skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take 2D/3D design work. 10 Years ago it was almost impossile to get any decent 2D/3D work done on foss now there are powerful tools like GIMP[2], Inkscape[3], Scribus[4], and Blender[5], Godot[6].

Most of these have been around a lot longer than 10 years. Heck, The Gimp was released in 1996, Blender exists since 1994 (I remember playing with it at the end of the 90ies or beginning 00s when it was still freeware), Scribus since 2003, and Inkscape since 2003.

Sure, each of them have improved the last 10 years, but the deltas are not that big that you can get many things done now that you couldn't get done 10 years ago.

I primarily use Linux, but with the exception of Blender, these tools are not as easy to use or as extensive as their counterparts on macOS (and probably Windows, but I don't really know Windows). In fact, until very recently Gimp and Inkscape did not even have proper HiDPI support (since they were still on Gtk+2).

This is not a criticism on the developers of these tools. They are amazing feats of engineering. But at some point they would probably need funding so that someone can put in the time to polish all the sharp edges.
Even in track and field, the diffrence in the height of the hurdles between the men's 110m hurdles and the women's 100m hurdles makes them very different activities.
Why not just fuzz the library if that's a concern?
DirectX was the smartest thing they ever did. If MacBooks had acceptable gaming performance on most new titles, Windows would be largely dead
Surely a link to arXiv rather than a tweet would be better?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.06973
Strings in D are pretty nice, along with the extremely expressive range algorithms.

Unicode is a slight pain (it's explicitly supported and works fine but it was designed before UTF8 dominated so there's baggage)
Jeff Bezos seems to have a pretty rationalist philosophy, although he doesn't cite Yudkowsky. Gates and Musk seem to have aspects of it too.

"I knew that when I was 80 I was not going to regret having tried this. I was not going to regret trying to participate in this thing called the Internet that I thought was going to be a really big deal. I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not ever having tried."[1]

https://medium.com/@alyjuma/the-regret-minimization-framewor...
I'm well aware of the Crizis in Foundations and personally I have not found a satisfying solution (pun not intended).

Maybe I'm rather criticizing CS for not paying it enough head? No, I'm pretty sure I'm disappointed with philosophy for all the quantum mumbo jumbo--which is just lip service from me, as I'm just not well read in the area, but still, it's leaking into this domain and frequently criticized for it.
> Again, you may be right. However there are many claims that this capability existed in the 80s.

I wouldn't be surprised if they could do that but there was no proof around to demonstrate it. The military tend to be very secretive about what they can do because by revealing it they would implicitly give hints on what they cannot do.
This sort of nerdy "sweeping under the carpet" is part of the problem. This is totally dishonest. It doesnt "just work". You have no idea how think of it from a non technical users point of view.

"I have to press the what to get to the what? When do i press it? Format drive?"
Tweets provide some nice context by the author as commentary.
New* Prison Break Draw and HVK-30 – Maximum Security Call of Duty Mobile
NEW PRISON BREAK DRAW + HVK-30 - MAXIMUM SECURITY Call of Duty Mobile
the church of central bankers

That's not a HN thing, that's the mainstream view. The last time hard/sound money was in vogue was long ago, and even when it was based on physics and not software it came with a host of ultimately intractable problems for society. The current system is no utopia either, but poor returns on savings are not the fault of central banks but the symptoms of prevailing economic conditions. There are of course limits to monetary policy, but "sorry there's just no more money available for some arbitrary reason" shouldn't be one of them.

From a technology perspective, Bitcoin is an interesting invention, but from a monetary point of view it's a backward step. That's partly why there are so many skeptical voices about the prospects of basing the money system on cryptocurrencies here.

I say this as an early adopter and friend of the technology.
I have this alias in my .bashrc and run it when I'm tired of seeing the red dot:

nocatalina() {
sudo softwareupdate --ignore "macOS Catalina"
defaults write com.apple.systempreferences AttentionPrefBundleIDs 0
killall Dock
}
Joe Rogan's newest episode #1551 is only on Spotify, download them all now
Amazon:

"destroy small businesses"

If you want a picture of the future, imagine an "Amazon Essentials" boot stamping on a small business owner's face — forever.
>Do we have to get cool people to use Linux? Is it that once enough people say "oh I don't have that problem, my computer is X" (where X is either "a mac" or "a linux" or something else) that it starts to take hold that if people want to not have this kind of thing happen that they should switch their operating system?

How about not wanting to have this kind of thing happen and NOT having to switch their operating system?

Because this sounds like the old political argument "if you don't like this country, move".

Well, changing it should always be an option too.
Equally, a lot of people just don't know any different.

How would you know C++ isn't optimal if you've never tried or thought about anything else.

That and the sunk-cost of learning C++ is large.
I hope you meant steaks...

but agreed, this is true in any sport, there's no real way to compare across eras and in the end it's just opinion.
That was my point actually, that French is also a terrible language for all the reasons cited above.
Windows is ultimately not good for development, yes there is wsl2 but that can't manage your actual operating system. You end up having to do things twice on such setups. So while being more flexible they ultimately mean more maintenance.
For a developer doing anything in Linux is simply one right command way, you manage the desktop the same way you manage your servers. Driver issues are way less common for older stable hardware.
There's a lot of caver-emptor required : many companies have notes on their accounts from auditors saying things like "we can't see the accounts in Italy" for years before the staggering frauds are discovered. Investors generally don't care at all, and only start squealing when the firm charges £100m to their results.

If investors treated accounts & audits seriously then it would be different. But they don't - and so many, if not most big companies have significant standing "irregularities".
For what it’s worth, I find the servers reliable but the desktop experience to be unreliable (especially Ubuntu)
This was true in 2018, but the cryptocurrency world has moved beyond bitcoin being an easy way to make transactions. That was just the beginning and Bitcoin doesn't do a good job compared to the newer Blockchains.

Right now you can buy Bitcoin via bank transfers which the fee for it can be easily low as you as 5 USD depending on the provider, I buy with fee of 0.1% normally. So the transaction fee in the article is not true anymore.

You can also use bitcoin as a collateral for a loan. If you have bitcoin savings and suddenly you need to cash out temporary you can already do that.

And if you look into news you can see banks and trust funds holding bitcoin as an asset.

The cryptocurrency and decentralised market has to grow, it has a lot of problems, but there's a crazy amount of investments on it so problems are being solved and new things come out every week.
I'm on the opinion that both Albon and Giovinazzi have a lot of potential but they both face several problems. Albon is in the back seat at Red Bull and he is in the same position as Raikkonen when he was at Ferrari: as far as everyone at Ferrari was concerned, it was 90% Vettel, 10% Raikkonen. In that sense, Albon is pretty much alone. Giovinazzi on the other hand made a very big mistake initially - he had Raikkonen of all people to learn from. Even beyond the experience, Kimi is quite possibly the most knowledgeable driver out there, not only as far as setting up a car but also sportsmanship. And it seems Giovinazzi eventually figured that out. When he started off, he acted like a truck, not an F1 driver. These days he is a lot more composed and is getting really good results, considering he is in one of the slowest cars out there. I'm pretty sure he has Kimi to thank for that.

Hamilton is a very different story - let's face it, he is the silver spoon boy. I really don't think there's a single person in F1 history who had it as easy as he did. While Michael was always riding with one foot over the edge of the rules.

It's not to say that all of them aren't incredibly talented. But it does seem to me that for most of them circumstances played a much bigger role than their actual skills. Hence the reason why I wouldn't rule out either Albon or Giovinazzi as potential champions.
Oh I remember the full-screen Edge thing, because it happened on a few machines I had to RDP into. Turns out the animation of the IE/edge logos fusing is so incredibly slow and not based on wall-clock time (number of frames perhaps?) that the RDP connection became completely unresponsive for five minutes or so until the Microsoft crapware stopped animating and could be ctrlshiftescaped out of.
I think if the book is uncomfortable to teach for anyone in the US, it would be someone who believes in the need for Fox News-type propaganda. The book isn't merely about a government that runs schools, police, housing and that sort of stuff, it's about being told what to believe, even when it flies in the face of reality. Imagine a world where more people (are forced to) believe everything Trump says.
You can burn an image to a USB and you can restart your computer into BIOS/UEFI. You'd manually have to select the USB device to boot from to continue, which would lead you to the wizard of whatever Linux distro you chose (Ubuntu based ones have "install X alongside Windows" option in there).

You could theoretically also shrink a disk partition for a Linux install from a Windows system, but Windows doesn't recognise Linux filesystems (like ext4) natively. As a result, you can't go any further with installing Linux, and I don't know if you can mess around the bootloader to point it to GRUB.

That's talking about dual boot of course, because I'm pretty sure you can't completely replace a Windows install from a running Windows system.
> but Linux is definitely not ready for most of my family to use it

Somehow you've got decision about Linux from Ubuntu. There are not as much changes on rolling release though I had once similar problem on Arch Linux in a decade.
I've heard it is impossible on Nix (easy rollback).
Our org uses both Jira Server & Confluence Server - and I’m fairly sure this will make us move away from Atlassian’s products

The split between cloud and server offerings is partly to blame here

My thoughts go out to the businesses that have built plugins for Jira and had to endure the variances between cloud and server, or worse, only catered for the server market.

The group at tempo timesheets[1] particularly come to mind here

Thinking ahead - I’m hoping that an org like GitLab (who have got their Saas v On-Prem offerings balance right) is able to keep building on and catering for this space.

Their planning features are not there yet, but there’s a great group of people with oodles of traction and a roadmap that aligns with this problem space[2].

[1] www.tempo.up
[2] https://about.gitlab.com/direction/maturity/#plan
In which year was this written?
Those "others" for who it "never breaks" belong to two categories as far I am concerned:

(a) People who do very little with their computers. A tiling window manager, an Emacs, and a few terminals will never break, sure.

(b) People who selectively block all the breakage out of their memory ("yeah, I had to update some low level settings, that's not breakage, that's just normal as the driver interface changed in this version, etc").

But not people who use their computers for all kinds of things besides hardcore coding, especially multimedia (hobbyist or professional)...
Part of it is mac being self-defeating and openly hostile to game developers, refusing to support modern OpenGL versions and not supporting Vulkan for example.

That said, Proton has gone a long way towards making Windows completely redundant for me.
Our org uses both Jira Server & Confluence Server - and I’m fairly sure this will make us move away from Atlassian’s products.

The split between cloud and server offerings is partly to blame here.

My thoughts go out to the businesses that have built plugins for Jira and had to endure the variances between cloud and server, or worse, only catered for the server market.

The group at tempo timesheets[1] particularly come to mind here.

Thinking ahead - I’m hoping that an org like GitLab (who have got their Saas v On-Prem offerings balance right) is able to keep building on and catering for this space.

Their planning features are not there yet, but there’s a great group of people with oodles of traction and a roadmap that aligns with this problem space[2].

[1] https://www.tempo.io

[2] https://about.gitlab.com/direction/maturity/#plan
Has anyone done an economic analysis on how much electricity may ultimately be used by crypto mining? What are the factors that lead to and limit crypto mining? (Before anyone chimes in to say that traditional finance is also wasteful, let's hypothetically imagine crypto took up 70% of the earth's energy production. It is at least a somewhat plausible problem.) Why, or why not, can this happen?

It would be nice to put together a strong argument with numbers behind it.
Unless I misread the current arm docs, I don't think this is still present in the ISA as of 2020?

The whole RISC/CISC thing is long dead anyway, so I don't really mind having something like this on my CPU.

Bring on the mill (I don't think it'll set the world on fire if they ever make it to real silicon but it's truly different)
FTA:

> Which is odd, because you don't expect to see JavaScript so close to the bare metal.

This seems to ignore all the work done on server-side javascript with projects such as node.js and deno, as well as the fact that cloud service providers such as AWS have been developing their own ARM-based servers.
> "oh I don't have that problem, my computer is X" (where X is either "a mac" or "a linux" or something else)

I definitely wouldn't peddle Macos or ChromeoS as a reasonable alternative where ownership of your computer is the root solution. They all come with their own versions of middle fingers to users, just that the users are not as vocal about it.
Mint has always been perfect, even on my slightly dodgy dual boot laptop (The windows drive only appears after the Linux drive boots and after a restart, weird one)
I came hoping to find something like neural radiance fields [1] but for generic datasets (ie. latent representations of data that allow you to store the 'data' without storing it explicitly row by row).

...but, this is:

> What if, instead, data and queries can be represented as short natural language sentences, and queries can be answered from these sentences?

Useful for some things, but not useful for most things.

[1] - eg. https://www.matthewtancik.com/nerf
Book was published in 1995
Yeah I think the processes you describe would be perceived as extremely technical to 99% of computer users.
Personally, I think that the reason for these complaints is that C++ tries to look like a "batteries included" language that is suitable for tasks that high-level languages are typically used for, and falls short. C, on the other hand, is pretty obviously low-level. C is honest in what it is and what expectations you can have from it. It won't tempt you to rewrite your whole business logic with it — instead, you would write a small library or service, that would only take care of the memory and CPU intensive task that you need it for, and leave the rest of business logic written in language that really suits it.
Given the film reference, sometime mid-1995.
How to Make AI More Humane
My extended family all switched to Ubuntu because this is what I put on their cheap laptops. I showed them Firefox, Skype and the photo manager and it all worked well. Everything is done in the browser nowadays.

At some point one laptop was purchased with Windows so one guy could game. He played Fifa for a week then asked me to put Ubuntu since "this is what he was used to".

So, you see, it works that way too!

I've also been introducing Chromebooks with some success. One of them seems to fail spectacularly: I assume the battery is dead and needs a hard reset every once in a while which means going through some weird wizard that's confusing for basic users.

Sadly, Linux hardware support is still hit and miss. My latest Lenovo Legion has a whole lot of issues, the biggest one being that the trackpad just doesn't work. Sound also dies sometimes when waking up from sleep. But other than that it's a beast of a machine with a killer Ryzen CPU!
I will point out that GIMP has improved a _lot_ compared to just a few years ago. I even run it on Windows.
Stable coins are not really tangible assets either, because they are backed (usually) by USD, which is in turn itself not backed by tangible assets.
DIDs are probably the most relevant. See https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/.
I'd think the ergonomics argument is just wrong wrt. repetitive stress. Isn't more variation in movement pretty much always better in that regard?
You're subjected to this on any edition and on any hardware, no matter the price. There are deferment options, yes, but now way to disable rebooting for update when they run out.
There's a sort of person who can learn to use anything. Mostly because they practice using stuff, they tinker with things to see what they do, and they know where to find help. Over time, they see there are UI patterns, and when given a new app, they can kinda feel their way forward, regardless of what the app is. You drop them into a new OS, and they can figure out how to open files, start programs, whatever.

Most people are not that sort of person.

They are shown a particular app like Excel, and they are told the big X in the corner closes the app. They don't wonder what the difference between the big X and the little X (I think this style of document-in-app might be old now, but anyway). You give them another app with an X in the corner, and they come and ask you what the X means. You show them Outlook, and they think Outlook is the only app that can send email. You show them a web based email, and they wonder how they can do all the things Outlook can do, but in a browser. You show them how to google for their problems and they think coming to YOU is the best way to do the search. You drop them into a new OS, and now you are the interface.
Why limit it to vehicles? Why not apply it to game consoles, phones, tractors, etc.
How to Clean Text Data at the Command Line
> The problem with windows for personal use is that it gets in the way too often with pop ups, notifications and crap ads inside start menu.

It's no less a problem for enterprise use. On my Windows 10 work machine I constantly get pop-ups begging for credentials and attention for stuff that I simply don't care about or that doesn't need the credentials. Some of these are particularly aggressive and will always steal keyboard focus from any window, while daring to put up another pop up notification near the systray (which are so extremely important according to microsoft, that these notifications have even higher priority than the pop-up menu of the systray -- what'cha thinking Microsoft, do I wanna interact with the thing I just clicked on to open, or with the thing you pooped up over it under my cursor?!) when I dismiss them. I made a spreadsheet once and got about two dozen work-interruptions from Microsoft popups.

Not to mention the absurd aggressiveness of Microsoft Teams notifications. I avoid the app when I'm not actively participating in a call (it randomly uses too much CPU and is also obviously tracking everything you do on the PC), so I usually have Teams quarantined in a Firefox tab. Other software manages to have hit-me-once notifications, but not Teams. Somewhere someone writes a message? Let's put multiple notifications on the screen and start bleeping away. What, you didn't look at the message? Let's send a reminder email!

Modern Microsoft software would make Kafka cringe, for we are morons allowing this.
It means I have seen a lot in what concerns bug tracking and planning systems, from home grown cgi scripts with a basic form submit to enterprise deployment platforms like DOORS and ClearQuest, with dedicated IT support teams to just keep them running, and anything else that you can think of in between.
This is one area that Ubuntu can improve on, I think it's being worked on with the zfs based snapshots installation options.
Hopefully the next Lts release will allows easy rollback for failed upgrades.
If you are particularly concerned about stability NixOS Distro is worth taking a look at despite its steep learning curve
I've recently come across the MLOps community here https://mlops.community/.

The meetups are all on YouTube and have great topics like putting models into production, but also more interesting ones (to me) like ml observability and feature stores.

Their slack channel is great too, learned a lot about the reality of using kubeflow vs the medium article hype
I found this list of sources (of recorded talks about economics) yesterday and was quite impressed by how many resources it links to. I was curious to see if it had grown since near the beginning of the pandemic, and sure enough it has grown quite a lot. (The Wayback Machine seems to not have an earlier record for the page, so it might have not existed prior to Mar 29 2020.)

Are any of you familiar with a similar list of sources of recorded talks about statistics?

One silver lining of the pandemic is that it has seemingly increased conferences' willingnesses to record their sessions and post the recordings online.
We're closer in agreement. And I'd never suggest that Excel was the best solution or even a good solution at times. (I hated the tedious error-prone things that I used to do in Excel.)

I'm just offering the context from which weird stuff happens. And the answer isn't always as easy as: put it in a database.

The context, the processes (or lack of processes), the decision-makers, budgets, timelines, they all play a part in the outcomes.
Ubuntu had a Windows installer, WUBI [1], which placed a large image file to the C: drive IIRC, but nowadays the suggestion seems to be to enable WSL and work from there.

The USB installer still offers to resize existing partitions and install Ubuntu alongside Windows.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wubi_(software)
On the other hands, I'm running Linux: 0 price, can't get more open than that, fully customizable, etc.

So it seems sometimes you can get all the good things at once.
I don't see how popularity of comedy featuring dumb characters is evidence for the dumbing down of America. None of them are presented as role models, and the jokes frequently involve them suffering because of their poor decisions.
Here is a round-up of reddit alternatives (ordered by alexa rank):

https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/hi97fz/...