skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see this with those profiles of factory owners complaining about Those Dang Kids not wanting to work, while omitting the fact that they offer too little relative to other options. A lot of people running places like this don't want to accept they're also in competition with retail now.

People look at the small difference between pay at the factory or mine (dangerous) and pay at Walmart (not quite as dangerous + employee discounts) and make the rational choice.
> There are too many caveats and assumptions made in what the level of radioactivity in coal ash means to meaningfully compare it to fissionable radionuclides.

If the reactor is passively safe, the amortized level of radioactivity is zero, especially if the waste is "burned" in secondary reactors (such as TWR).
Also, $1.65k sounds a lot larger than it really is. How much did you buy that new Apple MacBook Air M1 for? "$1.25k"
I agree that Observable is fantastic, but also wish it was more open.

I'm building something similar called Starboard Notebook[0] that has a different set of trade-offs. It ends up being something in between Jupyter and Observable:

* One of the goals is to build Jupyter how it would have been if it was designed for the web (only).

* It's open source [1], plays nice with git (the format is plaintext), and supports local viewing & editing [2]

* Because of that you can host it yourself, put it on your blog / github pages, anywhere.

* There is little magic, it actually is just Javascript at it's base. This means you can use standard browser APIs and HTML, and when you are ready to "graduate" the notebook implementation that should be straightforward. In my eyes notebooks are only for the first 20% of the work that does 80% of the job for small applications/experimentation (which is often where it ends anyway).

* You can "build the ship as you sail": you can load new cell types dynamically at runtime. This is also how Python is supported (through WebAssembly).

* You can have interop with Python and Javascript which is really powerful. Example: Create a drag an drop form using HTML+JS, then process the dropped CSV file using Pandas and visualize using matplotlib.

[0]: https://starboard.gg
[1]: https://github.com/gzuidhof/starboard-notebook
[2]: https://github.com/gzuidhof/starboard-cli
Interesting, any examples you can share?
What matters is getting the right distro.

I've been using Fedora as my daily driver for almost 13 years. But in my current company (a big search engine company), I was forced use a debian-based internal distro for work, and I realized why people say "linux is buggy and broken". Once a month I'm facing a pulseaudio or xorg issue which I've never had single time in my last 7 years using Fedora. Everything just worked out of the box.

I've installed Ubuntu LTS on my parents' computer 5 years ago, same. Everything was working out of the box, never had a single issue.
The implied argument in your statement seems to be that we should lower the regulatory costs of developing new pharmaceuticals. Is that what you are implying? My outsider view is that large-scale phased testing of medication is the primary cost required by regulations, and the primary assurance of quality of a medication. Since you can't get rid of those test stages without sacrificing quality, removing regulation would have the primary effect of allowing companies to sacrifice quality.
> In that time the energy mix feeding my house

That's a pretty small data point. Check out the worldwide trend.[1]

> No one AFAIK, has managed to get their "green" energy solutions down to the levels france was in the 1980's

The share of nuclear power generation in France peaked around 2005.[2] They had to temporarily shut down four plants in 2018 to avoid meltdowns[3] due to heatwaves which will become more frequent and they are cancelling nuclear projects in favor of renewable projects.

Renewable energy surpassed nuclear for the EU as a whole around 2014[4]. And the first half of this year, renewables provided more energy than fossil fuels:

"It’s official: in the first half of 2020, and for the first time, Europe generated more electricity from renewable sources than from fossil fuels. Not only that, but electricity is proving cheaper in countries that have more renewables.

From January to June, wind, solar, hydro and bioenergy generated 40% of the electricity across the EU’s 27 member states, while fossil fuels generated 34%. In the United States, by way of contrast, fossil fuels generated more than 62% of electricity last year, while renewables accounted for less than 18%."[5]

> The day its actually cheaper to put solar on your average house with a tesla power wall will be the day there is a shitton of home equity loans being taken out to do so.

"Per the US residential solar finance update: H2 2019, a bit over half of homeowners who upgrade their homes with solar panels get a loan, a sixth of the population pay cash, and the last third rent their roof out to a third party.

Within those numbers were $1.35 billion of residential solar loan ABS (asset backed security) 144A public issuances in 2019, doubling 2018’s $680 million."[6]

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/modern-renewable-energy-c...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_France

[3] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/france-nucle...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_the_Europe...

[5] https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidrvetter/2020/07/23/europea...

[6] https://commercialsolarguy.com/2020/07/01/residential-solar-...
cats are the ones with character.
they decide for themselves. they literally own the space u wrongfully assume to own if there's a cat 'living' with u. a bit like with father and daughter where he is of the false belief to have a say, now and then ..
Congrats!

There were also a lot of refugees from macOS due to how Apple treats gamers. First they let OpenGL rot, then they didn't support Vulkan, then they dropped 32-bit. You don't have such nonsense on Linux.
Why do you not want people to use linux?
I've been running Linux since forever, and had an investment in Apple hardware since even longer.

I've not used any laptop but an Apple since 2000, but consider Linux to be my primary professional realm.

MacOS has been a 'decent front-end', but more and more the only love I have for it is physical.

As soon as I can find a Linux laptop from a non-Apple vendor that feels as good to wake up to in bed, I'll ditch the Macbooks and switch.

The trouble is, the physicality of the experience is important. A slab of metal is friendlier than a chunk of solid petroleum-based product.

I do have a GPD Pocket, which fulfills the needs, and is indeed a great little computer .. if they rise to the challenge of building a bigger system while maintaining the language of their metal milled cases, I could consider very little need, indeed, for a continued investment in Apple.
> If every human stopped working at the company for a day the product would still work (not a meatspace product).

So an automobile company?
> If you really want to "understand" Microsoft, just take a look at their UI frameworks: WinForms, WPF, UWP, the javascript one I forgot the name of, and now it's WinUI.

The UI framework inside of UWP is just another name for first two versions of WinUI. That JS one you forget the name of was a version of WinUI in the early UWP era, that Microsoft stopped supporting because everyone told them the priority was Electron and React Native (and also because their browser team moved out of UWP/WinUI and over to Chromium). (Unless you are thinking of Silverlight, which was "WPF lite".) WPF itself can be considered a Version - 1 of UWP/WinUI, and today with WinUI 3 allowing you to use many of the controls directly in WPF (and WinForms), further blurring the lines between past/present/future versions of the same XAML-based rendering stacks that Microsoft has been trying to get right for many versions now.

It's fun that they never settle on a strong single brand name, of course, but from a technical perspective there's a definite through line (all the way back to Longhorn's "Avalon" dreams and the original invention of XAML).
Agreed. In particular, how do you order these? And how does it fit within spaced repetition paradigm?.. I've been struggling with reading classics. I wonder if it would help.
> Do you happen to know where to find any resources on how Apple managed to make the M1 so good compared to the competition?

If you know computer microarchitecture, the specs have been discussed all across the internet by now. Reorder buffers, execution widths, everything.

If you don't know how to read those specs... well... that's a bit harder. I don't really know how to help ya there. Maybe read Agner Fog's microarchitecture manual until you understand the subject, and then read the M1 microarchitecture discussions?

I do realize this is a non-answer. But... I'm not sure if there's any way to easily understand computer microarchitecture unless you put effort to learn it.

https://www.agner.org/optimize/

Read Manual #3: Microarchitecture. Understand what all these parts of a modern CPU does. Then, when you look at something like the M1's design, it becomes obvious what all those parts are doing.

> And why this has not happened before with other manufacturers?

1. Apple is on TSMC 5nm, and no one else can afford that yet. So they have the most advanced process in the world, and Apple pays top-dollar to TSMC to ensure they're the first on the new node.

2. Apple has made some interesting decisions that runs very much counter to Intel and AMD's approach. Intel is pushing wider vector units, as you might know (AVX512), and despite the poo-pooing of AVX512, it gets the job done. AMD's approach is "more cores", they have a 4-wide execution unit and are splitting up their chips across multiple dies now to give better-and-better multithreaded performance.

Apple's decision to make a 8-wide decoder engine is a decision, a compromise, which will make scaling up to more-cores more difficult. Apple's core is simply the biggest core on the market.

Whereas AMD decided that 4-wide decode was enough (and then split into new cores), Apple ran the math and came out with the opposite conclusion, pushing for 8-wide decode instead. As such, the M1 will achieve the best single-threaded numbers.

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Note that Apple has also largely given up on SIMD-execute. ARM 128-bit vectors are supported, but AVX2 from x86 land and AVX512 support 256-bit and 512-bit vectors respectively.

As such, the M1's 128-bit wide vectors are its weak point, and it shows. Apple has decided that integer-performance is more important. It seems like Apple is using either its iGPU or Neural Engine for regular math / compute applications however. (The Neural Engine is a VLIW architecture, and iGPUs are of course just a wider SIMD unit in general). So Apple's strategy seems to be to offload the SIMD-compute to other, more specialized computers (still on the same SoC).
I use a Macbook and a Linux desktop that I dual-boot for games. Honestly, platform specificity except for the games is gone. I pretty much use the Mac and Linux interchangeably. I've got 20 years on a *nix so I imagine the only reason I don't use Windows for dev is that I don't know the ecosystem.

It can't be very much harder, though.

But my Macbook is a very good laptop. It isn't as good a computer as my desktop (latter more powerful, more RAM, more cooling capacity, bigger GPU) but it's a good laptop. Way better than the gaming laptop I have.
How to avoid Playstation 5 scams
linux on the desktop for me: i cannot get a usable mouse sensitivity (WAY too high, at 400dpi) without downloading sources and recompiling a driver. but mouse input has always been pretty darn barebones/bad for those who care about quality input like 1000hz and no accel.

anyway unless you're willing to make many compromises, using linux daily is a test of time or patience for broken things
Yeah I pulled out d3 for a project recently, having used it before–quite a bit at one point–but not for several years. I just wanted to browse some basic examples for the current version, to refresh my memory and familiarize myself with the current API, but the reliance on Observable drove me up the wall. Even a lot of the old examples from bl.ocks.org just redirect to Observable now.

The presentation is one more layer to understand between "here's the code" and "here's what the code produces". I do generally like the notebook format for exploratory data work, but it's not at all ideal as part of a workflow for writing code that will fit into a larger application, in my experience.
They probably don't care, since you can just rotate your phone 90°.
Too many chargebacks perhaps?
Freedom is less important than convenience. People will put up with all sorts of draconian control as long as they can have smoother scrolling, or a nicer feeling trackpad.
Ask HN: Why is Hacker News so aggressive?
Why is the hackernews community not nice?
1. No equality. Some chosen people can downvote.
2. People leave passive aggressive comments.
3. People downvote my honest opinion when I share it.
Nothing in there actually refutes my point that France wants to REDUCE its dependence on nuclear energy overall. France is the poster-child for a nuclear-focused powergrid. If they want to move away from nuclear, that suggests it is not working out as well as people claim.

Legislation gets written and rewritten as timelines get tweaked. That's a reality. The core goal is unchanged.
I'm curious how much the inclusion of the video cards mattered in this test. What seems like a more reliable and meaningful test would be testing Adobe product workloads with the M1 and Intel versions of the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air to see how much having to emulate amd64 shows in the performance numbers (and it provides a reference for later when the Adobe Suite is released with native ARM64 support).

And yes... it looks far more like a native ad than an actual "test".
Gradslam – Automagically Differentiable Slam
gradslam is an open-source fully-differentiable 3D reconstruction system. This opens up new possibilities of integrating deep learning with classical 3d reconstruction
I think two things are being confounded here: (1) places most likely to contain people with COVID; and (2) places most likely enable COVID to infect someone.

Many people go to supermarkets; they’re like central hubs in a network. It doesn’t mean that as much transmission happen there as in smaller confined places like houses and bars.
I find it funny when people complain Linux is not ready for desktop. Sometimes it's because Windows software doesn't run on it, sometimes because Apple makes a fast chip...

Dunno. Been using it on desktops (well, laptops, mostly) since early 2000s, then some 6-year hiatus with OSX, then back to Linux. Works/worked great for me.

So, Year of Linux Desktop is really old news for some. For most, it'll never arrive.

And that's fine.

What I do like is choice - to each their own. You can now use and be fully productive 3 on completely different platforms, depending on your personal choice and work you do.
It's a very different approach, but for picking I really like keynav. That said, it's poor for dragging, and garbage for expressing relative motion or tracing out paths (although defining that in terms of control points for a curve could be neat...)
See https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/speeches-and-interview.en.htm...
Been a Linux Mint user for nearly 10 years now, never looked back. I installed it on plenty of computers, desktops or laptops, personal or professional. Everything just works out of the box, and keeps working.

I really don't understand the fuss about Linux' usability, like we're still in 2004 or something.
Thank you for explaining. It make sense, given the nature of the library, that one would pick the method or coding style that boost performance.
> Making screenshots and Gifs is easy and seamless on MacOS. To replicate these streamlined processes, I suggest the following:

Wait, is there something built into MacOS to make Gifs? I've been recording videos and using ffmpeg which doesn't feel "seamless." Does anyone have any recommendations for a better workflow?
Because it is opposed to flame wars :)
"I'm more concerned about the unknowns of Long Covid than I am about the unknowns of the vaccine."

Unless you are in a high-risk group, this should not be a serious concern. There is almost no evidence for "long covid". The vast majority of the evidence is anecdotal, self-reported clusters of symptoms that resemble other common illnesses:

https://sebastianrushworth.com/2020/11/17/what-is-long-covid...

When you look for higher-quality evidence for the syndrome, you find studies like this one, from the CDC, which defined "long-term" as "symptoms lasting longer than two weeks", where "symptoms" mostly resemble the aftermath of any mild respiratory illness -- fatigue, cough and headache were the most common:

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6930e1.htm

As for more specific studies, there have been a few papers about heart inflammation that have been widely circulated, but nearly all of these have been shown to have serious statistical flaws:

https://mobile.twitter.com/ProfDFrancis/status/1298514453642...

The narrative about athletes with heart damage have been shown to be exaggerated, at best, and physicians no longer MRI recommend screening of athletes without outward symptoms:

https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2020/11/04/Heart-inflammatio...

https://www.si.com/college/2020/10/28/big-ten-covid-protocol...

https://images.saymedia-content.com/.image/cs_srgb/MTc2NDI1M...

More generally, physicians are recommending that these sorts of MRI-based fishing expeditions play no role in screening of otherwise healthy people who have recovered from Covid-19:

https://cvctcardiobrief.com/?p=20977

Covid-induced strokes also appear to be a case where cherry-picking statistics has driven a narrative of fear:

https://academic.oup.com/neurosurgery/advance-article/doi/10...

There are currently two clinical trials registered to investigate the question. The earliest we will have any high-quality data on this subject is 2022:

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04411147
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/record/NCT04362150
I've been using them to remember specific things I look up commonly. The rule is if I look things up 3 times, I add a card. If I can remember these things, I won't have to break my flow to look things up on Stackoverflow.

It's usually simple things, like what's the method signature for slice? Or how do I run bash inside of a docker container?

The tough part for me is sticking to reviewing. There, I'm trying to figure out where to attach it to something I often already do.
The book Free Software, Free Society collects one of the most important pieces: http://www.gnu.org/doc/fsfs3-hardcover.pdf
> one which I won’t name, but the board vendor couldn’t even get a Linux kernel to boot reliably on it when it was shipping to customers

Please do! It would be very good to know that your vendor is doing that.
+1 for PopOS. I used to run Manjaro for ~3 years but then I managed to break it. After that I switched to PopOS. Couldnt be happier after over 4 years of using it.
I use Arch. I love it and I think it's gotten a easier to install over the years (hard to gauge because I also understand more), but it does lean towards the minimalist side. The big win for me is using a lightweight window manager (i3 in my case), which you can do with any distro.

My main recommendation is stick with one of the major distros because you'll get more results when you search for solutions to issues. With Ubuntu you'll find more hits for specific problems, but I think the quality is also sometimes lower. Whereas I think Arch has the best documentation (for linux in general, not just Arch) but in general you'll need to understand more about what's happening under the hood.
Building a Location Aware Endpoint Using Neo4j and Cloudflare Workers
I've been using Sorbet for a while integrated in my SublimeText. I have never added a type signature, not even once. I just use it to prevent me from silly mistakes (like changing a variable name somewhere and breaking code downstream). The immediate red underline, which we are used to having in JS with ESLint, is such a great productivity booster.
Most Americans don't have anything against the Russians yet they seem to be the default bad guys in a lot of our fictional entertainment.

And you need to do some reading up on Canadian history. French Canada doesn't like the rest of Canada and vise versa. But the animosity extends in part to the European counterparts.

You seem to think I think the Ubisoft employees are seething with hatred for the English. I don't. I'm just saying that given their cultural baggage (as a group) this is likely to a blind spot where they're less likely to notice.
That costs more than the rpi itself!
I'm not cool enough for gentoo.
i code iOS (native) app for a living.

I'm already stuck developing for the app store, using xcode to sign and deploy, using a programming language (that i love) swift that only really works on mac OS.

My personal situation isn't going to change anytime soon unfortunately. I was about to dump my iphone next time i had to pick one (and keep my current one for testing), however my laptop is my work computer.

I think "stop being part of the ecosystem" isn't realistic for many of us. We don't want to work on crap hardware, with a crap OS because that would make us unhappy and unproductive (or in my case, would simply not be an option at all).

However, we can use this current hardware /software to try and build the next generation of tools we would happily be using. My question now being : where to start ?
You can buy a Thinkpad X1 Carbon from Lenovo with Fedora Linux: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-x1/X1...
I work in multi-thousand LOC projects in TS in vscode. It lags.

It LAGS a lot. I work on Xcode Swift projects and the difference is amazing (and Xcode is quite crap). Auto-complete or sometimes just opening a file takes seconds. (I know my project has a bit more complexity that a normal react/node app, but still...)
> Hmmmm isn't climate change and enviromentalism in general the eschatology of the average modern atheist?

No, neither factual belief in climate change (in general, or more specifically anthropogenic climate change) nor ideological belief in environmentalism is eschatology ("the part of theology concerned with death, judgment, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind") to start with, and even if they have a weak correlation with atheism, there is no essential connection between them and atheism (they may sometimes have a common cause, in that both atheism and factual belief in climate change can be grounded in scientific rationalism.)

> And they do proselytize quite a bit.

Proselytizing atheists are disproportionately visible, because people that aren't trying to shove their beliefs down your throat are a lot less noticeable. So, sure, if you aren't an atheists, the people whose atheism you notice will be very disproportionately those who are proselytizers. That doesn't mean atheists in general are proseltyizers, and atheism has no unifying belief in the value of proselytization the way, say, mainstream Christianity does.
It wasn't a side hustle when Microsoft was deep in trying to keep Windows Phone alive.
SD cards used to be optimized for usage patterns typical in a video or foto camera (big files, written at once).
eMMCs are better adapted to serve as a traditional filesystems for e.g. phones.

Don't find source now though, so maybe I'm completely wrong.
I don't get why you picked AirBnB for this analogy -- AirBnB invented a whole new industry, they aren't just a layer on top of existing tools. Dropbox I think fits, so does Snowflake.
What Voice alternative do you use now?
When people start buying nice laptops just for Linux, the experience is a lot better. Most of the time, I've put Linux on scrap-heap computers which has always flavored my Ubuntu experience. Laptops with $300 Celerons with TN panels will always make Linux look subpar.