm Tim's numbers: https://www.evolution.ai/post/benchmarking-deep-learning-wor...
Learning VBA will take you 2hrs or so, and it's amazingly performant!
I think health features like this will become pretty commonplace in the future and more doctors/nurses will utilize it. In Formula 1 racing they've been integrating sensors and transmitters for vital stats into the drivers' gloves. This allows the medical team to see what's going on as they're driving out to the crash. I believe they keep the gloves on if possible during patient transport so they can continue monitoring.

I imagine being able to provide a doctor with historical data on your vitals can be extremely beneficial. Taking your vitals while you're sitting in a clinic doesn't give the full picture. What does your heart rate mean at that time if they don't know what's normal for you? What if your temp is not high enough to be considered a fever, but it's elevated 3+ degrees higher than typical for you? Of course the accuracy of the sensor could be called into question, but if it's precise enough you can still use it to analyze trends and anomalies.
The title says 'basement.' I wonder if it would be possible to grow grapes (or other crops) indoors using full spectrum LED lights?
The difference between C and the C subset of C++ is negligible, for any practical purpose.
I hate it too (pointing to the out-of-context quote), I don't use social media, but it's here and it's causing a problem. The solution is to remove the algorithm however. The end goal of this proposed solution (not mine, again) isn't to bring "good" bias to social technology through algorithmic means, but to find good bias through a 100% human-lead experience.
Watching live sports on 75inch TV is an amazing experience. Especially if it is broadcast in 4k
TIL thanks for the info. I could have sworn it was on at least more than one ha.
I'm from a poor background and I didn't cheat. Nor did I commit bogus pull requests just to pad my resume. These things poison any community trust, put people into positions that jeopardize other peoples lives, and make meritocracy a joke.

What does is say about a person if their attitude is that these things are okay if you are from a certain background? It says that they care about the background of the person more (for whatever reason, good or bad) than the damage it does to the communities that they interact with. Consider the consequences of this.
> Worst-case scenario, I get a bunch of spam PRs that I reject—but since I basically never get any PRs, this doesn't seem like such a huge problem.

That's what I thought. Now I'm getting spammed with PRs containing personal insults.

Take care.
While I can't say for sure it was that exact extension, I did use something with a very similar name about a year or two ago to completely scrub my Facebook profile. Apparently they had renamed it a couple of times, I assume to purge trademarks from the extension name.

It worked as advertised, and I deactivated my now-empty account and went on my merry way.
Arquero
You must think about the teletype era. One character commands are economical, even if you have to consult a manual to remember them all. Anything printed on the paper was expensive. I remember stealing color ribbons from the account reserved for manual typists and secretaries. It was also customary to use the paper roll all 4 ways, when editing.
Trump Covid tweet uses subtle l33t sp34k?
Is there a plausible way to accidentally type "well" with an uppercase 'i' at the end instead of a lowercase 'L' on a mobile phone or desktop?

Auto-correct software is smart enough to prevent an uppercase character to end a word, as is swiping, and with auto-correct disabled it's even more difficult to manage by accident.
You sound like my teacher.
True, I ended up throwing about $500 from the top of a building on one mushroom trip...
First, I don’t live in the US. Second, I was clearly disagreeing with your claim of racism. I never said anything about violence levels.

Maybe you should try responding to what people say instead of spewing word salad.
Belgium and the Netherlands have a higher population density, the flanders subregion even more so, you don't see such behaviour propagate there in such prevalence.
Its unique in that it is profitable and all the infrastructure is right there, yes, they are co-located with the energy sources and this will increase. The only roadblock has just been old energy and commodities decision makers being confused about the word bitcoin until they see revenue and sustainability graphs.

Other things just aren't profitable and didnt satisfy anything for the energy provider.

And again, nobody is looking for other things just for the sake of proving that something else can use less energy because there isn't a problem. Computers with no* emissions are reducing emissions and adding a use for energy that was not otherwise going to be used. It is literally the opposite of the story being peddled by pointing at the amount of power being used. This wasn't available beforehand, it isn't important to anyone if “unique” is too strong of a word or not.

*its annoying that I can perceive someone will argue that instead of the rest of the point.
Maybe not so well
“An Epic of Decency, Courage and Moral Determination”
This is better described as a tragedy of the commons, not a prisoner's dilemma.
In practice, cycles just don't happen in real code.

It is possible to contrive a graph data structure with cycles, but it is a bad (i.e. slow) representation not useful in production.
> It's not about the PRs. It's about everything that goes before you submit your first PR. Reading mailing lists. Actively participating in discussions with the maintainers. Reading the docs.

I've only had 5 or so PRs accepted[0], and all of them have been tiny bugfixes for broken tools. I have no goddamned idea how to get an actual feature merged, because maintainers never comment on the proof-of-concept PRs I put up, even if they have tests and documentation updates. Maybe it's all about mailing lists and out-of-band communication.

[0] not for Hacktober, just in general
Plus you can mug hospitals, police departments, companies and municipal governments! The analogy isn't perfect though; mugging carries a risk of bodily harm that ransomware doesn't (besides against hospitals.)
Burn :P

One small thing they're nice for is if you want to play with a cluster (e.g. nomad, kubernetes, whatever) on a budget. Of course it's not going to be great bang for buck just for performance but if you're trying out some distributed computing it's nice to be working to real limitations, network and RAM and particular.
Did you move far enough to the right that you'll be putting yourself in prison soon for that drug offense?
> I have no special insight into how Samsung works internally though.

The typical culture at one of these conglomerates is highly paternalistic in nature. Much of the environment is defined by the chairman who acts as a "fatherly-figure" to his subordinates.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaebol
I have a microwave with one dial. Best microwave around. Nobody can get confused about how to use it. There's not even a turntable so it holds more food and it's easy to clean. That's the Sharp R21LCF for ya.
It's all about agency; the intermediary becomes accountable through its manipulation of the conversation. To avoid these problems, features of the system should emerge from negotiations between participants, not announced by decree.
SAP broke Successfactors in Firefox recently. I couldn't start my annual mandatory course I need for my work.
A lot of the time Firefox’s reticence to implement things is because they don’t think it’s the right thing to implement.

HTML Imports, for example, were something that everyone wanted, but Firefox developers looked carefully at it and pointed out some very serious problems that weren’t immediately obvious, where implementing HTML Imports would cause a lot of trouble down the track, limiting future extension possibilities. So they said, “let’s hold off on this, wait until we get ECMAScript modules and related loading stuff sorted out, then we can look into redesigning this”. They convinced the Chromium developers, and so they steadily removed it before it could grow too many roots to remove.

This is quite different from Safari’s implementation lethargy, which is typically just opaque.
Not really. There is a huge difference as you can buy goods that serve the same purpose from thousands of other shops and online stores.

Google and apple effectively have a 30% tax on all mobile software business. They are killing all apetite on developing new mobile software, as less and less developers want to be involved with their shady practices of stealing features and locking apps out.

It would be the same if there were only 2 stores where you can buy clothes in the US and they tax every manufacturer 30% to sell any goods there, while also selling their own goods without commission. On top of that, occasionally stealing good concepts, copying those, and selling as their own products. And of course, locking out annoying partners at their will without having to explain why one manufacturer can no longer engage in business with their customers.
I found this press release pretty disappointing. It is very weak. This press release is like saying when the documentary about how bad McDonald is for you (Super Size me) came out, McDonald's issues a statement saying, oh but they (filmmakers) were not fair, they did not show you guys the steps we take to keep harmful bacteria from your food and ensure we don't poison you.

This whole Press release is about the "Steps" they have taken, very few of them tell us about these steps in detail or how we can verify them. There is no pledge to do better or a consequence to not meeting these goals. If feels to me that FB is mega coorp where the people in it want to do better but the machine is so much bigger than the people in it they are currently lost on how to do it without torching the whole company
WebKit Planning to Move to GitHub
> "device manufacturers cannot be in the business of content creation or distribution"

Historically, computer hardware makers have both made their own applications -- not just system-level software and bundled utilities -- and distributed software others make for their platform for about as long as there's been computer hardware. Unless this was somehow so narrowly tailored to Apple that it couldn't apply to anyone else, it would be a seismic change.

(Also, I continue to be skeptical that forcing Apple to spin off the App Store is really a useful way to address the complaints people have. A separate company with an exclusive contract to run the App Store doesn't solve anything, and if you're going to force changes to make it non-exclusive, you can arguably do that without spinning it off.)
It's sad because I have multiple (ageing) Samsung appliances (amongst them a dumb TV) and they're all great so Samsung would have naturally be a contender for my next TV.
I'm sure that if their goal was a fast server with a modern CPU, then they would have gone for it.

I see their project as a fun hobby. It's very fun to put a lot of tiny low-power computers together in a cluster and learn as you go. Sure, you should take into account the limitations, but you should not feel discouraged if all you want to do is to have fun, learn and build something that is quite unique.
Most pi clusters are created for learning devops theologies.

Speaking of that, happy to see LXD on the front page. Its not as hyped as Docker but I really like it.
Chrome is not open source. Chromium is - but it is not the exact same build.
> But ‘The Social Dilemma’ buries the substance in sensationalism.

This was my conclusion too. There were some genuine good parts, but most of it felt too hyped because the explanations were too flavorful and simplistic, or taken too far. It felt like I was watching The Secret or Zeitgeist.

> Rather than offer a nuanced look at technology, it gives a distorted view of how social media platforms work to create a convenient scapegoat for what are difficult and complex societal problems.

This sentence lacks the nuance that they criticize. While I think it's a fair position to state it gives a distorted view (due to simplification, for example), that doesn't mean they're creating (or intending to) create a convenient scapegoat.

> The film’s creators do not include insights from those currently working at the companies or any experts that take a different view to the narrative put forward by the film.

Well current employees have a lot to lose in being honest, if they disagree. And the documentary did have experts that had a different view that was actually telling a different story than the narrative. I was actually on the lookout for it, because I was upset with the simplistic cookie cutter bullshit it was feeding us.

---- Reacting to the points ----

1. They say they're making efforts to make responsible use possible. The issue with this is, we can't check this. So reputation and trust is all we can go on. So I'm putting this in the neutral category.

2.

> We don't sell your information to anyone.

Wasn't Cambridge Analytica a thing? If so, then I don't care if you sell or don't sell, info gets out there. It feels disingenious to put that sentence in there as a response to "you are not the product".

I agree that the mantra is nonsensical "you are the product". Uhuh, right, because it's short and sweet it must be true? Nonsense, all explanations that I've ever read that were true never devolved to mantra-like statements. IMO it's a "code smell" that something is off.

...

I'll stop here, this is getting way too long.

Long story short: Facebook is being questionable here at best, despite that I agree in general with them that The Social Dilemma is nonsense.

The incentives here are all warped :/
There are two reasons for the US/CAN difference.

One is sometimes english/french or english/spanish manuals. These days though, most manuals are on CD, with tiny 20 language install manuals... so that differentiation is gone.

What I find often happening, is that each large store, BestBuy/Walmart/whatever asks for, and receives, unique model numbers so you cannot price match easily.

There are still models which are generic, but those are used by smaller corps, which cannot negotiate en-masse, and therefore are unable to shrug of price-matching.

Stuff like this burns me up. "We price match!", then "Quick Bob, get on the phone to LG! We want unique models for their product line!"
"Show me ads" since the dawn of time has always been in an effort to influence behavior. Magazine ads. Newspaper ads. TV ads. This is just a different medium that much more surgical with its targeting.

The biggest danger in my opinion is how this time it's not just the ads that are changing your behavior but the platform itself.
There are sophisticated keybinding-friendly editors built-in. It is very different from vanilla Minecraft.
Leaders frankly accepting responsibility, known as the Asoh Defense[0] is named after Capt. Kohei Asoh after accidentally landing a DC-8, JAL Flight 2 in San Francisco bay.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Airlines_Flight_2#The_%2...
TheFuck
https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck

“Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command”
>> The overwhelming majority of content that people see on Facebook is not polarizing or even political

It's super easy to cherrypick data that backs your point. I'm sure "The Social Dilemma" did this too. If instead of looking at content, they looked at engagement (comments, likes, shares) then I think the political content would be much higher on the list.
Since I never connect my TV to the internet, why would ACR bother me? Doesn't really matter if the data isn't going anywhere.
Extensions removed from Chrome Store. Why?

UpVoice

> please visit our terms of service at: https://joinupvoice.com/tos

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...

> (i) we will collect and store data which includes a randomly generated device ID and user ID as well as data about sponsored campaigns, sponsored posts or advertisements that target you directly or that have been shared with you on specific mobile applications, social media and/or other websites, as applicable; and (ii) we will complement these data with general demographic and profile information, which we collect from you as part of your registration/qualification to the Panel App and/or from your Facebook profile, like your age, your gender, where you live (by region), your relationship status and your general interests. You may also provide us with, and we may collect, additional information when you answer certain survey questions.

https://www.joinupvoice.com/tos

It states clear what it does. If not it is problem of usability. Chrome Store should provide badge "Collects Data". People sell their data for discount both online and in real world. How can service provider sell my data and I can't? It may be interesting experience - create clean profile, watch guitar lessons on youtube, I can share it.
Or you have no morals whatsoever and decide to join the highest order children's pocket money thieves in the world. The computer games industry.

There you can be exploited labour to produce a $100m budget game which makes a 50% profit margin in its first weekend and then 5 years later still ask children for $70 per copy. Or, if they're feeling charitable, they can pay you $150 to get a virtual horse or hat with the game.

If you don't like how they play with the toy. You can just steal it right back out of their hands by banning them from playing it with their friends remotely.

You can use your profits to lobby for laws which imprison anyone who takes the tiniest dent out of your profits and have them thrown in to prison next to terrorists and serious criminals.

Or you can use it to just sue children who are curious about computers. Hi sony!
People like to be over dramatic these days.
No this the state will continue paying you. Companys just need to hold the place ready for return. But yeah jump to conclusion which suits your ideology.
They do, but using red/blue led lighting is usually far more effective and uses substantially less energy and produces less heat.

Not only this, but there's been some research that finds that this improves growth and photosynthesis.

Source: I experiment and grow plants indoors as a hobby.
These kinds of systems typically don’t use load balancing, they’re provisioned for the expected max capacity needed.
You should try running it through a pihole. Even better, maybe you can manage to MITM it and replace the ads with something funny.
5G doesn't change the economics of having cell radios nor paying for cell data.

Why would notoriously low margin products like a TV ever pay for such a lavish addition when most people voluntary connect it to wifi or ethernet anyway?
Think halfway between docker and vagrant instead.

I think Mark Shuttleworth explained LXD best:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z3yusiCOCk