skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My workflow wherever is generally to be SSH'd to things, so largely yes, but the laptop lets me do work from the bed.
> “The whole thing got fairly well contained, and that’s in big part because Facebook was able to take action.”

So who gets to decide what gets “contained” on the internet now? The government has a really, really bad track record of using these sorts of “options” for suppressing dissent. Historically it’s been absolutely abusive.
US Government Enlists USDC for ‘Global Foreign Policy Objective’ in Venezuela
I've been rockng a Macbook Air since 2013. I love the thing and it works fine, but I can't do video editing, which I need to do. The new Macbooks were on the horizon, but I figured I'd wait for v2 of whatever came out.

So I bought a Dell gaming machine, for the GPU.

First impressions from the week:

* Windows is still pretty kludgy.

* There are no good Gmail cients for Windows (settled on eM, but it crashes a lot, on macOS I used Mailplane, Mimestream and Outlook; Outlook on windows doesn't automatically connect to Google Calendars, even though the macOS and iOS versions do).

* The Dell came with a terrible keyboard, I'll have to buy a better one. It didn't come with speakers, so I bought some (I was planning to get reference monitors anyway, but having NO sound for a few days was interesting). It doesn't have a webcam, which is fine, but I'd have to buy one if that becomes important.

* The cables, cables, cables.

* I can use the Phone app to connect to my iPhone, and iCloud on Windows works well enough (for Drive and Photos).

* Windows apps don't adhere to the design guidelines nearly as consistently as macOS apps do. Fonts and usability is far more varied.

I will see about dual-booting Linux, and I'll see about getting Davinci Resolve working.
Naturally it increased after it switched to Chromium and became the Windows default.

Choose your own source:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=edge+surpasses+firefox
isn't this more like "is this app ready for apple silicon"?
Thank you so much, that is extremely helpful
Flu vaccines are becoming more available in the UK from next week and most chemists will give you the jab. Given the UK government's track record and the impact of border delays due to Brexit it is unlikely that Covid jabs will start en masse until April and will then proceed so slowly as to fail to achieve any chance of herd immunity. There is also a growing Facebook fed anti vaxx movement in the UK which is troubling and the govt is unlikely to compel vaccination.
This is written in the same convoluted style as a New York Review of Books literature review; it's confusing and seems to be more about proving the author's intelligence than making a point. When the article (finally) comes to the point, the author overstates its significance. He says that Romer was wrong, but then admits Romer was mostly correct, with a few addenda which Romer may have thought too obvious to bother with.
I believe the reason for slow iPhone adoption was that they already had i-mode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-mode
I was always working on laptops ever. But given that travel moved to zero and will stay that way for some time I invested in a maxed out desktop PC that triple boots into linux, win10 and MacOS - a real dream and productivity workhorse.
The whole viking craze that's been undergoing for the last ten years or so has been a vehicle for the most fantastical right-wing and left-wing rubbish.

Everybody seems to have their own personal viking. From the strong, pride of the white race, Christian-killing raider to the inclusive feminist bossgirl shield-maiden. The only thing tied everything together being the subjects' immunity to the corrupting influence of Western Modernity, whatever that influence means to you.

In the end, the best recent work of fiction I've seen in this setting happens to be... Japanese. Vinland Saga manages to be faithful in the things that affect historical awareness (the details of everyday life, the structure of society, the perception of the world) and still be very romantic in its character-building.
I wonder why Google didn’t get File Stream ready?
Well, that blows. When I lived in a basement, cellular signal was nonexistent, and the only way I could reliably call anyone was by getting a Google Voice number and using the Hangouts Dialer app on my android phone to make the call over WiFi.

These days I've got most of my family using Signal, which can also call over WiFi.
No not at all. NDA.
Hmmm that doesn't seem true

https://www.seeedstudio.com/blog/2020/02/12/how-to-safely-ov...
> My assumption was that you were referring to results of training machine learning models. Is this correct?

I would set my hyper params in a spreadsheet, which would kick off training runs on a cluster, and report the results back in the spreadsheet hours/days later(really TSVs, but my UI was a spreadsheet). And repeat.

This was primitive stuff, and haven't done DL in a while, so not even sure if hyperparam tuning is still a thing or if that is all automated now.
There's a reason countries don't build breeder reactors. Fuel costs are a tiny fraction of the costs for a nuclear powerplant: less than 10%. Breeders save a bit of money on fuel in exchange for a higher capital cost (cost of construction). For reactors, capital costs are a huge factor because reactors are extremely expensive already ($8-10Bn per reactor in the US/Europe). Increasing that further more than balances the savings on fuel.

Thus, breeders generally end up being more expensive than a conventional BWR or PWR.

Here I should mention that I spent some time in nuclear physics research. There's a lot of misinformation floating around about nuclear energy. Most of the "miracle solutions" don't live up to their promises (especially thorium tech and breeders). If they did, we'd already be using them -- nuclear engineers are not fools, and most of these reactor concepts have been kicked around for literally decades.

One other point: the physics behind breeders and conventional slow-neutron reactors isn't fundamentally different. Both neutron capture ("breeding") and fission ("burning") reactions happen in both, the ratios in a breeder are just optimized to favor the first process more. In fact in conventional light water reactors, around a third of the energy released comes from fissile isotope bred from fertile isotopes such as U-238.
On mac? No.

https://netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?options...
Silly title. Apple Silicon is obviously ready. Are these software packages ready is the question.
As far as serif monospace, NSimSun is still my favorite. It's in Windows. I love Triplicate but can't bring myself to purchase yet. I like Equity, too.

I think Triplicate is the closest to the old Selectric Prestige font, which I loved. But if anyone has NSimSun replacements (paid or free), please let me know.
This isn't a first-generation CPU design. It's just another iteration of the ARM chips that Apple has been building since acquiring PA Semi 12 years ago.
It really seems that nearly everything that's not a full native ObjC/Swift stack or is not a web browser (or based on one, like Electron) is not ready yet right now. It really seems Apple did not care enough to get especially golang and Rust stuff stable for their hardware release. I can't escape the impression that they didn't really shower the wider ecosystem in DTKs and software support, although I'd be happy to be proven wrong there.

Oh well, at least Rosetta2 seems to be working really well - you will be able to run a lot of software you need rather well despite not to the fullest potential. The execution on Rosetta2 is really good and that's important. But I think it does go to show that the "Pro" in "Macbook Pro 13" does not mean all that much. At least not if they're going to ship with the majority of pro software not being native, many popular developer toolchains still months to be ready, and very limited I/O and RAM options. The Macbook Air and Mac Mini I fully get for the first releases on new hardware, but the Macbook Pro 13 really feels odd in this lineup if the word Pro is supposed to mean anything.
Not if it's on tape & reel with automatic P&P, I agree. But if those boards are made in such small quantities that they're being hand-stuffed, I wouldn't be surprised to see an errant resistor somewhere. Maybe the human pick&place was distracted and picked from the wrong reel, or 100 resistors were dumped into a bulk tray and there was a 400ohm resistor on the bottom of that tray or any number of scenarios.

I've seen so many assembly errors in my time that I'm pretty sure it was something like this that happened.
One of my fondest memories of Rome, is visiting the Acattolico cemetery only to discover it's basically overrun by friendly cats. gothic monuments + cat sanctuary what a combo
Apple M1 silicon will mostly or entirely run MacOS, not Windows.
So for example not Tesla (high fixed costs, low margin), not Uber (negative margin), and not Amazon (the retail part is low margin; AWS actually fits).

And things like Wish clearly only if we're talking gross margin, not operating margins. The amount of ads they're running is crazy.
Did a quick search, Timeshift looks to be the answer I did not know I was looking for. Will use next time I setup a personal Linux desktop.
This is easily one of the best tech talks of the past couple of years.
Forcing me to sign into "messages" for voice calling is bad for my personal security. Some sites still only provide 2 factor via SMS. I don't want to be forced to receive them on my computer, when my phone is the 2 factor device.

Don't like this change one bit.
People apparently didnt like my hesitation to be first in line for the vaccine. The weird thing is that I am not against this vaccine by any means, I hope it works very well. But you and me are in a position where we would be in a very bad situation if something went wrong.

I dont mind a few more months of staying safe, its not a big deal to me and Ill get it later on
Who says you can't do both?

At a certain point doing the "fun thing" will lead to stagnation of your skills.

It takes effort to get good at something, and that effort is not always going to be fun.
A few ways to make money in FOSS
> and there's a certain subsection of the population that has been convinced that government spending is universally bad.

Oh of course! It's the Republicans' fault, how predictable. If only we had a Democrat utopia like California at a national level, we'd have nuclear plants everywhere and everything would be perfect.
Human steaks may be available soon but maybe not for consumption
After my parents fell for a tech support scam (no money lost), I ended up converting them over to Ubuntu via the phone.

They've been fairly happy with it and they're not very technically savy.
Doesn't this just mean that calls are done from the Google Voice app?
From wikipedia brick(electronics) is quite relevant that bricking is not necessarily permanent.

Some devices that become "bricked" because the contents of their nonvolatile memory are incorrect can be "unbricked" using separate hardware (a debug board) that accesses this memory directly.[5] This is similar to the procedure for loading firmware into a new device when the memory is still empty. This kind of "bricking" and "unbricking" occasionally happens during firmware testing and development. In other cases software and hardware procedures, often complex, have been developed that have a good chance of unbricking the device. There is no general method; each device is different. There are also user-created modifier programs to use on bricked or partially bricked devices to make them functional. Examples include the Wiibrew program BootMii used to fix semi-bricked Nintendo Wiis, the Odin program used to flash firmware on Samsung Android devices,[6] or the fastboot Android protocol which is capable of reflashing a device with no software installed.[6]
To be fair, I've been having serious trouble with Firefox. The public version (Rosetta 2) has been freezing up on me every third page load, and the nightly version (ARM compiled) has similar issues. But I'm optimistic that these issues will be resolved soon.
I'm not giving concrete examples about my job, nor my thoughts on Enron in this thread. Sorry if I exaggerated the point but I do find it offensive to get a grilling about my private life. Not woke at all.
China compromised F-35 subcontractor, forced expensive software system rewrite
I think another important factor is that to the extent we have people with lots of daily experience, they're not in charge. We've shifted from work-focused to plan-focused behavior. To the extent that we don't even know there's another option.

A talk that really opened my eyes was Mary Poppendieck's "Tyranny of the Plan": https://chrisgagne.com/1255/mary-poppendiecks-the-tyranny-of...

It turns out the Empire State Building was created on time and under budget, and against a very hard deadline. They did not have a complete plan when they started; they were designing the top floors as they were building the bottom ones.

In software, we've become familiar with how over-planning creates a lot of waste. But I was still surprised how broadly that lesson applies.
This is the EEPROM settings.
The main advantage of eMMCs in reliability is that you can't buy a RPi with a eMMC for camera use soldered on. You can have this same advantage by buying the right kind of SD cards (embdedded/industrial ones, or on a budget, overkill capacity "surveillance" camera cards that advertise wear leveling).
Very cool. Small suggestion: it would be nice to be able to filter by "all apps that have native support or work properly under Rosetta", and maybe also the inverse of that.
So if I read this correctly, it's just losing the idea of placing plain phone calls via Google Hangouts. Google Hangouts also has a video chat feature, and presumably that's still enabled?
BiasedOutliers Data Science meetup notes
It was an example. There are a thousand more.

We're trying to explain that coming from an entire culture and moral tradition means that you can decide God isn't real and you're still mostly flavored by that culture and moral tradition. The real-ness of God is just a little detail.

One can see this in the many analogues from specifically Christian traditions like repentance, confession and original sin to the current Social Justice movement. God not required.
The sound issues should be resolved with the next PulseAudio version.

I'm with ya. I mostly get around the issues by using the Creative BT-W3 with my wireless headphones. I have to have the device to use bluetooth audio with openbsd anyway.

Everything else is fixed. I just bought my 7th Gen a month or two ago -- it pays to buy laptops at the end of their product cycle. Likely I paid almost half what you did for my laptop.
That is not a key takeaway of the report, which found about 140 contacts between the Trump campaign and Russian operatives.

Mueller repeatedly and specifically said he was not investigating Trump on any criminal charges since he was bound by the opinion of the DOJ that a sitting President cannot be indicted and therefore there were no charges that could be pursued, even if Trump shot someone live on TV.
It isn't, at least not in any way most developers use it. You cannot use docker to start a *nix container on a mac, whether its for a arm or x86 OS.

some context: https://www.reddit.com/r/docker/comments/jxc1ge/docker_and_a...
Readable Repos with the Ecto Filter Pattern
I think that definition is a part of parent's pet peeve.

dēmo- (people) -kratía (rule) has only indirect relation to popularity.
Baldur's Gate 2 ? Though not having fully animated 3D models (so you have to imagine it) probably helped a lot !
Hyperbaric oxygen isn't new, so I am putting this in the grey basket until I see it replicated. 25% telomere length increase and a senloytic effect just from breathing more O2 seems... weird. Not impossible, but weird that we would not have noticed such a thing yet.
It is exactly that.
> "I don't like how I'm portrayed, so I'll validate their criticisms through my actions" doesn't seem the best solution. If they don't like their portrayal, it seems they would be better off to make the portrayal better instead of making themselves worse.

You're preaching to the choir, as they say. :-) I think Evangelical support for Trump is incredibly foolish for a number of reasons.
> Or maybe just go get Covid and trust those results?

I believe I already had it. I have experienced unusual body temperature fluctuations and really unusual heart quirks on a weekend some months ago. My boss got tested (out of curiosity) positive for the antibodies. The numbers are huge and I meet a huge lot of people every day (nobody I've met in person reported any symptoms though). It seems logical to me all of us (people I know) have already had light/asymptomatic covid. I never meet old or fat people, I miss some but prefer not to risk.
Regarding advertising, the article states: "Rather than being seen as a tool to enable people Japanese companies often see the web as just another advertising platform to push their message across as loudly as possible. Websites ends up being about the maximal concentration of information into the smallest space akin to a pamphlet rather than an interactive tool."

I find this quite ironic, especially given how unusable most websites are due to third party advertising resources being loaded into them these days. HN users in particular will agree I bet, ad blocking seems prevalent here because of that exact reason.

I think Japanese websites are better in this sense because their ad technology is usually 'outdated' banner ads and internally served sponsorship content. They're luckily stuck in the era of static and freshly-baked server-side content.
This isn't about government. Facebook is a corporation, it owns the platform, it decides what gets contained on its property (subject to applicable laws, of course, but not confined to only those laws). By signing up, you agree to their control over the platform. Control could be the bare minimum required by law, could be mercilessly removing any and all controversial speech - that's their discretion, just like it's completely your discretion whether to log on or to buzz off. They'll censor at whatever level works best for their core business of selling your attention to advertisers.

Outside of applicable laws, you have no "rights" on this private platform you're provisionally allowed access to, and any attempt to sugar-coat that fact is just corporate PR-speak to avoid needless user attrition.
Could you say a bit more about the game being played here? No need to spill any secrets, but I'd love some "for example" items to understand it better.
It's not looking so hot for SMRs right now though. NuScale, one of the most promising SMR companies, is losing backers for its first big reactor build. This is a result of cost under-estimates and delays:

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/11/several-us-utilities...

> announced that completion of the project would be delayed by 3 years to 2030. It also estimates the cost would climb from $4.2 billion to $6.1 billion.

Unfortunately it has become a pattern now for the nuclear industry to promise that the next tech will suddenly make nuclear energy cheap and fast to build. They consistently have failed to deliver on their promises -- the fiasco of the AP1000 reactor build at Vogtle in Georgia is a recent example.

It seems like the problem of the nuclear industry is the industry, not the technology itself. They're too used to relying on fat taxpayer subsidies, and are not well equipped to compete against other energy sources on the free market.
Bupstash
What's forcing you to use your computer? Google Voice has a fully functioning mobile app.
Hmmm... I could have a setting for PMAlerts integrations (slack, teams, discord, zoom) that configures it to not only feed alert results into the app, but to listen to that server's contents for you and only you. A bit tricky with privacy implications, but technically feasible. I'll have a think on it - thanks for the love.
These results appear to be a partial reproduction / further investigation of "Telomere elongation followed by telomere length reduction, in leukocytes from divers exposed to intense oxidative stress – Implications for tissue and organismal aging" (http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.208...).
I live in Quebec and spent most of my high school learning about Quebec (and Canada's) history. Guess what, we actually had a vote on whether we wanted to stay in Canada twice and decided than we'd rather stay with the federation. Do people in Quebec have various opinions on Canada? For sure. Does it extend to the US, UK and the rest of Europe? Absolutely not.

And since this is about Valhalla, why on earth would people in Quebec have some biases for Vikings? Quit spewing nonsense on the Internet.
This is not literate programming.

Literate programming involves having a meta language that is extended into the target source code through nested macros.

The killer feature was the ability to see everywhere a piece of code was used on dead paper by looking at the auto-generated index, with the chunks being logical rather than language driven. In a literate program you wouldn't care that something was a class or a function, you would just have it be described by what it does, not how it does it.

This is marginally better documentation for python notebooks.