skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this one can be chalked up to COVID and the urgent shift to remote life.

- Some lucky folks took home shiny new hardware from their employers to connect to the office

- Some unlucky folks had to pay out-of-pocket because on their first day working from home they learned Teams doesn't run on a 13 year old Macbook

- And yes, some folks splurged on new hardware for COVID-compliant fun (myself included), but newfound imperatives like having to work from home will more effectively drive sales than a shift in taste
I have one window per "task" (like if I'm looking up how to do something using some API, I'll have a single window for that, with new tabs for API docs, some stackoverflow responses, etc), and when I'm done with the task I'll close the window.

Windows for "idle browsing" get closed the next day when I open up my computer and look at the tabs and think "well this sounds boring, let's see what new has happened overnight".

On my phone OTOH, the tabs just stack up until twice a year I just mass-close them all.
Both. They are taught, generally speaking, by giving a series of techniques to solve problems without the underlying mathematics (i.e why those techniques work on those problems). Calculus generally takes some time to grok, which typically doesn't have unless your really into it. Think how many people fail to grasp exponential growth (the simplest ODE).
You are correct that installing a wheel doesn't execute arbitrary code.

If you use `--only-binary :all:`, that is equivalent to --wheels-only. Though not all packages ship wheels
This however goes only for some non Jewish Germans - nazi party sympathizers.

The social democrats and their sympatizant were attacked in 1933, right after Hitler got to power. That is when first camps were created. They housed political opponents. Plus, politically unreliable people and Jews they were excluded from civil service in 1933.

The German Jews were also under no illusion that they were free. In April 1933, German law restricted the number of Jewish students at German schools and universities. In the same month, further legislation sharply curtailed “Jewish activity” in the medical and legal professions. Subsequent decrees restricted reimbursement of Jewish doctors from public (state) health insurance funds. The city of Berlin forbade Jewish lawyers and notaries to work on legal matters, the mayor of Munich forbade Jewish doctors from treating non-Jewish patients, and the Bavarian interior ministry denied admission of Jewish students to medical school.
It struck me too... but as completely wrong. A large majority of my work is in APIs, both as a consumer and provider; between local processes, local networks, and the global internet. Every program I build talks to other programs... a lot. If there is any problem at all, it's not that programs don't talk to each other; it's that they talk 1 of 1,000 different standards.
I'm not arguing that just tipping drivers solves the problem, I support doing away with these exploitative systems of labor manipulation entirely. I'm merely asking people who do choose to use these apps to tip in the meantime, because millions of people are struggling, and it's usually not the ones can afford to patronize a delivery service.
I visited that page a few days ago. I was looking for CNN visualization tools, you can see some here [1]. My favorite is PlotNeuralNet [2]. It exports to pdf, so you can use it with Latex. As far as I know, there are no so many tools for creating AlexNet- or LeNet-like plots (I employed this tool [3] but it is a bit hard to use).

[1] https://github.com/ashishpatel26/Tools-to-Design-or-Visualiz...

[2] https://github.com/HarisIqbal88/PlotNeuralNet

[3] http://alexlenail.me/NN-SVG/LeNet.html
While technically true this also applies to literally any product marketed as unlimited, lifetime, or infinite. There are always restrictions because the world is finite and the resources of a single company even more limited. I would agree with you if you suggested that such marketing should be banned, but this is hardly a google-specific problem.
I find it very hopeful that that particular one has been linked to so many times, maybe it's sinking in? :)
>Thee problem with that is that several of the questions that make it up are assessments of current conditions, not pure ideology.

Common problem with political compass type verification. In fact becomes even more complicated when there's more than 2 political parties in an election system.

>If (as is, in fact, the case) the underlying facts changed away from Democrats preferences over the studied time on those issues, Democrats with constant preferences would appear to move left (and, conversely, an apparently stationary position on those issues# would represent a rightward shift in preferences.)

For sure, we can't really deny the political divide. You can't deny when it started to happen.

>Conversely, see: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/10/31/the-repu...

That is certainly a measurement. I don't believe that is the only factor in play. If that link wasn't paywalled and I could go into the depth of the evaluation. I would best that this has far more to do with negative rights and positive rights.

Trump I would suspect is a classical liberal. The problem is that 'liberalism' has been usurped by the positive rights crowd and now illiberalism is where classical liberals are fighting against positive rights.

Meanwhile on the Democrat far left, folks like AOC are pushing for extreme positive rights.

Overall though I feel like we are side skirting the actual concern. If the identity politics of Obama created the political schism we are seeing. The road to fixing the schism will have to come from the democrats. Obama misplayed his 2 terms in office and increased the divide greatly.

The perception of election fraud is only going to force the republicans to the right. Increasing divide.
At that point it’s not even worth differentiating between the two. Some people use laptops for work, some people use them for entertainment, many people use them for both. Some people use tablets for work, some people use them for entertainment, many people use them for both. You can’t just say “laptops are for work and tablets are for entertainment” because that’s just not true.
Who buys cars like this in the US?

Retirees. People who don't ever drive on a highway. It's perfect for a second car, or a commuter car.

Is there a sizable market for cars that can’t even drive on the freeway?

Yes. In fact, there's even a huge market for luxury golf carts that people drive around retirement villages.

Most people don't realize that some retirement villages are larger and have more people than many cities. There was a pretty good article about it in the New York Times not too long ago. Some place in Florida that was profiled had some crazy number of residents like 50,000 or some similarly surprising number.

They'd also be good for fleet operations. How fast does an urban delivery vehicle need to go? Or a water company fleet? Or any number of maids, plumbers, HVAC guys, or other service industries?
Totally agree. Lambda needs to 1/10 their costs or start billing for real CPU time and get rid of invocation overheads to really compete at these scales.

Now I have dozens of serverless projects for smaller use things because there is still a point where the gross costs just don't matter (as in, if my employer was worried about lambda vs EC2 efficiency, there are probably a few meetings we could cancel or trim the audience of that would make up for it.)

But not at this scale.
What I want is a council of wizards I can pay a monthly fee to and in return they will vet all the software updates I get on my computer. I want Bruce Schnier to be on that counsel, and ideally get all the major committers on major projects to review each others work. Do it transparently. I'd pay $100/mo for this service, maybe even more, since it is insurance on critical infrastructure. Could be a nice chunk of change for some deserving folk, too.
That's the idea. It's reasonably well supported now and its use is only increasing.

The standard is very OOP centered. It's not much that it won't work on other paradigms, but that it's limited to what is useful for OOP, so it won't lead to a perfect IDE to them.
The level of rose tinted spectacles on this is nausea inducing.
The title made me think the post was something to do with starship.rs, comparing it with a newer, potentially even better shell prompt that I had yet to hear about. I feel weirdly disappointed.
As always, it's prudent to wait a bit new Apple products to mature before jumping in when there's a chip transition going on. Also, in general.
Same here. How many of us are there?
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No, that point that you're ignoring in pointing that out is that if they don't depend on these jobs then they're entirely unemployed. Chopping off the bottom of the labor market benefits a few people, yes, it just throws others who are less valuable to your political party into the abyss.

> You'd also find that the same politicians pushing a for a minimum wage are the ones trying to address broken housing policies.

Maybe, but not in New York and not in San Francisco. It's all "restrict the supply of housing" as if the laws of supply and demand are made up — indeed, they will deny supply and demand the same way a Koch-funded lobbyist tells you we should save the planet by burning more coal.
I wonder how much that is caused by the fact that they don't sell them outside USA. It's really really hard to actually get a Chromebook in Europe, the availability is pretty poor.
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Zig's compile time execution lets you do similar things I believe.

In Zig, structs and modules are equivalent, and type declarations can be manipulated at compile time just like any other value. That, among other things[1], lets you write:

fn LinkedList(comptime T: type) type {
return struct {
pub const Node = struct {
prev: ?*Node,
next: ?*Node,
data: T,
};

first: ?*Node,
last: ?*Node,
len: usize,
};
}

I wonder if there's anything that OCaml functors can do but this can't.

[1] for example, you can implement a very efficient printf that gives an error at compile time when the format string is invalid. See https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#comptime for more details.
Thanks for the link. How could one monitor the simulation? Any guide?
*The exception, of course, is Google Reader.
This might be a stupid question, but is there a downside to blocking this "feature"? I can't think of any.

I've been using Big Sur beta for some time and one of the things that annoyed me a bit was the sudden lack of responsiveness, which is a tad annoying given that I upgraded to a 16inch MBP earlier this year and everything felt so snappy.
I agree...somewhat.

It is hard to ignore that the president directly following Obama basically ran on a platform consisting primarily of dog whistles and racebaiting.

I think it is harmful to ignore the primary evidence because people don't like what it says about America.

I think the democratic party needs to acknowledge that various degrees of racism right now seem to account for a very significant part of the electorate currently, and any messaging and strategy needs to acknowledge that for the most part you need to have some light racists as part of your coalition if you want to maintain a majority.
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they could accelerate the process a bit and nuke the north and south pole ice

I like the your thinking. This is a problem that definitely benefits from a gestalt approach. Otherwise there's lots of ways pockets of life can cling on and maybe regain a foothold in a few thousand years when your back is turned. That's why you need the Deadliest Catch crew for the crabs: Sure they have to search, but even the worst ship always came back with some. Load those guys up with crystal meth, adult diapers, and an IV nutrient drip and push them through a decade of non-stop crabbing until there aren't enough left to sustain a reproductive cycle. Between that, nuclear fallout, and the chemical agents used for other life forms you can knock out these little delicious cockroaches of the sea.

On the availability of nukes, sure there's more than enough around, but the problem is ownership. Unless you've subverted the government of Russia, the US, or China then even if you have enough nukes, you don't have the infrastructure to launch them all at the same time & avoid giving too much warning to people. They'll bunker down and do all sorts of inconvenient things like try to restart civilization. Their chances are slim, especially with the super volcano route, but it could take a while to wait them out. And at that point you've lost the nuke option since all of the launch infrastructure has been destroyed. Then you've got to go the long way around and root them out shelter by shelter (or vault by vault, Fallout style) Messy. On the plus side, some of the people in those shelters will be preppers who tried to plan for this sort of thing, and they'll get to die while living out their fantasy.
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I’ve been down that road and combining ADHD with an infinite amount of buttons to press and dials to turn is a recipe for disaster. I just can’t help but push all the buttons and turn all the dials until something breaks, and then I have to spend all day trying to fix it.
> Linux doesn't run the software I need it to run

Fair enough. Lots of software either doesn't exist for Linux or doesn't run well. Also, I don't want to have to deal with all the smaller bugs that exist on Linux. At least the bugs with macOS are widespread and well-documented.

> I also value aesthetics and UX in a computer

Yes, Windows is bad in this aspect. Have you seen r/unixporn (safe for work) though? Many of the posts look pretty good.
The interesting thing here is that until I say "go" no one will "Schedule a demo" or "sales call" to them. While I will absolutely not do it for a fishy firm - and by putting something like that on the site they automatically get into "fishy firm position" - you would like to convince me with words instead of facts to buy your products and waste my time. No, thank you.

Show me the facts, and leave my mind to decide what it is, not lie to me what you think will make the sale. It is just a waste of my time.
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Isn't that addressing the effect of someone's depression? It's a bit like saying you have a headache because you take painkillers.
If person is unhappy "screen time" is just a coping mechanism. If you take it away, then the person will find something else to numb their worries.
You need to have an honest talk with yourself or a therapist to get to the bottom why you feel this way and then see how you can address it. These "rule of thumb" things are akin to "why don't you just smile?" or "stop worrying" and don't help.
Literally the first item in the context menu is "New Folder Shift+Ctrl+N"
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It was going to happen. When Google was making money off of piracy by just running a search engine, it was happy to encourage it and celebrate the philosophy. Now that they're cashing big checks from advertisers and content companies, well, they're just following the money.
I'm not sure I understand this comment. Could you give some examples of "zombies that are too useful to let die" right now?
I don't understand why people say Uber "bought" a law. Is every prop sponsored by a corporation a "purchase"? This type of speech undermines our collective trust in democracy and should not be OK.
"Few" in the relative sense compared to other Americans, but "lots" in the sense of raw numbers because America is so large.

There are also the shrinking frugal demographic like me who can afford a $25 burrito, but out of principle would absolutely not pay that much for a bunch of beans wrapped in a tortilla, microwaved for 1 minute.
Not crazy about every change affecting history, but this is fun!
This is a powerful piece about a time in Germany where people couldn't, to paraphrase, see where things could go, and so couldn't really understand when things have started.

I suspect that readers will see this piece as a reflection of their greatest fears about our own Republic. Unfortunately, the message will be lost by those who are most in need of hearing it. That includes many of the readers of this piece who think their side are the victims and the other side are the creeping fascists.

Hate to break it to you, in the United States we're screwed two ways over. Both the left and the right in the US have paramilitaries (antifa, proud boys). Both the left and the right in the US have enemies lists, and have effective propaganda wings that eviscerate opponents and call basic and decent democratic norms into question (free speech, elections). Both sides use identity and demographics to sow division and resentment between groups.

Maybe there's some hope for the shrinking, rational middle that two creeping fascisms cancel each other out, and will in the future. But that's a pretty long bet to make, too.

For the rest of us paying attention and who, in the words of the piece, "think about fundamental things", it has already started and it is very, very scary where it may end up.
Bot Battle highlights lack of industrywide metrics for open domain AI
People always recommend System76 in these threads but they're just rebranding Clevo systems. You might consider cutting out their "value add" and just getting the unbranded NV41MB for ~$100 less (depending on how you configure it).

https://www.avadirect.com/Clevo-NV41MB-D-14-Core-i5-NVIDIA-G...
> AI will achieve human-level intelligence

This would certainly surprise me very much.

> Autonomous vehicles and flying cars will redefine human travel

https://www.facebook.com/theseinfeldfriarsclub/videos/flying...
So can we all admit now that we're clearly in a massive tech bubble? I don't think I've seen an IPO lately for a tech company thats profitable or has any real path to profitability.

For any VCs out there, I have a half baked AI for Dogs app I coded in 20 minutes so please wire me $50M, it'll cost you less than what you wasted so far in 2020, thanks.
By this logic free speech isn't a right because the government is under no obligation to provide you with a platform to exercise it.
> Lenovo got not only the brand, but also advanced production lines

I may be mistaken, but I thought at the time of the sale, Lenovo was already doing the manufacturing?
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I don't think it's dismissive to be honest. In many ways, software is not so different from the rest of the world.

Industry (in the Industrial Revolution sense), underwent similar transformations (and is still going through them), from dirty/dangerous/back-breaking factories of the 1800s, to slightly-less-dirty and slightly-safer and more automated factories of the 1900s, to... whatever the 2000s will bring. I'm honestly not sure where software stands in relation; maybe software is actually closer to the 1800s-equivalent of the Industrial Revolution, than to the gleaming 2020 gigafactories of today. Maybe we are still too early.

There is probably some golden age of industrial production that industrialists look back fondly on, in the same way the author and many others idealize Unix. Likewise, complaints about rampant/mindless over-consumption, are not new for society at large, especially as we as a civilization really finally start to wrestle seriously with the question of, just how much can this planet support, and what we can take away from it or pollute it with, before the ecosystem collapses? Do we really need another factory, another plastic widget that'll never decompose, another smartphone that will end up in a landfill in a two-year upgrade cycle?

But, this progress, messy as it is, is still progress. In the aggregate, people live longer, are healthier and safer, and there are just more people, than there have ever been in the history of this planet. In part, all of these industrial processes made it possible. That doesn't mean there hasn't been waste. Now is the time to reconcile, what our waste is actually costing us, and how much waste we can actually support, as a society and a civilization. "Too much software" has potential for real harm, whether in physical pollution or in mental/emotional harm (i.e. the attention economy, the assault on user privacy, our partisan echo chambers, etc.).
Ask HN: How do you privately share pictures and video with family and friends?
I'm looking for something private and easy to use to share pictures and videos with my family. My extended family uses Snapchat and Instagram but we're concerned but privacy and tracking. Text chains? Whatsapp? What works for you and your family actually use?
The current law changes are definitely terrifying, but I too would like to hear some specific points about how these are similar situations.
How do you run photoshop?
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I agree and actually are happy about security facilities on my computer. The question is, whether the way Apple implemented this is the right way. Except for launching a program the very first time on a computer, the security check shouldn't block program execution. The check should run asynchronously. Especially, as it seems to be fine to start any program, when your computer is off the network.
Also, the system could be reacting better detecting that the Apple server is unresponsive. If a certain number of requests didn't answer in a timeout of a few seconds, it should not lock up but treat the server as not reachable.
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Cause and coping mechanism are not mutually exclusive.
Indeed. "7. AI will achieve human-level intelligence" should call in to question the whole analysis.
Before Macs, the Apple II series we're enormously successful in schools throughout the 80s and early 90s.
You're wrong: You can break copy protection if you own the rights to a work. This means you can e.g. circumvent Window's license checking if you own a copy of it already. The DMCA does not criminalize that, nor could it, and this is probably why py-kms is still up on github after a copyright challenge.

This was a change that I am assuming was added before any complaint could be mounted about this use case for fear of striking more of the DMCA down than just that provision that was modified.
Hello world is how a lot of us started in C with the K&R book, wherever we were. Most of us didn't want to organize photo folders, we wanted to make the computer display something cool or play a song or something, and usually we had to start with something elementary when tackling a new language, especially a complicated one like C.

I can still remember being 11 years old and meticulously keying in the hello world program on my dad's aging Tandy Model 16, then saying 'cc hello.c' and watching as the compiler chugged through the tiny program for a minute or two. (It #includes stdio.h, so there was more code to go through than it seemed, plus there was a linking step. And not much actually happened, because Unix C compilers are silent if there are no errors.)

When I ran a.out and saw "hello world" appear, I was over the moon. It was like clearing 1-1 in Super Mario Bros. for the first time. Like I had surmounted the first obstacle and was thus ready for all the challenges that lay ahead.
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Absolutely none of it. None of the categories that grew in demand are compatible with an RTX 3080.
After reviewing all the porn on the internet, I am no longer able to sustain an erection.
Find a way to do it keeping the same contractors and adding a couple in some states with senators and representatives who are simultaneously members of the majority party and vulnerable, then maybe you've got a bill, though it might still get filibustered. NASA is a political work of art