skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It proves the viability of ARM for desktops, laptops, and probably eventually servers too. Intel having been humiliated by this will loosen their grip on OEMs who will now be under pressure in the inevitable rush to produce appealing, performance-oriented ARM laptops, as the current market has basically been Chromebooks and some half-hearted Windows ARM tablets, all based on chips adapted from phones.

And of course there will also be the rush on the fab side to produce a non-Apple chip that's actually suitable for these machines, which will in turn have performance characteristics far more suited to server use than any previous ARM chip, enabling that market and feeding back a demand for larger and more performant server ARM chips and mainboards— and who knows, maybe even some kind of socket standard so they aren't soldered down like it is today.
Re: Confluence. I was at the same point about a year ago and wrote a small python script that posts pages that I write locally in vim to Confluence:

https://github.com/SabbathHex/confluence_poster

The downside is that due to Atlassian limitation and phasing out of wiki markup it's not possible to retrieve articles from Confluence. This script is not suitable for collaborative editing of the same page.

Script is quite ugly, but gets the job done.
That's too bad and probably just forces it underground. People aren't going to stop using it.
Ask HN: Anyone interested in a open source library to track shipping containers?
I'm writing a library to track shipping containers across all major shipping lines and railroads (North America only).

Curious if other people here work on similar things and would be interested in collaborating, or even just using, said library?
I don't think that's a fair characterization of Gebru's argument there at all. A better summary might be "You're the Chief AI Scientist at a massively influential and profitable company with billions of users and exabytes of data, you can't just throw up your hands and say 'welp, that's what the model spits out so that's what we're stuck with.'"
Saying Plaid were more of a monopoly than Visa is (and Visa is a pretty bad monopoly), isn't that an even bigger reason for the justice department to move to prevent this acquisition?
clang has a -Wunneeded-member-function that is not included in -Wall:

https://clang.llvm.org/docs/DiagnosticsReference.html#wunnee...

“warning: member function A is not needed and will not be emitted”
The Unintended(?) Consequences of the Stable Act
As to why Qualcomm can’t match Apple, I think a lot of it boils down to vertical integration.

Apple can create software targeting the hardware and hardware targeting the software. Qualcomm has no real control over Android, and no control over what its customers add to their phones.
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Plug for mosh, the mobile shell. If you can ssh, you can probably mosh. https://mosh.org/
I hope, but both narcos and the military complex business would get affected so I doubt it will happen.
Anybody want to start increasing government R&D funding yet?
“Fragile personal items” like houses:

https://www.wndu.com/content/news/Dowagiac-house-fire-sparke...

https://www.myarklamiss.com/louisiana-news/child-playing-wit...

https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jun/23/child-linked-...

https://www.fox13now.com/2015/07/25/fire-crews-respond-to-2-...

https://www.ajc.com/news/local/kids-playing-with-lighters-ca...
One of the early implementations of Unix spell used a Bloom filter to compress the word list:

“Two different hashing methods have been implemented. The first, based on a simple superimposed code scheme first proposed by Bloom,9, 10 was supplied by D. M. Ritchie and succeeded in encoding a 25,000-word list into 50,000 bytes. A more elaborate method, in which values of a conventional hash func- tion are represented in a differential Huffman code, squeezed 30,000 words into 52,000 bytes. The stop list is handled by the same method in a different process.”

Doug McIlroy discussed the history of spell at Bell Labs here: https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/spell.pdf

I remember emailing Doug to ask him about this and he was great, very helpful to me. Thanks Doug!
Im surprised it works so well.

Good:
- Video chats give a multitile view and bump the audio of the person you are looking at
- websites pre-fetch areas of content you are likely to click on
- better designed sites as its way cheaper to get decent attention / confusion metrics for a test audience

The bad is advertising / snooping etc.

I'm actually quite taken and wondering if I can replace my mouse with gaze tracking. I already use i3 and mouse position for window focus. Would be nice to keep my jands on the keyboard for all apps.
i3 is one of those things that supports everything, you just have to configure it. If you want i3 with sane defaults and a pretty style out of the box, you should try i3-regolith[1]

[1]https://regolith-linux.org/
That, or, Amazon knows from history (Google, Facebook, Microsoft, IBM, even going as far back as Standard Oil) that the public trust is not to be taken for granted. They have strong incentives to stay ahead of any negative sentiment that might arise.
I was not able to find official statistics on 737 Max flight hours, which is why I fell back to percentage of aircraft as a means of comparison.

But to continue down this path, let's compare the 737 Max to its predecessor, the 737NG. Out of the 7,065 737NGs delivered, 22 have been completely destroyed, for a rate of 0.3%. If we only look at fatal accidents, we find 12 (0.16%). If we limit this to accidents that were caused by some failing of the aircraft, even if it was made worse by pilot error, you end up with two fatal accidents (0.027%).

So in order to believe that the 737 Max is no more or less dangerous than the 737NG, you have to believe that the 387 delivered 737 Max aircraft were flown enough in 2 years to cover the massive difference in their fatal hull loss rate. I'm sure that the 737 Max was flown a lot, the reduction in fuel consumption means that airlines would want to use it as much as they could, but there is over an 18x difference between the rate of fatal accidents caused by those two aircraft; do you really think that the 737 Max flew 18x more on average than the 737NG has?

Oh, and Airbus has delivered 1,499 airplanes in their a320neo series. None have crashed so far.
No, it’s not true. Most people buy their computers because of the price, style, and easily observable features (not necessarily performance, certainly not the type of difference that only shows up in benchmarks). Hacker News commenters are far from your average PC buyer. I’m sure the M1 and future desktop Apple silicon will have an impact, but it’s far from a killing stroke. If people only cared about maximum performance, budget machines wouldn’t sell at all. In reality, they sell in much higher volumes than high end devices.
Regolith has at least some of that. I'm using it on Ubuntu.
https://regolith-linux.org/
Also, this holds for 99.99% of the populous. Even hardware wallets aren't a great solution and there you're paying a hundred dollars or so just to get one.

Shovels in a gold rush.
My bad, I didn't make difference between population. I was mostly talking about ppl without pre-conditions/risks.
In your case I would do it too, And for your parent too (Mine has immunodeficiency so vaccine is out of the question).
After I don't have like big red flag and I think, for the majority it will be fine.
I am just more comfortable to use vaccine from techniques previously used on other public vaccine widely distributed.
I found the move a bit quick to jump on those new technologies, especially when we still could use the "traditional" way.
I agree the data look ok, but the data sample are nearly nothing compare to the total population who will get it.
Good data but not that representative.
But I would never say to someone to not take it.
Really, there are two components to a modern spell checker. First, identify the words that are misspelled. Second, offering (good) corrections. This article is really talking about how hard even the first task was when memory was scarce. Offering good suggestions is still non-trivial.
Java already solved this with try-with-resources, which the linter or IDE can warn you about (because the instance has to inherit from `AutoCloseable`). Not so with golang's defer, where it is much more likely that the developer can forget to call it.
> Apple performs many tricks to get such long battery life

I always assumed this is why Apple doesn't allow actual third-party browsers on iOS.
Ask HN: What fast software would you recommend?
I recently read Fabian Sanglard’s blogpost “These are called opportunities”[1] where he writes about how the startup time of Chrome made him switch and never look back. There’s also a related discussion[2] on the front page right now about input latency degradation from 1977 to 2017.

Don’t get me wrong. I truly enjoy and would argue I get a sense of satisfaction of using fast and responsive software. However these opportunities are getting rare, and frankly I’m just bothering less to look now days. I remember this, for me personally, being such an important factor in chosing software. Less so now. Maybe it’s a sign of age, or perhaps it’s the prevalance of proprietary applications where there are few or no options. Think Slack or your favorite web based collaboration tool either only avaiable in the browser or kindly packaged - with webkit - as a standalone app.

I miss fast software. Software you’re excited to use simply because it’s refreshingly fast.

I’m trying to find two things here, what are example of fast software you use on a recurring basis that you would recommend, and how important performance really is now days. Especially when it comes at the expense of features or investment of time.

[1] https://fabiensanglard.net/silicone/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25290118
It will take time (months) to vaccinate the bulk of the population. In the meantime, you do not want more influx of patients to the hospital.

After substantial population is vaccinated there should not be any need for lockdowns & closures.
> Users could, of course, still overdose if they mix cocaine with other drugs, but education campaigns should hopefully mitigate that risk, and in any case it won't be any worse than what happens when those same people mix effectively unknown illegal substances.

I highly doubt that young people who take cocaine to party will be type of people who will listen or dedicate their time to education campaigns.

> in any case it won't be any worse than what happens when those same people mix effectively unknown illegal substances.

That's a bold claim which I would like to see substantiated with evidence. How could one possibly foresee the potential damage that could be caused by cocaine going mainstream once it is legalised. I'm just here to have a conversation and ask questions, just so the downvote trigger people don't lose their minds in anger because someone dares to question their narrative.
Most people aren't investing in fiat, they are investing productive assets like real estate or businesses e.g the share market.

I don't have strong opinions on fiat vs crypto, primarily because it seems like a boring question. Whatever currency is the future, currency isn't the present or the future of investments, productive assets are.
You can configure fastmail to show remote images from all your contacts, but it’s all or nothing: https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/remotecontent.html

Is this what you are asking about for mailto links? https://www.fastmail.com/help/send/openemaillinks.html

The spam filter can be customized, but I agree that it isn’t nearly as good as gmail’s. I have it configured to move messages with a score higher than 3.5 to spam which prevents all false positives for me, but 1 or 2 spam emails a week still get to my inbox. https://www.fastmail.com/help/technical/spamchecks.html#cust...

I agree that the comment manager is barebones. Fastmail does support CardDAV so you could use a different contact manager but I haven’t had the need.

Edit: I swear I am not a Fastmail shill. Just a happy customer!
Perfection is a process, not the result
In a competitive industry with high fixed costs and low _marginal_ costs, a race to the bottom often leads to pricing less than _average_ costs and a reduction in service quality (or inability for providers to replace infrastructure consumed in providing service.
This one will buffer (to a certain extent) and only flush when cellular is on and cellular traffic is already occurring. When cellular is on but cellular data is disabled there is still cellular data traffic at OS level, I expect more advanced spyware will travel with that data-stream. Also that indicator and a switch is just software, if you have full control over the OS, you can change that.
McKinsey gives up millions in fees to settle bankruptcy probe
The world may want to switch to ARM but right now there aren't really any options to switch _to_ right? Beyond Apple I can't think of any chip manufacturers offering desktop ARM cpus...
Right, the problem for Intel & AMD is not that everybody will switch over to Apple chips (they can't, because Apple likely won't sell it to them), but rather that Apple has proven beyond any reasonable doubt that ARM chips _can_ be this good when scaled up to laptop-level power envelopes.

That will probably prompt other ARM vendors and certain PC manufacturers (Microsoft who already has the ARM based SQ chips, for instance) to further invest in similar products that chip away at Intel/AMD's lead and likely eventually overtake them.
From Dean's email:

>Unfortunately, this particular paper was only shared with a day’s notice before its deadline — we require two weeks for this sort of review — and then instead of awaiting reviewer feedback, it was approved for submission and submitted.

Not sure what to make of that - maybe that Gebru submitted the paper and then immediately clicked the "approve" button herself?
All from India.
Its more like " There are difficulties on collecting data and historical reasons that leads to bias in the trained model"
Other side " no you are a racist and responsible for bias due for being a white male"
One good thing that Trump did is that he stood up to the bully CCP. Let's hope the upcoming administration will continue to do so.
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There was a company 8ish years ago trying to do the same thing; they ended up getting aqui-hired by Facebook:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/facebook-acquires-eye-tracking...

Since then I always wondered when webcam-eye-tracking would actually be possible. Looks like today is the day!
You have to pay taxes in USD. Not being thrown in jail is value... maybe not intrinsic though.

USD in paper form can also be burned for warmth, or used to write on. In coin form, it has the same intrinsic value as the metal.
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M1 has become such a buzzword. What does M1 competitor even mean? Just an ARM SoC?
Yeah, I had a hard time making heads and tails of what that bit meant, exactly.
Years ago at CES there was an eye tracking demo that would automatically scroll the page as you read text. It was so subtle; you never actually noticed the text moving, but then you also never had to scroll.
> Message matters, and saying "why do I have to do something smart if at least one person in a person of power is doing something dumb" is itself a message, and not a productive one.

EXACTLY. That is the message being sent - it's unproductive! That is my exact point. Our leadership sends unproductive messages all the time -and when half the country doesn't think it's a big deal, they see rich people doing whatever, their confirmation bias kicks in and says "see if it was bad they wouldn't be doing X"

> concretely: hypocrites will exist for any principle or situation imaginable, so you can take it as a given, reason about a situation independently of them, and ignore them.

You can't ignore hypocrites if they have influence. If Trump was pro-mask a good deal of this country would have been too.
She sounds like a deranged person.
It's largely all security theater that plays into the censorious, moral superiority zeitgeist.

People are looking for excuses to berate everyone around them.

People are reducing everyone around them to villains and forming communities around that shared hatred.

It's insufferable.
https://jexer.sourceforge.io/screenshots/jexer_sixel_in_sixe...
In the past I've used a text or html editor to change that text before clicking "I Agree," and then saving off a local copy.

Seems as reasonable a way to negotiate the contact as the way it was presented to me in the first place.
No dog food today – the Linux Foundation annual report
Arecibo was an inside job.
The other implication of exponential data growth is that shortening retention periods is only a short term solution to storage costs.
This is 100% correct. The bulk of fraud on our electronics ecommerce store comes from protonmail accounts.

We treat the following domains in emails as sus:

https://gist.github.com/schappim/c433ac8cd2e3a17a5ca7996b56c...
"I always thought that anything you can overdose on can be classified as hard drug"

You can overdose and die from drinking too much water, or consuming too much table salt.

You can overdose from many perfectly legal, over-the-counter drugs, like over-the-counter pain killers, and many, many prescription drugs.

By your definition they'd all be "hard drugs".
The singular super power era started around 1990.

The 45 years before that the world had two super powers, fighting in various cold and hot wars.
Practically all fiat currencies that have ever existed can or could also be used to pay your taxes and keep you out of prison, including all the ones that got destroyed or are currently being destroyed by hyper-inflation.

So I don't think that it's a good argument for the USD being backed by value.
Current Macs on AWS run via real Apple hardware, so I don't see how M1 will be different. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-use-mac-instances-to-bu...
This works on every device you own. You don't need to setup anything.

And there are thousands more at duckduckgo.com/bang .
Nextcloud Hub does all of this:

https://nextcloud.com/hub/
Thought about this as a business idea but didn't find any way to monetize this except to sell something through email list. Can you elaborate on this part?
> Instead, I would like to see a policy where your access to social safety nets is taken away when you're a user. You want to risk it all to get high? Go for it but don't leave us with the bill and having to wring our hands that you ended up homeless.

I understand the appeal of this posture; it appears to maximize individual liberty while avoiding the moral hazard that comes with a collective safety net. And it kind of works for celebrities and the rich, who can fall back on personal saving, (medical) professionals, and treatment centers when they enter a death spiral. But it is definitely not a solution for the vast majority of our economically fragile citizens, who make such poor long-term financial decisions that we had to institute all sorts of mandatory retirement contributions and taxes to keep people out of the poor houses. At that's not even considering how addiction disrupts long-term decision-making ability.

TL;DR: Most people are bad at long-term planning, and are even worse when addicted, so the solution cannot involve only long-term consequences.
And not all HN readers are won over either. I for one am not willing to switch to Apple's closed ecosystem for a chip that is a little faster. Or even a lot faster.
The joke is a pretty good one, but what's the supposed parallel with the scenario at hand? There is a meaningful interpretation of "buy a dozen" that the wife intended to convey but the programmer fails to notice (because he lacks common-sense knowledge about typical purchase volumes of different items and/or is blinded by the parallelism of "buy a... if <condition>, buy a..."). What is the meaningful common-sense interpretation of "I can't work here anymore" (was that even the literal wording?) that Timnit intended and Google failed to recognise?

If you are instead just saying that Google should have let it slide because it was just an emotional outburst ("anger and frustrations") and not meant to be taken seriously, well, in what context can we hold adults to their word at all? Email is written communication, not an offhand verbal remark uttered in a tense meeting in anger. You should be able to see what you are about to send while typing it, and have ample opportunity to look over it again before you press that "Send" button. If your ability to review your words has atrophied, perhaps under the influence of social media which encourages "unfiltered" stream-of-consciousness venting, then this ought to be on you, simply because it is doubtful that society can function without some possibility of making binding statements and we do not have anything more commitmental than email widely deployed (and operable at the pace of the modern workplace) in work-from-home times.
If they used that murder to reap profit & you inherited that profit, you could pay some of it back
>unfortunately it's impossible to be a polite social activist

Tell that to Gandhi, tell that to the many people in the Civil Rights Movement and Martin Luther King, tell that to the people who were in the Monday demonstrations in East Germany, the list goes on.
I'm confident Rayiner isn't a xenophobe, which is why I'm wondering what I'm missing about his argument.
I was thinking about this today - that is: a terminal (“minimal”) setup may well have prepared those of us who practice it - for remote work (great news if a pandemic strikes!)

I wondered though, if there’s no way to objectively “score” the advantage of, say, terminal-minimalism vs. GUI-maximalism, what might some discussions of t-min vs GUI-max be? What, if anything, does t-min really cut us out of while we’re preparing for the rare case of “Ok, imagine you’re stuck on a spacecraft with only a character terminal and a 300baud modem - what will you do then with your Windows RDP-available machine back on earth?” Am genuinely interested to hear people’s ideas of the calculus here.
This was a fun game, even with the few bugs. Thanks for sharing this, I look forward to seeing more things like it in the future.
I guess the way I think about it is this: Yann has a long history in ML. He's probably had to deal with bias problems for decades. Probably pretty experienced with it. Now he's heading up some Facebook ML stuff and on a daily basis he watches hundreds to thousands of engineers work on systems that process and learn from billions of users. I feel like after you do that for a while, you gain enough wisdom and experience to deserve to be engaged with respect and thoughtfulness. She has repeatedly engaged with bad faith, misleading interpretations of intent, and is just sort of really "attacky". Sure, he's a bit condescending (I've seen the same thing and it annoyed me for a bit, then I kind of read about what he's done and realized: he's got tons of experience and data about this and works with it at scale constantly.