skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do more with my Mac than just develop software. I also do photography, videography, and make music. For me Macs are hands-down the best for all of these activities. I had considered switching to Linux as my 2012 MBP is getting long in the tooth and I figured the Apple silicon Macs were going to be a disaster. Well I was wrong about that!

I had looked at Ubuntu Studio, but honestly, everything feels like a giant work-around. Moreover I have to re-learn my workflows and learn new tooling. I want to spend more time doing my hobby than futzing around with a computer to do my hobby.

I've got my eye on the MBA with 16Gb RAM and 512Gb storage. For $1499 I think it will do me fine. With any luck I'll get another 8-10 years out of it.

This is all to say - surprise, surprise - YMMV. Choose what works best for you.
> I was never more productive then I was in that time on the train.

How long were the train trips
Right, but its the NG that enables the wind because of said load following. That combined with the fact that they are super cheap to build, and the US has a huge glut in NG due to fracking and regulation on how much we can sell internationally.

But, that isn't the point. The point is that even if we go to a ~70% wind model, we will _STILL_BE_WORSE_OFF_THAN_FRANCE_WAS_40_YEARS_AGO_.

The "Green energy" movement there is _INCREASING_ their CO2 production.

https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/france-co2-emiss...

I don't get why this is so hard to understand for all those down voters. Worse, at the current rates, we won't get there for decades.
I believe this phenomenon is similar in other Turkish cities as well. After moving abroad from Ankara, I can say lack of stray cats/dogs on streets was very noticeable.

I agree it doesn't have much to do with religion, IMO main two reasons are:

1) there doesn't seem to be any on-going effort to keep number of strays under control by the city.

2) many people feed strays as it's considered animal friendliness, often there will be at least one person in your neighbourhood who leaves food & water for animals.

You might think it's nice to see a cat or two in the streets, though it can get a bit crazy when you see 5-6 big and aggressive dogs appear in your street every day because someone feeds them, yet complaining about this would be considered heartless, and it's very likely the local government won't do anything about it either.

So, getting well fed and without any predators in a generally forgiving climate, strays easily get to survive and breed, and since neutering them all would be expensive and requires some level of organization from the state (which doesn't seem to happen) their numbers get to ever increase.
wifi calling has been around a long time. It suffers from lag, at least for me. Too much lag.
Vaccines have to be proven safe, versus “Long Covid” has to be proven real. It’s just a different standard of proof for an elective treatment.
I would like to just double check that you have fully read and understood the article as well as its surrounding context. Like, you're fully aware that there's a genocide happening against Muslim people in Myanmar[1], right?

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohingya_genocide
I've been using linux on laptops for the last 16 years. It hasn't been that bad for me.

I've been using:

1. Dells

2. HP Elite books

3. Clevos (Branded by sager)

4. Asus Zenbooks

About 16 years ago, the suspend and hibernate was a bit of work to get right. Now it just works right out of the gate. Sometimes it doesn't.. but that's the same for Windows and Macs.

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"Normal apps"

There is no Netflix app for linux. Flash is mostly gone away, firefox and chrome fixed that 9 years ago at least. Spotify works.

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Monitor support, most of the X problems are resolved. Intel graphics support is great.

Nvidia Optimus is still a dumpster fire.

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WIFI- what cards are you using? the intel cards work without an issue.

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Sound

Yea I don't know what is the deal with alsa vs pulse etc. But most of the time they work out of the gate.. I've had minor issues mostly. Bluetooth audio is annoying. Haven't had complete stopages issues in a very long time.

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Anti-aliasing/font-support- this is more of your desktop environment than anything. KDE tends to correct those issues.

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macOS often times has issues with their own software and makes it difficult to troubleshoot when things go wrong.
In-floor heating is generally about as efficient as room radiators even though it keeps the house warm all the time.
I Lived Through a Stupid Coup. America Is Having One Now
There's Google Voice, Google Hangouts, Google Hangouts Meet, Google Meet, Google Allo, Google Duo, Google Chat. You used to be able to dial from Gmail, and then there was Hangouts Dialer, and now Meet (or is it Hangouts Meet?) is apparently part of Gmail and the Meet app is gone but the Meet website is still there.

I'm honestly confused.
I come from a country that has stray cats (and dogs) roaming the streets. Some are probably cared for by kind people who give them food. But lots and lots of these animals are sick, starving, sometimes aggressive parasites that live on trash. Many look sickly or injured, and I doubt their lives are long or pleasant.

Is your claim that people in Turkey are so uniquely, extraordinarily committed to their street cats that the lives those cats lead are similar to the lives of pet cats in other countries?
Carlos Ghosn always has an angry eyebrow look.
I agree. Or even if nothing explodes, I'm worried that during the unfolding something will break or get stuck and, and unlike Hubble it won't be "easily" repairable (if at all). Hopefully this doesn't happen, because it is a once-in-many-decades project.
I don't think the chip's announcement time really should go into anyone's consideration time here, since it's Apple's own choice to go for these timelines and release a "Pro" product in November :)

I mean this point is largely moot by Rosetta covering all the basics well and still making the Macbook Pro 13 a serviceable Pro computer for a lot of (but not all) use cases. It just seems strange to me that popular developer things like Go, Rust, Docker, virtualization of any kind are still months away despite these being super important use cases of the Mac. Maybe Apple just doesn't feel that way, or have the numbers showing that my impression isn't true, but it feels strange that they're letting the community just figure it out by themselves now.
The T14s might work, but IIRC most of the Ryzen models are in the E series and hardware support there is spotty.
That’s a bad take. If facebook would be your ordinary pop&mom shop, you would be right. But as it stands, it is currently used as the only news’ source, communication method for a great majority of many countries’ residents - at which point it should not be exempt of questioning what their algorithm places in front of everyone - as it demonstratebly changes people’s biases/opinion on important topics.
Increased adoption in ML comes with more open implementations and more freedom, which in contrast to FAANG being the only ones to employ advanced ML can indeed be seen as a form democratization.
What do you do when people identify first by their religion ?

Islam is quite problematic in this aspect. AFAIK the current resurgence of political Islam stems from its very core. Maybe it could be reformed to be (durably !) compatible with a secular state, but would that reformed religion be still Islam, or would it be as different as Christianity is from Judaism ?
I gave up wading through all that prose....

A few economic ideas that come to mind which I think are not reflected by how our economy works (and fails to work):

If you think of the raw unrecovered resources of Earth, our solar system, and beyond, as an inheritance that humans have received without any merit of our own, then in principle it would seem that an economic system could benefit all of us without any redistribution taking place.

For instance, paying everyone equally from auction proceeds of new resource rights.

Similarly with intellectual property, incentives to innovate are both useful and often earned. But hard intellectual property laws are also harmful in blocking (even if temporarily) directions that others may have been likely to also benefit from.

A fix might be to assign a small percentage of revenue or profits on ideas protected by IP to a similar equally dispersed fund.

That funding would reflect the cost of society to temporarily give up the rights of others to independently discover and monetize protected innovations, and the cost of providing that protection.

The idea that the human race inherits open ended physical and intellectual terrain, but that inheritance is unequally divided, seems tragic.

I am not in any way overlooking the efforts made to uncover ideas or utilize new resources, or the need for those that do that work to benefit directly from that work.
Computational and Theoretical Analysis of Human Diseases
This is bs. I don't worship anything.

Where do I draw the "real meaning in life"? I don't think there is "a meaning in life", strictly speaking. I came to be because of laws of nature and biology, and keep living for a while, and then cease to exist.

I do think everyone can decide for themselves their personal "meaning of life". I would like humans to colonize other planets, and eventually other star systems. I think I have contributed to that goal by writing software that is used by a lot of people for information processing. I also like to be happy and enjoy life. Having a family, friends, and doing things I like with them helps achieve those goals.

Making an espresso is almost like a ritual, but I am not worshipping the bean, or electricty, water or the heat and pressure that makes it all work. All the steps are required to get coffee at the end, which I enjoy drinking. I am not worshipping the gods of wine and food when I drink and eat. I am not sending prayers to other car drivers when I am driving, or walking across the street. I am not praying for imaginary beings to keep my loved ones safe, or ask for divine help when they are sick. I admire people who have worked hard to achieve great things, but I do not worship them.

I do not know everything, and some things which I think I know are probably wrong. And yet there is still no need for religion.
No. The article links to this page[0], which has a section on Fi integration. The guidance is to move to Messages which will support SMS and dialing through the Messages app, including web app usage when the phone is off.

[0]: https://blog.google/products/workspace/latest-google-hangout...
Transitioning from Docker to Podman
> In MEA and North America we see the highest preponderance of desktop Spotify listening, on 46%, with MEA also reporting the lowest mobile listening figure of 56% (compared to North America’s 61%).

https://www.businessofapps.com/data/spotify-statistics/
I just installed popos on my 13" macbook pro (late 2013), the only issue I had was that wifi was disabled; I bluetooth-tethered to my android phone, and found in the pop-store the required broadcom drivers that needed installation to enable wifi.

since then it's worked well, I'd say the main issue I have is scaling, and I haven't been able to tune the two-finger scrolling to be "maclike", it moves too fast and coarse.
The first global map of bee species
And here I was thinking that obesity was a comorbidity. Stupid lucky elf genetics.
So X1 Carbon works well with Linux?
> while not really providing performance benefits over the Air

This is true now, but was it true before moving away from Intel?
It's sorted by "last update".
I setup a Thinkpad X-series with OpenBSD a few months ago and the hardware support was stellar. I researched ahead of time (lots of googling and reading HN and Reddit threads) and it seemed like the OpenBSD devs were using a handful of Thinkpad models so those worked perfectly. I've mostly used it to surf the web (Firefox) and code (Vim).

No one would say it's as seamless as using a Macbook, but being able to tinker with and customize everything has been half the fun.
A Bayesian Monte Carlo approach for predicting the spread of infectious diseases
ARM support for a linux laptop is already there. Pinebook sells a laptop with it as the main processor.
This is really cool and gives me a lot of ideas for my own router lift. Over the last year I've been building a modular workbench using 2040 aluminum extrusion as the skeleton.

I have a "sidecar" for my contractor table saw (which otherwise stows on a slide out shelf for storage). One of the 2'x4' workbench pods then acts as an out-feed, and I can use the others as a combination of in-feed, left and right wings, or more out-feed.

One of the coming-soon projects is to make a router side-car, and the easy answer is to drop $500 on one of the fancy router lift / fence combos. Having a hard time pulling the trigger on that though...

Maybe even put some steppers in it and get some CNC component to get some "DRO" and "tool change position". That might be real nice.
I can't see any other reference to this but there is a whole field of study on this. See e.g. https://www.amazon.com.au/Cost-Disease-Computers-Cheaper-Hea... or google "cost disease".

One thing I have noticed is the incredible increase in the cost of regulatory compliance over the years.

It can take years to get the dozens to hundreds of approvals needed. Vast armies of people are needed to document and monitor compliance.

At a large bank where I worked, I analyzed the previous $600 million in IT projects. $350 million of that $600m was on compliance projects.
Yep, most of the industry is just republishing press releases. The Register at least have some personality and some really good stuff there.

Regarding the chip, I wondered if Apple had suddenly became all that good chip makers, but it seems that they've traded some of the tradeoffs that others are not. We will see if it will pay off.
FYI: "ublock original" is the better and independend ad-blocker.
Al will affect marketing in 2021
Or simply want to chat with your friends on their platform without nervously keeping a finger on the pulse. Chat in gmail, or hangouts? Oh that’s google plus now, wait it isn’t plus. Google voice? Google duo? Is that still a thing? Is Google meet the same as hangouts?

All my friends churned away from google’s IM solutions and I doubt we’re ever coming back. Who’s got time for all that?
AWS had no MongoDB-as-a-Service before MongoDB Inc. changed their license.
I agree and disagree.

The challenge with HIPAA isn't really the technical safeguards. It's processes and controls you have in place to make sure that you don't violate HIPAA.

On a small team, this is pretty easy to have your CTO take this responsibility simply by being involved in EVERYTHING. At a certain point that breaks, then you need good processes.

Personally, the biggest pain of HIPAA is actually the product restrictions (or requirements) rather than the technical requirements.

* Lots of limitations on how you can use and share information
* Lots of requirements for durability/accessibility/forgettability
* Lots of mindfulness of where you store data and what has access to that data.

For example, look at cookies. It's a best practice to not store sensitive data in there. In a non-HIPAA environment, you don't really have to worry about it. Worst case, you identify the problem and resolve it. In a HIPAA environment, the could result in a violation, so you need to build a process to avoid storing sensitive data in an insecure manner.

Extrapolate to a bunch of different risks and suddenly you have a lot of surface area to look after.
> With over 600 reorder buffer registers in the Apple M1 executing deeply out-of-order code

Can you provide a link to how this was determined? I did some searches but couldn’t find anything. I’d be very interested too see how it was measured.
I have never worked for Google, but the story in previous similar discussions had been that Google’s performance reviews largely weigh launching new products to the exclusion of everything, so anyone who wants to get promoted can’t afford to “get stuck” maintaining an existing product without at least a significant rewrite.
> if you're going to ship with the majority of pro software not being native

Shipping this gets M1 hardware in the hands of developers who can then use it to test their software. You mentioned Rust, which is currently blocked on getting hardware hooked up to CI (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/73908)

Also, such an impressive release of hardware shows third party devs that Apple is serious about transitioning, and doing so quickly. Before this laptop was released we didn’t know what the performance delta would be.
Thanks for that pointer, I've got to take a look at that. I love some of his work, but I don't follow him normally.
I didn't know about these two. Thanks for sharing!
I do all of these things with Linux quite handily.

Videography: Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve runs very well in Linux. FFmpeg speeds up my workflows a lot already anyway and Linux makes that easier.

Photography: rawtherapee, darktable, lensfun, gimp (gimp is probably the weakest here, but I don't do a ton of touchup). I've heard good things about Krita.

Music: Reaper (my preference) & Ardour

I can even use all of these in Windows if I'm desperate. Or even Mac.
Most of the mac-native software for doing the things you mention has gotten worse right along with the hardware...
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1). Notebooks were invented by Mathematica in the 80s.

2). Words have meanings and literate programming is defined extremely well by Knuth in his 1983 paper. This is not what was described there any more than the WWW is Xanadu.

3). That is not what No True Scotsman means.
I opened this up, and there's a new concept called rooms... but there's no way for me to create a room, as far as I can tell? And I don't have access to any others?

Weird.
I'm wondering how one would incorporate important practices such as TDD into this development methodology.
Via https://www.golem.de/news/covid-19-so-funktioniert-die-coron...
GP has a point. Will Facebook be just as judicious when it runs against its own interests?

Or will it use tools designed to prevent hate speech to censor?
I haven't, mostly because I'm scared of the liability. My code is pretty sketchy for everything but Twitter, and for that I use LinqToTwitter (.NET) which is already OSS (and amazing).
I installed arm ruby via arm homebrew using `brew install ruby` and it's working. Anything requiring the ffi gem will not compile at the moment though.
So, why so much outrage, when some non-US country bans LGBT groups on some of their platforms? Or trans groups? Or pro-choice (abortion) groups? Or pro Hong Kong groups? All of them are welcome to start their self hosted blogs, aren't they?

You either have free speech, and host stuff you personally disagree with, or just call it 'moderation with political bias' (or some other kind of bias), if you only leave stuff you personally agree with.

You never know, when you'll be the one facebook disagrees with, and then it's too late.
I got one really good one, a couple years ago. Since then, yeah, all very low quality. You could hear the recruiters filling in checklists for the body shops they were hiring for.
I think your analysis has counter-factual conclusions.
I don't think Google Cloud Storage is S3 compatible in any meaningful way
Facebook and co. don't have monopolies on places where you can voice your opinion.

Blogs still exist. Newspapers exist (even very extremists ones). Telegram exists, forums exist, etc.

What Facebook and co. may have a monopoly on is channels of mass outreach. However, I don't think that there is or should be a right for your opinion to be widely disseminated by a third party.
Ranks represent subjective degrees of belief but they do not, like subjective probabilities, nicely map to relative frequencies. So compared to probabilities, ranks are indeed limited in this regard. For instance, you can learn probabilities from data but there's no obvious way to learn ranks from data.

But for subjective belief they're still useful. Consider the problem of diagnosing a system with components that fail in rare cases. However we have no idea about failure probabilities. We can then use ranks. A diagnosis for some observed behaviour would then be the least surprising (i.e., lowest ranked) failure state that explains the observed behaviour. This is also the reason for least-surprising-first execution: the most important prediction or hypothesis is the most likely one and thus the least surprising one. There are some concrete examples in the paper which demonstrate this.

I am currently thinking about combining probabilities with ranks so that you can reason about both kinds of uncertainty in the same model. This could be implemented using a programming language that supports both ranked choice statements and probabilistic choice statements.
I'd offer this idea in return -- religion may be the collective, social expression of individual spirituality, usually fuzzy and generalized beyond an individual's own specific beliefs in order to promote social harmony and cohesion.

Just as some people have "religious" beliefs that are very eclectic and isolated from organized religion, a sort of personal spirituality, I think there are atheists with particular and non-social views.

I also think many atheists, sharing similar "spirituality", find a similar kind of comfort in "communing" with other "believers", and socially expressing their beliefs with other "believers". Regardless of the specifics of said spirituality, I believe we do see some commonalities between "theists and atheists".
Wankers write history, hysterics write whiningly.
It's probably a cultural thing. Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, on the Caspian Sea, is culturally similar in some ways (religion obviously, but also beyond that; e.g. the language is similar) - and yes, there are tons of cats in that city. Or at least were, years ago when I visited.

There was this inner courtyard somewhere, baking in the sun, with a huge pile of what we thought were dead cats. Like a rugby melee type of thing, but just laying down motionless. I mean, it was so hot we could not imagine how those critters could just lay there not moving.

Then we noticed some of them were lazily moving their tails. They were not dead, they were sunbathing.
I mean this is my question as well: how are they making money? As of right now Observable seems like a mix of use cases like Medium-like explanation articles, vis debugging/authoring and interactive journalism that don't seem to generate much money (ofc I can be wrong).

I totally agree with you that the DS community is much much larger than the vis community. With the new funding round I think they should start doing something with DS.
True, same situation in Tel Aviv, I guess it is just an east Mediterranean thing, there are no stray dogs though like I have seen in Greece but that was many years ago.

Cats as street animal is just perfect, they are clean, they keep the rats at bay, you almost don't see any rats or mice in Tel Aviv comparing to places like NY. Also if you want a cat at home you can just pick one from the street.
And yet, that does not answer the question "How exactly does blocking car owners from working on their cars stop someone from exploiting them on a massive scale?"

If the OTA is buggy, it can be exploited on a massive scale regardless.

If you have a hardware switch that needs to be pressed while updating software, there is no possibility for massive scale exploit.
I remember when everyone used that little div. It was great. Everything was right there in gmail and searchable and simple and it had status. And then Plus and hangouts and all that jazz. It's funny Google Talk(or chats, or hangsouts, not certain of the verbiage) is still sitting in the bottom right of my Gmail, with most of the threads from 2015 or earlier)
Don’t forget google voice, which may or may not be related to the hangouts dialer. I was never sure about that.