skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The nice thing about 64-fandom is that the fans are aware that it's history. So you can't sell them a $5000 "new" C64 that promises to have a four core 64-bit ARM CPU because that's not what they're here for - they specifically like the Commodore 64 which they're aware is not a modern computer.

Amiga is still wrestling with that. There are "classic" fans who thought the 1980s A500 was cool, but unfortunately there are still a loud contingent who are sure that somehow Amiga is the future, and this makes them easy victims for a long parade of hucksters and charlatans.
> [...] due to cost and structural constraints of office

You forgot to read the rest of the sentence including the very important “due to cost”.

No shit we can technically do it and have done it.
> Just browse through the article history at 538

I did. They say the polls were wrong. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-polls-missed-trump-...

You yourself said the polls were wrong because they didn't weight for education. Now you say they weren't. Are you walking back your original statement? That statement is what this whole discussion is about.
Not necessarily. I’ve got a WX4150 and Wayland has problems with it.
Haven't you heard of property taxes?

And are we really going to pretend that "high-tax" blue states don't take federal funds?

Your post here makes it sound like you should move to a basically socialist European country and stop complaining.
Uhhhhh but you hand over way more if you use google services.

Your right it's not a quote I didn't quote it, notice the lack of quotes. I'm also not sure how you are splitting hairs over "information collected indiscriminately" which would be a superset including personal data.
Japanese Garbage Sorting (2020)
> I don't know why you think it would not.

The percentage of unlocked computers for consumers has been falling. Consoles, tablets, smartphones (all iPhones and many Androids don't allow rooting), smart TVs... even some laptops. Surface RT laptops had locked secure boot, and Chromebooks made it very difficult to install alternative OSes, as far as I know.

As for the incentives of the "open market", there's profit in locking down devices, and selling you back fragments of that locked functionality. For example, nvidia pushed an EULA that forbade using their consumer GPUs in datacenters, making them buy the far more expensive enterprise versions.

With how markets tend towards oligopolies and monopolies, there's no guarantee the handful of manufacturers left won't conspire to put restrictions on all computers. Especially if 95% of consumers don't care about being able to run gcc.
> The thing about this election is that what if Trump himself is some sort of wildcard that can't really be properly forecasted in the polls?

The only way that would work is if he made people more likely to lie about their voting intentions. Now, there may be something about Trump that makes polling methodologies less accurate (notably, many pollsters have started to take into account education, which turned out to be unexpectedly important last time round) but that points just to bad methodology, not inherent unpredictability.
Eras like this are about survivors. Anyone who was here in 2009 would prefer that era to dot-com 1999 or FAANG 2019. So as far as they’re concerned - faster, please.

Consider this a test whether you are a Californian or San Franciscan or someone from somewhere else here to rake in the google dollars. If the latter, I’m sorry your demands were not accomodated. Enjoy the farm in upstate NY or the frowns you get in Tahoe or Austin.
I dunno. I use Fedora, and do a clean install of Fedora every new release. That's often. I try Wayland every time. And every time, I'm implementing several work arounds because things don't work, and when I hit 5 work arounds (the magic number), I disable Wayland with a script I wrote, that kills it at multiple levels, it doesn't even rear it's ugly head in the gdm. Then it's back to Xorg, and no more work arounds, everything works. I support several thousand servers. I only have so much time to dick around in Wayland.
Can someone explain how uranium turns into thrust?
That's not uncommon. Our office in North Beach was a 12-month deal. In fact, contracts tend to be longer (24 months or so).
The article starts with "if it's not reproducible, it's not science, right?" And then it goes on to talk about a limited idea of reproducibility, i.e. plain duplication and recipe-style rerunning an analysis.

I think there's a more important idea of reproducibility: your ideas have to be reproducible in different settings. We expect scientific rules to apply across a range of settings. If they don't, it's a recipe, it's not science. So the real burden of reproducibility is communicating your ideas so that other people can see how to apply them to other settings, and moreover so that they want to.

All the fetishizing of "give me a repo where I can just run 'make'" is, I think, distracting people from this. I wonder if making such a big deal of reproducibility-of-analyses is actually harmful: maybe it'd be a better test of reproducibility-of-science if other researchers had to reproduce your findings based on how you communicated your ideas, i.e. based on your writeup.
What a turnaround! Thank you :)

I probably could do better to embrace failure like you but when I'm on a streak I don't want to lose it
https://imgur.com/a/dmdJsS1 and there's mine. Google tends to give me crap results though. Seems your experience is different :P
The Bluetooth and WiFi stacks look proprietary, that's unfortunate. Anyone knows if there's any documentation or source out there about interfacing with the WiFi/BT peripheral?
And again, I find books3 extremely cool and important work on your part, looking forward to the rest.

I just have a minor gripe with saying that "now we can train world class GPT model" thanks to that, as you said it's just one piece, and as a typicial HNist I had to point it out :).
Not a huge fan of ML for the Working Programmer, personally. I'd love to see (or one day write) the equivalent of Practical Common Lisp (which itself needs an update at this point) because MftWP is sooo dated. But I can see how it's a decent enough intro.

Regarding your points:

1. Yeah editor support sucks. I normally edit in text mode with my own minimal keyword highlighting or ocaml-mode.

2. Poly/ML can definitely generate binaries! Most distros ship with `polyc` that will build the binary for you. But this is just a shell script around opening the REPL and calling some dump image function (like how you build a binary on SBCL). MLton and Poly/ML definitely allow you to build binaries. I don't know about SML/NJ.

3. For sure a pain. I use rlwrap [0] to work around this, which is ultimately simple enough!

4. Interesting! I personally find Haskell-style decorations so much more a pain since they're not inline. SML is very much like other major languages in the way it does inline types (TypeScript, Go, C#, etc.).

[0] https://github.com/hanslub42/rlwrap
I get what the author is saying, on several levels. There is freedom (in the Richard Stallman sense) of having a better chance to control your hardware and software. There is something good about having one specific place to work; it is too easy to turn a laptop on in the living room at night when you should be paying attention to your family, friends, or roommates. Desktops are cheaper .

All that said, I have moved 100% away from desktops. I really do like to be able to work outside (two areas to choose from), kitchen table next to our parrot’s cage, living room, or bedroom. Sometimes I need to work while traveling.

Finally, iPad Pros (or similar products) are simply better devices for reading, doing research, and watching entertainment.
What do you think "the story" referred to in this article is?
> Only one nest of Asian Giant Hornets has been found in North America and it was quickly eradicated. Right now, the nation’s top entomologists are watching the situation and beekeepers like myself are not worried.

I can't help but think of when we only had one covid case and people said not to worry.
Might be offset by money printing
> HN just seems to have gone the way of reddit, where downvoting is disagreement.

Alternatively it might be because you're objecting to the results of a well-documented statistical process, and then when being questioned saying things like "I don't have a methodology".

You'll notice that the comment you replied to (saying it was similar to your point) is not downvoted into oblivion.
I think Twitter was well within their rights to refuse to allow their website to be a vector for what they considered to be foreign meddling in an American election -- something that they've been criticized for in the very recent past.
OK then, if Wayland is meant for closed and user-hostile platforms, why is it being marketed as a X11 replacement? Why is there a constant FUD-included push to dissmis Xorg in favor of Wayland compositors?
Didn’t really mean to imply that all market behavior is greedy. Should have clarified that. I think we agree pretty much on how markets can, and should, work.

I do think we have some problems in the current incarnation though. Way to much resources are spent on, frankly, destructive behavior. Which I think the word greed perhaps could be used to describe. But I think it’s anthropomorphizing things that are actually structural and institutional deficiencies, not necessarily moral failures of individuals.

I do not agree that intrinsically motivated work is just art though. The public sector can be described as being the kind of scaled up intrinsically motivated production I was thinking of. But thoughts of what is and should belong to the public sector vs the market differ wildly.

On a personal note I might add that I am actually primarily motivated intrinsically. A sufficient income is necessary, but not sufficient.

Now I’m not actually arguing for giving everyone a heap of money and just see what’s built. I do think it would be interesting to study the result though.

What I do argue is that there probably are some interesting, and worthwhile, ways to put more capital in the hands of more organizations that produce things of value for its own sake.
Where I am, each developer gets a laptop and a desktop. Though, it is expected that anything needed to work is on the laptop. Meaning email and any software (whatsoever) needed to checkout the latest code. This works out quite well for us.
thanks. gave a reread to the comment I replied to and makes sense
Just buy an Intel Nuc i7 or an AMD Ryzen mini-pc. A 1TB m2 slot SSD and 32GB ram. Perfect for programming. You can fit it in your pocket if you need to move it around. Big screens, keyboards and mice should stay at the desks where you work.
do this on the orbital and moon bases please! so much space out there!
They're common carriers, a different set of rules apply.
I confess I haven't used google docs- as per another comment I prefer to not tie down my research and my code in proprietary formats, especially one living on someone else's computer (the "cloud")!

About git's awkwardness, I recognise that people who are not trained as software developers may find the command line off-putting, but on the other hand having to keep track of changes to a couple dozen documents (scripts and article versions) by hand is, for me, the stuff of nightmares. This "awkwardness" pays for itself in spades when you realise that a change in a script you've written at the start of the project and haven't tested since is suddendly raising an error and you have no idea at which point it broke. This is a common thing that comes up in my projects. Git even has a special command to do this for you - "git bisect". I can't imagine the pain in the arse it would be to try and roll back maybe months of changes by hand, by copy-pasting backup files, I guess, or by making new untracked changes, until you have nothing to go back to that actually works.

I've been in situations like this, like I say. Having a bedrock of committed code that I can go back to anytime I like is a time saver of epic proportions. A bit of "awkwardness" or even worse once in a while, is totally worth it.

And conflicts happen for a reason. How do you merge work of two or three members of a team without something like version control? That sounds like an even worse nightmare.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_thermal_rocket
Because I am no hippie pointing the finger to the man and they are entitled to their business.

Don't like it? Give your money to someone else and stop complaining.
Eventually laptops will be so optimized for battery life, and display ads will be so aggressive, that you'll have to run chromium in the cloud and your thin client will be shut down the moment anyone accuses you of being a fascist. https://blog.cloudflare.com/browser-beta/
https://usnc.com/ultra-safe-nuclear-technologies-delivers-ad... for the company page
And https://usnc.com/fcm-fuel/ for their fuel (not propellant).
And de-fund police, which obviously is something that will improve public safety and reduce crime...
(mostly scrap yards) -- generally much less mass than a ship that is more seaworthy (a lot of early salvage happens before they get to the scrap shore, ships aren't fully loaded, look at their waterline in the videos). And most importantly much much less velocity (1/2mv^2 goes down rapidly with slower velocity). What is is truly impressive is that they estimate the mass, and know very closely what speed to get them too in order to solidly ground them without wasting a lot of energy getting them going faster than necessary.
> The human neural network is not trained _from scratch_. There is a very good fundamental structure we inherited through millions of years of evolution.

It is worth noting that the training data used for training humans has been undergoing it's own optimization process for a while too (arguably for about 40ky, since the Upper Paleolithic Revolution, which is roughly when cultural evolution started taking over). In AI adjusting the training data is called Curriculum Learning. Right now most curriculum learning is done just by adjusting the order of training samples, rather than creating samples specifically optimized to facilitate learning (although GANs might be considered a Socratic approach to the latter, if you squint at it).
Tech Dilemma: Unfilled jobs, few workers, lack of confidence in STEM education
How about Cape Town? Bali? Toronto? Athens? Rio? Remote work isn't even close to priced in yet and it's not the cost of living that needs to readjust - it's the salaries!
> because the news media you follow isn't covering the content of the story.

That's not surprising, because it's manufactured and bogus.
The chances of garbage information reaching audiences “at scale” is why we have a malignant tumor in the White House, in the first place.
I can't help but think this take is projecting a bit too much.

Inundated? How so? What are you seeing?

Tax benefits, work-life balance and bigger homes? Really, you can see these changes in the last 6 months of a pandemic? I could be wrong but I don't think the majority of employers are letting employees change states (and state taxes). WFH does not mean work from anywhere, especially tax-wise.

This all sounds plausible longer term but to say you're inundated seems like it must be hyperbolic.
MacBooks have terrible thermals. They will thermal throttle before most laptops, much less even compared to a desktop.

Also, laptops generally have CPUs that pull 15 watts. Whereas desktops have CPUs that can pull 95 watts or higher (sometimes up to 150). The difference is astounding.
While were on the subject I'm tired of these BS laptop keyboards. Stop trying to cram a numeric keyboard on there and shifting all the keys and trackpad to the left. It's great for the 1% of the time I need a full size numeric keyboard but sucks for the 99% of the time I don't.
Same here, grew up and started working in Brazil.

Terrible pay, shitty vacation policy(30 days running after one year, including weekends), often expected to arrive early and do overtime, bosses can be very passive-aggressive if you don't.

Europe has much better work-life balance and benefits, I love my country but there's no way in hell I'd go back to those working ways.
> I know these are large numbers, but the 159 million economic impact payments cost $267 billion [1].

Great, but the bill cost $2T. Same with the recent one that’s been put on ice. Because there’s no such thing as a bill that only contains direct cash payments to citizens, they’re loaded up with pork and stuff that doesn’t even having anything to do with the pandemic.
The Toothpaste Aisle
You can thank Zoom for using the proprietary GNOME D-Bus API instead of xdg-desktop-portal. (And you can also thank Zoom for being bad in general, I guess.)
I prefer to use Secure Boot when it makes sense. It completely shuts down lots of incredibly hard to detect forms of malware. Its nice knowing the boot environment is exactly as I intended and hasn't changed.
Developers in Chicago are building as fast as they can right now. It's counterintuitive to people on the outside, but from what I read, it's because labor, material, and capital are dirt cheap. So the developers are putting up new skyscrapers and other mega-developments so they're in a good position to take advantage of the recovery.

A new 57-story office tower opened just last week: https://www.chicagoarchitecture.org/2020/10/18/a-new-skyscra...

Dozens of new residential towers have been announced, and at least a dozen are under construction, including one that's almost finished at 101 stories tall.

https://www.chicagoarchitecture.org/2020/10/05/sit-back-brea...
Yeah, this is exactly what I'm talking about, with the feature only coming in 2020 and being specific to Gnome.
oh, those mid-atlantic satires of civilization have artists too

like them, SF will also be affordable to artists and creatives again soon
Free speech is a moral principle.

Content moderation decisions can adhere to this principle or not. Removal of viagra bot spam from a blog comment section is a clear example where content moderation adheres to the principles of free speech.

Removing content on a platform like Twitter simply because the Silicon Valley elitists/leftists that run Twitter don't like it is not in keeping with the principle of free speech (for the record I interviewed and got an offer from Twitter but declined). A good razor to use is to see if the rules are being applied in an uneven way. The principle of freedom of speech is an application of the idea of epistemic humility.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemic_humility

The point you were trying to make is "Content moderation falls under the first amendment" which I can't disagree with.

It's important to understand the difference between a moral principle and a legal instantiation of it (the first amendment). I hope that helps clear things up for you.
I am fine with denying bus hijackers access to public transport too.
Of course they are. In the same way the "printing press is more dangerous than swords". New information technologies are always dangerous for the ideological incumbents.
When fuel burns, it's the velocity of the exhaust gas that propels the rocket (F=ma).

Imagine the same with a nuclear rocket (a reactor getting hot) and then firing out something very quickly through the exhaust.

Same F=ma law applies.
Like maybe it's not clear but google turns around and uses your information in search for ad targeting as well. You don't just improve search which would be largely innocuous but that's not their business.
Haha, I hear horror stories from my friends who are on NextDoor. At some point, a guy reported seeing a coyote on Lafayette park while walking his dog at 2am. You know, just being nice to the neighbors and letting them know to be careful about their dogs. Next thing you know, a bunch of people started questioning what he was doing 'so late' on the park, then other people started accusing him of being a drug dealer or some shit, one threatened to contact the authorities... WTF? It's like Facebook boomer threads on steroids, but in real life.
"Ultra Safe Nuclear Technologies" is a tremendous name for a company that does nuclear stuff.
> > It has been almost a decade, why does Wayland not have a protocol definition for screenshots?" - answer - "Because security, dude! Wayland is designed with the thought that users download random applications from the interwebz which are not trustworthy and run them. Wayland actually makes a lot of sense if you don't think of Linux desktop distributions and desktop systems, but of smartphones.

Funny, Android has had screenshots for a decade.
Doesn’t work from Israel as well.
I agree that there are factors that so much of current reporting is missing. The black (and Latino) swing toward Trump, for example, is apparent in every single poll I've seen. As mentioned elsewhere in this discussion Nate Silver's discussed it, but little else other than the odd article like https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/14/us/politics/trump-macho-a... (which basically attributes male Latino support for Trump to the same machismo that ruined their ancestors' countries). Same with the increase in black Trump support from 2016%'s 8%, even though it's pretty clear from history that no Democrat can win the White House without at least 85% of the black vote.

>At this point my estimation is Trump-Biden 55-45, for the simple reason that people tend to vote for economic issues and Trump has a better "perception" on this issue. "It's the economy, stupid." as James Carville put it.

Indeed, Gallup reports that 56% of Americans believe that they are better off than four years ago (https://news.gallup.com/opinion/gallup/321650/gallup-electio...).

My model is simpler. If Trump wins every other state he won in 2016, he only has to win one of MI, PA, WI, MN, or NH/NV. The first three he won in 2016 (and, as you say, Biden's views on fracking may very well cost him the state); MN Trump lost by 1.5%, so the state is only sightly behind the rest of the Midwest bar IL, and half of Minneapolis being torched this summer probably pushed the state over.
> only gets developed and supported if customers pay for it

Not exactly. A feature gets developed if it brings in more money from customers, but not always because the customers are happy to pay.

Consider putting ads to the software.

Consider turning software to a subscription service.

Consider preventing other software from interoperating with yours without a license, or at all, and locking users down on your platform.

I agree that when a user votes with their money, it is a great incentive. But the way it currently works with commercial
software is a bit far from a meritocratic ideal. Other mechanisms are possible (see sponsorship, Kickstarter, bounties), and I hope they will grow in popularity.