skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, but only since recently (version 20.04), and it's still considered to be experimental as far as I know.
A docker style integration would be nice. I’d rather have macOS as a window manager with native arm application instances like word and excel working in tandem with native Mac applications. The option to boot into windows would be nice too.
RISC is about the ISA not the micro ops. One of the points of RISC is to give the compiler a simpler instruction set to deal with. Micro-ops are invisible to the compiler. You cannot spend a bunch of extra compile time to rearrange things in an optimal fashion.

Micro-ops is an implementation detail you can change at any time. The ISA you are stuck with for a long time.

Thus saying x86 is RISC-like doesn't make sense it would imply that the x86 ISA is RISC-like which it is not.

The benefits of uops is separate from the benefits of RISC. Even RISC processor can turn their instructions into uops. You cannot break CISC instructions into uops in as easy and steady stream as a RISC instruction which has a much more even level of complexity.
Emulating Flash Player with Rust and WebAssembly
Is it interpreted or compiled, AOT or JIT, native or byte code? The landing page doesn't say, but I'd like to know such details and a host of other information that isn't mentioned either. All this doesn't motivate me to dive deeper.
But if its truly cheaper than all the worlds CO2 production problems are solved!!

Energy is sufficiently deregulated in enough of the US that they will sell to the areas that aren't, just like France was doing with all its "old dirty" nukes, to the countries around it building "green".

I can't tell from your graph, but I saw an actual cost estimate a couple months ago that points out what has been true for the past 10 years of "wind is cheaper" metrics.

Which is that its not, because its not continuous (or controllable) power delivery. Nor does it account for the fact that it also needs to be overbuilt if its going to supply an energy storage system either. Nor does it account for the energy storage costs.

So, yes in absolute KW produced its cheaper, but that does little but create an oversupply problem. Which is why in places like TX the power costs frequently go to zero when the wind is blowing and spike at other times. Making cheap power when you don't need it doesn't help. What TX needs is lots of power at 3PM (when in theory solar would be useful, but the existing smaller plants aren't making money either).

The net result in TX has been lots of wind install, but even more gas install. Because the gas plants are actually making money. If big battery plants are economically workable then we would also see a lot of companies arbitraging the free wind energy into $ when the price spikes but we don't see that either.

So its not a simple/sure bet like is being claimed.

(for those that don't know, TX is one of the largest green energy systems in the world https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_Texas)
You have to think beyond yourself. There will be at-risk groups that are also not able to take the vaccine but are protected by closing the infection vectors from others.
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I do not think religion plays a role at all. Greece is full of kitties too.

The climate is nice. They can survive the winter without having to crawl into a steamy sewer like rats. Though many cats sleep under cars (especially if the engine is still warm).
Most cities in these areas are not heavy on traffic, the city roads are narrow and designated for slow-driving - giving the animals an opportunity to move around with not much noise and danger.

Old people in the neighborhood feed them and play with them. I would say it's as nice for them as it is for the cats (they get to have a hobby, go out etc). People at cafes and restaurants (especially the ones with outdoor seating) might put some food aside.

People growing up in such an environment learn to like the cats, and give them some attention or feed them themselves. (I grew up loving stray cats, and animals in general due this culture). Was surprised to see how much having a pet is a "business" in the states (higher rents if you have a pet, mandatory chips, pet salons everywhere, eugenic like focus on perfect looking breeds etc).

And the elephant in the room. Careless people adopt them, decide it's too much work and then let them roam free. Or decide that neutering them is immoral or too expensive or something...

If you wanna see some more of Instanbul's cats -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0dJ4zrTopU (no affiliation)
> those characters aren't typable and will only ever be used in strings

Raku wants to have a word with you. https://docs.raku.org/language/unicode_ascii https://docs.raku.org/language/unicode_entry
> caught by JS runtime

This is a major point: "caught by JS runtime" means you're only able to see it when you actually run your application and exercise that code path - or worse, that your user does so. Where the alternative is your editor literally indicating the error the moment you write it, the fix costing you so little time that you can fix them practically subconsciously.
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You are probably conflating risk of infection per person with total number of persons at risk. It can be true that churches and bars are more risky for those that visit them, while more people get infected at groceries and big-box stores just by dint of high volume at lower risk.

Just anecdotally this matches something the mayor of El Paso said a week ago - 33% of their cases were "big-box", followed by bars and restaurants, then "everything else".
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> You're essentially using a sorites paradox/Ship of Theseus argument to attack the idea that a piece of electronics can ever, even in principle, be said to be 'permanently broken'.

Dude, setting aside the argument itself, I never expected to see the Ship of Theseus busted out to win an internet debate... well done!
Seems like misleading information. Does HN try to filter that out?
> I read about 30-100 work-related books a year and have seen salary double every few years.

Your salary didn't double because of books. I read a lot of work-related books, too, but my salary has been stagnant for years.
Finder has no "open in terminal" option - into the trash it goes
Tried to give an honest rundown of my switch from macOS to Ubuntu: https://kvz.io/tobuntu.html (it’s a long post with many hands-on tips)
A dowry is a social construct not a "difference in the sexes"
How would you discuss and constructively criticize the scientific method itself without philosophy? Philosophy is a superset of science and while it is less constrained overall, I wouldn't say it is useless.

You say philosophy has a failure to provide a "well build abstraction as well as exploration guidance" but how would that work? Philosophy is a large subject area, but I'll take the liberty to say it isn't required to be straight forward with concrete answers, more so to provoke thinking about what makes something straight forward and concrete.
Are those settings in hardware, or the EEPROM?
Another one with the fixed set mentality... let's go for another round.

> I do want a sound justification for a new tech that is consuming the power of a small Europan country.

The need to consume that much energy is not inherit to the tech. It is just an issue of the current implementation. No one is shrugging their shoulders and saying "it is what it is". What they are saying is "This is one of the many issues that we need to address and we are working towards a solution."

Do you know of any new technology that come into existence already free of issues and as efficient as physically possible? Me neither.

Also: should I assume that you don't fly anywhere? Don't buy anything from China? Only consumes local produce?

Is your concern with the environment guiding all your lifestyle choices or only those you don't care about?

> problems in Lebanon (...) can’t be solved with technology.

No, the tech does not solve anything by itself. The tech is just an instrument, and it is an instrument that can help people there to escape government measures that lead to mismanagement of resources and favoring bankers. The tech can allow smaller groups of people to be their own (their communities) banks and not having to rely on a centralized "too big to fail" system.

The instrument does not "solve" anything. But it allows people to change the scale of the problem. It's much easier to recover from many shocks spread around smaller entities than to recover from one Black Swan event that can wipe out everyone at once.

> I believe your choice of browser does little in the context of the other 90% who is still on Facebook although I honestly have respect for your dedication and efforts.

Again, the tech is not what is going to solve anything. Brave (the browser) and BAT are just instruments that we have at our disposal to affect the change that we want for our lives.

Quite frankly, are you the type of person that always waits everyone else to do something in order to think it is worthy doing? Must be horrible to live with such apathy.
> What can we do, now, as developers ?

Develop for open systems. If you write a program for Windows, make it also available on Linux, or at least make sure it works well on Wine. If you develop for the web, make sure it also works well on Firefox. If you develop for smartphones, make also an Android version, and make sure it also works on AOSP without the Google libraries (or with an alternative replacement). And so on. That way, if these ecosystems become too closed, users will have an alternative; and the existence of that alternative might even help prevent these ecosystems from becoming too closed in the first place.
I would strongly recommend the following combination for beginners:

Thinkpad + Fedora

Fedora stays on the cutting edge of the kernel, which means that driver support is quite good. Additionally, most of the Linux kernel developers use Thinkpads, so the drivers for Thinkpad are always good. I've never had to download drivers individually.

Here's a list of things that just "worked" without me having to do anything:

1. My bluetooth noise cancelling headphones paired with no issues.

2. My desktop display with usb-c just works.

3. Old-style plugin iphone headphones worked as did their builtin mic.

4. Logitech camera plugging into my monitor and routing to the laptop via usb-c just works.

5. I have yet to find a printer (as long as its on the same wifi network) that I can't use (granted I barely print anything).

6. You can install and manage everything via the GUI.

7. Docker just works.

Things that didn't work:

1. I had to install "gnome-tweaks" in order to remap my CapsLock key to Control.

In my ten years of using Thinkpad+Fedora I've only encountered one issue and that was during the Wayland transition. The Zoom client (as in video chat) briefly didn't support screen sharing, but that was fixed several versions ago.

Also, people saying that "M1" is a gamechanger: I totally get it for certain sectors, but for Software Engineers? Memory has always been my bottleneck. I don't think I've ever seen my CPU choke on a legitimate task.
Note that this is what the Internet Archive is using to emulate Flash animations, games and toys in their software collection [1]

[1]: https://blog.archive.org/2020/11/19/flash-animations-live-fo...
Becuase macosx containers run inside a Linux VM, not on the native host OS, same with Windows;
You can't just install OSX on any PC, so why would you think Linux would be that way? I purchased a System76 and have zero issues with anything. I use a Toshiba for work also running Pop OS, and it has some minor issues, but I expect that because it wasn't designed for Linux like my personal laptop. Everyone wants their cake and eat it too, they complain about lock-in, complain about Apple's phone-home features (last week!), and then they just say "well Linux is hard to setup once, so I don't want to try" and punt the issue.

If you want a good and easy Linux PC, then buy a PC designed for Linux, like you would a Macbook.
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I don't argue that you might find a different notebook environment more suitable. That's totally up to taste, preferences, and silly do argue about.

But observable (the reactive notebook technology) can do everything a jupyter notebook can do, you just need to write a bit of communication code to hook up a websocket. (For me sandboxing the ui is a feature not a bug.)

And you can also self host it on a machine of your choice, and edit it locally.

We do that internally for all our dashboards.
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Get hardware that supports Linux. I have setup many laptops over the years without a single hick-up.
I’ve been struggling to find a “HIPAA for dummies” or at least something I can understand in a few days.

Best I can tell, being HIPAA compliant isn’t exactly difficult, it’s just costly if you fail. Encrypt everything, delete patient data when you don’t need it, automatically log out users after as short a time as acceptable, and have a legal team ready to handle contracts.
There's also a BBC Miniseries for And Then There Were None which is fantastic.
Via JavaScript, on the client.
RISC isn't about the size of the ISA but about the type of instructions. RISC instructions are fixed width and how low complexity from a decoding and pipelining point of view.

Pentium Pro was not RISC, that is just Intel marketing speak. Micro-ops can be produced in a RISC CPU as well, it is separate from having a RISC ISA. The RISC ISA is about what the compiler sees and can do. The compiler cannot see the Pentium Pro micro-ops. Those are hidden from the compiler. The compiler cannot rearrange them and optimize them they way it can with instructions in the ISA.
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I just find that kind of surprising because I have used Ubuntu for the past 8 or so years, in the cloud and on the desktop, and I have not run into a single issue like this.
What a useless article. I was hoping to see some interesting details about how their rules engine could differ from those I've written for clients.
Piotr Woznaik recommends turning lists into enumerations. You can see more here: https://www.supermemo.com/en/archives1990-2015/articles/20ru...

In general you want to reduce the amount of things you have to retrieve from memory in one go, and attempting to retrieve a 20 person list is just going to give you problems.

The cloze solution is certainly better than the full list (and does follow the minimum information principle because you just have to retrieve a single name) but the problem is that it doesn't give you any handles. If you have 19 names and Flaubert is hidden, how would you know it's Flaubert that's missing? Long-term you're bound to fail those cards.

But I would also question the premise of the card. Do you expect to have to come up with the 20 names each time you want to talk about 19th century French literature? As in, each time the context is "19th century French literature" is the appropriate knowledge to retrieve "* list of 20 authors *"?

Instead a better approach might be to flip it around and ask yourself, "In which century did Flaubert write Madame Bovary?" or something along those lines. You can both reconstruct the list from that and if you're writing about Flaubert the knowledge that he wrote during the 19th century will come more fluidly to you.
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That’s the best blog title I’ve ever seen.
I've never experienced this SD card corruption, even when power goes down to the Pi. I believe it happens, but I wonder what my unique circumstances are. Is it that I always use Samsung or SanDisk SD cards with the Pi?
To re-iterate how much more reliable SSDs are now that they used to be, until about a month ago I worked for a vendor of hardware/software that is designed to read/write to disks hundreds of thousands of times per second (log collection and searching). When I first started working there ~5 years ago, they were testing out SSDs in the appliances and the team ultimately decided against it because they estimated the SSDs would burn out in under a year.

By the time I left they were shipping appliances with SSDs that were predicted to have lifespans longer than the longest hardware support you could buy from the vendor (longest hardware support contract - seven years). Hundreds of thousands of writes per second, every second, for 7+ years, uninterrupted.
Would you happen to know where I can read these rules? It would be really helpful to me.
It’s chromium, not chrome, sorry for the confusion. I followed these instructions: https://blog.vpetkov.net/2020/03/30/raspberry-pi-netflix-one...
I've never had luck with flash cards for learning Finnish. The time->recall thing has never worked for me in this respect. If, for example I get Perehdytys, then Kuljettajaohje I've forgotten them straight away. After half an hour, I still can't recall how to spell them - at which point I'm going crazy.

However, after a couple of weeks coding a project related to Perehdytykset and Kuljettajaohjeet, I now know the words.
I appreciate that someone has "done the math" on the soft costs for nuclear plants. One of the arguments against nuclear has always been "but it's so expensive" and yet the engineering of the plant itself is not particularly expensive relative to similar capacity coal or gas plants[1]. When we were discussing the "Ultra Safe Nuclear" (www.usnc.com) [2] I commented [3] that expense was more soft costs than engineering from my own experience of looking into the cost of nuclear. This paper just does the math and makes it more explicit.

[1] Yes, that is multiple plants to create the equivalent amount of capacity.

[2] Ultra Safe Nuclear -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24505727

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24511751
Yeah its pretty crazy how advanced its sound calibration is. It uses its microphones (six of them) to measure the response of the sound in the room according to where its placed, and adjusts itself on the fly so that it sounds as good as it does.

So if you pick up your homepod and move it in your room - say from in the middle of the table to near a wall, it will change its sound profile (after about half a minute) to lower bass and minimize reflective frequencies from the wall. Having an omnidirectional speaker blast into the wall would not sound good without that kinda calibration, as you would get reflective sounds from the wall and too much bass.

It does further calibration like this one put in a stereo pair to make sure _both_ homepods are outputting the best sound together.

The audiophile equivalent of this is getting a good mic, hook it up to your $5k stereo, and then use the manufacturer provided software to calibrate it. Then never move anything around your room again or hang new art of throw down a rug, because if you do that you have to recalibrate again.

The homepod is really some crazy audio engineering. One of apple patents describes some of stuff that probably went into the Homepod [1]. There is also a fun review [2] that was posted on the reddit audiophile back when the homepods first came out.

1 - http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=....
2 - https://www.reddit.com/r/audiophile/comments/7wwtqy/apple_ho...
If you buy a matched OS + laptop in any other situation, why not also for Linux? Buy an XPS next time, or any other vendor (Lenovo?) with tested hardware, and just put an Ubuntu USB stick in.

"I bought the top result for 'wheel' on eBay and ruined my life trying to fit it to this aircraft engine, this is such a joke!" Shit has just worked for years if you want it to work.
I haven't had an issue with xorg and gdm/gnome on a 4k HiDPI display. I set the scaling to 1.5.
I used to buy a laptop, try to get Ubuntu or Arch to work and if it didn't work flawlessly I'd take it back.

If Ubuntu doesn't feel like working out of the box on your laptop your in for a world of pain. Now I need a Mac to compile for IOS devices anyway so I ordered an M1 Pro.
> Saying "there is no God" instead of "I don't know whether or not God exists" presumes a certain understanding of cause and effect

No, it may just be grounded in an epistemological approach in which entities which are not necessary to explain observations are presumed not to exist.

> To put it another way, one cannot be an atheist without a religion - one can only be agnostic.

Many self-described atheists reject the atheist/agnostic distinction as meaningless, viewing the absence of belief as equivalent to unbelief in their epistemology.

> To put it a third way, Cicero says "religion consists in offering service and ceremonial rites to a superior nature that men call divine." The atheist says "there is none to serve" - but that is patently untrue, for in that case there would be no end to strive after and all atheists would perish by inaction.

That is fantastic illogic. The absence of a "superior nature" to which one might have a reason to offer "service and ceremonial rites" does not deny that there are goals that one might strive for. Maximizing one's own experienced utility, for instance, requires no assumption of a "superior nature", nor even a rejection of solipsism, but still provides an end to strive after and motivate action.

> Therefore, all atheists have chosen to serve some superior nature, either themselves

Serving yourself is not serving a "superior nature", since "superior" is meaningful only in comparison to something else, and in Cicero's statement it is clearly in comparison to the self.
Does Lenovo still sell laptops with malware in the firmware?

Not a "gotcha" question, I am seriously asking. Considering a Thinkpad for my next laptop, but memories of Superfish give me pause.

https://www.theregister.com/2015/08/12/lenovo_firmware_nasty...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfish#Lenovo_security_inci...
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How to use Windows on my laptop:

- Just use it.

How to use Linux on my laptop:

- Spend several weeks debugging everything you could imagine. Find a file posted by one of the laptop engineers to a random forum, which you need for internet to work on the laptop at all. Give up on things like getting the touch screen working properly. Give up on using the laptop and spend most of your time on your desktop.
The Game Gear came out in 1990 (in Japan). I assume they used similar screens for the headset.

The tracking is what surprised me the most. Watching the trade show videos in the article, it's amazing how good it was with what was likely just an accelerometer.
I think this is a dated comment, actually. Scifi is increasingly popular, with multiple CoDs using it, the new Prey, Titanfall/Apex, the upcoming (unless it’s delayed again) Cyberpunk, etc.

CoD and BF both went back to WWI/WWII for some releases as well.

And whatever Fortnite and Overwatch’s settings are. Kinda-cartoon kinda sci-fi?

I don’t think there as many generic modern shooters these days.

Doom is kinda sci-fi and kinda killing actual demons from hell ¯\(ツ)/¯
That feeling when you've been working on a tech product called lenses that leverages Kafka. Time to rm -rf I suppose.
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Why the Commodore Amiga 1200 is my all time favourite computer
Work at a job so I can pursue my creative projects like writing blog posts and making documentaries.
IDK, I think lots of social people at least want to come in from time to time, maybe once or twice a week. Zoom is no replacement for face to face conversations and coffee.
No I'm more or less with you. My laptop went out early this year and I just haven't felt the need to replace it. I might get a Chromebook or something cheap but I don't really feel the need to have an entire dev environment with me.
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