skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The answer to number 1 is an easy "no" because trade secrets are crucial to just about every industrial sector and an algorithm is clearly a trade secret. Even the food industry allows trade secrets -- the secret Coca-Cola recipe is not printed on every can. Even the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines have proprietary stabilizing agents in them. As much as it sounds nice, the outcome would be vagueries like "we use algorithms to select the content we think you'll find most interesting based on your past browsing behavior".
Maybe, but he's as bland as a saltine cracker. The 2018 Senate race was his to win, but he lost because his message and overall platform was weak.
> Will improvements from Servo continue to make their way down into Firefox?

Unlikely.
I'm going to need someone to come along and write up a layman's summary of this article. :) Does it change the end result of Gödel? Or is it basically the equivalent of saying what some restricted programming languages are doing, that we can get "good enough" results and not have these problems by restricting what we can do in the language?
I don't consider a $1,000+ laptop "entry level" or "low end". These are high-end machines.

In the Apple ecosystem, a $1000 laptops are low-end devices.

The iMac Pro [1] and the Mac Pro [2] are high-end, professional level machines. The iMac Pro starts at $5,000; the Mac Pro at $6000.

The biggest difference is that Apple doesn't sell commodity hardware that virtually every PC OEM does. That was a deliberate choice many years ago.

BTW, the M1 Mac mini starts at $699 and blows away all the PCs in it's class, including those that cost more.

Some Hollywood studios have already talked about replacing much more expensive computers with the Mac mini because it's so fast [3]. No joke.

To be clear, you're not going to render a full-length movie in 4k on an M1-based Mac mini—that's what the Mac Pro is for. But for less demanding 4k editing tasks that would have been unthinkable on an under $1000 machine a year ago, certainly.

[1]: https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/imac-pro

[2]: https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/mac-pro

[3]: Hollywood thinks new Mac mini 'could be huge' for video editors: https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/11/12/hollywood-thinks-...
The following was written using Hemingway App:

I bought this app a while ago.

It's nice, but note it will make your writing succinct. Sometimes more succinct than it needs to be. I also wish the app had basic features like find and replace, which it lacks.

This writing is all approved, but if I write a longer sentence, it will give me a yellow line. This means that if I write a sentence in my normal length, about some topic that necessitates a longer sentence, it will give me a red or yellow highlight. This highlight makes it hard to read the text.
seems like a great step for Rust adoption in the Linux community!
Can we stop playing the word game and admit that opium trade is illegal both in China and Britain? And use it to prove that domestic merchants can challenge ccp and force the current Chinese government to change behavior is as about nonsensical as claiming Trump did a perfect job in fighting COVID-19...
How is this further centralising the Web? You can still use whatever DoH provider you want (and there's plenty of them); the choice just shouldn't be tied to the network you're on.
I've thought about getting one of these. Even though I type about as fast as I write, I think better when I write in a notebook with drawings to organize my ideas.

Can anyone who has one tell me how accurate the handwriting recognition is? And how responsive is the pen-tablet interface? Does it actually feel like writing on paper (responsiveness-wise)?
Not the Guardian’s most enlightened piece.
I think this will get interesting if/when MS, Nvidia and others start using ARM cpus more widely as well. Nvidia just bought ARM so that would help them get rid of Intel as a middle man for gaming hardware. MS already has windows running on ARM but that seems to be a budget laptops only kind of thing so far. Also they are shipping AMD on x-box, which is interesting. But you could see Nvidia building an SOC graphics + cpu running windows potentially. Most game engines already target IOS and Android so there should be no issues porting to ARM on that front either.

AMD ought to be paying attention. Risc V could be an alternative at this point if they want to push the market in a different direction. Having to license ARM from Nvidia would not be their dream scenario, I imagine.
Interesting for many games, Blizzard announced native support for World of Warcraft[0] on Apple Silicon. This give hope to other games from Blizzard coming to the platform as well and may encourage other developers to join in.

The M1 has been shown to run Civ6 and Rise to Tomb Raider through Rosetta faster than previous integrated GPU mac hardware[1]

[0]https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/mac-support-update-n...

[1]https://www.macworld.com/article/3597198/13-inch-macbook-pro...
I found this article enlightening because i) it makes explicit the (admittedly rather obvious) point that technological advancement is not uniformly distributed, and ii) there's a lot of untapped value not just in pushing the frontier of technological advancement but in bringing the rest of the world up to that frontier.
Self-Storage Wars: Deals Offered to Stem Auctions and Evictions in NYC
This is insane perf/watt. x86 backwards compatibility may have gotten us to where we are, but it's certainly holding it back. Arm is looking great, and maybe it's time for x86 to die.
Modern C: don't use Rust, use regular C and incrementally wrap & migrate it to ATS[1][2]

[1] http://ats-lang.sourceforge.net/DOCUMENT/INT2PROGINATS/HTML/...

[2] http://ats-lang.sourceforge.net/DOCUMENT/INT2PROGINATS/HTML/...
The ABI may come from C, but it's not limited to C. Many other languages have FFI and use the C ABI as the lowest common denominator.

But the C ABI is awful to work with. The C language itself offers no help to guarantee ABI compatibility. What ABI it compiles for depends on headers, which may depend on a jungle of ifdefs and typedefs.
Hard to believe it was 3k just 2 years ago.

What a whimsical financial product.
I was raised in a family-owned independent sandwich shop where half of sales came through delivery. I also work at Uber, although not on the Eats side, so my opinion is informed but potentially biased.

Bandwidth is the biggest problem small restaurants have in managing a delivery service. If you don't have enough drivers to meet peak demand, you have to either decline orders or make customers mad when their order takes >1 hour to arrive (and disgruntled customers don't typically re-order or tip well). If you have too many drivers, they are making less in tips and you are probably spending more to bring their tipped wage up to minimum wage - and if it happens often they are going to quit.

I remember my dad disconnecting the phone at the store when they got too may orders to handle. We ended up using my mom and siblings as the flex/surge delivery capacity. If delivery apps had existed at the time, he would have gladly traded the headache of employing drivers and managing capacity for the ability to make and sell as many sandwiches as he could. In todays' world, if he got 12 orders going to different parts of town at the same time, he could accept all of them and know that if he could make the food, someone would be able to deliver it.

Delivery networks also increase courier efficiency by adding the ability to batch deliveries from multiple restaurants and avoiding the need to round-trip every order back to the restaurant when you are done. Couriers on Eats/DD can drop off one meal and be dispatched another from a restaurant nearby, and don't need multiple people who live near each other to order from the same restaurant at the same time in order to have efficiently batched trips.

There are efficiencies in the network model that can't easily be replicated by individual restaurants with their own drivers. The gold standard is Dominos but they are a behemoth that can't compare to any other restaurant - they are singlehandedly as large as Doordash.
M1 MacBook and Mac Mini Review(Dav2d real world performance test)
:burrito: and :taco: are not emojis as such though, they are more alike good old "smileys" that turns characters into images. Supporting emojis would be to support the UTS#51 https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/ natively.
As long as it still works for both!
Not yet, there is an embedding API, but it's designed for embedding into native apps. Servo uses Spidermonkey rather than v8 as the JS engine, so integrating into the node ecosystem would be tricky. But it would be nice to see a JS-first runtime system built around Servo!
These are also all new mounts, while the SLR mounts are decades old. If there's anything we would expect to reset the cost of equipment, it's a new and incompatible mount which saps the used market of its entire supply and lets manufacturers to charge higher rates for new and shiny gear. Also, inflation adjusted a lot of those are still cheaper than the original 1971 lens, despite having more features.

By the by, I really don't get the rush to mirrorless. I hate electronic viewfinders, the really small bodies are hard to handle with bigger lenses, and the prices are outrageous. I'll probably keep using SLRs for the next 20-30 years.
The free version of Grammarly is a spelling/grammar checker, while Hemingway seems to enforce a particular style of writing.
Once WebP starts to get used more and more and people will stumble on issues with *.webp files they have no idea what to do with, their OSes and tools that they use will start to handle WebP files and the users will eventually learn what it is the same way they learned what JPEG is in the past. I don't know where the line of "too much progress" is, but you need to start that feedback loop somewhere.
Writing Well: a must-have skill that no one teaches software developers
How to Reduce (But Not Eliminate) Covid Risk at Holiday Gatherings
Presumably we evolved brains with the capacity for long term planning because it was an aid to our survival. What's interesting is that we don't use it in this case.
Fair enough! This is a good reminder that many people don't have reliable internet access, thank you.
Russian songs by Viktor Tsoi from the late 80s:

Spokoynaya Noch (Quiet Night): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOYkG5VMhp8

Peremen (Changes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg7BFXss1hE

Zakroi za mnoi dver, ya uhozhu (Close the door behind me, I am going away): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ind9EPBzh-Y
I see. I took "extremely regular" to mean conforming to an equidistant grid structure, while you seem to have been talking about the consistency in repetition that makes it a groove.

Regardless, the context of this discussion was determining whether MIDI data can hold "extra information" that the score does not, and I can't agree with most of your statements about that.

> technically, that would be a case of the MIDI data having noise in it, not extra information.

> and yet ... in almost all the musical forms where this happens, it isn't notated.

There's a term for this type of thinking, and it's called "notational centricity."

> "musicological methods tend to foreground those musical parameters which can be easily notated" such as pitch relationships or the relationship between words and music. On the other hand, historical musicology tends to "neglect or have difficulty with parameters which are not easily notated", such as tone colour or non-Western rhythms.

So any given parameter not being notated with ease or in detail doesn't prove anything about its role as an intentional, stylistic element of the music. That is, not being notated doesn't make a parameter any more likely to be "noise," because what does get notated is not a "core representation" of the musical text. In fact, the distinction between the two mostly comes down to historical coincidence or other non-musical factors.

MIDI or other more granulous performance capture standards have plenty of "extra information" to offer that is not noise, and I'd even say it's mostly the case that you'll see a robust SNR there.
> "I will get you to think about a directed graph or as operations on a directed graph". No human thinks about that!

Maybe they should try? Just because I can describe with words what I want to accomplish doesn't mean the implementation will be simple. I'm all for making abstractions over git but the underlying model is extremely robust.

I think the UI layout could use some adjustment though to be fair. Reset is one of the worst offenders in my opinion.
Rust's Apple Silicon support is tracked here: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/73908
As someone using Jetbrains products, I would get no less than 32GB for my machine :)
Overview of &lt;blink&gt; and &lt;marquee&gt;
I've never been that impressed with the Mac Mini's battery life or touchpad :-)
Kind of interesting to feed it actual Hemmingway excerpts - which it sometimes complains about.

Surprisingly I'm finding it complains about Cormac McCarthy and Hemmingway equally, at least based on the very small sample of excerpts I'm giving it. But then you throw in something like this from All the Pretty Horses and it's got strong opinions...

"In the evening he saddled his horse and rode out west from the house. The wind was much abated and it was very cold and the sun sat blood red and elliptic under the reefs of bloodred cloud before him. He rode where he would always choose to ride, out where the western fork of the old Comanche road coming down out of the Kiowa country to the north passed through the westernmost section of the ranch and you could see the faint trace of it bearing south over the low prairie that lay between the north and middle forks of the Concho River. At the hour he'd always choose when the shadows were long and the ancient road was shaped before him in the rose and canted light like a dream of the past where the painted ponies and the riders of that lost nation came down out of the north with their faces chalked and their long hair plaited and each armed for war which was their life and the women and children and women with children at their breasts all of them pledged in blood and redeemable in blood only. When the wind was in the north you could hear them, the horses and the breath of the horses and the horses' hooves that were shod in rawhide and the rattle of lances and the constant drag of the travois poles in the sand like the passing of some enormous serpent and the young boys naked on wild horses jaunty as circus riders and hazing wild horses before them and the dogs trotting with their tongues aloll and footslaves following half naked and sorely burdened an above all the low chant of their traveling song which the riders sang as they rode, nation and ghost of nation passing in a soft chorale across that mineral waste to darkness bearing lost to all history and all remembrance like a grail the sum of their secular and transitory and violent lives."
A Report on the Fatally Flawed 2016 Democratic Primaries [pdf]
> The underlying technology of git is great, but the UX is terrible.

I think it really comes down to a difference in philosophy in terms of learning how to use tools. In the past, one had to read the documentation to figure out how to use a tool. So, for instance, running git --help or git branch --help would give the information needed.

Now having a what's considered an intuitive interface is expected, which is why many people have problems using tools where the documentation is there, but people don't want to take the time to read it.
It seems you're conflating innovation with marketing. It's perfectly legitimate for someone to invent a car. It's not, however, to cold call me or send me car catalogs or show me car ads on the web ad infinitum until I submit and buy one.
My position is crystal clear. You can't compare people at home with people living normal life and deduct anything about the covid mortality effect. You can nitpick all you want.
Most probably you're right, it's sad, costs could probably be a lot smaller and contributions could be a small but sweet and deserved compensation for coffee/beer :-)
They have closed door hearings as well. That's where the real work gets done, if there is any.
Online and fun modular font editor
Yeah I really don't envy them. They're just guys who built some websites trying to make money. I'm sure they never thought they would be at the center of national discussions about free speech, defending themselves against senators on TV, or being in the no-win situation of having the President use your platform to share obvious lies.
Yep, it is very uncommon to see IDNs used in Denmark, even though æøå are very common in words. As you say, they’re usually transposed to avoid dealing with IDN pain.

It’s bad enough in web browsers, if you try to use IDNs in e-mail, it’s a complete mess.
git fetch && git rebase origin/master, which is equivalent to git pull --rebase origin master, requires your worktree to be clean, so you must either commit or stash if you have any local changes.
It always baffles me, how do these companies get to get that far. OK, it is possible to get your friends to fund you after you describe the innovative idea, then perhaps it's possible to get an Angel to invest into your uber after you explain the losing business is only temporary to capture the market and the ultimate goal is a self-driving taxi.

Wishing for self-driving cars is easy, building them not so much. But Pizza delivery unicorn based on some arbitrage?? Come on, at least develop a fleet of food trucks in which the pizza is cooked along the way.
Baking a Pizza takes 6mins, add 2-3 for preparation so the order can be prepared along the way. No need to get back to the restaurant. This gives you 2x efficiency of the delivery person ($15/h). Equipping a restaurant is probably $200k+, a food truck closer to $50k which gives 4x capex efficiency. Perhaps in the future the pizza can be made by a robot saving you one person (50%) of the personnel. There is room for efficiency.

Here in Europe during Lockdown take away pizza was €2 cheaper, around €8 instead of €12+. I cannot imagine how someone selling it cheaper is anything but a pyramid scheme / attempt to corner the market.
I'm glad about that. I find it weird reading through comment threads or forums and seeing mobile phone emojis scattered through. I find them distracting.

I'm not really too sure why. I don't mind them in personal messages or texts and stuff, but seeing them on public pages just kind of annoys me for some reason.
Configuration Files in Terms of User Empowerment
It is absolutely not 2x better than the USA. They had 196 deaths today which is equivalent to 772 in the USA, where there were 740 deaths yesterday.

It's very easy to look up other countries e.g. Czechia where things are far worse.
Smartphones are definitely hard mode and they were the focus of the major tech companies those years.

So the more important takeaway is that Google doesn’t really care about deliveries.

Looking at stock market charts and saying, oh so and so event affected price, oh here’s a “low price” as defined relative to now... is still drawing on charts with crayons.

Anyway, in terms of the substance of what is being said here - success is always obvious in hindsight.

Probably the focus of incumbents plays a much bigger role than anything in particular Facebook or Booking.com were doing. For example, for those years after the Facebook IPO and for the “crayon says low price” part of Booking’s chart, Google kept doubling down on Android, paying 12.5x more for Motorola than Facebook paid for Instagram. How many operating systems are there? They clearly won that market, even despite disasters like the Motorola acquisition. They have an ads business, and they also acquired ITA (a Booking competitor?) but mobile is where they put their big bucks. Just the Motorola purchase probably exceeded their combined spending on Google+ by 20x. Likewise Microsoft was spending on... again, mobile, with a Nokia acquisition. Amazon was... developing the Kindle Fire line.

And then, nowadays, when Microsoft paid $22b for LinkedIn when it could have bought Instagram for less. This analysis isn’t bulletproof either, it tells you what a giant company was interested in but not if it was a good decision.

Listen, I think it’s fine, drawing crayons on charts. But if you evaluate Facebook based on its acquisitions you should evaluate everything based on acquisitions. And the sort of obvious conclusions are that while big money was focusing on mobile and eliminating all other upstart competition, other upstarts had lucrative opportunities obviously underpriced by the markets.
Having it beside your editor is just not nearly as good.

It's hard to get across how great it is to have everything you use totally integrated in to one system, and everything programmable and extensible in the same easy and powerful language that the whole integrated system uses, as Emacs does with all of its packages in Lisp.

A tightly integrated system minimizes mental context switching and having to deal an hodgepodge of different languages, configuration systems, and help systems.

To extend or fix an Emacs package, I don't have to jump down in to C for one thing, Python for another, Rust for another, OCaml or Haskell of another, and Javascript for yet another. It's a rare person who knows all of these languages and is expert enough in them to be able to tweak, modify or extend all the applications they use that are written in them.

In Emacs you just have to know Lisp, and all of the applications written for Emacs are open to you.

That's hugely powerful.

If you want these Emacs applications to behave a different way or integrate in to your setup in a different way from how they were designed, that's super easy to do compared to doing the same thing outside of Emacs, and the workflow you can develop in a system that you designed to be just the way you want can be extremely streamlined and efficient.

I'm sorry to hear that trying Emacs hasn't worked out for you. I'll just say that I used vi and vim for decades before switching to Emacs, and while it did take a lot of work to set up Emacs the way I wanted, in a very vim-like fashion using Evil, it was very much worth it, and now my Emacs setup could do many things that my vim setup never could and probably never will.
We inherited a Nest thermostat in the house we bought last year. It's fine. But I certainly never considered hooking it up to the network. And this is why.
TSMC will have 2nm chips in mass production in 2024
I’ve used windows laptops with touchscreens a lot and never really used the touchscreen. There doesn’t seem to be a point.
> This is a very misleading statement. They primarily only used the 5950X in single-core tests, and in those tests it doesn't come remotely close to 105W.

That’s true but keep in mind this is the power going into the AMD CPU only. The power number measured for the mini was the entire system power pulled from the wall, so that 28W included memory, conversion inefficiencies and everything. That’s crazy.
> They enforced a law that all Chinese males had to wear the Manchu hairstyle. This was incredibly unpopular, but it stuck.

It seems that claiming out of context statements on China becomes a standard now?

This was possible because people are killed in tens of thousands.

How is that even relevant to the discussion of whether or not today’s Chinese merchants can force government policy changes?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangzhou_massacre
> I guess what I'm alluding to is something like CSS for desktop apps.

JavaFX supports CSS styling.
that's what i meant, but i was using the shortcode in my message here.

"add a glyph to the emoji keyboard" is more precise.
> the complexity of the model

Git might not be easy, but it's not complex, it's simple. There are basically only four concepts: blobs, trees, commits, and refs. Which systems (not just version control - systems in general) are simpler?