skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
optional has a bunch of reason's why it is better than a pointer too(it cannot be incremented, it's not a failure to initialize, it doesn't implicitly convert to things readily...). Unfortunately we don't have a monadic optional or an optional with a reference member. Both would be very useful. Value or suffers from having to evaluate the or part in all cases, but if we had .transform/.and_then/.or_else members would be really nice. Optional of a reference would allow for a whole swath of try_ methods instead of the idiomatic at( ) interface for checking bounds and retrieving in one call. at( ) suffers that it forces the choice of an exception or checking the index for being in range outside the call and then operator[] is what you want.
Flutter has a very good plugin architecture. You don't actually have to use their widgets if you don't want to. And as for being restricted to the prevailing platform paradigm ... you have as much freedom as the platform gives you. For some things Flutter can't provide miracles ... like to access specific device hardware you are going to have to build a native bridge ... but in the end Flutter is building a binary that is ... as much as possible ... standalone. It even reinvents GUI components instead of bridging to the prevailing OS ones, touch input instead of using the native one, etc., so that you have more control (if you want it).
'Who the hell elected you?'

The free market. Consumers who enjoy a curated platform.

There are plenty of alternative platforms, which conservatives are constantly failing to lure anyone to. There is nothing stopping consumers from using the competition other than personal preference for the experience twitter provides.
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With our current knowledge we can only say that there's only one strain, but they are accumulating changes randomly. Usually those changes are deletereous (bad for the virus), some are neutral and a very minor amount increase the fitness of the virus (good for the virus).

It has been proposed that one of those mutations (D614G) increases the fitness of the virus. If that was the case, viruses with D614G would slowly take over the population. The problem here is that if some "founder effect" [1] happens, it will appear exactly like some mutation gives an increased fitness but what happened in reality was that some guy travelled to a meeting and infected 100 people.

This mutation was first reported in january-2020 in Germany (AFAIK), so it's a very posible that it was just one of the very first viruses to arrive in Europe and "founded" a new population when the virus was spreading almost freely. Then some scientist noted that a lot of european sequences included the mutation and hipotesized that the change was behind the quick spreading of march and april.

Right now, about 80% of the sequences reported to Gisaid include that mutation, but that is about the same percentage than in april/may. I'm personally inclined to believe that D614G is close to have neutral effects, as other variants of the virus without the mutation are also being quite successful in spreading and keeping themselves in the population.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founder_effect
Yep, similar sentiments from me. And the ESP being away from the edge/enclosed in copper? Very easily fixable if this is done by an algorithm. I would think the micro block is the first thing being place anyway.
What I mean is, has nobody named their child after an SQL injection payload?
Yes, Xwayland lets users run X11 applications inside Wayland compositors.
It's not a lot of trouble. To be fair my GitLab instance isn't setup for large numbers of public contributors. I have a somewhat limited network connection and work on projects that often have large-ish codebases, building Docker images, etc.... and I do 90% of that on my home network (local servers, storage, etc....). So running GitLab locally allows me (and a few other folks) to get all those nice features without relying on the world facing internet connection and without having lots of delays moving large files up and down...
Let users choose their visibility settings and news feed prioritization algorithm (similar to how users can select the search engine used by their browser/phone among various options).

This is a simple solution that should make everyone happy which does not require lawyers or revoking sec 230. It also provides the opportunity for others to publish algorithms that are less polarizing which we very much need right now.

Both Wolfram and Dorsey support this idea.
> The harder argument is that they're not doing it in our best interest.

I disagree. I think they absolutely believe they are doing what is best for the country, but without actual accountability and meaningful outside oversight and input, I would say it is far more likely they have become myopically focused. That they are unable to accurately judge or weigh the effects of persistent surveillance against one’s own citizens and how that negatively impacts a free and open democracy and a government that feels accountable to its citizens, vs their own very skewed perspective of looking at nothing but “threats” and thinking about nothing but threats, and planning for nothing but threats. The “everything is a nail to a hammer” saying comes to mind.
He’s not wrong, but I don’t expect this submission or any post about it to make the front page. Which is ironic given the topic.

The follow up where Ted tried to post up this link again after the hearing, shows it’s still blocked. Which is 100% counter to what Dorsey just stated under oath.
I have an NVIDIA Jetson Nano 4GB, bought it for ~$99 on Amazon[1] last December. The docs website has tutorials on how to install TensorFlow and it's pretty easy to get started. I got it to start playing with TF and it certainly did the job but I found that I was running into its limitations pretty quickly.

I (foolishly?) hoped I could run a low-param version of GPT-2, but even the smaller models were too large to run on this small GPU. So be aware if you're interested in this developer kit that it won't be able to run complex models, especially if you're getting the new 2GB version. Anything like image recognition/classification would work just fine though.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B084DSDDLT
Call me naive but just having the most money shouldn't be the make-or-break for laws; making the right argument has value too.

The money's to grease the wheels, to get your argument to the right people, etc.
IC production masks have their own special category of IP protection, "mask work rights", precisely because it was uncertain whether they could be copyrighted.
I don't have all the answers yet, but indeed rate limiting a larger block (at least /64), or even at multiple prefix sizes with different weighting makes sense.
I give her 40% odds of beating the headline charges. Not a chance in hell she's walking away without at least a misdemeanor of some sort though.

On one hand:

It's not exactly a stretch to imagine her boyfriend doing it on her behalf or something similar. A middling defense lawyer should be able to create enough doubt (barring some unreported facts that are damning for the defense). If the government's processes are so broken that this could happen as they say it did then she deserves to walk free for giving them the free audit. If she's really such a bad person they'll catch her again for something else.

On the other hand:

Hillsboro county is the second worst jurisdiction in NH in which to be accused of committing a crime against the government (Cheshire county is hands down the best any day). It's going to be almost impossible for a jury to not have at least a few people who take the view "I don't care if she did it, there's a reasonable chance she did and someone must pay for this". This is assuming it goes to jury trail (only a moron would go for a bench trial when the crime is against "the system" though).
When have you ever filled in a captcha for a paid service?
How well do fcitx & ibus work in Wayland yet? I need good l10n support.

Who is using Wayland without X in Asia right now and isn't using English?
I'm not sure if anything changed, but my CX-5 from 2015 had this. Maybe they don't consider it to be full hands off and thus have made this statement? It could center itself and drive within the same lane in a highway going around 100-120km/h without any involvement from me. It also nudged me to the lane whenever I tried to change lanes without using the blinker.
I wonder if that might be because wired is still somewhat of a luxury compared to most that the ISP's aren't held back by the service they offer since there are so few utilizing the bandwidth.
AMD, Nvidia Chip Away at Intel’s Semiconductor Dominance
The Night I Lost $1M
Thanks!

So basically Wayland replaces the X protocol. (I had to run some things with
ssh -X, and windowing on remote machines came back to me..)

And Xserver is replaced by another Compositor which is not specified, but poking around Weston seems like the reference one (towns in metro west Boston?)

No tearing would be nice (I watch someone weekly on a Manjaro install, tearing linux screen share, it can be unpleasant).

I'm assuming a lot this gets abstracted away by QT/KDE , Gnome/GTK so developers can just Develop. (probably at the expense of alternative desktops..)
One could argue the internal barriers are unnecessary if "trust but verify" works. In this case, it worked; she was able to play the system until verification identified something was wrong, and now she gets to go to jail over it.

(Technical systems often need more stringent protections because "screw around and go to jail" isn't a threat that, say, Facebook can bring to bear).
I've had the current gen Toyota Corolla for just over a year and use the adaptive cruise control and lane tracing ~95% of the time I'm driving, whether that is city driving in busy tight roads or motorway driving.

After using it for so long I won't be able to drive a car without it. I've personally had no issues with the lane tracing as I instinctively understand where the system works and where it doesn't and I've adapted my driving as such. The buttons for the controls are situated on the steering wheel and are simple to understand and easy to activate. Accelerating doesn't disable the lane trace assist or adaptive cruise control. The system also doesn't get confused with other lines on the road, bright sun light, glare, wet roads or driving at night. My only gripe is that the speed sign recognition system is a pain in cities where signs for side roads point wrongly to the main road but thankfully the speed of the adaptive cruise control isn't limited by it just an annoying beep that you can switch off if required.

Toyota do give a warning not to use the adaptive cruise control behind a tilt and slide recovery truck, or a lorry trailer that is higher than the car itself however I haven't found any issues with that.

The settings for the lane tracing can be adjusted to change the sensitivity to which it responds to the drivers turning force. I find that warning you with different beeps for different things is a pretty good system and I can easily tell the difference between the different beeps and what they're for (even with loud audio blaring through my speakers).

Comparisons like these need to use the findings of drivers who actually use these systems in real life rather than made up scenarios.

Unrelated, (but adding this after seeing those who are in the market for a new car), it is a sporty, nice and fun to drive car, 2 litre hybrid with 200nm torque from each engine and a combined bhp of 186 (could be ~300 if remapped but you'll lose linear acceleration) with good mpg, MacPherson suspension at the front, and multi linked individual suspension at the back, lower centre of gravity and 52.5:47.5 weight distribution for better cornering. In relation to the "self-driving" the system takes a little learning, but once you understand it and are used to it, there's no going back to conventional cars.
On the software side AI is a definite miss. The other is video editing acceleration support in Adobe Premiere and DaVinci Resolve. I haven't looked lately but I think Nvidia completely dominates acceleration of post-processing effects and such.
It's been used since 2018 for smaller, power optimized designs. This would be the first significant high performance design, and at comparatively huge die sizes. Also claimed the process was semi-custom for nvidia, not the "standard" 8nm. Unclear what exactly was different, though, but depending on the changes (if any) it may actually not be yielding as well as a 2 year old process should
ROCm has come a long way but still has a long way to go. It still doesn't support the 5700 XT (or at least, not very well) --- only the Radeon Instinct and Vega are supported. You can find salty GitHub threads about this dating to the very start of when Navi was just released: https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/issues/887#issueco...

And getting ROCm set up is still a buggy experience with tons of fiddling in the deep inner workings of Linux so it is nearly impossible for the average machine learning engineer to use.

It is compelling for certain bespoke projects like Europe's shiny new supercomputer, but for the vast majority of machine learning, it is totally unusable. By now in ML world the word "gpu" is synonymous with "nvidia".
Mostly economists fear inflation because people have obligations specified in nominal terms, like salaries and mortgage payments, that they might end up not being able to pay if currency increases in value too much.
I guarantee it tasted exactly the same.
A vpn is always an option, and it's commoditized enough.
Eventually all regions that pretend to care about their citizens freedom should adopt a GDPR like law.
It looks almost exactly like:
http://pulzed.com/demo/powerblocks/
(Speaking for me) Yes. It's not 500$ extra for 8GB more, it's 500$ extra for being able to do ML at all basically.

AMD GPUs have near zero support in major ML frameworks. There are some things coming out with Rocm and other niche things, but most people in ML already have enough work dealing with model and framework problems that using experimental AMD support is probably a no go.

Hell, if AMD had a card with 8GB ram more than nvidia, and for 500$ cheaper, I would still go with nvidia.
Everyone wish AMD would step their game up w.r.t ML workloads but it's just not happening (yet), Nvidia has a complete monopoly there.
Warning: potential butt-speaking ahead as this is not my subject.

I have a suspicion that a lot of these things have a biochemistry that goes back a hell of a long way, and I think there's synthesis of various vitamin D's in fungi. Nearest I can find is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergosterol

"Ergosterol (ergosta-5,7,22-trien-3β-ol) is a sterol found in cell membranes of fungi and protozoa, serving many of the same functions that cholesterol serves in animal cells. Because many fungi and protozoa cannot survive without ergosterol, the enzymes that synthesize it have become important targets for drug discovery. In human nutrition, ergosterol is a provitamin form of vitamin D2; exposure to ultraviolet (UV) light causes a chemical reaction that produces vitamin D2"

So nothing to do with humans, and may go back to a common ancestor of fungi and protozoa.

Note the particular arrangement of the four carbon rings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ergosterol_structure.svg I believe that's a steroid. You see the same thing in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Testosteron.svg and much to my surprise the same thing appears in digitalis (the foxglove plant) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Digitoxin_structure.svg Which suggests these chemical families go back a very long way indeed and most likely are radiate rather than parallel (edit: I mean convergent) evolution.

Anyone who actually knows something about this, please correct or elaborate on anything.
It's funny that you got downvoted for this very accurate take based on their own conclusion.

Tesla barely bests GM and co on capabilities: 9/10 vs 8/10

But then loses on one of the most important features to ensure people aren't killed by what should be safety features: 3/10 (!) vs 7/10

Nothing misleading about it, it's a reflection of the fact GM isn't going for flashiness over function.

A comment above yours is bragging about party tricks like taking an on ramp, but being able to ensure the driver is attentive for the bulk of the trip that is highway is going a longer way for driver safety than being able to beta test non-self-driving "full self driving" on public roads at the expense of everyone else on the road
Judge, jury, and executioner of the behavior they allow on their property. Let’s not mix this up with the roles in the legal system that actually have those powers.
Not better than 420. You could say that 420 is the highest of all status codes
I think it is also used for tracking people. https://github.com/Bogdaan/spycss

Or maybe he just likes content without flashiness and annoying sidebars, etc
Here's some Soviet kids doing that, gathering around a mercury lamp:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=soviet+uv+lamp&t=brave&iar=images&...
Microsoft did (still?) offer a free upgrade path from Windows 7/8 to Windows 10 for years so I doubt this is really for "getting money from our customers" but more "we want to stop supporting these old platforms at some point"
What is it that you think Section 230 does that “allows platforms to be judge, jury, and executioner”? What harm, specifically, do you think the Section 230 liability shield is causing? What change, specifically, do you think should be made to cure that harm? How would your proposed change not cause sites with UGC to either shut down entirely (thereby eliminating the ability to speak out at all), require pre-approval for all UGC (thereby increasing the amount of censorship), or be overrun by spammers and trolls (thereby making the site useless)? Don’t just think about Twitter and Facebook. Think about Hacker News, or a subreddit you like, or a small community forum that you visit, or the comments section of your favourite tech news site. A change to Section 230 affects everybody.
Where are you seeing them on Digi-Key? The Microcontrollers section[0] only has other μCs with 32 in the name, and I couldn't find anything other than devkits.

[0]: https://www.digikey.com/en/products/filter/embedded-microcon...
Anki Decks with Orgmode
Personally it has been a really mixed bag. I tend to wear my heart on my sleeve and have a high sense of ownership of the things in working on. That can get really difficult when I personally am not happy with a high level decision, but have to toe the company line. Your team takes a lot of cues from you, so you need to be really careful what you present to them.

Also think about what you want to get from a management role. If you want prestige, you wont get it because you should be giving away all credit to your team. If you want interesting tasks, you wont get them because you should give them to your team.

Thinking about it now, it's like when you grow up and realize you can have ice cream for every meal, but you also recognize it's a really bad idea. You can do whatever you want with your team, but you know you need to be responsible.

I was similar to you, I wasnt really interested in the role. The thing that made me accept it was that I wanted to know if I could do it. It turns out I can, but it is draining in ways that coding never was.

Dont get me wrong, I dont regret it for a second. I have learnt so much in the last year and the experience has made me a better person. I understand a lot better how things work behind the scenes in companies, which will serve me well for the rest of my career.

Overall, I think it is worth trying and is an extremely valuable experience. The rewards are completely different and whether or not they are enough depends entirely on you. Personally, I'm considering a switch back to IC, but I do not regret my time in management.
BYOL works even without batch statistics (DeepMind)
Republicans have said the same thing about Hollywood, academics, journalists, and scientists. And they've cherry picked stories to "prove" it with those groups too.
"And surprisingly there was never a single update that broke something for me"

Blender's usual problem is "where did they hide that feature in this update?" Questions on that come up in the forums often. In the 2.8x series, visibility of an object is controlled by three different checkboxes in different places, all of which have to be on. Importing older Blender files sometimes resulted in some of them being off.
Yes it is similar, however it targets editing commits that already exist instead of operating on the index or worktree.
Seems like this might be a Zen 1 kind of situation: not quite caught up with the competition but close enough that they're competitive.
> In several instances, she used the New Hampshire court system’s electronic system to file documents.

This suggests that there is either no authentication (insane), or any display of the authenticated sender is being ignored by people just looking at the claimed sender in the headings of papers (disappointing, a failure of the court processes at the human level, and probably a UX shortcoming.)
Xwayland is more of a hack if anything. Half of the programs don't work because the security model of Wayland is fundamentally different than that of X11. E.g. Xeyes won't follow the mouse cursor because Wayland developers decided it is a security risk to read out mouse coordinates when the mouse is not positioned above the window. More severe in the age of home office work is the lack of support for XGetImage() that makes using X11 videoconferencing software almost impossible to run on XWayland.
I don't see anyone complaining that X isn't being maintained.

Only that they'd rather use (unmaintained) X over Wayland due to numerous shortcomings in wayland that are practically unfixable (because they're intentional design choices, or because they're a result of the fragmentation resulting from wayland's design choices).
I had a couple of good conversations with George. This is great example of how the team informs the product. Great work Artifact team!
Why is a writer with no professional design experience offering up a critique like this? I'm tired of seeing design criticism that is entirely subjective from people with no credibility. This kind of thing shows up with any logo or design change in products created by major tech companies. It's completely condescending towards the professional designers who worked on the changes and completely ignorant of the entire process (i.e. business goals, discussions, meetings, research, testing) that was taken to arrive with these new icons. The author tries to sound scientific several times with sentences like,

"having a distinct color is important to type and design in lots of ways"

or

"Darker colors pop more against a white background than yellow or the tiny bit of red, making the icons seem to have heavy “L” aspects to them"

but he doesn't offer us any further information. Why is a distinct color important? Why can't a group of colors be distinct, maybe even more distinct than a single color? Does he think the design team at Google hasn't thought of everything that is brought up here, or that they haven't done user research to actually determine if the icons are difficult to distinguish? If the author is going to make claims about these things being hard to see, then he should present his own user research.

Without something to back up their claims, articles like this just reek of stubborn grumpiness - something people use everyday is slightly different and they thought it was just fine before! Eventually they get used to the new thing and the process will repeat itself with the next rebranding.
The reason I say "catch-up" is because before Zen 3, Intel still had an IPC lead. With Zen 3, it's the first time in a decade that AMD is able to claim IPC lead.
It amazes me that two and half years after the introduction of GDPR, sites like this still block EU residents.