skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is depressing. But as in Asimov's 'Foundation' novels, even though we cannot stop the dark times, we can ameliorate them. This will require a multi-pronged approach: individuals consuming less, greener approaches to farming that don't involve stripping soil and relying on copious amounts of fertilizer, reducing emissions, setting aside green space ecopreserves, etc.

By working hard towards these goals, we can certainly make life much better for us and our nonhuman companions on this planet and minimize the effects of our growth.
I've used Elm in a few commercial settings, and for personal work for several years. No problems I can't tolerate or work around.
Lol, kind of, I guess. :) You should see how powerful these dogs' legs are when they are in racing shape.
> Most companies don't want "software artists" anymore than they want "artistic bricklayers"

I recently had brick laid in front of my house. When the bricks arrived, they were not cut with the precision that the landscaper had expected. They were mostly rectangular, but with enough variation in size that laying them naively (assuming they are interchangeable) would result in an ugly, uneven walkway.

The landscaper worked out what order to sort + lay them in to minimize the impact of the uneven sizes. I'm very happy he did; my walkway looks stunning for it.

If you are looking to get landscaping done, live in western Massachusetts, and appreciate someone who takes pride in his work and will take the time to do things right, I have a glowing recommendation for you. (Do be prepared to chase him down about the paperwork on both ends of the transaction; the business side of the business was not his forte). My email is in my profile.

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I am not sure if that exactly contradicts your point. You said that's not what companies want. As a human, though, I very much appreciate work well done, when the real world inevitably defies our abstractions.
There is a vast number of search engines that are not Google, many of whom 'respect privacy' in some way. That does not make them noteworthy.

None I've encountered so far are actually good enough to compete. This one doesn't seem any different.
Because it makes the product easier to buy? In the past I could buy stripe and know exactly what my costs were going to be. Looking at the pricing page now it’s a fucking swamp.

If I add all their percentages up I’m paying 10% per transaction.
Life changed. My kids will thank you :)
CISA: The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history
The HN guidelines deserve to be #1, not just in this list, but for the whole internet.

If conversation was as civil elsewhere as it is on HN, Americans might rediscover the value of community which they have lost to mindless bickering encouraged by commercial algorithms elsewhere.
Charles A Beard also did one on US history as well which was eye opening for myself. It's incredibly interesting how he dismantles a lot of our facade of a history into simple bourgeoisie economics. He makes everything modern conservative pundits preach in regards to the founding fathers as just pure lies. I mean look how fast the Anti-Federalists were stamped out! The revolution was purely a fabrication of rights stripped from the industrialist estates. The average worker wasn't as affected as much. But they were easily riled that's for sure. Everything in the early days of the US was just radical libertarians and aristocrats just seeking their own self interest. Since the majority of the US was still an agricultural economy based off of preceding thought surrounding Physiocracy, the system at the time was implemented far differently than it is today. Now it is on a full-scale industrialized level, but with a system devised for farmers, artisans, and aristocrats.

The US system though will never change as long as it's the global hegemon. Much like the British Empire, Roman Empire, Qi Dynasty, and Holy Roman Empire; these major players never ended up reforming until their total collapse. As much as anybody hates to see it, that is the only way for this system to be revised. There is a big pie for many to take a piece of in the US. It's why there are minimal united for change.
I just got a new XPS13 after a decade of using only macbook pros. Honestly it's pretty good and like 95-99% as good as my macbook. The only thing I really miss is the incredible touchpad. The XPS touchpad is meh, although is functional which is more than I can say about many other windows notebooks.
I second this. Catalina runs great on my 15" mid-2015 16GB/1TB, and it even runs shockingly well (bootstrapped) on my (unsupported) 13" mid-2009 8GB/512GB.

The 2009-2015 era of Macbooks are, not were, truly phenomenal machines.
>What do you think should be done with the activists who erected a guillotine in front of Jeff Bezos' house in DC? Should they be put in jail for attempted murder?

Are you equating being suspended off Twitter to being thrown in Jail? For the record, people commonly do get suspended for harassments for sending death threats to public figures. Unfortunately they aren't as high profile as bannon, so they don't get op-ed's written about them.

>How about Kathy Griffin, who posted a video of herself beheading Trump in effigy?

Why would you bring up Kathy Griffin when she got Twitter account suspended as well for that stunt? The answer to your question is "no I don't think Bannon should get better treatment then Kathy Griffin".
MAGA hats were allowed in the general election in California: https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/ccrov/pdf/2020/september/20...

They were considered "campaign slogans or political movement slogans".
They too should be kicked off Twitter.
Is agile relevant when you are a solo developer?
I guess I must have fat-fingered the domain and the second article down in the history.

Any chance of bigger touch targets on mobile already? ;-P
What if you tried to catch a 1000 MPH baseball? [video]
Honestly I don’t care if my fitness helps me live longer. It improves my quality of life right now which is way more valuable.
11 Gigs?!
> While of course we should try to prevent it, we should also try to mitigate the consequences in the even a war does occur!

I used to have an old Stanford Research Institute report from the 1980s where the author tried to project that if the US and USSR had a full scale nuclear war, US GNP would be back to normal within five years.

Who knows what government bureaucrat had a program requiring an Orwellian report like to justify whatever policy.

Who is this we? If you want to store up MREs and tin foil hats and build a bomb shelter, be my guest. Most of our efforts will be to prevent a large-scale nuclear war from happening or needing to happen.
From yesterdays news, Norway has now criminalized "hate speech" in a private context:
https://www.out.com/news/2020/11/11/norway-has-made-biphobic...

If you don't think this is negative, I guess we aren't talking about the same thing.
There's a big difference between the amount you need to not get rickets (around 100 IU) and the amounts that seem to move the needle on other outcomes (2000 IU or more). The study used 800 IU which to me, isn't great.
Install Linux on them when MacOS is no longer supported on your machine, perhaps? If your laptop still works, you should still be able to use it even if it is no longer supported.

Also, many people like to work with dual boot devices. And no, virtualization is not the same.

The hardware is also not garbage. It may not be competitive, but it is well made.
Vonnegut is really special.

I always like coming back to his Shape of Stories talks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP3c1h8v2ZQ

Here's a longer one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOGru_4z1Vc

It's interesting to see the difference in him with age. He seems to giggle more as an older man.
https://sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours/
Fair enough.

He use to have a list of "Giant List Of All The Dumb Stuff I’ve Ever Done".

And that tweet was on there, he said something along the lines of it was also out of context.

But as you said, keep following your own morale compass.
Are there no other suggestions beyond the 2012 MBP?

I use arch linux on a Lenova Thinkpad T580, and I'm really happy with it, but I'm not sure about the colour accuracy of the screen. I doubt it's as good as you find on an Apple.

I, for one, am really interested in good, high quality alternative to apple laptop hardware, that meet the parent's criteria.
https://sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours/

Edit: I posted this because that shiny new ARM ISA-based Mac comes with a massive loss of privacy. It bothers me that this is happening, and I genuinely just want people to know what they are doing when they buy into one of these things.

This situation makes me doubly sad, because the architecture is really neat, and the machine embodies a great number of remarkable technical achievements.
While I support your argument, the brand damage caused to the company if they were found out to be doing so would be massive.

I don't think it's useful for an arguments point of view to speculate that a chipset company has already built in backdoors to their products.
Graph Kernels: State-of-the-Art and Future Challenges
Google Widevine Content Decryption Module DMCA
Walmart.com destroyed by PS5 launch day orders
It seems to be a trend these days that if something doesn't work right, people take to the public internet in the hopes that it will be fixed faster. I've seen this tactic on internet forums with products, after which companies often contact the reviewer of said products to make things right.
all at the same time? If out of the box VIM does all that I've certainly never found out how to do it.

Regardless, I have no plans to switch because I can't see it improving my productivity enough to justify the learning curve.
Ahh strawman. Well done.

Breathing is a requirement for life. Owning an android phone isn't.
Fact of Fiction? The Legend of the QWERTY Keyboard
Can you elaborate on the part about advertising and testing?
That’s not how it was presented in [0], which is one book I had read, among others. And that’s fine if that particular argument is incorrect, the logic of the point I’m making still stands. I can envision a feasible chance of a technological improvement to explosives that would make them ‘completely’ dangerous (kill every last human) if that’s what we’re going for.

[0] https://anniejacobsen.com/pentagons-brain/
For a lot of the official content, yeah, that sounds right. But for the "unofficial" content? Absolutely, they were already arguably the largest music streaming sure to begin with, do they back fitted themselves into a proper streaming service.

I saw the writing on the wall years ago. There was just no way execs wouldn't leverage such an obvious opportunity.
Depression Linked to Bowel Conditions
Apple built the computer; I exchanged money for the computer; now I own the computer.

Apple does not own the computer.

If Apple wants to own the computer, they can pay me instead.
Apple Apps still bypassing firewall apps on Big Sur
Startpage.com's new owner makes it less private than doing a search on Facebook while logged into your Google Chrome account.
Any punitive measures there, or nah?

I can't speak to Facebook, because I don't use Facebook, but Twitter will apply punitive measures if you incite violence for a specific person on the platform. You are making a case for whataboutism that doesn't exist.
LinkedIn Finds Measurement Errors That Inflated Video and Ad Metrics
My partner bought a razer 13 inch to replace a MacBook Air. It wasn’t cheap, the build quality is excellent and it handles everything (she’s in an orchestra and records her parts on it, does graphic design and sometimes plays fortnite.). The screen is quite nice and the build quality is better than my system 76 (onyx pro) which I really like too.

Dave2d on YouTube gives pretty short and decent laptop reviews. I think he has a discord channel discussing the machines too
In your estimation, if Facebook doesn't censor this speech, then that makes them a certain "kind" of platform? It means that Facebook is pro-beheading?

So how come if the US government doesn't censor it, it doesn't make the US a pro-beheading country? Empirically, compared to other countries the US manages to be pretty anti-beheading despite tolerating speech about beheading.

Do you think that any failure to censor speech constitutes an endorsement of that speech? Is it not possible to allow speech you disagree with? Does Facebook the company have to endorse every opinion someone posts on it?
In 03 I was desperately trying to write neural net algorithms for the BeOS, but I had no idea how to train them (much less backprop).

I think distributed systems research is enabling personal user-level distributed networks (think like mastodon but to the point where a lay person can own their own node without much trouble). But will the economies of scale for commodities goods like motherboards make sense against behemoths buying up lots of hard drives? Who knows.
Heck, it couldn’t even open Apple apps.

In my case, Finder hung badly.
Visual ETL is not as good of an idea as it seems at first. You end up putting a ton of business logic into the menus of these tools, and it’s not version controlled, and it’s not searchable. You’re better off doing this kind of work in SQL.
Your last statement reflects my post entirely.

This contradiction is your problem, not Googles. They will continue to make money off you and me. The only difference is I don't get the nausea.

Until you show me something REALLY dodgy they're are doing, I'll keep using their services.

As I mentioned before, I'm aware they sell my behaviour as advertising data to companies. On my end I block as much advertising as possible so I find it's a useless strategy product teams pushing things onto me.
Looking at their repos, it seems it’s mostly metasearch. Only crawler I see is specifically for news.

I’d be curious to hear if anyone self hosted this and searx and how they compare.
So just like Qwant except no ties to the US.
"Security concerns" are security concerns with China. Anything else is naive.
Disincentivise the behavior that slows the spread of the virus and has positive impact on the environment? Just to protect the commercial real estate market? Doesn't sound like a clever plan.
Efficiently simulating realistic lens systems has been a thing for a while; the original paper by Kolb, Mitchell, and Hanrahan is here: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~fussell/courses/cs395t/lens.pdf. In the paper they talk about how to apply importance sampling, which is the key to efficiency in bidirectional path tracing. What does this package offer beyond that?
> it was also out of context

This seems to be a frequent excuse these days, and rarely comes with an explanation of what the context was. I'm not sure what kind of context you can add to that statement that makes it mean something else.
Agreed 100%,in fact of the languages I work with regularly (Python, Java, C#, JavaScript, Go) Python has the simplest dependency management solution via virtualenv + pypi + pip. Not sure why every Python thread turns into a conversation about the pain of Python dep management... seems overblown.
> the most fundamental idea is minimizing the amount of surprises a user faces

I wouldn't call being given the master key to my own computer "surprising".
I spun up a very simple rest API thatreturned an input parameter, and ran it under load, using asp.net and express js. There wasn't any architecture or design, it was one function. Node/express had 10x less throughput than the asp.net version, with 99% being multiple orders of magnitude larger than the asp.net version.

No amount of clever design will outrun that gap.
Whatever the White House is trying to do, the overwhelming majority of Congressional Republicans are going along with it.
Fair way to divide the rent when rooms are different sizes
I had the pleasure of installing Ubuntu on a modern Dell XPS recently. I was happy to discover that everything seems to work flawlessly upon install without any additional fiddling: WiFi, trackpad, touchscreen, display scaling, and really everything else I've tried so far worked great. It's an absolute joy!

There was a time I remember when various things with Linux installations were often quirky or troublesome to get working well with certain laptop hardware, but I'm convinced now that this situation has improved tremendously since then...at least from my recent experience and hearing other good things about the Dell XPS and various ThinkPad models, and of course System76 (although I haven't had a chance to try one of those myself yet).
Yeah so basically in the windows world, a lot of the good laptops are under the "business class" of the various manufacturers:

Dell Precision, HP Elite Book, MSI Prestige

In the consumer world the Dell XPS, Asus Zenbook, Asus Pro Art are the way to go for a designer.

Dell Precision is probably the overall best laptop. MSI Prestige is targetted right at you though, with color accuracy and a good display. The only brand I can personally vouch for is Dell. I and my partner use XPS's, and a good friend of mine has a super nice Precision that I am jealous of (specifically the ports! I'm so over USB-C)
Mandatory OCSP that fails open when you're offline is security theater.
> - Privacy seems to be top-notch

How can you assess the privacy of the browser? Did you do tests to verify this?
More isolation, less accidents. I use this way too.
Maybe discoverability is the problem. GUI IDEs make discoverability really easy with lots of menus, settings, modals, etc. which lowers the barriers to entry and learning curve.
One important factor in vitamin studies is the prevalence of vitamin deficiency in a particular population. E.g. vitamin D in the US might not be as effective because it is already added into many food products, e.g. milk, which is not the case for other countries.
>multiple that by 14,000 warheads, and we get 112 million km². That's a lot! It's still less than the 510.1 million km² of earth's land mass, but it's a lot more than the ~10.2 million km² of urban space. Presumably this is enough to cover every human habitation, so in principle, it might be possible to kill everyone with radiation from existing nuclear weapons.

While there is ~500m km2 of land on the planet, only about 60m km2 is habitable (less desert, poles, mountains etc). Not inhabited, habitable. So yes that's not only sufficient to wipe out all population centers, it's double the amount needed to wipe out all locations on earth capable of sustaining human life.

The ecosystem destruction alone, let alone spectrum social, ecological, agricultural and atmospheric effects that total nuclear war would cause, pretty much guarantee a wipeout of large mammals from the planet a-la the Cretaceous-Paleogene exctinction. In fairness, the impact from that event was equivalent to 100 million of the largest bombs we have ever made, detonated in one spot. But it's destruction was global, total, and immediate. The survivors of the first hours of a total nuclear war won't have such a quick death to look forward to.
>One problem with assuming nuclear war kills everyone is that this discourages anyone from preparing for potential nuclear wars.

This is what the thinking was during the early part of the cold war, the whole duck and cover era. The decades after that and the knowledge gained during the cold war is what lead to our current fears and justification for focusing on disarmament rather than nuclear war prep.

Whether or not humans end up totally extinct is irrelevant. Enough post nuclear fiction has been produced that people are well aware, yes, we may not all die, but life sure is going to suck a whole lot for literally every living thing on Earth.

That's the point of preventing nuclear war, that's the point of the world's current attitude towards it.
I must have misread or misunderstood the comment before responding. I apologize.
For one, they now have a list of everyone running Tor.
Please, no snide condescension.

I haven't seen anyone here, and certainly not josephcbible, make absurdly absolute claims that Covid hasn't killed _anyone_. I'm sure Covid has been a factor in the deaths of many people.

Deaths, as reported, peaked in the spring. Epidemiologists have a name for an entirely mainstream explanation of what happened. They call it a "harvesting effect." I agree that the name is unsavory. It refers to a disease quickly culling the weak in a population.

The majority of the excess mortality has accumulated since spring, _after_ the country went into forced lockdown. There is no reason to default to the belief, as you seem to be doing, that Covid has continued killing masses and masses of people. Certainly not compared to the much more salient explanatory force of the massive, nationwide lockdowns.
Not an expert, I would guess at least these two things:

1. There are actually around 20 lenses in a camera, not one.

2. A lens converts a ray into a cone, right? And then you need to pass that cone through the other 20 lenses which further modify it's shape, differently at different wavelengths.

I would guess this is extremely computationally expensive done naively.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/placebo-effect-gr...
The judiciary's role is to interpret and apply the law, not to legislate or rewrite it. We aren't looking to the past, but to the law, and the context surrounding it's writing so as to understand it. Of course laws are written in the past, but that's incidental. Many countries have lots of interesting ideas; that's up to the legislative branch to be informed by, and perhaps copy. For the judicial branch to do otherwise would invalidate a rule of law, and the separation of powers. While interpretation of law evolves, it can't be rewritten because a judge (or judges) liked something another country did.

If the legislative branch wishes to amend The Constitution, there is a procedure for that, including a wholesale rewriting of it (Constitutional Convention). We've amended it via 27 amendments, substantially altering its structure.