skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it incredibly hard to believe that a four year old will have the capacity to be offended by that image... If anything most four year olds will be excited to see a character also using chopsticks.

I can see the parents not wanting their child to identify with the "stereotype", but given the fantastic nature of the rest of the imagery I just don't see anyone being the butt of a joke here. The kid is lost in a reverie and those images of Qing dress with the braid are pretty iconic. I have ample experience with China and no Chinese person I showed it to was offended at all, they thought it was cute.
I've found Macs don't really last that much longer. The previous Mac I had, I actually begged for it to be replaced as it had a spinny HDD and recent versions of macOS run very poorly on these. Luckily it turned out it was close to being sent back to the leasing company. $EMPLOYER policy (as often is the case in larger employers) don't allow me to replace the HDD with the SSD. The newer one I now have which has a SSD is now performing poorly so I am already looking forward to a replacement already and it's still under the 3 years window. My colleagues with PCs (as we are issued PC or Macs depending on the location we work at at the time) seem to be happy with even the older PCs. I had a oldish temp PC for a while when my Mac needed repairs and it ran Windows fairly well. I used to be a big advocate for Macs but not any more.
> Responsibility: your job to feed and cloth yourself

Unless you are a farmer
Little? I’m not sure about that anymore. I don’t think he is that short and if you are referring to his age then he is around the 19 year old mark if the call to his mother happened when he was around the age of five entering the school system (the comic was posted back in 2007)

Poor kid, makes it into one meme and can’t live it down for the rest of his drawn life.
How can a string of "true" be treated like the boolean value of true? Makes no sense
Brent Oxley Loses Access to Millions of Dollars Worth of Domains
Junk Cars Los Angeles
> BTW: Just imagine what apple could do with a 300W power budget!

We'll likely see by the end of 2022 (probably with less than 300w):

https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/7/22158264/apple-32-core-pr...
it's a dos batchfile on github that applies ffmpeg filters in clever ways to recreate the distortions and artifacts of displaying images on old cathode ray tube displays.

cool!
A video channel giving a glimpse into the lives of young people in Xinjiang
So, where are 2021's version of 1990's web?
or for ARM to come out with a system on a chip that's documented enough for Windows and Linux to make a port

Linux (i.e. Android) already has been ported to countless ARM SoCs, the problem being that all of these SoCs are subtly different even if they're well-documented.
I don't think that's an accusation against you, but I have to imagine there's a Shodan inspired darkweb site somewhere that takes crypto in exchange for bypassing all those noble restrictions.
Yah, the M1 is a single threaded beast, but its too power constrained (and apparently not as efficient in a number of cases) to keep up with AMD's less power constrained laptop cores in throughput tests.

I think this could be a fine battle with a strong apple lead at least until amd releases a 5nm design, but i'm afraid that apple, will be apple and keep doing thin/light/constrained devices, with maybe a super expensive mac pro that can't be justified by anyone who doesn't burn cash in their grill.
And fumigation should really be broken into two separate categories: fumigation for pests, and fumigation for infectious disease. They are very different, as infectious diseases cannot be seen: in a world where no one knows about microbes and viruses, people will do peculiar things based on their theory of disease. History provides many examples of people doing odd things to prevent plagues and disease, many of which are far stranger (and less effective) than "cleanse the buildings with fire".
The chart picked up sharply starting in 2016. Lowest point was in July 2015.

No one here likes Trump. But if any of you have a good explanation, I’d love to hear it, rather than whatever point it is you are trying to make.
In many circumstances, particles filters are superior. Two major advantages off the top of my head are the ability to track multi-modal distributions (Kalman filters only track one peak) and apply non-Guassian likelihoods (Kalman filters assume Gaussian noise, while you can weight particles in a particle filter using any kind of distribution).

Particle filters do come at a cost of increased memory and processing usage. You need to propagate N particles at each epoch, each of which could have M dimensions of state (position, velocity, orientation, etc). So Kalman filters are likely preferred where memory and compute are at a premium.
Yep, he's been saying the sky was falling for some time, and it turns out he was pretty accurate in his statements on Intel's problems.

This review makes it clear that unless Intel magically gets a process improvement they're entirely screwed.

This is precisely the same kind of design issue that hit with the latter end of the P4 era, where thermal limitations were so severe that they were crippling the chips. I'd have to do some digging, but I absolutely remember reading an interesting set of benchmarks that made it clear that you were 99% likely to thermally throttle those P4s even with proper thermal paste and an improved high-end heatsink/fan.
Yeah, I guess it's assumed that most users probably want to use Cloudflare Pages instead. But Workers Sites still exists as a feature in `wrangler`, the Cloudflare Workers CLI tool.

Workers Sites itself is really just some automation for uploading files into Workers KV, along with a template Worker script that serves them as a static site. You could build your own from scratch if you wanted.

My point here is that the low-level tools are readily available if that's what you want. You don't have to use Cloudflare Pages if you'd rather have more control.

(I am the tech lead for Cloudflare Workers...)
Something to compensate for the lack of practical experience an entire generation of children seem to have because they spent the last 18 years never looking up from their iPad or taking a single bit of initiative. Maybe 2 years mandatory military service required for college.
Who is Joseph ?
Curious - why do people get offended by Torvalds? If you know anything about the guy, his rants are a caricature. It's like going for a Tarantino movie and expecting no violence. You're going to get violence. And, it's going to be excessive, over-the-top, ridiculously offensive that there is no other explanation than to treat it as comedy. Any other attempt to explain Linus is flapping wings in a vaccuum. If I was on the receiving end of it, I would play along.
Apple hardware have some downsides though. One big advantage of HP, Dell, etc is their support. Apple repairs takes weeks (especially here in New Zealand) as they expect devices to be sent long distances to wherever they repair them. HP, Dell, etc can do on-site repairs in <24 hours in many cases. If it's just your personal device then a few weeks may be an inconvenience. But for businesses it can cost them enough that getting a support contract from HP, Dell, et al can be worth it.
Every single one of those "principles" listed is rhetorical, not factually based on policy.

I don't know how the GOP still manages to run on a platform of "balanced budgets" when they have consistently running higher deficits than the Democrats for nearly that past 100 years.
It does. I've got older games from the Windows XP days that had issues with Windows 7 even with the compatibility mode. My Linux box with proton was able to run it, ironically enough.
The Era of Arithmetic Is Over
Shadow-mask CRTs were the best ever for low-res antialiased text. It looked great for the low resolutions of the time. (Even trinitron wasn't as good.)

You were guaranteed a near-gaussian point in the output, and from a signal-processing POV, this makes filtering and display just really beautiful and easy to do right. For instance, you could do a totally convincing subpixel translation with no visible artifacts.
> What you generally aren't able to do is to replace email not matter how hard you try.

The "new" email has been launched quite a few times now. It doesn't seem possible at this point unless all the major players agree on some new protocol which is seamlessly implemented in their mail services, while still allowing SMTP to function as a fallback to the improved protocol
This has been a problem for years. I can't believe they're just now addressing it.
Yet they are still the king of single threaded performance (barely). I'm not so quick to rule out Intel, even if I have no love for them. While the M1 was extremely impressive from a power efficiency standpoint, I think the jury is far from out on whether Apple will be able to take those gains and scale them to serious computers.
Reminds me of the story of the Helvetii burning their own villages before they emigrated in what would eventually lead the Gallic Wars. Seems like this might've been a customary thing when a large group migrated out of an area to keep the group from being tempted to turn back.
Microsoft made chromium inputs use a kalman filter
The question of “How appealing is the old internet to modern modern internet users?” certainly is a totally different question. And one completely unrelated the the topic of the article. Which is the difference between 3rd party tracking cookies versus Google’s new proposal of FLoC.

I suspect you might be right. Modern internet users probably do prefer the ‘new’ web to the ‘old’ web.

As someone who experienced the ‘old’ web and the ‘new’ web I wouldn’t disagree. The old web mostly sucked. Everything looked like shit, and I certainly much prefer the more advanced, more pleasing looking websites of modern times.

But we don’t all have nostalgia for the old web because it looked good. It’s because it was new, and exciting, and we were all using dial-up modems. It was the ‘wild west’.

But that’s all unrelated to the topic at hand, general internet users being target and exploited, against their will. I need to look into FLoC more, as the concept is still new to me. On the surface it at least sounds marginally better. But only if it is easy to deny sites access to my local sandboxed data. If every website presents me with a pop up to ‘allow’ or ‘deny’ access to my FLoC data, similar to the GDPR cookie pop ups we’ve become accustomed to, I’d probably accept that as a small ‘win’.

But as it stands now, most of my friends and family when I ask them, are frightened and confused as to how every freaking place they go on the web, somehow knows about the stuff they searched on Google last week. The feeling of some obscure, all knowing power, tracking their every move online is stressful.

I try to instruct them on ways they can protect themselves. They are mostly easy, and have negligible downsides, but they are not immediately obvious to people outside the HN crowd.

The main things I recommend are A) Use Firefox B) Use 1.1.1.1 (free) or similar VPN service C) Do most of your search’s in DuckDuckGo.

That’s not a foolproof strategy, but it’s one that is super easy, and only takes the effort of downloading a few new apps. These steps alone will cause any user to very quickly to regain a huge amount of privacy, stop seeing targeted ads, and their overall internet experience will be virtually indistinguishable.
I can see how this happens, but come on. Write your software to account for these edge cases. Reminds me of people who can’t register for services because of non-western names:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/man-cal...

https://qz.com/1249588/how-i-learned-to-live-with-a-name-tha...

And of course, the king:

https://xkcd.com/327/
Great video for anyone has the time:

Conducting a Successful False Flag Cyber Operation (Blame it on China) - Blackhat Europe - Jake Williams

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2vBu_Jui9A
This will probably be downvoted like crazy here, but I thought we were against for-profit education?

Pretty sure everyone was up in arms when University of Phoenix and the like were bilking students of tens of thousands in student loans and then dumping them on the street with worthless degrees (or worse incomplete degree programs).

Sure the content of the Coursera programs may be better than anything you might have had access to with UoP, but the reality is that the degrees/certificates are just as useful right now as UoP's ever were. Until the rigor is there the degrees will continue to be worth nothing. Unfortunately, that means that Coursera's business model is probably fundamentally broken, as they have previously admitted that too many people drop out if the courses are too hard. Also, making the courses meaningful would certainly require hiring a lot of TAs to grade assignments, which would cost them a lot of money.

I agree that online education definitely has a role to play in the future... But I'm really struggling to see why everyone agrees that one for-profit school is unequivocally bad, but the other gets a free pass.
I searched the post for "video" and "stream". Zero.

How can one build a community without video and livestreaming in 2021? Not that I like it but even hard-core tech communities, eg in the embedded space, have some video exposure. Or big discords have often some video/streaming outlet.
No, this is like going to Quentin Tarantino and saying "hey Quentin, here's that work you need for your film, which I did for free," and him screaming at you for not doing your free work exactly how he wanted.

Linus has often been a dick. Being offended at being abused for asking a question or doing a relatively normal thing is reasonable. (He's gotten better, recently, because even he acknowledges it's harmed the project.)
Why Tim Wu’s appointment has Big Tech rattled
The assumption that learning to program is an unalloyed good pervades the world, especially the USA. I never see any analysis that concludes "programming takes lots of work, requires skill sets that not everyone possesses in equal measure, and often can't justify the ROI".

I'd like to see an article on why you should not learn to program.
Given that qualifier it is atypical that marginalized or minority aren't operative. Does that really pass the threshold in your mind necessary for me to be incorrect in what I'm claiming?

It's hilarious to me that the reactionary position on this (wherein people are quoting dictionary definitions and wiki articles) manifestly hinges on trivialities.
Yes it would be wrong to edit the book.
I only mentioned the tax thing because for some reason when I've brought this up other places people thought I was trying to avoid paying taxes. So I figured I'd head that off at the beginning.

I just want to move somewhere with a decent social system (esp. healthcare, though none of us are or expect to be sick in the near future—I'm also not trying to cheat a healthcare system in some fashion) and good schools, and use my certainly-except-in-a-handful-of-expensive-cities above-median income to pay taxes and support the local economy like anyone else. 95% of why I want to do this is so my kids can grow up somewhere with saner government and a generally saner society. None of why I want to do it is to cheat anyone. I'd just rather not also have to change jobs (and probably take a pay cut, and likely end up back in an office, too) to do it. :-/
That program is an amazing piece of software. It would be nice if there were an open source version...
There's a good description of how to build a trading strategy using a Kalman Filter along with some code examples in Ernest P. Chan's book on algorithmic trading. I think it might be available for free online, although that might have just been something I was able to access through my university.

I feel like I owe it a shoutout because that strategy was the foundation for an algorithm that got me and a couple friends a top finish at UChicago's algo trading competition a few years back.
Flutter isn't a good Electron alternative? Flutter 2.0 just came out with desktop support for osx, windows and linux and will be the main GUI framework for Linux.
they certainly could. Games can do 16ms frames, while calculating full physics simulations.

It's just that text editors of the modern day are programmed by people who prefer to not write it that way - mainly because it's quite hard, and the modern OS doesn't usually fit well into this framework of rendering for multi-tasking. And it takes more effort too.

Much easier to rely on a UI framework which adds overhead. The expectation is that the user probably won't care, and prefer that the software be more feature rich.
Title is off, I couldn't figure out why they call these things "robots".
Probably the most important line:

To reinforce our long-term commitment to providing global access to affordable and flexible world-class learning, on February 1, 2021, we amended our certificate of incorporation to become a Delaware public benefit corporation. Public benefit corporations are a relatively new class of corporations that are intended to produce a public benefit and to operate in a responsible and sustainable manner. Under Delaware law, public benefit corporations are required to identify in their certificate of incorporation the public benefit or benefits they will promote, and their directors have a duty to manage the affairs of the corporation in a manner that balances the pecuniary interests of the stockholders, the best interests of those materially affected by the corporation’s conduct, and the specific public benefit identified in the public benefit corporation’s certificate of incorporation. See “Risk Factors—Risks Relating to Our Existence as a Public Benefit Corporation” and “Description of Capital Stock—Public Benefit Corporation Status.” The public benefit stated in our certificate of incorporation is to provide global access to flexible and affordable high-quality education that supports personal development, career advancement, and economic opportunity.
My favorite entirety ad-hoc local economic status indicator in the US is this: Pick a fast food place at random, order a numbered meal.

Were you served promptly with hot food in a very clean establishment with professional staff whose average age is about 35? The local economy is fucked.

Did you get a totally halfassed food like object that is ostensibly warm handed to you by someone 25 or younger who clearly doesn’t give a shit? Local economy is doing just fine.
I have a sneaking suspicion that if you leave the site without doing its maze of opt-outs, then they go "oh great, user didn't opt out!" and you didn't even get to read what you were looking for.
Oh wow, I didn't know HN still had knowledgeable commentators! (I thought it was a competition to say BLUE COMPANY BAD GREEN COMPANY GOOD in various ways).

So OP assuming I still want to buy an AMD because of its ECC support, (and can get my hands on a GPU), can you point me somewhere so that I can read about the last point you made. (EDIT: haven't researched but https://www.amd.com/en/processors/ryzen-with-graphics has integrated?)

Can you also list any other factors that I should weight in my decision, specifically against AMD?

I do wonder how good the secure enclave offerings of both platforms are. So far I am left believing that Intel's is actually mature and AMDs is not.
The correct term today is ancestral puebloan. Anasazi basically means "ancestral/ancient enemies" in Navajo.

Anyway, that debate (to the extent it existed as a general thing) has been resolved. It's both. Violence, including burnings, is archaeologically well attested at numerous sites. Likewise, ritual destruction is both archeologically and culturally well-supported. There's debate about many particular sites, but even many of the smaller debates like man-corn aren't subjects of serious disagreement anymore.
Where are you getting that they’re the king of single thread? That was true (barely) last gen of AMD, and is not true anymore. AMD is better at single and multi core as well as power efficiency. From the article:

> Our results clearly show that Intel’s performance, while substantial, still trails its main competitor, AMD. In a core-for-core comparison, Intel is slightly slower and a lot more inefficient.
Well there have been other accidental bugs (reentrancy, for one) that got exploited by thieves who turned out not to be the devs.

But I agree, that's not what happened here.
That one was the eskimo like figures in fur coats I think.
People still work with him and he is successful. From what I can see (I've never dealt with Linux community), people that work with him know what to ignore and what to listen to.

Moreover, I guess I have a different way to deal with offensive people even if they were serious - to ignore and scoff it off. I would never feel "offended" ever. Offense is taken and it is a choice. That's how I operate but your mileage may vary.
thanks everyone for the insightful answers! as a follow up is there anything I can do now to prep myself for working in space/energy? like should I study physics/chemistry on the side?
Please state what you want to say. No need to be passive aggressive.
https://youtu.be/4ZhA0C2YVw0
If you'd like to read a very applied example of kalman filters, there's this great article about using them to improve wiimote positioning.

https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/129919/wheres_the_wii...
Prerequisite knowledge for working through SICP?
Is it true that one needs to know high school mathematics (upto Calculus) as well as have a good grasp of high school Physics?
But what purpose does that antagonism serve? I fundamentally reject the way linus treats people, and I think him hiding behind his maintainer position is even more petty. A lord of his kingdom, rude and sarcastic to everyone who comes and visits. I will never accept someone as hostile as he is in my workplace, and I think the only way he gets away with it, is by surrounding himself with other people who express themselves just as indecorously as himself.

What a shame.
I don’t think Linus is being unreasonable here. He has specific standards he expects.

It’s true that his language could be more polite, but what he expects is not a secret.
> Curious - why do people get offended by Torvalds?

Same reason why people get offended by replacing Git branch "master" to "main" or "blacklist" to "blocklist". No reasonable person particularly enjoys the increasing denigration of meritocracy and infiltration of woke neoracism into their sphere.

https://newdiscourses.com/
RCE in SMW would be particularly impressive
GPU is not a prerequisite unless you're into gaming or ML. For someone like me, a GeForce 8800GT is sufficient, but I'll take all the cores and RAM I can get.
I agree with this. Just ignore him. Use him for what he's good at.

The guy is good a computers. He's less good a humans. Act accordingly.
This was an interesting comment thread, and honestly you have to hand it to Linus for continuing to respond and expand on his viewpoints in a pretty level-headed way.

Also, I was reading through it on a phone, which brought to light an interesting point regarding the hard line-wrapping discussion that occurs further on down the thread: when you hard-wrap your lines, you're also defining a minimum line width, under which lines break in awful jagged ways.

I can understand the rationale for hard-wrapping in commit messages, but it drives me up a wall when people use it in things like email or Markdown documents.
Exploiting XPC in AntiVirus
Maybe they asked the wrong questions, but I think that's the point of the questionnaire model.
Guess I'll roll back to 5.11 then. Thanks.
A claim was made, and I asked for evidence supporting the claim. Has nothing to do with liking or disliking Trump.
A lot more people use swap files than Linus seems to think. Those people are likely not using rc builds of the kernel though.