skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ironic effect is, of course, communication all by itself.

My use of emoji in messaging applications is primarily limited to quick rebus-like reaction replies to meme images, a quick and dirty reaction to a message in slack expressing some vague emotional response, or making complicated fart-jokes with my partner that rely on a lot of out of band information.

(i also use IRC on the daily, and have been known to use emoji there too, so these communication forms are not disjoint)
GT just switched over in the spring semester, I believe.
Did you do the sketches yourself?
Apple forked WebKit from KDE KHTML.
I wonder if that's putting things through unicode "canonical normalization", or than custom rules.

Let's see what it does with `U+00BC Vulgar Fraction One Quarter Unicode Character`... ¼

Nope it allows it instead of turning into `1/4`, so that's not canonical normalization. I guess it's custom rules? Or some other unicode transformation we're not thinking of, or other third-party re-usable transformation.
Serverless Functions with Multiple Cores
I have an Rust application that scales with number of CPU cores available. However, for example AWS Lambda only has a few cores available in their highest memory configuration.

Are there any such services available?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Origin
$6B Linux deal? SUSE IPO rumored
My experience with Hemingway in the past has been that it's a set of general heuristics which prevent bad writing. I found it quite helpful to proofread. It's not a replacement for a human editor, but it's a step up from traditional autocorrect.

At the end of the day, it is still up to the writer which suggestions they keep. Anyone who blindly accepts suggestions because the tool recommended them probably wasn't in the correct mindset to write well anyways.
Can AMD/Intel pivot to ARM and provide the efficiency benefits to the non-Apole ecosystem?

Can Apple's M1X/M2 outperform desktop CPUs?

Qualcomm tried their hand at desktop CPUs with Microsoft a few years back. Is it time they tried again?

How comparable is a Surface Go with the performance/efficiency of M1?
The 16" MBP will presumably get a bigger version of the same thing; this one is 10W vs the 45W TDP Intel chips that those currently use, so they could just double it (or more).
While the SF Bay Area is much better than most of the country, it's still annoying seeing people here not use masks outside of their homes, or wear them improperly.

With masks we can get back to normal relatively quickly, but people just need to wear them
Satya Nadella just tweeted about their new Pluton processor. I have a feeling it won't get the same hype as the M1 but they are clearly already trying to defend.
Not to nitpick too much, but the first two examples of lens prices are (presumably) for FD mount. The third most likely as well because the EOS mount was introduced in 1987 (per a quick wikipedia). The early versions would have been breach mount, while the 1986 would have been the later bayonet style (introduced in 1981).

Anyway, my on-the-spectrum reaction aside, I started exploring mirrorless because it facilitated making different types of pictures. Part of that facilitation was it's low cost. A used NEX-3, a fotodiox shift adapter (for K mount), and some old manual focus primes was all in for about $300. I got a camera with front shift that fit in a (largish) pocket. 14mp will about cover 10"x15" printed at 300dpi and is overkill for anything online.

I find manual focus with focus peaking satisfying. It's slower but when it misses it misses because of my technique not the way the camera interprets the scene. I don't get as many mis-focused pictures. I learn from those I get. The fixes are obvious. I don't feel I need to make more "just to be safe."

That's the biggest thing for me with mirrorless. My workflow has become much simpler. I don't take extra pictures just to be sure. I can see how the shadows and highlights will render in the viewfinder. I can adjust the contrast and saturation and color profile and white balance in camera while looking at the scene.

But, it's made me heretical. I no longer shoot RAW...though there are situations where I would...just JPG. My workflow is simpler because I don't spend time trying to fix pictures. Color, shadow, and highlights were either pretty close in camera or I didn't take it.

Even better for my workflow, JPG's are tiny. Memory cards don't fill up. Disks don't fill up. Downloads are faster. Backups are faster. And there are fewer files because I know that I got it when I made it.

But...I don't shoot sports anymore. I don't shoot wildlife anymore either. I'm not chasing birds in flight. My pictures were shifting as my gear was. Both still are. Mirrorless changed the way I was making pictures. The more a piece of gear does that, the more interested in it I am. YMMV.
Covid may not be real, but cognitive dissonance sure is.

/s
Ray Tracing

I'm not someone into the inner-working of chips much, but is "ray tracing" a new term used for something in microprocessors now? Or is this the same graphic "ray tracing" we were doing back in the 80's on Amigas and Atari STs?
> Ah, but the distinction is that the user is the one performing the editing, and not the platform

Hum...

The platform still ends up showing you pre-selected posts over others. But the editorializing work is being done by other users.

I guess here it becomes a matter of responsibility. Since the platform is still the one publishing the content in an editorialized manner, I think you could argue they are still responsible for it.

Where as something where when you visit the platform you'd just see a list of posts in most recent order. And then it be the user navigating that would need to make "editorial" decision, by filtering or searching through the content on their own. Now you could say it is truly the user doing the editorializing.

I guess the distinction is, the user consuming content should be doing their own selection. If the platform selects things for you in any way, even if based on feedback from other users, it means as a user consuming content on it you are getting an editorial perspective.
I preordered a ReMarkable 2 and after the very long wait started to question if it actually made sense...

I ordered an iPad mini and a 20 dollar Apple Pencil clone (which imo is better than the actual Apple Pencil with its USB C charge port)

That combined with a matte screen protector got me everything I wanted out of the Remarkable, without the wait, and with an incredibly fast computing device that can do far more.

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I get that traditionally Tablet vs eReader is largely down to the eInk and some some other factors like battery life, but I really think the math has silently changed

iPads have gotten so fast, yet the battery life has improved dramatically (in sleep mode I can forget about it for a week or two and find it still has enough charge left for a day of use. E readers can manage months, but these numbers are lightyears ahead of the early days where a day of standby was pretty good.

Software support is excellent with the pen. Max brightness is plenty for direct sunlight when using a matte screen protector, and it gives it the writing feel of a proper digital notebook.

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I think anyone considering one should take a look at the combination. I didn't cancel my order on the RM2 out of apathy honestly, but I would have taken the iPad if I realized how far they'd come.
Yes, that's the stand from the beginning and there are good reasons behind that. If you read the issue thread, we did spend a good amount of time discussing those keybinds and most users find them reasonable. Speaking of compiling, the only mandatory library dependency is ncurses and the users don't consider it a significant problem. For example, Arch Linux users install most software from source using formulas and so do Homebrew users. So the tools to build are already present on the system.

nnn also has an option to make the process simpler. Additional details - https://github.com/jarun/nnn/wiki/Advanced-use-cases#custom-...
You don't actually address the claim gp made. The point of view isn't directly relevant to the story being told. Certainly it helps, but one could imagine a story told from the daughters point of view where the black characters were more active. That's the criticism GP is leveling, and it's nuanced and well informed, and as far as I can tell you didn't actually understand it fully. Lashing out at them as ignorant when you failed to grasp the point they were making is really rude.

There book might fit in a curriculum where you look at the representation of black people in media over time, say how they go bad or caricature to sort of flat and irrelevant to ultimately complex and human, but that's probably a college level course, if only because it would require devoting 3-4 books to the same subtopic.
Organisations are made of people. There are enough people who care about Mozilla's mission that they'd do the things even if Mozilla didn't, and if they got together they could get at least 10% of the funding from non-Google people who currently donate to Mozilla, if Mozilla ceased to exist.

The only real downside is that they wouldn't have a seat on the WHATWG.
> Does Firefox have any Rust component at all

Yes, lots (and increasing). E.g.:

https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/servo/component...

https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/gfx/wr

https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/third_party/rus...
I don’t recall that disk size was ever something we’ve optimized or tracked. Why is it important?
No - but for desktop maybe that's the future? I could imagine AMD and Intel offering multiple tiers of SoCs instead of CPUs.
The funny thing about nnn is that the maintainer is absurdly responsive to the point that whenever I didn't like something, rather than configuring it, I would complain and after some consensus from fellow complainers it would get changed in a commit which I immediately enjoyed since I use nnn-git from the AUR.

I feel like I configure nnn via github issues xD
If you have any resources on how to manage anxiety please bring them on. My old son has a mild development impairment, I am the sole bread earner, and we have no family support (we live abroad).

Anxiety is crippling me to the point of rupture.
Sure, it's all Darwin, but userspace matters a lot - you can do lots of things on MacOS that you can't do on iOS (JIT, arbitrary web engines, assorted emulators, pop a root shell and load arbitrary kernel modules)
Tesla instrument clusters fail a lot because they use a cheap NAND flash [pdf]
For distribution check out Install4J
Six questions physicists ask when evaluating scientific claims
What I don't get, is even for the people saying that the symptoms are like the flu. Clearly they don't remember having the flu, because if I can wear a mask to avoid any fever, that is a reasonable cost to me.
Flutter is what it is because of the quality of the engineering team behind the Dart language.

My point being that, Skia is great but is not the most important ingredient at play for Flutter achievements.

Also being a good choice will not pay for the bad choice that is choosing JVM as a primary platform for this which targets UI application consumers.
Yes, a combination of things around Apple's A series CPUs.

ARM has been improving much faster than Intel.

Apple has been executing ARM much better than anyone else.

Apple's auxiliary processors and integration have been top notch.

TSMC has been crushing Intel in getting to 5nm.
Do they mix bins on medicine too?
didn't seem like it was emojis paving the path but web-based email and internationalization of websites. Just the whole move to web in various key areas like email meant it became just less of a hair-pulling nightmare for developers to have to deal with encoding between countries and platforms. Throw in the dawn of smartphones (and emojis came along with that yes) and that was more problems on top of that, people moving between desktop/mobile/web etc. UTF-8 took care of alot of the headache.
Did you have a hard time convincing your wife to do sleep training on your kid? My wife thinks it’s abusive. I think it’s abusive to everyone else in the house not to do it!
First the praise: For learning technical writing where clarity is the ultimate goal this might be really useful as a first draft editor. I'm certain I would benefit from using this tool to improve my writing skills. The UI looks very nice, not just stylish but functional in a non-intrusive way and that is a great accomplishment.

But my initial gut reaction after realizing what the app was doing was horror. Hemingway Editor appears to present some fairly opinionated ideas, steering a writer towards being very concise and using a simple vocabulary. But the counter point is that in a world where the written word is the primary mode of communication we desperately need to develop our own voices. Yes, even in technical writing.
I'm guessing that that's b/c that's one of those that is inside the BMP?
> Good writing is not an intrinsic property of the text - it is defined within a context of message and reader.

Exactly. Hemingway himself wasn't a mechanical automaton blindly following his own rules. He broke them when it suited him. Style in writing isn't a process that can be applied in a mechanical fashion. Instead, _taste_ must be exercised.
Right, the point is that it didn't use to be that way exclusively and now it is, so the new machines are more restrictive than previous Macs, which also ran macOS.

In fact macOS itself is more restrictive nowdays than it used to be.
A counter point to consider - and one that I consider to be a little more rational - is that - what if in the messaging to get people to wear masks - we have inadvertantly encouraged riskier behavior?

As an analogy, I'd explain it like this. What if in the process to encourage people to wear seatbelts, drivers who did that then felt entitled to drive even faster thus resulting in even worse accidents and more frequent ones at that. Of course, no driver would actually think like that.

While I wear my mask, I do wonder about its overall effectiveness especially if in total we all engage in riskier behavior that we wouldn't have otherwise if we simply lived with the basic fear that you have to stay away from everyone.

Masks "help", but maybe they "help" most by thinking of them as not a help at all. It's a tough paradox to encode into public health messaging.
My i9 16" MBP power throttles long before it thermal throttles. FWIW I find the thermals actually quite good, I've never had issues with over-temp but I have daily issues with it hitting the 100W limit and getting throttled down to 1GHz until I unplug the 3rd monitor.

https://twitter.com/thesquashSH/status/1291053844592558084
That said: you are right that the inner -1 should never happen. But why are we binary searching in the first place? Maybe we should have stored the values as a set and then called Set.member; it's extremely rare to actually even use Arrays in FP languages as far as I know. I usually am only working with Maps, Sets, and Lists.
So though it's a new age in some ways, I don't think it will benefit many people. It will just increase the churn. Witnessing all the cries of "16GB of RAM isn't enough!" makes it quite apparent that software behaves like a gas rather than a liquid, and will expand to consume whatever hardware is available to developers.

I think that for consumer products, which these are targeting, software responsiveness, usability, and battery lifetime are by far the most important metrics.

These chips help with battery, and can hell with software responsiveness if there's is developer focus on it.

But what will probably happen is that development teams will buy the fastest computers they can, and then develop software that is mostly, somewhat adequately performing on this beefy hardware, then ship it to customers that are on weaker hardware.

This effect is especially pronounced for web software, where it's easier to make unresponsive interactions due to so many layers of software, especially with developer network connections usually being 10x-100x less latency than users.
I'm not sure I or really anyone actually wants a 2 day battery life.
Like, we can do that on smartphones right now but users have signaled that the 1 day device is fine for them, notably because of the human gap.

You know the gap.

If you charge your phone every night it becomes a habit tied to your daily routine.

If you were to charge your phone every other night, you might lose track of what day you are on, not charge it and then the perceived battery life experience is worse. This is why smart watches with 3-4 days of battery have not prevailed over those with one heavy day of battery. They are annoying to know what day you are on so you might just charge it every night and if you do, the platform is trading off so much power that the experience is worse.

Plus, then you have to carry 2 days worth of battery or have half the power envelope as a laptop with one day. the concept all sounds great but the reality of people using things really has honed in on the fact that these things need to fit into habit and use cases that make sense.
In this case, it seems calculated to allow someone to get away with lying to the public about meeting with and knowing nothing about deals with an executives of a foreign state-owned company that has been accused of bribing the US government and corruption.
As they should be. Windows laptops have been embarrassingly stagnant for over a decade; they just copy Apple's innovations. This isn't an innovation that they will be able to release in their next product refresh. They're going to have to invest significant amounts of capital.
Here is the exact quote:

"One of my people came up to me and said, ‘Mr. President, they tried to beat you on Russia, Russia, Russia. That didn’t work out too well. They couldn’t do it. They tried the impeachment hoax. That was on a perfect conversation. They tried anything, they tried it over and over, they’ve been doing it since you got in. It’s all turning, they lost, it’s all turning. Think of it. Think of it. And this is their new hoax. But you know, we did something that’s been pretty amazing. But you know, we did something that’s been pretty amazing. We’re 15 people [cases of coronavirus infection] in this massive country. And because of the fact that we went early, we went early, we could have had a lot more than that."

He literally says "this is their new hoax." Referring to COVID.
tl;dr: https://twitter.com/gsuberland/status/1328454724757164032
Maybe not, but A) it's close-- most of the work of compiling is not microarchitecture-level optimizations or emitting code, and B) if you're a developer, even if some of the advantage is being on an architecture that it's easier to emit code for... that's still a benefit you realize.

It's worth noting that cross-compiling is definitely harder in many ways, because you can't always evaluate constant expressions easily at compile-time in the same way your runtime code will, etc, too, and have to jump through hoops.
From the outside it seems like eating the seeds for next years harvest.
I get what you're saying, I'm also looking forward for the even higher performing machines with 12 or 16 core cpus (8 or 12 performance cores + the 4 efficiency cores?), 32gb ram option, 4 thunderbolt lanes, and more powerful gpus. Wondering exactly how far apple can push it, if this is what they can do in essentially a ~20TDP design.

On the other hand it's quite funny that the title of this article is "16-inch MBP with i9 2x slower than M1 MacBook Air in a real world Rust compile" and the comments are still saying "yeah but this is entry level not pro".

Apparently Pros are more concerned about slotting into the right market segment than getting their work done quickly :)
>a leader who literally and almost exclusively enacts white supremacist policies, and uses white supremacist rhetoric/dogwhistles

This is where the rift is. This is not true. Yes, some could take that sort of interpretation of what he's saying, and that sort of interpretation being taken by lots of white supremacists regardless of intention, does mean something. But it doesn't mean much, at least, I don't see why we'd expect that to be any significant effect. Just to bring an example, at least, ime the most common "but he said.." claim. The "fine people on both sides" quote. Many misunderstand what he was actually saying there and actually what happened - the event started with a wide range of people on the right, a general conservative gathering seeming thing. It was organized by white supremacists, which lots attending did not realize until some time passed and they started getting uncomfortable and leaving, by the time people were chanting slurs and all, it went full on neo-nazi rally. Trump clearly did denounce that, and what happened that night, and was speaking to the normal people who had attended in the beginning and left later.
I guess, but the "whole concept of the machine" that I'm typing this on was to run Windows... 7 (I think?); that's a completely artificial limitation, as shown by running Ubuntu on it years after the hardware went out of support.
I’m guessing the performance improvements derive from integrating the memory onto the same chip (instead of using external memory), not from ARM (although power savings come from ARM). So we will probably see a new era of laptop SoCs, but that also means coupling RAM with CPU (or maybe you can mix and match the on-chip RAM with external RAM?).
I'm guessing that the "new products" are not the browser.
Many of us are looking for (or have found) dayjobs, but it's possible some folks may be open to contracting work on servo/etc. But nobody is being paid to work on servo right now.
Based off of what happened with Rosetta1, I don't think devs should count on Rosetta2 being around forever
Im not sure why this is downvoted, especially on a site like HN. If you had a CEO that was anti tracking CAC and just said, doing marketing is enough. The corporate culture of employees would drift toward not tracking CAC (cost of acquisition), even though none of the employees are obligated to buy into that.

The thing that is lost on the national vs state debate is that the presidents role in a our state powered republic is mostly a sales job. Selling culture, building confidence, recruiting domestic and abroad. Having a new culture changes things whether you agree with the change or not. It's not a political statement, it's how the country works.
This is why you block DNS selectively at your local gateway AND host a DNS resolver there as well while blocking ALL DNS except to your gateway.

Web browsers have no business using DNS over HTTPS, none; nada. zip.

We've opened a can-of-worms ... for malwares to evade further network detection ... effectively with DNS-over-HTTPS.
Let's hope not. I bet they're flush with Generics though.
Hope you're enjoying it! What batch were you in?
If you're still at a point in life where having children means "sacrificing your happiness", then you probably shouldn't be having children yet anyway (assuming it's a case where you're making a conscious decision on the matter). That's not a healthy starting point for either party.
Maybe you should reread the comment below?

It doesn't mention "creepy", and says something quite different from what you got from it.
Yeah? And how are they looking today?