skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think this theory is outlandish, just speculative. That said, given that language itself tends to be hopelessly distorted at such a time-scale there are some significant obstacles to oral histories not getting completely distorted to the point where no original content remains.
Do you have a reference or example of how this encoding works? Curious about this interpretation of complex numbers. Thanks for sharing!
Just want to say one person here is a centrist and as they say "actions speak louder than words" and also.. "I may disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"

People aren't stupid no matter what the left paints the right as ...and I don't know if the left can continue to put a lid on this simmering pot of resentment from tens of millions of SILENCED people.

The anger has a reason and can't just be ignored and hidden away.

I think they made an egregious error and this anger is going to come back at them at some point.in the future.
There may be only a couple of CORAL-size systems (Summit et al) a year but there are many >~$1M HPC systems sold. Intel have so far failed to deliver for CORAL.
Ok, someone has to do it and say something positive about Lex Fridman in this hostile environment. I like Lex Fridman a lot. I have not watched many of his broadcasts, but almost all of the ones I watched were excellent. The guests were exceptional people (Jim Keller, James Gosling, Dilep George) and Lex lets them talk most of the time while just navigating a bit an making sure that even listeners not familiar with the subject can follow.

Also, I like that he is not trying to be everybody's darling: https://youtu.be/_hni6uuorKk?t=367
Free alternative. http://audiobookbay.nl/audio-books/type/computer/
The real danger is that if the code is open-source, I could fully see knockoff or counterfeit devices taking this project, replacing the icons with rips from iPadOS, and trying to sell it.
> my 2010 MBP is still my favorite computer of all time

Seconded. Mine has dents all over the body, battery has been replaced a few times, upped the memory and replaced the optical drive with 1TB storage.

It's performed surprisingly well for over 10 years. Once had to visit the "geniuses" to replace the logic board after a few years, but that's it really.

Its worked in pubs behind the bar, as a live mixer for audio gigs, as a development machine, as a university note making machine...

Although now I've got what seems to be a hardware fault with the display where black pixels turn bright green. That and the fact the speakers and microphone are shot to pieces means I'll have to move on soon.

End of an era for me. I will miss this machine dearly.

--

On jumping ship: if I can work out a way to get iTunes + Apple Music running reliably on Linux I'll be jumping over there asafp. Not liking the software direction (news/rumours?) Apple has taken recently.
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Bring back matte screens too.

Glossy screens have been a disaster, not only ergonomically but also in terms of the never-ending "staingate" scandal of antireflective coating peeling off the screen.
Having just completed a dark souls playthrough, I am interested in more life like AI. Ie.. archers that don't shoot where you are but where your movement suggest you're going. Baddies that will steer clear of you if you're obviously over levelled or only attack in big groups, etc
Apparently not very much. The author has since deleted the post saying:

"I just noticed that someone linked my previous tweet on HN. Sorry I have to delete it in case something come after me"

https://twitter.com/CodeColorist/status/1350798973431283712?...
This look similar to https://www.specialproject.io, a company based in my hometown that just raised VC.
iPhone and iPad front facing cameras do not need a bump and they run circles around the crap in MacBooks though.
Uber spent billions and failed. Why would tesla succeed?
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The expected utility of buying that ticket is quite poor though which is the thing that really matters for most people. You get a sense of this when you consider that the vast majority of the time you lose your initial investment. If you have any other options to get returns on your money you are going to have the opportunity cost of that to deal with too and that's what makes the lottery ticket unappealing from a utility point of view.
If you make this accusation, shoul should provide some proof to back it up.
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Why? That is the thing that excites me the most. Though it isn't thightly locked with the whole STX-side of things which isn't as interesting to me.

Only needing some "dumb" storage media to store your application data and "cloud" files unlocks suddenly a user-centric way for everyone to store data. It also unlocks real competition on the infrastructure layer.

You don't make your own generator and make your own power, -- you don't buy power from say Dell because it needs "Dell electricity". Data should be like this too, ability to be owned and controlled purely by the user (as in you have solar panels + battery) or what most people would do: delegate the work to a power provider.

Ofc not real competition in the "power provider" case since there's physical stuff happening, but for data storage (and batch/"offline" computation and event/webhook handling) a user will be able to set up their own raspberry pi or just use say Amazon to store the encrypted data. :)

I find it fits 100% in to the world I'd want to live in. ^_^
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That sounds like a terrible idea. Why have a proprietary charge port if it can also charge with USB-C?
The U2F protocol (that Yubikey and others use) is based on a cryptographic challenge-response mechanisms, and it includes the domain of the service you're logging into, as supplied by the browser.

The details are complicated, but basically: If you register the key at github.com and later get phished to visit githubverification.com, then the authentication will fail no matter what the phisher does.
Which happened because Big Tech stole all their ad revenue.
That was post both Rotten and Sid, so “Swx Pistols” is being generous
Well, in all fairness I switched from Maven to Gradle exactly due to low performance. Gradle gave my projects a boost of 3 to 7 times faster build speeds. RAM is not an issue for my setups, although I can’t recall how Maven held there against Gradle.

Buck looks quite interesting. Thanks for pointing it out!
> The arrival of Intel (and AMD with the Opteron) on the TOP-500 supercomputer list demonstrated the importance of channel bandwidth (memory and I/O).

Top500 is based on the HPL benchmark. Its problems are specifically not being sensitive to memory and networking (specifically network latency). That's why half(?) of it is things like "cloud vendor", where you're not going to run typical HPC codes past three nodes.
This appears to be an existential crisis played out in bullet points against the backdrop of current events. And rightfully so, one should be experiencing this. The author’s thoughts are a result of a worldview that many of you are responsible for nurturing and amplifying.
It’s only “free speech” when Twitter is used to plan violent riots in Seattle for the past year.

Got it.

That Apple, Google, and Amazon continue to host Twitter despite its continued use in planning violence speaks to the double standard conservatives have long alleged. They treated Parler differently than Twitter purely due to partisanship.

That Twitter and Facebook allow the CCP to spread messages of genocide (such as saying the CCP “emancipated the minds of Uyghur women in Xinjiang”) while silencing Donald Trump for telling his supporters to go home peacefully speaks to the actual morals of tech companies.
Admittedly that was a lazy way to say it’s speech he vehemently disagrees with.

However, it shows a nonchalant willingness to redefine what free speech is. That’s scary.

No, we’re not curbing free speech because that’s not free speech. Just redefine the terms so you can do what you want.
Virtual breadboard tool in the browser, inspired by Ben Eater's 6502
Not caring what others think of you isn't the same as actively trying to screw others over or just being rude if that's what you're alluding at (I'm guessing). For example, "not caring what others think" and just cutting in-front of a queue is an objectively dick move. So in that sense, yes it's self fulfilling (but this is not what "not caring what others think" means).

Perhaps a good example of a positive "not caring what others think" might be dancing however you want; you don't feel embarrassed because you're not a good dancer you just do whatever.

Perhaps another good example is Bob is a vegan and hates that you aren't; now you don't really care anymore and can focus on eating the food you want to. Flip the roles, Bob eats whatever he wants and hates that you're a vegan; you again don't care.
One of the best things about being a software developer in 2021 is that I can do it from almost anywhere.

I'm not lugging my Mac Pro to a cafe. I'm certainly not taking it on a trip.
I got excited at the idea that I could set those thresholds on my MacBook (like on a Tesla) but then realized when you said BIOS that you’re talking about a PC.
Not a fan of Apple's USB-C port implementation. Loosened ports that no longer "click" when a cable is plugged in is a common problem [1], and plagued my MacBook Pro straight out of the box. Even after getting it fixed under AppleCare, planting the laptop on a cradle at my standing desk, then leaving it there for months with no activity due to WFH for the pandemic, a dozen cable insertions of a USB-C drive last week and it started on one of the ports again.

If Louis Rossman had a more permanent fix with a third-party compatible port part that is far more durable, I'd send my now-un-AppleCare'd laptop to him in a heartbeat.

[1] https://appletoolbox.com/are-your-macbook-usb-c-ports-loose/
Look at how Christianity emerged as a persecuted group, or used persecution as a form of organization.

We are mostly watching what it would be like to witness a religion evolve in real time. Most religions believe in some pretty crazy shit too, and I challenge anyone to find the difference between believing in a pedo ring in a pizza store vs the day of judgement and the layers of hell, angels, demons, resurrection, etc.

Nothing new is happening here.

Anyways, I think the belief in some of the crazy qanon stuff is a subconscious manifestation of their true nasty dispositions. The raw beliefs are probably embedded in racism, and it’s driving that subset rotten so much so that it is manifesting in a mutated outgrowth of a similarly nasty conspiracy (pedo rings, dominion by a lizard class).

It’s the same with religion, if you give it to mostly naive and dim witted people you will get dim witted beliefs and customs.

It’s the same with giving someone an elite education in a proper field, you get a highly useful member of society.

The rottenness of their basic beliefs is metastasizing into these forms that feel obvious to me. Believing in lizard dominators is no different than being unabashedly racist in this day and age, pure dysfunction. Hell, I’ll even suggest believing in semi-human demon form of a lizard person out to harm you is poetic licensing of racism, the belief in another human that isn’t exactly you and something to be feared, to be dealt with.

> just random text fragments

Modus operandi of every religion, it was written. Just random shit that was written over ages. Why would the GOP be particularly susceptible to it? Well why wouldn’t they be? Their bread and butter base was always the evangelical or some form of white Christian. That’s a specific type of person through and through. Why wouldn’t this group be the ones that gravitate to this stuff?

A group of people that believe in the greatest conspiracy of all time about a deity, running things in a planned way, with all kinds of backstory and lore about the purpose of humanity, and yet we’re all shocked they gobbled up another equally laughable conspiracy. They’ve remixed their beliefs, god running the world and finding his true believers is repurposed in Trump secretly rallying his true believers against a world order that seeks to harm them. It’s not even original, they are just manifestations of racism embedded in the reality of a globalized world that is economically weakening them. Can we follow the money here?

It’s the same exact people guys, why is our memory so lenient?
When you are twenty you need to prove yourself to women and employers.

When you are sixty, less of your life remains, so the stakes are lower. If you piss someone off to the point that they do you in - who cares?
Plants on planets around red dwarfs could look black
The money printing (QE infinity) is the reason of most of the world's current problems, like the amount of capital misallocation that's been going on for 50 years.

Luckily Bitcoin improved on gold as a store of value, so while many are angry, people who understand that having hard money is the most important in current times have an easy life right now.
I see it the other way around: I started to enjoy more the podcast after he rebranded it.

The man put it out there about him feeling constrained about pursuing different types of guests that he was genuinely curious about, but that felt out of space within the realm of the previous branding.

Better yet - he put a lot of these decisions up to vote to his community, that he clearly feels that he owes them everything. Basically the feedback of the community was positive towards this change - and he seems really happy about it!

So now he brings guests with different types of backgrounds, from AI to Quantum Physics, where he dares to ask question about what he thinks are more profound/out of the box questions.

He knew this shift wasn't going to appeal everyone, and that's fine. It's impossible to please everyone, and he saw this path a way for him to grow and explore even though he would lose some following (clearly a small portion).

I'm really happy for him, and it's a joy to see someone put themselves out there, to risk it, and grow!

And guess what, maybe he left a void to be filled - the same void he filled that allowed him to do his own thing.
So what happens when the fraudsters automate clicking the "request review" button? They can spin up as many phishing sites as they want, and request as many human hours in review as they want.

With banks, they only have to do that for their customers, whom they've at least had a chance of getting money from. But Google would need to provide it to every site which gets blocked, (as malware sites pretend to be legitimate). Which
And we still have whataboutism running rampant. I suppose the difference between tencent and Facebook is that you can call FB out on their practices without worrying about getting disappeared and then deleting your tweets out of fear.
What does sharp rock mean in this context? Am I missing something? ( not a native speaker )
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Why would having multiple options be bad? It doesn't turn the usb c port into a useless port or anything?
That was just someone who posted a link to the V2EX thread https://www.v2ex.com/t/745030 on Twitter. Kind of ironic that the original Chinese post is still up while the tweet was deleted.
I’m with you, for all the listed reasons. Travel is so much easier now that I’ve usb-c-ified all the things. The only thing I wasn’t able to find a usb-c option for (back in the dizzy) was a 4g modem, but that’s ok I just stopped using it altogether and started tethering my phone or iPad instead. I often use my iPad Pro as a second screen, so usb-c there also. I do carry a small dongle that I got just in case, but I think I’ve used it maybe five times in the past two years.

I really don’t miss MagSafe, and I find the MagSafe usb-c adaptor solutions one can easily get these days to be quite a good compromise for those that truly want it.

The only thing bothering me is that lightning connectors are still a thing on iPhones. The second they release a usb-c phone I’m getting it. Usb-c all the things!

Oh almost forgot, hard pass on replacing the Touch Bar though. I know people hate it, but for me it’s much more useful than Fn-keys. I don’t miss them, and once the Touch Bar with a physical escape key showed up that was it – perfection. I hope they keep Touch Bar as an option at least, brilliant piece of design in my opinion.

As always, mileage varies etc.
Indium is comparable in abundance with gold, so it is indeed very rare.

Indium is completely irreplaceable in LED's, especially in the LED's used for lighting, and also in other important semiconductor devices, e.g. in the GaN transistors that are now used in the latest miniaturized power bricks.

Currently the largest quantity of indium is used for the transparent conductors required in all displays, from smartphones to TV's and monitors. There are alternatives for this use, but all have various disadvantages, e.g. a lower lifetime or a lower efficiency.

I agree that wasting indium, which is probably the element with the lowest known resources compared to the known future needs for it, to make something like pigments, where there are a lot of mostly equivalent alternatives, is a serious mistake.
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They definitely have not been designing for function over form, at least while Jony Ive was there without Jobs to curtail his worst impulses.
Frugality is underrated even in this forum.
Check out comma.ai. I think they are very frugal = smart.
> there’s also a lot of value in confusion/configuration-free usability

> it’s between Signal or nothing for the majority of nontechnical folk.

This is a false dichotomy. Nothing about federated services that make it intrinsically less usable.

> pretty much Just Works

Until it stopped working. And it failed spectacularly. For everyone.

I might have to repeat this until I go hoarse, but switching from one centralized service to another is not progress. It doesn't make us free. You are still at the mercy of an selected few to take things in the direction they want, everyone is still dependent on their success and the more people adopt it the more difficult it becomes to escape it case the leaders subvert their power to go against the will of the people.
Until recently these people were not silenced in any significant way. That they thought they were was part of their whole warped world view where holding the presidency, a slim majority of the senate, and a slim minority of the house means that they are oppressed and unheard.

It's like radical evangelicals who claim that Christians are being oppressed while a majority of our elected government identifies as Christian including the president of the united states (none of which have ever not identified as Chrsitian).
https://tools.suckless.org/slock/

Orders of magnitude smaller than xscreensaver. You can easily read the code and understand what it does.
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Not sure why the author is so negative on Yubikey. His only reason is that an attacker can steal his laptop with the key plugged in. That’s a user error.

I much rather have Yubikey over all other forms of security because it simply forces the attacker to be physically present. Why is that important? Because even if your laptop is stolen with your Yubikey at a local Starbucks, you’re more likely to catch that person versus a completely remote attack. Security isn’t just about attacks. You also need to think about mitigation and recovery following the attack.
Still up on V2EX https://www.v2ex.com/t/745030 which the tweet was basically just a link to.

Edit: Internet Archive of tweet: https://web.archive.org/web/20210117115536/https://twitter.c...
Hi. I tried it out with some random pictures and par2deep wasnt able to generate the par2 file for one of them. The error was createdfiles_err. I used the GUI on win10, the file names are of normal length, file permissions are the same as for the others. I can send it to you for testing if you want
I mean, why go there? App Store is Apple's playground where Apple can and do enforce arbitrary rules. Of course Apple can suspend Parler, they don't need any reason whatsoever. It shows how bad Apple is, not how bad Parler is.
Are there other apps to use DRM-free audiobooks on, which include the ability to bookmark?
Ive was terrible for Apple as soon as Jobs was no longer there to curb his worst impulses. He's a great designer, but he's the kinda guy you want designing your concept cars, not your production vehicles.
Also, Bluetooth based keys exist that don’t have to be plugged in.
When I was a kid ignorant people kept their thoughts in their heads safe and tucked away or maybe told a few people near them that knew better. Now they let them out on social media where they can find other ill-informed people and reinforce one another. I don’t know a way around this filter step. Maybe it naturally will resolve. As Stewart Brand said, information wants to be free. I will be optimistic enough to believe that means correct information. The science and empathy just isn’t well distributed yet. “The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed.” -William Gibson
Any software to generate these as stl files?
yes agreed. OP asked a very underrated question.
"The problem with physical reality is that you first have to buy before you can sell and the sell date may lie very far into the future. "

In practice though we have things like net90 payment terms.
> As a power user...

And

> Someone you share your laptop with can just open the Telegram app ...

Are in plain conflict :)
Try browsing the web without an ad blocker. The top results on Google search are always adverts. And, quite often, they link to scam sites.

There are loads of copycat websites which appear in the top slot - especially for government site. https://www.which.co.uk/consumer-rights/advice/how-to-spot-a...

It's particularly prevalent in the UK, where you see companies proxying legitimate services and charging premium rate for phone calls - https://www.theguardian.com/money/2017/feb/04/beware-call-co...
They filter out fast games (bullet and faster) and moves where one has less than 30 seconds total time to make the move. They say this is to avoid capturing "random moves" in time trouble
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A sharpened rock is the level of technology I am comfortable sharing with them.
this probably means governments , hackers, etc know many other bypasses
Its linux. All sorts of apps could run on it.
Plus most of the apps these days are going cloud and PWA. That well could be of a huge advantage.

Plus its by China. Once this device goes mainstream among people as a laptop replacement, expect Linux to come up with a huge number of Chinese apps.
At the moment we are living in a time with very strange monetary policy, in any situation where we have zero (or more absurdly negative) interest rates any venture that has potential to be profitable while growing will find that the easy funding tends to be valued more than frugality from the perspective of those providing funding. In a negative interest rate world burning money for time plays get a whole lot more attractive.
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fido2/webauthn, adds MFA and a anti phishing protection!
I am glad you are such a respectful commenter.
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Fugaku, for which A64FX was designed, has no DDR memory, just HBM, but yes because of bandwidth. Its Tofu fabric has decent bandwidth but particularly low latency.