skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
100%.

Zuckerberg sees that it has the potential, and he wants to have an early angle of attack in case someone else innovates first.

Zuckerberg views platforms as chess pieces. He doesn't care what they are - he just wants the most valuable and strategic ones. He's not like a Musk that just builds or a Cook that refines product into a cohesive vision. Zuckerberg is playing war and finding the reverse salients. He's destabilizing and weakening the platform and expanding his reach. He's more like Bezos or Ellison.
The oldest living language in Europe?
How Subatomic Particles Will Allow Battery-Free Electronics
This paper is a great overview of the state of the art in building flexible generalizable deep learning systems. Not easy to read, but if you puzzle through it you'll understand where the field is and where it is going.
Microsoft has a good track record with making games, but yes all of FAANG is terrible at this. I have a little more hope for Facebook now that they've started acquiring studios and letting them run independently, instead of the previous combination of publishing\funding and having few internal game teams (which generally doesn't work in big tech anyway). This could lead to a model that looks more like Microsoft Game Studios.
I don't like posting acrimonious comments, but it is hard to find any sympathy for the author. The reasons are similar to the contempt held for people who decry the manipulation of public opinion, while our high-aptitude graduates decide to work for advertisement companies in the Bay Area in chase of the Almighty Dollar. It is sexy and high status, until more people consider the utility (or disutility) that these people bring to society. It sounds like the author is really lamenting a loss of status.

I recall a seminar given a few years back by an astronomy PhD graduate who was talking about career prospects outside of academia, and naturally all of them were 'data science' related. The speaker's first remark was something like 'I don't mean to say that data science is just marketing, but...' and then proceed to describe their career as a person 'with statistics and scripting experience'... working in marketing.

In journalism, it is said that you can always find employment if you join the dark side, which is public relations. I think less people fool theirself in thinking that PR serves the public interest.

We can speculate about why we are hemorrhaging scientists to marketeers, but for the self-interested individual, it's rational. I've always thought that teachers and scientists do not have as high status as they should for the contributions that they provide to society, but perhaps we shouldn't want to attract people to those fields who are in it for the riches and glory.[†]

[†] (of course, it's more nuanced than this)
I used something similar to this as well as Khan Academy to learn CS, when I transitioned into software engineering, after being laid off at my previous position in a different industry.

It’s possible, but it takes work. I also benefited by contacting my peers from college on LinkedIn and getting referrals for interviews. Even though I didn’t major in STEM originally, I still ended up connecting/befriending many while in school. I would encourage you to try to utilize resources like that as much as you can.
The Chemistry of the Odour of Decomposition
Interestingly, right at the beginning of the crisis trust in the CDC was really high. Then, soon after, when it was revealed that the HHS and its minions had lied to people, trust plunged.

Interesting note? Right at the beginning of the crisis Republicans trusted the CDC more than Dems.

People don't like being lied to "for their own good" or whatever. This is the Red Cross Doughnut moment. It's over for trust in public health institutions.
Perhaps a dumb question but I'm curious why people don't use a VPS or a cloud linux machine more for Docker/K8s development instead of running Docker locally on a Mac.

In my experience Docker Desktop has been such a resource hog, and Apple's hypervisor implementation pretty poor. I much prefer to have all that heavy lifting isolated away from my development machine to keep it responsive and cool.
The ideal response function for a visual field is a point, so deconvolution works to "sharpen" an image.

The experience of an audio recording is both the experience of the sound source plus the experience of the space that the sound source is in. This is particularly important for multichannel sound in movies and video games but it is important for music.

Good sound recordings (say a David Bowie album from the 1970s) carefully record the instruments with a "dry" recording with limited echo and reverb. Then they put in the echo and reverb they want with a convolutional filter or physical realization thereof.

If you see that as the artistic vision and want to reproduce it accurately you don't want to undo that convolution.

Undoing convolution is an iffy thing to do anyway because it involves a lot of subtracting two big numbers to get two little numbers and is apt to amplify high frequency noise.

It is different for voice applications: a speech recognition system needs some kind of deconvolution to not be confused by the audio environment.
Don't think of Gmaps as a cloud service in the sense of GCP. It's a SAAS api that offers a unique service and the charge is for that service. It is pretty much the only option for what it does and can charge accordingly. This will cause Google to either lower prices or give more access for the same price (essentially lowering prices).
Archived: https://archive.is/DMW5j
Using Bottom Up Dynamic Programming to Solve the Coin Change Problem [video]
> It's too inconvenient to need to block out everything around you with a headset.

Is it? That's the main selling point to me. I don't want to stare at a screen, I want to look around a cockpit. Even outside light bleed is bothersome - I'm in freaking space, my brain is like where's this light coming from?

It still takes some time to put a headset on and remove it. That can be improved. The Quest also has cameras if you need to see the outside world right now for whatever reason, which is a compromise.
The other day I was looking around in my living room and every family member was staring at a screen.

You just need a VR headset for everybody...
> it's not about status and prestige, it's about scientific freedom and possibilities

Status and prestige confer power. Power brings resources. How one uses those resources is separate.

That said, status and prestige are only correlated to title. An essential staffer will get what they need to do the work they want to do the way they want to do it.
Sounds like a pattern that may have been repeated by Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein.
Some colonies have asked france to interfere
The expectation that a ~2 month old platform is going to perfectly replicate the functionality of 30+ year old platforms is absurd.

Compared to the PPC->Intel transition, this is a cakewalk. Compared to Microsoft's (multiple attempts) to migrate to ARM, this is a true triumph.
I'm not sure. For me just look wrong to see China, India and Mexico as the top 3 cleanest countries in the World. I visited all three. I had a different impression.
Jeff,

Excited to try this out, but it would be great if AWS could also support GIS libraries on Amazon Linux 2. C.f.: https://github.com/aws/elastic-beanstalk-roadmap/issues/28

Without this feature, AWS is basically only enabling half of what's needed to build location-based apps.
Airflow 2.0
ccTLDs were a mistake.

We should strive for neutral (as possible) and general-purpose technology.

Political relationships and problems should be dealed with using political means, not by making technology cater to specific types of human/political relationships (e.g. nationality).

Imagine if IP packets had "country of origin" and "country of destination" headers. Stupid, right? Well, the same principle applies for TLDs.

I'm not denying that there's some intrinsic political arbitrarity in assigning numbers/names to people and companies (and accepting the use of those numbers/names) but adding countries into the mix makes the problem much worse.
A Survival Guide to the #100DaysOfHardware Challenge
I've tried one of the preview builds as part of their Developer Preview Program[1] and it's super fast when you're running an arm64 image, as opposed to an amd64 that will automatically be run via qemu (and therefore incur some overhead). By "super fast", I mean I was seeing speeds comparable to running the commands natively on the M1 mac (npm install and a heavy Gulp build).

[1] - https://www.docker.com/community/get-involved/developer-prev...
> which means you’d be able to run another instance of macOS in a container

This is not true, for multiple reasons. Strictly speaking it only means you'd be able to run another instance of Darwin in a container. And, as you surely know because your tone of voice implies you bear immense knowledge, a Docker-style container is not a full OS: it doesn't run an init or normal system daemons, so it wouldn't even be a full instance of Darwin, so it wouldn't have to support functionality only needed by launchd or system daemons (e.g. WindowServer). It would just need to let you run a stanalone program in a chroot + separate network, PID, and IPC namespace + apply resource controls.

Furthermore, since most people are using Docker for developing software that's going to run on Linux, there would be no real need to virtualize the parts of XNU that aren't also provided on Linux - notably all the Mach stuff. You'd just need to provide a BSD-style syscall API to programs in a container.
right? this is a very janky rig too, with an inverted tripod and the negative holders sitting on top of drink coasters in my bedroom. I want to see what happens with blocking out ambient light, a better carrier, a brighter more uniform light source and maybe a full-frame camera body.
They were not available for purchase by everyone.
If you're looking for an opening book, I recommend FCO Fundamental Chess Openings by Paul van der Sterren for any beginners/under 2000.

FCO is well written with many diagrams (sorry I hate reading move lists), and captures the amateur/pro metas as openings came and went out of favor through the years.

Also, all the cool kids play 960 now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer_random_chess
There are apps that can measure your IPD in seconds with a good degree of accuracy.
It's even more fundamental than human nature. Bikeshedding is better understood as an emergent behavior of groups of people than it is a thing that individuals do.

Bikeshedding-type comments come to dominate conversations because they take less time and effort to compose and express, and therefore tend to get in ahead of and (especially in a synchronous communication medium) crowd out more substantive contributions. While the expertise and temperament of the individual conversation participants may be contributing factors, the dominant one is simply the size of the group.
The M1 Macs. Docker is awesome.
It’s great that you know about how Docker works. How about being a little more informative in your comments here?
How well do they support it? Do they fix security bugs in the parts that are now effectively abandoned by upstream?
I'm not even sure we are at the compelling apps stage yet. I think there are still very difficult hardware and software platform issues to solve first that are going to take tons of basic research. I expect the first 100 million unit headset to include extremely accurate eye-tracking that is used to drive foveated rendering, varifocal active lenses and neural network interpolated facial expressions for high fidelity social avatars. Facebook Research seems to be making good progress on all of that, but it will still take many years of additional research to perfect.

Facebook wants to be the company to invent the first mainstream VR Metaverse, but that doesn't mean they won't invent the hardware and get beaten to market on the software. They are about to release Horizons which is clearly in this vein, but I expect they are still too early.
Someone care to explain why did CentOS switch from downstream to upstream builds? I guess there is a reason.
As noted in the other comment here, the list is easy to find so this is theater at best.

It was only a partial list anyways. Almost every large enterprise i've talked to has some solarwinds sprinkled in there somewhere.
Tons: Cryptography, operating systems concepts including multi-threading, distributed systems, network communication, mobile and embedded systems which are basic backbones of all the things you use today. You know that's where majority of the tech companies are innovating on, right?
So tired of reading about people using hardware that isn’t supported by Linux and then acting surprised when it doesn’t work.

You never hear anyone install macOS on a Dell and wonder why it isn’t working.

So why are you doing this for Linux?

Lenovo, Dell, and other manufacturers ship products that are fully supported by Linux. Use those. If you don’t, you’re on your own.
I think this is one of those cases where one might say the customer (or user, in this case) is always right. But there are always customers who will just find something to complain about, and often (like when the product is a free community service) they're simply not worth having as customers.

edit: Personally, I've been a heavy user and supporter of CentOS but I've almost never referred to it as CentOS. Because the point is to be binary compatible with RHEL, and it's then naturally almost the same thing as Oracle Linux and Scientific Linux, etc. So I would simply refer to "EL5" or "EL6" in code or other places. This probably won't be any different.
True, but it is a matter of weighing risks. I can't find it now, but I remember a few years ago there was a news story about how an update to Ubuntu had caused hospitals to start rendering MRI scan results differently due to differences in the OpenGL libraries. For those sorts of use cases, stable is the only option.
the docs could definitely use some work. there's a ton of nuance in advanced nextjs apps and the docs usually have the answer i am looking for, but it's tough to find it
I guess I'm not seeing the difference between "the social safety net" and "money in people's hands." Technocratic means-tested programs are no substitute for giving people money and letting them spend it organically. Isn't that the point of a "free market" anyway? To let the market decide what is valuable? It's hard to accept any claim that constructing barriers makes social safety nets more effective.

Giving people money and raising minimum wages is indistinguishable to me. The only way they can be different is if you think economic output would be significantly different if people weren't "forced" to work by making wages the only avenue of income. That is the Randian perspective I am referring to.
> The real problem isn't technology or even adoption, it's that people who work at giant companies suck at making games.

Many companies besides Facebook have developed games for the Quest. I guess you could say Facebook sucks at working with game developers, but I’m not sure if that’s true either. Unreal and Unity have well-developed integrations with Oculus [0].

I think where Facebook really falls down is tying customers’ FB account to their Oculus Store purchases (and ability to use the Quest at all). They’re applying a social media platform’s aggressive algorithms to suspend or ban accounts which violate their expansive TOS, which is wrong in consumer product and digital marketplace space. For that reason, mixed with personal experience at the hands of Facebook's algorithms, I have no interest in developing for Oculus.

[0] https://developer.oculus.com/get-started/
I don't know where you live but city limits are very clearly defined in many places. Here for example, there are clear designations (that are reflected in a default speed limit too).

I don't quite know what your (American?) suburbs look like, but in theory I don't see why not in this instance.

And if you're concerned about, idk, people not being able to get to the hospital on time or what have you, make them opt-out on every single ignition. Most people will probably not be bothered to opt-out every single time.

As for the technical points regarding GPS, lots of cars already read speed signs and come with various computer vision based safety features.

Again, ebikes and escooters are already speed limited and geofenced. It's not perfect, but why aren't we so concerned about ebikes being slow and not being able to keep up with cars and subsequently be hit by them?

Lastly - it doesn't have to come into full effect if you're at 120km/h. You can be smart about it, like not slowing you down but not letting you accelerate, easing you into the speed limit etc.

There's a perception that cars are a fact of life and it's OK for them to be traveling at speed in cities, whereas the reality is that in most urban areas we simply cannot afford to keep this up any longer.
Not convinced. Apple's spend a lot of money on privacy focused branding, and I'll not sure it makes sense for them to contradict that.

What did out to me is where these ads are being published ... in newspapers ... which are probably read by old legislators. This is Facebook firing shots across the bow to threaten anyone who would threaten their monopoly.
> The GTK developers do care about backwards compatibility, as evidenced by their continued maintenance of GTK3.

That sort of "backwards compatibility" is useless in the long run and a big source of waste of time for the developers who rely on their library - see XFCE or even Gimp as examples of projects wasting tons of time just to do the same stuff just with a different API.

In addition it isn't what the thread is about which should have been obvious from the Win32 as an example. When you use Win32 you get the latest fixes and features even in applications that haven't been updated for two decades - for example you get new common dialogs and access to shell extensions (e.g. TortoiseSvn/Git integration) that didn't exist back when those applications were made.

Backwards compatibility isn't just about keeping the old stuff running as they were back when they were released - that is just the absolute minimum. It is also about adding new features and fixing bugs that all applications - both old and new - can benefit whenever possible.

> Jumping to pure Xlib or Motif is a bit beside the point, to that end you might as well use GTK1 or GTK2 if you don't mind using an old stable API that is not really being updated anymore.

Xlib and Motif are not equivalent to GTK1 and GTK2 since they do receive updates and bugfixes, even if they rarely receive new features (though both do receive new features too).
> - waiting for 20 megs of minified JS to load over 3G

I don't use Slack.
Have you tried Inoreader? That hits the sweet spot for me - great balance between features (both premium and free) and usability.
These rules should apply to projects at the workplace too.
Run them on Kubernetes in GCP with a containerised DB2!
Probably because it’s not very convenient or easy to setup. I have a 2013 i7 MacBook Pro and I don’t have that much trouble running Docker with 16GB of RAM.
That's probably because lots of enterprise hardware is only ever tested and certified to work with RHEL, and in many cases only provided drivers in an RPM format that's intended to be installed in a RHEL-like environment.
Because I don't think a lot of people know about it, I'll mention pelias here. If you have 16 GB RAM and 600 GB of disk, you can have a free, open source, pre-populated geo database that covers the entire planet.

https://github.com/pelias/pelias

Pelias does geocoding (turns addresses, POIs, and administrative regions into coordinates), reverse geocoding (given coordinates, finds nearby POIs, addresses, neighborhood, city, county, state, country), full-text search, and autocompletion. You can also import CSV to use your own custom data.

I run it on an extra PC, where it powers about 20 twitter bots that turn lat/lon coordinates of aircraft into descriptions like "flying over Silver Lake, Los Angeles, 0.5 miles from Circus Liquor."

There are docker configs for the whole-planet DB as well as various countries or metro areas if you don't need the whole Earth. https://github.com/pelias/docker/tree/master/projects
Amazon streamed 4K video from sat. with a prototype antenna (Project Kuiper)
Microsoft Surface laptops can recognise your face, even with a camera cover
You are right, I misunderstood his message.
Rocky is going to be exactly what CentOS was: a free version of RHEL. The reason you would use this vs. Debian or Ubuntu is because you've got systems that need to mirror your production, but you don't want/need enterprise support on them.

When I worked for a hardware vendor we had customers who ran hundreds of CentOS boxes in dev/test alongside their production RHEL boxes. If there was an issue with a driver, we simply asked that they reproduce it on RHEL (which was easy to do). If they had been running debian or ubuntu LTS the answer would have been: I suggest you reach out the development mailing list and seek out support there.

Whether you like it or not, most hardware vendors want/require you to have an enterprise support contract on your OS in order to help with driver issues.
Sounds plausible.

Note there's a big trend of making fullscreen applications. Skype acts like you bought a computer just to run it. Slack wants it all. Gmail is crammed with icons and features and can't deal with half width screen. Media players have notions, they call your computer a library.

Instead, many applications subdivide themselves into smaller windows - for example IDEs.

It's as if people gave up arranging application windows. They alt-tab (switch) between fullscreen apps. Moving windows around is usually too much hassle. Unless you drag and drop some files from one folder to another, but even then many people prefer copy/paste.
One of the best VR experiences out there was made by a single dev, Eleven Table Tennis. Most of what Facebook puts out there is mediocre tech demos and they don't seem to understand the strengths of their own platform enough to take advantage of them in their games.
For Gimp there's a first beta with GTK3.
By that logic anyone could impersonate anything. Dutch prosecutors have accepted it, the bbc are a reputable organisation, it almost certainly happened.
Is it? I don't read articles to learn about the goings on in the .nu world, it's because the story may or may not be interesting.

Ignoring that it's supposed to be against the rules, moaning about the title and article is really dull and often seems to correlate with people not actually clicking through at all.
I had an awful manager who discouraged team collaboration (work independently, don't ask questions or bother others). I seriously struggled because I was a new developer and had no onboarding. Just tossed into the deep end and unfortunately I drowned. Our 1 on 1 meetings were an interrogation about all the mistakes I've made over the past week and why I made them. The increased stress of not making mistakes made me make more mistakes... Finally the deadlines were constantly shifted. Boss would ask how long something would take, I'd give an estimate, we agreed on that date. When that date arrived he'd say, "I think it shouldn't have taken this long. The other guys on the team could have done this in half the time". This went on for a few months until one day I was fired on the spot. It was a blessing in disguise! I'm at a much better place now.
If you've got something to say, just spit it out.
> Cursive is just a Clojure plugin for IntelliJ

Well, I'm ignorant about the IntelliJ ecosystem. Can I take some of what Cursive is providing and use it with Racket or Common Lisp?
Try TradingView
Looks like iOS still has zero support for webm :/
Would be interesting to see if Preview is stripping OCRd text from PDFs not created by ABBYY FineReader.