skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The comment I replied to wasn't about bundling webkit instead, it was dynamic linking of what's available in the system. That's not possible because each web engine behaves differently, even if somebody reimplemented the non-web apis as a portable native library (actually, these ARE implemented like that). We're bundling whole chrome because it's a reliable abstraction that works the same on all systems.
It's really slow.

Really interestingly I've been using a Windows, a Linux and a MacOS machine for many months, swapping them often. Well, Windows/Linux are on the same Ryzen 2700X with a Geforce 1080Ti, the Mac is a 2018 Mini with 32G RAM and 6 core i5. 4k 32" display in each case.

What surprised me:
- Windows UI is WAY the fastest. Linux is the slowest, and with fractional scaling turned off its hardly tolerable

- the font rendering on Windows is perfect, while MacOS is a bit blurry. This is very surprising to me since all the hype around the good scaling of MacOS. Windows hidpi fonts are just perfectly sharp.

- MacOS is absolutely consistent when it comes to rendering and scaling, the others aren't
In VkFFT FFT is done as a part of the so called compute queue. There is no need to transfer data through PCI to show it on screen - there is a graphics queue that has this as its main purpose. You can use compute queue results in it and do all necessary calculations directly on the GPU. This type of task can benifit greatly from doing FFT on GPU. VkFFT can be append FFT to the user command buffer (list of commands), which can be then followed by additional user commands, like scaling, correcting, etc.

AFAIK, virtualization software right now has no or very limited access to the GPU, so no extensive graphics can be done through it.
I dunno. In the 2000s it was worth buying inferior PowerPC hardware because Mac OS X was so forward-looking and friendly to develop on. It was exciting.

Nowadays, there’s no question that the M1 hardware is fast and the Rosetta 2 translation works really well, but the platform isn’t fun any more. You can’t extend the OS with novel concepts or write technically interesting applications. You have to submit your programs through several levels of bureaucracy so they don’t do anything “not allowed.” Innovation isn’t possible, it’s just boring.

The new CPUs are just the same experience but faster. I’ll just wait until other hardware gets access to the smaller fabrication processes. I’m not going back to Mac.
Aside - Modern general purpouse CPUs tend to be OoO but processors used for demanding computation in things like modems (signal processing/SDR) and GPUs (graphics) tend not to be.
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Out of interest, how do you define "works perfectly fine"? :)

Obviously you're saying "for me", which I recognise, but from my experience playing around with Linux Mint, Kubuntu and Fedora on a Thinkpad T480S over the past year, while things work technically, getting them perfect (in my opinion) takes a lot longer, and might not even be possible in some cases.

Take for example suspend/resume: yes, this works in terms of the machine waking up again, but things like the keyboard and screen brightness get reset (or are at least inconsistent) each time. Googling the problem, there are a lot of suggestions for hooking up scripts to run xbacklight to store / reset it each time, and I did manage to get it almost working "perfectly", but I'm not really sure why I should have to do this from a user's perspective. It's even more annoying in that at least in Linux Mint and Kubuntu's case, controlling the screen brightness isn't possible until you've logged in, so if you resume the laptop and the screen is dark, it's actually sometimes difficult to verify what's going on at the login screen.

Same goes for things like Dropbox - it doesn't know it's been woken up (maybe it's a Dropbox issue not listening for events), so doesn't resync - there are hacks to make a script to touch a file to trigger the refresh, and basically get it working, but again, why do I need to have to do this?

Even getting decent battery life involves (in my experience) tweaking things and running things like powertop to work out what system services are doing what, etc, etc.

Whilst I do agree it's technically possible to get something I'd term "good" with Linux + Laptop, I'm not convinced the average consumer would be that happy with it compared to a Mac or a PC laptop.
I've been running Fedora on a Thinkpad for 10 years and I haven't had to do any of the things you just listed other than remapping CapsLock to Ctrl, but that was trivial to do.

There are definitely use cases that Linux hasn't kept up on, but the mature distros cover a lot of use cases now without even needing to touch the command line.

IMO, if you can't work with a mature Linux distro (not Gentoo or some other Flavor-of-the-day) then you're not very good with computers.

I've noticed a lot of people who make the transition to Linux often try to make it a learning experience, which is the wrong approach. If you're willing to go the vanilla route (Fedora or Ubuntu) and do some mild research on recommended laptops for those distros you'll be fine.
> That said, I am not sure whether regulatory approvals should take 5-15 years, when it seems like everyone's happy working through a coronavirus vaccine in less than 1 year.

This has nothing to do with regulations and everything to do with how much money the companies are willing to throw at the problem.

If your budget is a billion+ dollars, a 30,000 person Phase III trial is no big deal. If your budget is a million+ dollars, a 30,000 person Phase III trial is painfully expensive.

The problem is that those 10K+ Phase III trials are where you first really see low probability problems.
What makes you think CS experts know or care about text rendering?
>The people who suggest breaking up Apple are correct that it would destroy them

I haven't actually heard too many people calling for Apple to be broken up (most of what I hear is around increased regulation) but when I do hear breakups being talked about, it's more along the line of removing their value-adds like TV+ and Music+ and App Store. Those are the things where you could make an argument that they're hurting competition, not the coupling of their OS and CPU.
Someone commented that Tim created the music for Qix on the Amiga but I’m not so sure. Anyway here’s playlist for building a mental object graph prior to speed coding :)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0uZL_olIeGjFpaWSzUp1...
I do have a solid calibration mic and have done this a handful of times with different speakers, but like you've said, I'm very much technically inclined and wouldn't expect the average person to be able to do it.

It's probably just a matter of time before pretty much every speaker can self-calibrate to some degree. Most mid-range bluetooth speakers already have a microphone and some basic DSP abilities, which is really all you need.

HifiberryOS is new to me and looks pretty nifty - I'll have to check it out.
> How can we stop the nazis? P.S. I work as a nazi for a living.

How about find another way to make a living which lines up with your ethics?

(P.S. this comment does not compare Apple to nazis)
I wonder how much of the delay is due to FDA staffing levels. If they had more staff they can evaluate more trials in parallel?
Wouldn't this have just been a good time to say that he wears a mask, instead? He's supposed to put everything under the tree when no one's around anyways, so he's practicing physical distancing and would also be wearing a mask. Maybe that's a lot of thought for something like this but I'd also imagine that they'd be willing to do that if they're willing to make a statement.
I would like to, but I hate tabs (due to the jumps it causes in horizontal cursor navigation, and also due to the nonlinear behavior when inserting/deleting characters preceding a tab in a line), so I would need an editor that widens spaces at the start of line to get sufficient visual indentation at four spaces.
I've been using 28" 4k screens since ubuntu 17.04. No scaling issues since 18.04
Take a problem set and dump it into Anki. Tune the deck to only give you 2-3 new problems and 2-3 review problems (because these take time). Solve them, rate them, just like any other deck.

If you don't want to practice programming exercises, but rather memorize facts, Anki is fine. Go through the common algorithms/data structures (and the less common ones) and create cards that ask you things about it. "What's the big-O for inserting into a sorted linked list?"

Or do like me, and skip those interviews because they're usually a miserable experience and don't really gauge the quality of the hire.
One of the problems with New Deal-like projects is what do you do with new engineering and construction talent once the projects are complete? China is pushing OBOR onto developing countries to make use of its excess construction capacity, with limited success. I don't think that's feasible with high-cost US labor.
There are talks[0][1] that delve into more detail.

- [0]: https://vimeo.com/250373607

- [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSbKkaaZJ50
Who cares. Why would it have to be nice anyways?

Move on. If you can't, leave.
There's no equivalence. The rationale behind each of these two positions is completely unrelated.
A little surprise in macOS Big Sur
When you start to explore the workings of Rosetta 2 on Apple Silicon Macs, you eventually stumble across the file /Library/Apple/usr/share/rosetta/rosetta.

This file contains a nice little haiku. Maybe some of the old "Think Different" spirit is still alive:

translation is done

as preferred long in advance

rosetta idles
One thing I've found is that it helps a lot if your company has an IT department. You outsource the headaches to someone whose job it is to deal with them instead of pulling yourself away from your work, they can maintain a standard image that works on the company's standard workstation machines, etc.
> I do not think religion plays a role at all. Greece is full of kitties too.

I came here just to say that: Athens is absolutely loaded with cats, especially strays. I think this is regional cultural, not religious.
There are these things called "bumps in the road" that redirect horizontal momentum into vertical force. It's why cars and bikes have suspension. What do you think pushes against a gas shock? Vertical force. This wheel captures that force in a spring and dissipates it through torque instead of just compressing gas in a cylinder. I don't see why it wouldn't work.

This dude just reinvented the wheel.

My only question is how effective it actually is. 30% is a lot.
I've been thinking about this issue of unknown, unacknowledged, or perhaps subconscious religion a lot lately. I grew up religious but am now an atheist, and though I haven't sought to replace it component-wise, I've been observing de facto beliefs in myself and others that wouldn't normally be recognized as such because they aren't packaged as a lot. What makes me note similarities between acknowledged religious beliefs and unacknowledged ones is their function. If you look at the desired effects, they have the same aim: guidance in making decisions, association with a group sharing a particular view, value judgments both aesthetic and moral. The religions we created are a reflection of our psychology and physiology, and often the tensions between those two. It seems to me at least that a name brand religion often fills a life module that's required for a human to operate. The fact that it might be unlabeled might make it more difficult to identify, but it doesn't nullify its existence.
If what you really want from your computing experience is freedom in the form of a colorful keyboard, there's options out there for you. Perhaps you would like to start with some cute pastels? https://thekey.company/products/dsa-magic-girl-keycaps-round...
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I had to disable Adblock Plus for some reason to get the entire page to load.

Ditto on the point where Japan is stuck in the 1980s future. Everything's optimized for tiny cellphone screens optimized for text. If I recall correctly iPhone adoption was slow, and many people lacked a desktop to provide updates. I still find wifi to be incredibly scarce in Tokyo. If people want a desktop, they go to a cafe. If they want a mobile connection, it's faster to just use your telecom plan.

That seems to have changed under COVID.
Time of our lives(my wife and I) I am in high tech - so work wise not stellar but culture, restaurants, entertainment is great / colorful people around...You need to choose neighborhood well, my advice for American friends is , if you like New York then you will like Istanbul- If you can manage to keep your Brooklyn income I strongly suggest giving Istanbul a chance// and if you are not married (I have been told : ) it is even better
The NIMBY factor constrains where new projects get permits. It doesn't explain why permitted projects that were welcome in local communities still blew out their construction schedules and budgets. The AP1000 fiascoes at VC Summer and Vogtle weren't caused by NIMBY. Nor did NIMBY cause the problems with new European builds of EPRs.
Let's be honest: most of the tweaks in this blog are personal preference.
It also says nothing about Wifi.
I had to swap out my network adapter to get wifi working on linux on my thinkpad, and libinput still occasionally locks up...everything... processing phantom drift from the mouse nipple (which would be less annoying if the touchpad mouse buttons weren't part of the same device as the mouse nipple).
Were these results reproduced elsewhere?
Wind is a pretty solid source of baseload actually, as long as you build enough. The supplementary materials from Caldeira's Geophysical Constraints paper (usually used to argue AGAINST renewable energy) show that with 50/50 wind/solar mixes (figure S4) you can achieve:

* 1x capacity, 0 storage: 74% of electricity demand

* 1.5x capacity, 0 storage: 86% of electricity demand

* 1x capacity, 12h storage: 90% of electricity demand

* 1.5x capacity, 12h storage: 99.6% of electricity demand

Citation: http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/c7/ee/c7ee03029k/c7ee03029k1.pdf

> ElectricityMap

Nobody who follows the energy sector closely thinks ElectricityMap has any credibility for country-to-country comparisons. The datasets are extremely fragmentary and have huge yawning gaps with no data available, which should be the first red flag for anybody citing it. It might be useful for trends within a given country, but not the way you're citing it.

Also: accounts popping up out of the woodwork to argue passionately for an out-of-favor technology reeks of a dying industry trying to revive itself with public relations. 3/4 of those accounts seem to cite ElectricityMap, oddly enough...
With all due respect, I don’t see any logic explaining how an ecosystem of interoperable products where users have commensurafe power to make demands back on platforms would be a consequence of breaking up Apple.

I do think it’s a positive situation to wish, but the idea that it would arise simply as a result of breaking up Apple needs some serious explanation.

Repairability leading to less waste is also a seems like an unlikely consequence of making devices less integrated. Apple’s device lifetimes are much greater than any of their competitors.

I personally strongly value software freedom, and do not think we can afford to let the current situation persist for all time, but it pains me to see things like right to repair be tied in with the problems of the software ecology. One seems like Luddism, and the other seems like a bedrock of a sane digital future, two things that don’t mix well.

One step which would seem to serve both of these goals, would be to require all devices that fit some general category of ‘general purpose computer’ to permit alternative operating systems to be installed.

But that has absolutely zero to do with breaking up Apple. If we need rights, let’s actually say what they are.

Breaking companies up doesn’t create rights.

The null hypothesis for what would happen if you break up Apple is that Android would simply dominate, with no improvements over its current locked down state, which is admittedly slightly more free than Apple, but in no way resembles the utopia you describe.

We’d probably get Facebook and Amazon forks of Android gaining more traction this time around, but offering none of what you and I want in terms of freedom.
I've worked on a product that was based on Orange pi. The documentation was non existent and reliability was abysmal.
The product was used in hospitals non the less. I still have nightmares about it. Granted, the functionality was non essential (it wasn't anything remotely related to life support. But still, it was used in a freaking hospital). I tried convincing the management to at least switch to RPi, but RPi was three times more expensive and according to my tests was not reliable enough to convince them. Cheap ARM boards are at best interesting toys and you should not even try to make any products with them. Ignoring this will be your downfall. The company was bleeding money left and right for fixing the already sold products. That's were I gtfo
Are you aware of the datasheets published by rpi? https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberry...
The only reason an engineer wouldn't want to tell us who the vendor is, is if the vendor is their employer. ;)
They probably used CLIPS, PyKE, Durable Rules, or PyKnow, since they mentioned doing it in Python. Most folks in heal care tech use Drools though. All of the analyst types know how to write rule for it, and it works pretty well even if you aren't a java shop.
Assuming you're male... it's not that there are zero predators seeking male children, but the threat does seem to be asymmetric. (I may be wrong about this! It a supposition based on my experiences and what I've heard from others.)

> as a child who broke every firewall used to control my browsing habits, who engaged routinely with people 10+ years older, I have experienced more creeps in real life than online and most small communities I've been a part of would shut that stuff down immediately.

Same situation and I was groomed repeatedly (luckily mostly, though not entirely, ineptly). Perhaps not a coincidence that I'm a girl...

> I knew to report, block and move on.

Or that girls are often sexually precocious and may _want_ pseudo-romantic attention from older men, while being too naive to see the risks to them. That was certainly my case.

Overall I don't think it's as simple or easy as you're making it out to be.
LISP – Notes on its past and future, by John McCarthy (1980) [pdf]
Man you really should buy better laptops, i had at least 6 laptops with linux and never had a problem with "internet" and "debugging" and "touchscreen". Maybe Linux just hates you ;)
Urban gulls adapt foraging schedule to human‐activity patterns
New research found out that urban gulls schedule its food research based on human acticity.
It turns out that those urban gulls go to schools or waste centres on weekdays and to parks during weekends. Fascinating.
I have only two reasons to keep using a mac: Devonthink (for my paperless office workflow and it's awesome document classifier and NLS search) and XCode to write iOS apps. Otherwise, I'd dump it in heartbeat. Anyone have anything on the Linux side that compares to Devonthink?
To some degree, yes. Until you try to write what would be idiomatic SML code in those and the lack of tracing GC comes to bite you.

Nevertheless, I guess it's good sum types are making it into the mainstream.
I guess I'm not the target, after about 15 slides my brain was ringing the "Nothing interesting in any of this" bell.

Also do you still have the same management who went in for extortion to cover up a book that told the truth...
People lash out at their bullies for catharsis, not for prudence. In any case, Christians are very charitable people by any metric, and that didn't spare them any bullying or earn them any favor, so why be surprised when some people behave according to the incentive structure we put around them? It's also worth noting that Christians as a collective didn't vote for Trump, rather they were pretty evenly split.
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These issues were only ever with the consumer lenovo laptops. Thinkpads never had an issue and generally work with Linux without issues (I heard this was because Redhat used Thinkpads and so there were lots of contributions to make things work but that could just be scuttlebutt)
These are good points (thanks) - and it's always good to hear that things are better than I thought.

Consistent UI is nice and recent M1 chip + good battery life I think is also a bonus of vertical integration. It sounds like linux is becoming more of an option though for people that don't care about those things.

From your description it sounds like baseline functionality mostly works (particularly on a desktop).

The other Apple hardware advantage is the trackpad which even windows machines can't compete with. I suspect this is because Apple factored a lot of their iOS multitouch research into their trackpad support. It'd be hard for me to use a non-apple laptop, but linux on a desktop would probably be fine.
I'm from a time a desk-sized single user computer was called a "microcomputer".
Rec Room feels like the VR version of this. I'm not sure if you can build games with it although
So what was the faulty resistors value?
JetBrains IDEs do all of that. They just don't really generate code for the most part.
I'm not saying there isn't use for knowing your adversary's capabilities (especially in designing your own offense/defensive systems) but very little of that knowledge informs the core of future arms programs.
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It's not destructive, it's held by a few clips and glue. Use hot air to heat up the area and it snaps out.
I'm interested in the productivity side myself, however I haven't had an off center problem. If I move my eyes more than a few degrees out of line they start to hurt so I even move my head when reading your comment. I honestly didn't think about it much until you mentioned it and I actually gave it some thought.

One of the things that I really like is the head tracking in headsets. I don't really need to look at 6 monitors at once but I want them there in my peripherals so that I can easily glance back and forth.
keep in mind roughly half of the call of duty games are set in WWII (or space, lol) where this religious subtext doesn't really exist.

the franchise does have you spend a lot of time killing people in the middle east, but the games don't explore religious ideology. the context clues pretty clearly point to your adversaries being jihadists and/or soldiers for a fundamentalist regime, but I don't recall the games ever explicitly saying so. in COD, terrorists blow things up simply because they are terrorists, not because they have any sort of coherent goal.

this is not to say that depictions in COD are not damaging in their own way, but they don't have anything quite so blatant as what is described in TFA.