skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Roughly equidistant milestones for ports:
1. It crashes
2. Black screen
3. Any drawing at all
4. The rest of the friggin' engine
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Are new stars less pure as generations goes by?
You have to read between the lines here. They make no claims about CPU performance - just integrated GPU performance from Xe (which is a big improvement from previous Iris GPUs.) Then they claim battery life (9 hours, FHD, 250-nits, etc.)

What that means is laptop OEMs will have to limit TDP on CPUs - probably 15W or less. Given current Intel chips being very power hungry, these are likely NOT going to be great CPU performers.

The only competition in CPU space to M1 will be Ryzen 5000U chips in the 15-25W thermal envelope. They should be ~19% more powerful/efficient than Ryzen 4000U chips, but I would not expect M1 levels of cool or battery life yet.
Deffo overkill, but it was all I had kicking around (shucks) and works a treat.
It's always fun when the content layout naturally fits into the viewport in such a way to make it look like there's nothing down below.

Also fun when websites that are waging their holy war against the bars don't anticipate that I'm zoomed in a bit. Having to delve into devtools to disable "overflow: hidden" is a delight.
I used to commute on BART from El Cerrito for an hour. Read so many books on that ride. When I had a 10 min commute, book reading dropped through the floor till I made time again.
What's unbelievable is the audacity of these companies. Programmers want to improve performance for everyone so they come up with caching mechanisms. So what do the companies do? They abuse the feature in order to track users.

The ability to clear browser data is not quite enough. Caching should be disabled by default in all browsers due to the potential for abuse. Oh no, now companies are getting less conversions and sales due to the loss in performance... Sucks to be them. Actually the more their abuse costs them the better.
I dislike high driving positions of crossovers and suvs sooo... that is not a car for me either.
See my other comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25876431, at least in the Netherlands the price difference for the same trim is negligible. Moreover, you might still be eligible for the €4K subsidy from the government.
Yeah after years of company-issued Macbook Pros I built myself a Ryzen 3900x dev machine last year and it was like waking up from one of those dreams where you need to do something urgently but your legs aren't cooperating.

Given the benchmarks I've seen I imagine the M1 would be a somewhat comparable experience, but using a desktop machine for software development for the first time since...2003(!) has really turned me off the laptop-as-default model that I'd been used to, and the slow but steady iOSification of MacOS has turned me off Macs generally. Once people are back to working in offices I'd just pair it with an iPad or Surface or something for meetings.
> Google bought them and shut them down.

This is the way.
Agreed. CSS is the worst thing to happen the web because it privileged advertising and designers over content and writers, and designers make more by going from client to client. Instead of the web being the world's library, it has ended up like an endless magazine stand, optimizing for sensationalist crap.
The concept of "a state as its own entity - not [ ... ] the people in the state" is so broken as to almost need no remark.

What on earth does that even mean? How does a Senator represent "the state as its own entity - not [ ... ] the people in the state" ? Presumably the Senator responds to legislative proposals based on how their perceive them to affect the state, but what can it mean to say "how it affects the state" if that doesn't actually mean "how it affects the people of the state" ?

Well, I'll suggest how: it makes sense only if you reinterpret "the state as its own entity - not [ ... ] the people in the state" as meaning "the existing distribution of power and resources within the state". That is, the role of the Senator from state XX is to ensure that the existing power structure of the state remains in place.

I cannot imagine any other intepretation of "the state as its own entity" that can be offered. Do you have one?

Also, this notion of "the states as the fundamental unit" is a concept that was certainly in place at the time of the DoI. It simply isn't how most Americans experience their citizenship or lives, and arguably it suffered a fatal blow post-civil war. You can argue, if you wish to, that the Constitution still reflects the old arrangement (there are some smart folk who will disagree with you). The de facto situation on the ground, however, is that Americans conceive of themselves living in a single nation with differences in laws and regulations from state to state.

[ EDIT: clarify para 3 and drop word bombs ]
Not making light of the effort here but the name "Operation Warp Speed" reminded me of the Family Guy - "I'm giving her all she's got" (Star Trek's Scotty) sketch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX_O6PULFF4
Arguably it's the strategy pattern. Graphite and Diamond are subclasses of CrystalizationStrategy.
I think this is clouded by nostalgia in case it's implying greater customizability than today. It's little more customizable than Windows 10 which has both light and dark modes for even more than the chrome, it has colorizable title bars, and of course it has wallpapers. The accent colors can be customized to take effect on the start menu background, the task bar, and the title bars. This is how my desktop looks right now with merely two additions: TaskbarX for a centered task bar and Rainmeter for some "widgets": https://i.imgur.com/4qoxSkM.png
Windows: Disable "Automatically hide scrollbars in Windows".

Mac: General Preferences has an option "Show scroll bars" which you can set to "Always".
Guessing the crystals are probably connected in some lattice so won't move independently. The expansion horizontally is gated by the walls so it gets bounced around until it moves to a wider section. There seems to be some ratio of horizontal vs vertical growth.
(1) is interesting. I'm a big fan of a carbon tax over subsidies and direct govt intervention but this seems like an example of something that a tax would have a hard time incenting. I wonder if there are other examples like that.

Maybe a tax on cows but a rebate if they use this technology. But that seems like an easy system to game so maybe the direct subsidy is superior in this case.
Ok I understand! Easier than I thought ;) Being able to have numbered links is definitely something I can do. I'll add that to my to-do list! It could be an option, not necessarily visible by default.
How Is This a Good Idea: Car Dashboard Video Games
Wieght loss
But what is the value in restoring that ecosystem? I am not saying that is a bad thing (it is probably a good thing), I am just curious what the argument for restoration is here.
Amazon tries to delay warehouse union vote in Alabama
There are 10 categories of people: those who know what binary system is, and those who don't.
Perhaps not originally, but now it is certainly a language design goal that the entire compilation pipeline can be parameterized and modified to allow for a huge variety of custom transforms. AD is a subset of the transformations they are endeavouring to support.

E.g. see https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/33955

Generally speaking, if there is any sort of code transformation pass that's needed for AD but not supported, you can expect people to be working to support either that specific transformation, or a generalization of the transformation. This has been a theme in the language development for years now.
They're talking about purely scraped content without anything added, like someone mirroring another site, wholesale copying without any change. "Purely scraped content, even from high-quality sources, may not provide any added value to your users without additional useful services or content provided by your site;"

This is pretty easy to understand and I don't think controversial. Scrape your site and transform some of the information to make a useful service? Yes. Scrape your whole site and just host its pages? No.

Maybe your site is a medical blog and over the years has written about pretty much every condition. If someone else were to scrape this, and make an interactive map of the human body, where if you click on a part, it lists links to the original blog, plus a pop-up summative snippet, very few people are going to scream "You did nothing! This guy spent years writing medical articles, and you come along and make a fancy interactive body as a way to linking to his articles, and now you're getting ad revenue and traffic!" Obviously, if lots of people are using this new interactive service, it's a value add.

But what if instead, I setup a site like WebMD, supposedly with expertly written medical content from the Web's best medical bloggers, but I just scrape all their articles, and host those pages on my own site, as if they had written the articles as contributors to my site.

And you don't think the latter should be downranked?

Do you think GPT-3 should somehow pay someone everytime it generates an answer? What if future search engines crawl the web and build giant transformer models which just answer questions by whole-sale authoring a new article from scratch, how do we compare that to a human being doing the same thing?

Scraping is how human beings learn and there's a big difference between wholesale piracy, and transformation.
Windows XP themes are PE binaries. They totally run executable code.

This might even be the main reason that the operating system as-is only allowed themes signed by Microsoft.
> They're not endangered, they are aggressive predators, and Scotland's ecology isn't obviously in need of them.

Are you certain on that last point?

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/20/deer-cull-dilem...

I don't know that much about the lynx but it seems like it might be a useful ideal predator to release to help deal with deer overpopulation. They don't prey on people.
Ah, but now you're discretizing! :D

... also, it Technically depends on your throughput (something something queue theory).
I am pretty much the only Linux user in my company. Pidgin works ok with Lync (need to install pidgin-sipe on Ubuntu). Video and audio calls do not work, but text chats, sending/receiving files and screen sharing works fine. (I have not tried to share my screen though but I see their screens fine).
~20, not 30.
Why should the rules on effluents be related to marijuana policy? They shouldn't be. Why are the rules on effluents related to marijuana policy? Because politics works according to public sentiment attached to individual leaders and their parties, and the leaders and parties bundle together large packages of unrelated policies. Hence a chemical plant owner becomes interested in issues that have absolutely nothing to do with his businesses, or even his business' externalities.
Oh, we're reading the sqlite files directly. rqlite is really just a mechanism for us to propagate read only data to a bunch of clients.

We need that sqlite file to never go away. Even a few seconds is bad. And since our replicas are spread all over the world, it's not feasible to move 1GB+ data from the "servers" fast enough.

Is there a way for us to use that sqlite file without it ever going away? We've thought about hardlinking it elsewhere and replacing the hardlink when rqlite is up, but haven't built any tooling to do that.
And with current technology (pun intended), your battery will last significantly longer.
2x4s are 2x4 before they're seasoned, though. The lumber is dried after dimensioning and shrinks as it loses moisture. But we still label it by the original dimensions because lumber is priced by the board foot (which is itself a weird archaic measure) of the lumber when it was cut.

For comparison, sheet goods aren't priced this way. A 3/4" sheet of plywood really is 3/4", because the plywood was manufactured that way and as a manufactured product there is no seasoning.

You're not being ripped off because a 2x4 is actually smaller. A sawmill had a tree, and they cut off a hunk of that tree, and they charge by how much wood they cut off. The dimensions of that piece of wood changed after they cut it (which in and of itself is a service they provide - it would be a hassle if you had to buy green lumber and dry it yourself).
WY was created by the United States of America. It wasn't some pre-existing entity that opted to join the union.
In React's case, it's meant to pretty much entirely focus on the process of (input data -> output DOM nodes), plus the minimal set of wrapper functionality needed to handle user input and general asynchronous data loading (class-based component state, context loading, and most recently hooks). It intentionally doesn't handle a lot of stuff like dependencies (that's a job for your bundler), the actual data fetching, the actual specifics of your UI, centralized global data management, etc.
It's worth noting, with respect to the advice from Norwegian farmers, that Norwegian farmers have an incentive to push for high estimates of predation over other causes of loss, as they get compensation for loss due to predators.

That's not to say they don't lose animals to predators, but the estimates of the actual numbers have been fought over in Norway for decades.
> just knowing you have the option to reduce stress is enough to make something less stressful

I believe this is a huge source of stress today, with 24-hour news and addictive social media all constantly screaming "the sky is falling" and there's absolutely _nothing_ you can do about any of it. As an experiment, for every bit of news and every tweet you read, ask yourself "is this actionable?"

The best thing you can do for your personal mental and physical well-being is stop paying attention. If you can find a source of local, actionable news that actually affects you, great (good luck). Otherwise just focus on the immediate world around you - family, friends, job, community - and let the larger world do what it's going to do anyways.
I prefer the criticism raw and plain. No need to muddy the waters with a biased recommendation. The author’s criticism stands on its own.
The markets are never perfect. That's why you have to ask for what you want.
https://tinypilotkvm.com
Strongly disagree. There is a big difference between doing some interesting hacking at a young age and getting your GPU driver included in the mainline Linux kernel. The author appears to be a true CS prodigy.
This has been bugging me for years. I was having a much better user experience ~20 years ago with Enlightenment desktop on top of Gnome or a lightweight window manager.
The Apache way to sustainable open source success (2019)
Panpsychism, pantheism, etc, are enticing because humans are predisposed to see patterns, structure, reason, and intelligence; to anthropomorphize nature. Characterizing as "arbitrary" our admittedly feeble and flawed attempts at distinguishing the human mind is an easy way to placate that underlying, intrinsic desire.

Of course, maybe it is true! (That felt good to say :)
Isn't panpsychism a kind of reverse materialism? Both seem to correctly recognize that terms we create are just lines we draw on our map through the terrain of reality, which we rank by their usefulness, by how close they seem to be "carving nature at its joints". Based on my brief skimming, panpsychism seems to say the terrain is all mysterious and wonderful, whereas materialism says it's all just mundane.

Or am I completely mis-skimming the Wikipedia entry on panpsychism?
It's wishful to say that we achieved this, or that we were compelled to do this. Emissions were reduced as a consequence of social distancing, not as a desired goal.

I suspect we'll look back at 2020 as the year we generated the most waste from all that packaging that went into shipping products to individual homes.

I'll remind that there are airlines booking flights to literally nowhere: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/19/travel/airlines-pandemic-...
React is stable? React.createElement -> Sub-classing the Component class -> "just use hooks everywhere" in the span of a few years? Sure, Django went from function-based to class-based views, but the change was far less abrupt, and you can still use functional views if you want to.

As for TypeScript, I agree it's amazing, but it's neither a framework nor a library for building web applications. It's more of a superset/transpiler. It makes working with Node/React/Express better, but it doesn't replace them.

With regard to Express, it's decent, but e.g. do we really need to torture newcomers by expecting them to know they'll need to also include/install and require body-parser? I mean, why would I be using a web framework, even a micro-one, if I'm expected to bring in a separate tool just for parsing requests?

Regarding the suggestion that I like Python more, I would gladly choose TypeScript over Python (the typing tools there are still immature) if there was less churn in the JS ecosystem. Deno is promising. :)
Similar story with audio amplifiers and "Watts." Also, I think that small gas engines like lawnmowers went through some kind of scandal related to their horsepower ratings.
> This is a seprate issue from what most people see as net neutrality.

Exactly.

It really feels like the debate over "net neutrality" is conflating multiple issues.

I kinda get the ISP biz model. Overprovisioning and so forth.

I have no clue about the backbone biz model. How the transit fees work. I want the ELI5 (Ray Dalio, Courtney Love) covering how broadband works. What the basics? Who's screwing who? How companies deal with each other. How they deal with content publishers like Netflix, TikTok, etc.
The TSMC model seems appropriate: Don't specialize in the design. Focus on the hardware and take designs from customers.
> So Apple strategy seems to be to commit as little resources as possible to their products knowing that "open source" developers will do their work for free thus Apple will not have to pay extra salaries and taxes?

Apple has no Linux strategy. Nobody is working for Apple for free. People are working on their own time (or supporting the project with their own money) because they want to see this happen.

There is no skin in this for Apple either way.

What I don't understand is why people insist on criticizing a project which won't fundamentally affect them at all. Having Linux on Mac isn't going to hurt you and stands to benefit the community as a whole.

While the GPU port is unlikely to benefit others, it's very likely some of the other work will. Any improvements to the Broadcom drivers will be useful for the entire community. Improvements and optimizations to ARM64 support will likewise benefit the whole community.

Really tired of the mis-directed zealots who think they have the right to tell other people where to direct their time and energy.
Just build your own
Well, nothing. That's basically the point. Or, at best very little happened with it. "It wasn't getting cheaper faster than silicon was" is the most concise answer I can come up with.
I suspect React has a much greater chance of being around in 10 years time than web components. Simply because there are a lot more people using React than web components. React is a boring, stable framework at this point.
> Creating a youtube clone is much simpler than creating a youtube clone that doesn't brake any existing laws and regulations. Every additional regulation is making it harder.

Though, that's an exceedingly narrow perspective, judging things exclusively on the effect on startup costs and ignoring everything else. An increase in startup costs often is an acceptable price to pay in order to achieve other goals. For instance, environmental regulations definitely make it more expensive and difficult to spin up many kinds of industrial plants (e.g. plant builders need to buy pollution control equipment and use more expensive processes that create less pollution), but it means less unhealthy air and rivers that can support life and don't catch on fire [1]. All the competition in the world won't achieve that.

I think it's pretty useless to talk about "regulations" generically. It's really only helpful to talk about the costs and benefits of particular regulations, since that's the only context where you can figure out if the regulation is a net good or not.

[1] https://ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Cuyahoga_River_Fire

> Case in point, I've run a forum for coders for 15 years with thousand of users. When the GDPR came out, I did not have time to make sure I follow it, the cost was too high, I shut it down. And of course the law was to protect users privacy from big evil companies. Guess who had money and resources to make sure they follow it.

While that may have been a negative to you personally, the alternative is to allow those big companies to violate users' privacy in ways the law forbids, which is worse. Also, I'm a little skeptical that the GDPR would actually placed much if any burden on site such as yours.
Do you think SED rate is better than CRP then? It doesn't seem like I've had that test either. I have hypothyroidism, which can be autoimmune related, but no doctor has ever suggested either test, nor mentioned inflammation. I get TSH tested every 6 months though, and sometimes have to adjust Synthroid. I've asked about the causes of these fluctuations and doctors basically just shrug. I have no theory for it either.
Is there a Rails for React? I use React+Redux+Typescript and it's nice but I always have trouble setting up a new project.

Rails is magic in that it's all ready. React+Redux+Typescript is great. I just don't want to make decisions here. I want to just make a web app. Like how Rails defaults to ActiveRecord and friends, is there something like that for Rails+React+Redux+Typescript?

I'm looking for:

* Few decisions for me to make

* It's relatively popular enough that there is a community around the whole thing

It's a huge productivity enhancer with Rails to be able to google "Rails do x" and someone has an answer to that. If I had to google "Ruby with X library and Y other library" I think I might commit suicide because the Rust experience is like that: "Use actix-web". Ah, and how do I use that with this other tokio based library. Oh you can't, because you need to make sure the runtimes are compatible.

I don't want all that.
This is like building a house on a swamp. Without official Linux support, Apple can pull the plug anytime.
It's likely what is going to happen is that eventually a viable open source project emerges that Apple didn't pay anyone to build and then they will announce how they embrace open source and tell their own developers to contribute few lines for PR.

> Whatever they are doing now, is working.
If you are using child labour, avoid taxes, use anti-competitive measures, make stuff deliberately difficult to repair and easy to break and then have money to shut any politicians willing to look into their shady business then yes it is definitely working.
> "JSX is supported by quite a lot of frameworks, so you aren't locked into React"

> Just not the browser natively....

Angular's *directive and [weird] (binding) [(choices)] will never be supported by the browser natively either. The fact that Angular uses an HTML file extension is a delusion (they really should have picked a different extension, it's such an ugly lie) that the templates will ever be more portable than they currently are. Sure, you generally have better raw copy/paste behavior of real HTML into Angular's templates than JSX, but if you think the mess that is the average Angular template will ever be portable to "native browser functionality", I may have a bridge to sell you.