skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Was very surprised to not see any mention of Expo2020, which has been hailed as a "World's Fair for the 21st Century". UAE and Dubai put tons of resources and capital into it but obviously had to deal with the issue of in person events in 2020. As I understand it has been rescheduled for the end of 2021...

https://expo2020dubai.ae/en/
I don't understand why many of these workstation-class laptops have num. pads.

It is so annoying to type with your hands off-center from the screen.
control^r in bash - literally 10x faster to type things which (ideally) makes 10x more productive :)

control^r is reverse search in the command history (for UI people out there).
"You are not google" is also an argument for why you don't have to worry about scaling a monorepo.
The catch-22 of solar roofed cars is the time of year when they are likely to be most useful—during the summer—the last thing you want to do is park your car in the sun to charge. Whatever benefit you gain from solar charging, you lose as soon as you have to fire up the AC for 10 minutes to make it livable.

In general, it’s a good idea to park your car under cover for a lot of reasons. Fabrics don’t do well when exposed to the high heat you get parking in the sun for prolonged periods. If you live or work in a city, chances are high that you are parking in a covered garage or basement.

Solar roofs on cars are a neat idea, but not likely near as useful for most people as spending the money on more batteries for longer range.
Do you know 3D computer graphics libraries that use GA?
W H Y ?

why not COBOL or rocks or something?
Nvidia accidentally unlocked RTX 3060 Ethereum mining
To my untrained eye, they look bespoke, i will just take your word for it that only the body is custom. thanks.
You put nothing, why do you assume if there is space it needs to be more keys in there? I bet they can even improve the structural rigidity by not having the numpad.
I'm always amazed that in the land of the brave and free butchering general purpose computing machines is supposed to be justified by the fact grandma doesn't install the wrong apps.

Funny is this argument always exclusively pops up when it comes to Apple smartphones. Are we supposed to lock every desktop down too because mom and pop installed a wrong toolbar? It's like the reverse 'but think of the children', and people keep using it who would scoff at it in every other context, just to engage in this constant Apple apologia that has infected tech people who should know better but don't because they've grown up with macbooks with shitty stickers on it. The sort of brand influence that Apple exercises and the stuff it gets away with is truly astonishing.
Use pikopixel.
I just can understand people creating non HiDPI displays in 2021. It’s just beyond me that someone is making laptops with display much worse than my 2012 MBP Retina.
Let's build a system that's pretty much indistinguishable from socialism, but call it capitalism. That way, when it inevitably fails, we'll blame capitalism.

Yep. I saw this movie before.
"I am quitting programming out of humility and recognition of my limitations. It’s ok to give up and wise to do so when you aren't good enough for something.
"

I do agree and I think you are wise recognising this.
What I'm saying, out of sympathy, is that you should consider a higher perspective. Maybe it's lack of care, just as an example, and maybe it's prejudice with reasons far beyond your control or sheer ignorance and so on. Now your writing gives of the feeling of things being muddled up in your head, not understood to the end, "clouded by emotion!" ;) Gotta snap out of it or you'll spent years malding like many do.
But again, it seems like there are physical limits to how much people can consume. Like, we can agree that if everyone had a machine that could magically summon up to 10 thousand cubic meters of material every day, we realistically would have universal material abundance. Even if we exceeded what the boxes could make, one or two dedicated to making more would result in runaway exponential growth that would speed up much faster than human consumption could.

Obviously that's the extreme case, and the question is how close to universal replicators do you need to come before people can't want more things fast enough.
I'd recommend the book Life 3.0, the author surveys a large number of AI researchers to answer this timing question (I think 95% said AGI is guaranteed in the next 50 years iirc), and also discusses why this time is different than the times in the past, like in the 60's when a group of researchers thought they would make significant progress towards AGI over the course of a summer
Staying on topic with HN today I have to say Docker. Getting running dev builds through Docker has definitely saved me a '10x' metric of time.
Network fees for blockchain are the equivalence of taxes. People aren't okay with taxes, but they're the price you need to pay to participate in the financial system.
Thunderbolt may not matter so much for desktop, but it definitely does for laptops.

Like the other comment mentioned, docks.

Yes you can theoretically accomplish everything with other ports, but I don't want to feel like I'm disconnecting my laptop from life support every time I move around. 1 Wire for Power + 10+ peripherals is awesome, and I can't go back.
Depends. Is Chrome team actively working on making their browser worse?
Like climate change, the problem isn't just extinction itself, but more so the rate. As you note, animals have gone extinct all throughout history, and well before our ancestors stopped dragging their knuckles around. The problem is this, which I will quote directly from my source:

"...scientists agree that today’s extinction rate is hundreds, or even thousands, of times higher than the natural baseline rate. Judging from the fossil record, the baseline extinction rate is about one species per every one million species per year." [0]

Also, there is also the fact that many species could be directly beneficial to us. Even if we didn't care about "nature" most would care about cures for various diseases and advancements in technology we could get from their study.

0: https://naturalhistory.si.edu/education/teaching-resources/p...
I don't think I'd buy a laptop in 2021 without USB-C PD charging.
You never know. Butterfly effect and all that. It adds up. Best example I know of is when I was younger and playing WoW, my brother was explaining gemming your gear to me. I told him "what will a +4 intelligence gem do really?" But you add up all the gems on all the sockets on the gear and it makes a huge difference. The difference being the difference between a strong character and a weak one and living or dying. Each you in google is a potential gem in the system. Or you can be an empty socket. Add all those up and it does have a huge effect on the outcome of Google (and the stock price).

I apply this theory to many diverse subjects- voting, finances, human health and car maintenance (once one system is suboptimal or impaired, others often follow). Keep your sockets gemmed. :)
They're optimizing for the professional accounting Olympics use case.
Thank you for the list, I will do a little poking around just for our conversation 8 months from now. ;)

The very first publication I found in 2 minutes following links randomly, from the starting place you provided says:

“Repeatedly, [Social Jet Lag] has been found to be a risk factor for higher body mass index (BMI) or even obesity, depressive symptoms, and for behaviour that is hazardous to health, such as smoking and poor dietary habits (for a review see [15]). The effects found by Borisenkov et al. (2017) [14] correspond to a statistically small to medium effect size (r = 0.2).

Roenneberg, Winnebeck, et al. [8] however recently claimed that this effect was “biologically large”. While that may be true, such a claim is unjustified so long as we lack information about the practical meaningfulness of differences in SJL on an interval scale” [1] (emphasis mine)

This is exactly what I’ve been saying. The health claims of DST are being exaggerated. I don’t have any problem with their conclusion that perennial Standard Time seems to have “higher” support than perennial Daylight Savings, based on the available and indirect evidence, but SRBR and others calling it conclusive and “strong” is not something that either the science nor most scientists agree with. Your claim that there’s strong consensus isn’t true.

[1] https://www.mdpi.com/2624-5175/2/1/3/htm
"official Docker runtime"

Yes, though not produced by Docker and does not require Docker.
Why are you changing gc-cons-threshold? (2016)
This has nothing to do with Parler. Google has been auto-banning apps based on stupid blacklists and ML magic for years because they don't have a human review process (or if they do, it doesn't do good work). A couple of weeks ago it hit a Matrix chat app and it's been restored now. The shit storm will now lead to someone at Google escalating this and the app will be back soon. I'm pretty sure that banning Parler was a decision where a lot of people where involved.
> could just be my sight

It is

1080p to 4k is such a large difference
> You seem to be claiming it's better to travel 50 miles a day by car than 10 miles a day, which is clearly wrong.

I don’t understand at all how you interpret what I said to mean this.
This is the actual model of git.

You try to push on a remote after somebody else, you have to create a merge commit.

But it would be nice to have a rebase to keep linearity in your history.
If you like ctrl^r, you'll _love_ https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
Oddly enough, I almost never hit the right shift key. I touch type pretty fast, but the left pinky does a lot of work. I suppose it comes from CAD stuff and (let's be honest) WASD gaming where my left hand is on the keyboard and right hand is on the mouse.

But I totally agree: Input and output to the user (keyboard, trackpoint/mouse buttons/touchpad/screen) are of critical importance. I can be really effective on a decade-old Thinkpad (with the IPS display mod!) and woefully out-of-date processor, but if it takes too long to adjust to the keyboard I'll be frustrated every time I have to use it.
I have an idea for sharing wealth: Why not create a non-profit organization that democratizes AI by sharing its models openly with everyone?
Regardless, it's disingenuous to say that the experience offered by HL Alyx on a Valve Index is comparable to what you're describing.

Valve was pretty firm on their requirement for 90 FPS, for example, because they insisted that anything lower left users feeling nauseous. Not to mention the rendering of virtual words is far better than what you could have offered in the 90s.

Speaking from experience, even 90fps is too low. I get a lot more with my current setup, so consumer electronics are better than you think.

VR has come a long way, and has a long way to go. These problems will be overcome as the tech gets better.
I recently heard an interesting podcast about the feral hog problem growing in the southern US. They seemed to feel like the incentives put in place to exterminate the hogs has backfired and may have led to the spread of the hog population.

https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/n8hw3d
I've have a G14 with RTX2060 and I'm very happy. Battery life is good (4-6h work with IDE etc) and webcams work as intended. DRM is mostly a non-issue, at least not more than on any other Linux install.

The nvidia driver is a bit of a pain to set up, especially if you're on wayland or if you want to use displays via USB C (reverse prime does not work yet due to an nvidia driver bug, so you need to use the nvidia gpu as primary when docked). Other than that, everything works and the community (arch wiki and rog-core) provide good support for getting everything up and running. A bit of configuration and a somewhat recent kernel will be needed (it's pretty new hardware after all), but it's not that hard if you either know Linux or are willing to spend some time. I'm running this config for 8 months now, so the situation from a fresh install might be even better.

Similar to the sister comment, I came from an XPS 13, but I'm happy. The laptop is a bit heavier, but in exchange you get a lot more power, far more RAM (up to 48GB), more ports and, subjectively, a dar better keyboard. Initially I wanted to stay with an XPS, but now I'm happy I made the jump.

EDIT: One unbelievably good point I initially forgot: You can run a VM with GPU passthrough on the laptop. If you need Windows with graphics performance, especially on the go, this is an incredible advantage.
Actually, I have no intention to "retire". (In recent years I've taken the month of July off to take my family sailing; I can easily imagine taking longer stretches off, and/or shifting my time further from paid work towards hobbies... and at some point maybe even pivoting to writing and making music full-time.) My "ikigai" is, thankfully, mostly decoupled from making money per se.
Cool. I've fiddled with A-Frame and I've seen supermedium before. cool stuff.
Why do you focus on couples though? I love the concept of partnering together but I don't think you should limit your audience.
Would love to comment with feedback but I'm not techincal enough to use it! Sounds like a time-saver though. Do you have any plan with Dotfilehub? Sell it as a product, keep it free, accept donations if it becomes widely used...?
The fact that paying those inflated prices after the initial purchase isn't an option is already enough to turn me away from buying any of them (or even the laptop itself).
Now this is censorship because it's a state actor.
I actually do not, haven't had one for years. :)
Long story short, yes.
> I'm really not sure what Docker could've done differently here.

I think they should have realized orchestration was “the” thing for production much sooner. It’s not like you can’t integrate with cloud vendors on your own; there are plenty of managed service providers where you can get hybrid cloud solutions, Docker could have bet big on this.

Instead they came with swarm, which was focused too much on self-managed “on-prem”, while people really wanted something more complex, managed and with a healthy ecosystem of service providers.

Docker got stuck with being a software vendor, but they should have pivoted to being a service provider much, much sooner.
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I'm not sure if it's a 10x improvement, but formatters and linters have definitely cut my time writing code by 50% in stupid bugs and time wasted moving parenthesis.

And enforcing those formatters and linters cuts the time I spend reviewing other people's code by at least 50% because I know those issues have been dealt with.
Surprised no one has mentioned AWS yet. Anyone who remembers procuring, racking and imaging physical servers knows how utterly incredible it is create a cloud VM. And probably a good 20X improvement to use a value add cloud service like S3 or Netlify.
I try to keep up with the industry, just to see where it's going. From what I can tell, AI (in the general sense) is so flexible it can be applied to just about anything with observable data points, which is basically everything. Are these applications useful? I think right now they are impactful, not necessarily useful. EG: we can already copy someone's voice perfectly with just a small amount of audio using AI. But in practise, not much has come from this incredibly remarkable feat.

So what does AI need to get to the next level? Not much but time to mature, all the tools are already there.
Where can I find Safari's privacy nutrition facts?
I thought Google used some custom fork of perforce.
I don't understand why many workstation-class laptops DONT have a num pads.

It is so annoying to have to type long sequences of digits without one.
https://www.royaltyexchange.com/blog/mechanical-royalties seems like a decent explanation, though I'm not an expert in this area...
Expo 2020 is shaping up to be an incredible project, however I'm still expecting it to fall victim to the same challenge that all Fairs since 1970 have had: a lack of a unifying vision. Since every country presents their own narrative, it's hard to guarantee alignment.

I'm heading out there next month and will hopefully find something inspiring to help shape our efforts.
If they'd announced this an appropriate period ahead (5 days maybe) then people running home farms would have cashed them in and hunters would have gone out for one last catch.

Though the hard details of this story are hard to find.
Also, with a smaller battery.
How RL Agents Behave When Their Actions Are Modified
> Is there any limit to lifestyle inflation?

If there is, it's somewhere beyond launching sports cars into orbit.
Free database covering WordPress security vulnerabilities
Your problem is that people are allowed to find people and talk about things that you think they shouldn't talk about?

Even in your example, you had to go digging pretty far for that group -- you didn't accidentally happen upon it. If you people are motivated to find bad information, they will. That's the nature of the internet. If you don't want people to be able to gather and share information, then unplug your Ethernet cables because that's what the internet is all about; FB or no FB.
You can generally get around that with CPS.
Heroku

- Git push to deploy

- Scaling dynos

- Turning add-ons on/off

- Managed PG (backups, rollback, copies)

I can't imagine how much time I would have had to invest in building my first few apps without Heroku. Had a similar experience with Google AppEngine in ~2009; I barely knew how to code and I was able to charge a customer for the first time ever for a working service.
I think it's to avoid fractional scaling.
We as a species gave up trying to solve difficult problems and now we're only concerned with inflating asset prices to feel "wealthy". Smart engineers are working for HFT firms instead of NASA. We've equated "wealth" with "progress" and we're now discovering how hollow all these fake numbers are.
discussion of the backstory: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26180260
5 years ago I would have agreed.

Now, Google is heavily polluted with SEO garbage, junior-level blog posts churned out by what must be student assignments to "write a blog post about this week's programming assignment", and the truly horrible data scraping sites like xspdf or whatever. General web search is increasingly poor.

And Stackoverflow was great for a long time. Now it is mostly outdated (which usually means incorrect) Q/A data. Worse, the old information that should be retired actually blocks new questions with current answers because of the aggressive system of trying to prevent "duplicate" questions. It's not a duplicate question if there's an 8+ year (or even 3+ year!) gap between the date of the original and the date of the new one. Quite often, even if the original question is close enough to current needs, the answers are very unlikely to be correct now.
Until they get DMCA'd out of business, sadly.
I'm incognito for a reason. I don't need to be followed all over, i'm a big boy, i can log in without any help.
Ripgrep.
Worth noting that the EMA says (in bold):

> the benefits of the AstraZeneca vaccine in preventing COVID-19, with its associated risk of hospitalisation and death, outweigh the risks of side effects.

https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/emas-safety-committee-cont...
I totally agree, the penny per stream focuses entirely on the wrong thing, further entrenching the real issue by derailing the whole discussion. It also makes it less likely the real issue will be taken as seriously later on after we've just "cried wolf" over this one.

On the plus side, services like Soundcloud and Deezer are adopting the payment scheme that is the solution to this, which opens a potentially more promising avenue through which to pursue the issue ("if they can do it, why can't you?").
I remember developing in the early 90s and there was no open source coding tools. It was miserable. One had to write everything from scratch or buy expensive libraries.
Content is free, doesn't mean API access and requests have to be free.
Do numbers constitute even 5% of your keyboard usage time?
It would be great if you could answer my questions in the parent comment. I'm curious to hear your opinion.
The union drive Amazon is truely scared of is not of warehouse workers, its of their very hard to replace, highly skilled tech workers. FC workers are on the path to elimination through reliance on robotics. The last steps to full automation, automating picking and packing, are being chipped away by new boxing machines for example. Amazon currently estimates it could have the tech to fully automate all FC's in about 10 years. However, Amazon knows that if FC workers can beat them then other groups are soon to follow, groups with much more education, resources, political connections, and leverage. This is why they fired Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa over their tweats. They needed to show tech workers that if you publically support FC workers in their drive for better working conditions you will be fired. If you want to really bring Amazon to heel then unionize the tech workers.

Refs:
1. https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-reportedly-uses-boxing-mach...

2. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-warehouse-idUS...

3. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/04/13/amazon-...
I have a Dell monitor which has a built-in USB-C hub. I experience similar issues when plugging in my MacBook Pro - the monitor part works fine, but the keyboard/mouse usually takes a few attempts at plugging in ("docking"). Might not be your laptop so much as Dell's USB-C dock acting up.
A variant of this is responsible for the rise of oligarchy during de-Sovietization in Russia. Citizens were given shares of state companies, but people's basic needs weren't met. This resulted in most shares being sold to whomever would buy them for any amount of money or basic resources. This, along with the general power vacuum, led to the rapid consolidation of massive amounts of power in the hands of whoever managed to wield local power for their benefit at the time--those who became the oligarchs.

Bill Browder writes a bit about it in his book, Red Notice. The book is also a great cautionary tale that the whole narrative that we can spread democratic ideals by making business deals with with corrupt/despotism regimes is smoke. It leads to more corruption, less moral authority, and further empowered despots.
When I started as a developer the internet wasn't there. If you wanted a new library or tool you had to go to a shop and buy the floppy disks (or mailorder). If you wanted docs you used the man pages or had to buy the book, probably the bookstore would order it for you. Its hard to imagine now.
GTA revenue: 140,000,000 million

70% loading time fix = 10,000

This gives me hope that any incumbent could be easily usurped by a software company that values good work
A mutually beneficial agreement with Elsevier contains a huge lot of amount of very big money. For sure.
His workers are poorer because his company's enormous valuation comes from the surplus value they produce but do not receive as compensation. You might be poorer if you own a small business those workers would frequent if they had more money.

Edit: You might also be poorer if you tried to compete with Amazon and were crushed like a bug by their anti-competitive practices.
With exponential growth, we might be closer than you'd think. Clearly people always want more, but the rate at which we want more seems like it has to have to have a limit. At the very least, it can grow faster than the population can (almost automatically, since more people increase growth as well).
Yes but how about foreigners?
LOL, my first thought was that you were talking about Theo.
They should. Like enterprise support for Linux.
Monetization is not wrong.
"This revolution will erode enough biome for every human to be dependent on the industrial complex to survive, while animals are basically left to starve."