skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that what you describe is a question of pragmatics and specific data curation, which is not sexy or marketable for political fairness and bias researchers. They need to manifest false angles of the problem, connections to climate change or #metoo or whatever is the social justice outrage du jour, so that it can win news cycle attention, TED talks and political notoriety. It leads to perverse incentives where AI fairness stops being an engineering problem that should be exclusively focused on objective criteria that need to be met to solve concrete problems, and starts being a tribalistic song and dance about wokeness, cancel culture and shoe-horning subjective values into learning systems at a strategic level.

Unfortunately AI fairness is not a serious research domain yet. It’s a venue for trying to create political cottage industries around convenient social justice drama and then trying to parlay that into a career by building political moats such that if anyone questions the legitimacy of this or that aspect of “fairness research” then that skepticism alone can be used to cancel them and argue they are regressive.
It's been the case for a while though, and I know for a fact that Dell offers form factors very similar to MacBooks. But even then, the market is a lot more fragmented when Apple offers a full ecosystem of devices.
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Same here. I (old fogey) use a 1080p 24" monitor with my desktop, and don't feel any particular need for more.
Apple is terrified of bad headlines? That's news to me.
This may interest you:

https://www.xyte.ch/

I have a thinkpad x2100 and it is a great laptop.
Designing and building the largest (amateur) electromagnet
I have owned multiple S76 machines - the machine was built by Clio? The guts were good, but the case was chintsy.

I had four of these laptops - and on ALL 4 they would have screws come loose and fall out inside the case. You could hear it rattling around when you turned the machine. Two of them had one type of connector for the screen and the other two had a different connector - One got fried and on the other I broke the screen on - so I couldn't harvest parts from one to the other.

S76 wanted $90 for a new charger after one of mine failed.

I have an HP Omen laptop as my primary machine now - here is what is cool:

I had an HP Omen and it failed to power on one day - so I contacted support and they had me send them the machine - instead of fixing it, they sent me a brand new Omen which was way better than the failed unit. The design is super elegant, and it has dual NVME slots, so I have dual drives in it.

The screen is matte so no glossy reflections like my macbooks have...

Yeah - I think I'll stick with Omens for the foreseeable future. HP's support was FANTASTIC.

When my macbook pro caught fire in my sleep and nearly killed me (it was laying on my bed and I fell asleep watching a movie and the machine caught fire - something that that model was recalled for) I took it to Apple's main store in San Francisco - and they kept it for two months "analyzing it" then came back and told me that even though it was a safety issue and the machine was under recall for CATCHING FIRE, they found that one of my moisture sensors had been triggered and therefore, they were not going to replace, fix or help me.

(I had spilled a small bit of water on the keyboard many month prior to the machine catching fire)

Then they tried to sell me a new machine, or have them "replace the machine for $1,500"

A total joke. Ill never buy another apple machine nor a s76 machine again.

HP support is AMAZING.

Also - When HP bought Compaq - we had a bunch of Compaq/HP servers back in 1998 - and the support back then on those servers was top notch - and the HW design was as well. I used to rebuild those servers in minutes in the literal dark.

All the Sun servers we had, like the 650s would bitch if their case was even slightly off center and would refuse to boot.
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Now there's something called Swarm mode built directly into the main Docker engine. I think that was the "replacement" of the classic Docker Swarm.
The other 2 of 3 does benefit, but I wouldn't say they are much better other than not being an outright scam.

Anything other than stratospheric sales from first year means they end up being dinner for existing manufacturers in low to mid-end.

And if they don't beat Tesla in the high-end, means they are dinner for Tesla.

Not to say a lion share of money still goes to people with zero automotive experience, or just above that of golf cart makers.
What's driving this new surge of cash?
Such empty words. Calling my views immature and using other insults and saying I'll never understand are methods used to ignite war. You lost, and youre lashing out.

You had a simple option. Explain your point, but you failed to do that. You resorted to insults and now you suddenly want peace? Contradictory and emotional reactions are a sign of impending loss.

What I write is inexplicably true and you are scared. Because what I write is tearing down beliefs you've invested years in and you can't face the truth. Your insult is a defensive wall to protect that belief.

If logic was available to defend your beliefs you would've used it. Here's your final chance.
Trust arc is incredibly obnoxious
That sort of metric is counting by weight, which I'm not sure can be directly compared to other products. Google says the average compact car weights 1324 kg, the un-recyclable porition of that is equivalant to one hell of a lot of iPhones.
Most offices don't allow people to put pictures or personal effects on their hotel desks anymore so perhaps one could have a little LCD panel there displaying pictures of one's loved ones, or the cat not eating salad.
Do they do anything to neutralize/disable the "AMD Secure Technology" thing (if that's even possible)?
Speaking from personal experience, the creators of most of the recent JDK versions have made very poor efforts to explain the changes, it's mostly just a list of RFC type documents, and who has time?

An example of something that compares favourably would be Go, where they always blog about the changes, and there's easy to find official language documentation (and not just autogenerated API docs).
There are two very different and kind of opposite "we don't need Docker" perspectives. One is that of the previous article— "we don't need docker because we don't need containerized environments since our tooling produces a single binary which somehow has no dependencies, configuration, or data files, so there's nothing to containerize."

The other is "we don't need Docker because we use tools like buildah, img, or kaniko to build OCI containers, our devs use podman, and we run this stuff in prod on a someone else's k8s PaaS that under the hood is backed by containerd."
Isn't there already a car brand called Scion? Sion is too close.
This is correct. I really think the play by Mirantis is to let Docker Swarm die while maintaining contracts and selling those existing contracts on K8s moving forward. I found Docker UCP very troubling to work with.
That's some decent patience you've got there.

I give websites 5 seconds, tops.
I filled my own need with https://howsyourblank.com.

I have a minor, but chronic medical condition I am trying to get in check, and I just wanted something incredibly simple to identify good and bad days. I was inspired by "year in pixels" calendars.

And I took the opportunity to try out Userbase[0] and build something with a secure backend and no tracking, considering the potentially sensitive nature of it.

No plans for monetization at the moment. I could see adding more features such as tracking multiple data points, stats, correlations, notes, etc., and creating a premium version. I would need more users and feedback.

[0]https://userbase.com
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If I said "I make decorations but they cost more than people want to pay for them" I'd be told to get another job. If I say "I make art but I'm poor and starving" people feel sorry for me.

There are two types of art, one customers call art when buying it. The other that an artist calls art when lamenting that people won't buy it.
Docker sold its compute infra business.
There are some precedents, such as:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/epdkze/muslim-apps-location-...
Programmers say things like "By taking the job, you confirm the wage is right." and then wonder why everyone thinks programmers are emotionally cold.

Yes, by pure math and market economics, I guess you might be right. But by hearth, I'm sure even you realize that it's not that black and white in reality.
Modular exponentiation can be done very quickly, you don't need to compute n^4 at all. Not sure if this particular implementation makes use of that, though. In Haskell, I can compute (100000 ^ 1000000 `mod` 15) near instantly.
Because Scala is a truly innovative and experimental language that came out of a programming language research group. That's why there's a lot of features that didn't play out well in real-world. F# started out as .NET rendition of OCaml. Most languages initiated by large crops don't try to be innovative, rather they take approaches introduced by different niche languages (many of them are only for research purpose) and incorporate to their language. Languages that try cater to a large audience should be adopting features from experimental languages.
> Having to think about his future viewers and what angle would best document his work he must have lost the immersion building a cabin in the way his grandfathers did

Meh, why is that so important? When I go skiing, half the "fun" is getting great shots. One can argue I'm not as "immersed" as compared to just walking up the mountain and ski down. But to me it enhances the experience and lets me even relive it later.
In the city of Seattle (for example), there are rules for cutting down trees even on private property.

http://www.seattle.gov/sdci/codes/codes-we-enforce-(a-z)/tre...
Private schools aren't about the student's 'education'. Private schools are about the contacts and social hierarchy bump.

In simpler terms, it's all about 'who you know'.
If something sounds too good to be true, then it probably is.

I have sympathy as this man lost a lot of money and it will have a lasting impact on his life. But the scammer took advantage of his greed, so I hope he learnt a lesson. Only greed could make you believe someone when they suggest you let them hold your 400k for a few minutes and they'll send you back 800k, without appearing to gain anything from you doing so.
I feel like the author of the article completely misapprehended what Hawking meant. We give Einstein credit because his theories met the benchmarks of prediction and testability. For example General Relativity made a prediction about the orbit of Mercury that gave a more precise answer then Isaac Newton.

The issue with Hawking (based on my understanding as an enthusiastic novice) is that Hawking Radiation can't be measured because it would be necessary to find Black Holes
that are significantly less than 1 Solar Mass, and such things don't exist in our Universe as far as we know. And this in turn is why Hawking Radiation can't be tested.

But, it's also true that Einstein never won a Nobel for SR or GR.
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> I dream of nixOS and sylabs, but my org is not going to switch to radical new technology.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NixOS

> Initial release 2003; 18 years ago

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docker_(software)

> Initial release March 20, 2013; 7 years ago

;)
You're not wrong, and globally poverty has been plummeting. Standard of living has been rising faster than income because all consumed goods have been vastly improved over time.
Does putting all this salt on the sidewalks and driveways of your house affect plants around your house? I would imagine that over the years the salt buildup in the soils around everyone’s house would be immense. In ancient times they would salt enemies agricultural land to prevent plants from growing. Do plants not grow near to sidewalks and driveways in the Midwest?
It's less autonomous than anti-radar missiles, heat-seeking missiles, etc., ... Not to mention "dumb" munition like mortar shells.

I any case, even if there was some 'autonomous' weapon (which is not the case here), what is the point of talking about autonomicity of weapons as though they are not being deployed and launched by humans.
Yes - because manufacturing in the West is ultimately self-defeating. Success breeds complacency and labor unrest. This isn't just a China-thing (I have no idea what your Potemkin regulation is or why you would mix those metaphors).

When Westerners see an absurdly profitable company, they think, "why aren't they paying their employees more??!" and start a union to parasitize earnings.

When Asians (including the Japanese and Koreans) see an absurdly profitably company, they think, "why are they able to charge such high prices???!" and they kneecap the company's ability to exploit their market.

It's an important difference for manufacturing physical things and it's why the West loses out to Asia in manufacturing outside cutting-edge tech. It's defective wetware in our heads and how we think about wealth and creating value, so don't expect manufacturing supply chains to return to Western countries any time soon.
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"A decade ago, the Active Denial System was lauded as America's less-than-lethal 'holy grail' that could control hoards of unruly Iraqis and Afghans at great distances. Well, that never happened. Now, America's experimental 'pain ray' has become smaller and cheaper, and it may be coming to a police force near you."
I think this is the main thing most music fans (and young musicians) are forgetting: historically, musicians have never made money off of album sales, labels have. Musicians make the bulk of their money from touring and merchandise.

Steve Albini does a good job of breaking it down here: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-problem-with-music.

FTFA:

> For the average band, a $250,000 advance (in 1993 dollars) is distributed like this:

> Record company: $710,000

> Producer: $90,000

> Manager: $51,000

> Studio: $52,500

> Previous label: $50,000

> Agent: $7,500

> Lawyer: $12,000

> Band member net income each: $4,031.25
Very efficient disasters!
Thank god, someones gotta pay for the free container registry all my sideprojects depend on!
They're also competing with FM radio.
>The reason nuclear has a hard time isn’t because of technology. It’s because of paranoia and poor scicomm.

Nuclear PR is top notch. It's because it's 2-3x the cost of other renewables.

In most other fields that would put it out of the running entirely.

Better storage would be nice but for now at least, every MWh generated by solar and wind is a MWh not generated by a gas fired power plant.

The reason it doesn't get an even harder time than it already does is because nuclear powers like the US and UK like to keep reactors and know how close at hand for military purposes.

People won't say this out loud, however. It's all about fixing global warming any way we can all the way. "Why not use a mix of sources?"

The messaging only does a 180 when it's a designated enemy trying to build a nuclear power station. Then the default assumption is that it's a cover for building out military capabilities.

This is mainly why the UK agreed to pay an inflation adjusted £93 per MwH for non dispatchable nuclear power in 5 years and £33-40 for solar/wind now. The ability to threaten nuclear annihilation matters to many governments, and nuclear reactors are useful to have around for that purpose.
> I see the commingling thing brought up in every thread like this, but I've never personally, nor has anyone I know IRL, received anything from Amazon that are even suspect of being counterfeit. If they are counterfeit, then they are such high quality counterfeits that I'm not sure I even care.

I wouldn't be so sure, since it's not always easy to spot a counterfeit. Take a charger for instance. A counterfeiter can get the case and packaging perfect, but have substandard & legitimately dangerous electronics inside. I don't have the links handy, but I've seen numerous tear-down comparisons that show examples of this.
Streaming isn't comparable to radio. If a penny per stream is unsustainable, perhaps we better go back to just radio. Hyping new music isn't going to do shit about revenue.
Good find here!

Using Brave + Duck duck go.
I have to ask as I'm really uncertain and also European, so this whole debate is a bit strange for me.

Is that an ironic website supposed to give the union a boost/shit on Amazon or is this a real attempt on getting people to dislike paying unions their due? I could not help but to laugh at some of the arguments in it, hence my question. It doesn't seem very sincere.
I suppose this https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttren...
Funny that the author mentions TypeScript, then complains that maintaining a system like this that "doesn't exist elsewhere" would be hard. TypeScript, in fact, does an analysis almost exactly like what is described in the article. Possibly even more expansive, since it also allows for user-defined assertions and guards, in addition to simple syntactic narrowing.
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Hey guys, saw this tool built by a 16 and a 15 years old. I tried and it generated: "What is the most used language in programming? Profanity."

I think it's pretty cool
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I work on the trading floor of an investment bank in Hong Kong. Our OMS is made entirely in low latency Java (no GC, lots of perf test, few C++ binding when really we must).

Java allows us, contrary to our poor colleagues in algo still on C++ to work in team, manage dependency, use really good tooling, unit test easily, have libraries that work consistently all across the universe (that's a beef I have with Python: every library seems to work differently with different casing and principles so I have to read enormous doc all the time bleh). It compiles fast enough, every monkey joining has done enough Java at university to get started, and it prunes all the autists who love complex one-liners and attract people more into team work and well-organized simple stuff. As for profiling, I still have to meet a C++ colleague with a good efficient profiler in my company, while us monkeys in Java (C# is great too tbh) can just run a graphical profiler, click on 3 buttons, and find what's not optimal.

Java isn't a language for the elite. And while the elite crashes the system and lose millions in 30 minutes, us dumbasses in Java can build and release with good tools without using bin patches that remove critical features :)

You'll see when you start working. Every company is a shitshow, better be in a Java shitshow with slow idiots than in a C++ shitshow with autist geniuses :D

You don't have to pay a license, but it's starting to get blurry. My giant company is phasing out Oracle's JVM and moving to OpenJDK, so there's that...
> selling blocks of time to people who want to consult with you

What does this actually mean? Would you be selling my time to someone else?

Do you have an import LinkedIn profile feature to reduce friction of adoption?

Also why doesn't your sign up support Google auth or any other identity providers? Another friction reducer opportunity right there.
The thing is: solar thermal plants get better the hotter the environment gets.

In contrast: PVs get worse-and-worse the hotter they get. Hot solar panels mean that the silicon resistance goes up and up.

IIRC, someone (I think IBM) did "solve" some "PVs in the desert" issue by running cold water to cool down the panels so that PV-efficiency can go back up. (Where "solve" was some experimental plant I remember hearing in the news years ago...) That's the kind of thing you need to do to get good energy from PVs in a desert environment.

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So for any hot and dry environment, it just sorta pushes the design towards thermal plants, and away from PVs. PVs are really good in temperate conditions however (where natural wind is good enough to cool off the panels). Just different technologies for different ecologies.
The original title of "Biden administration preparing to sanction Russia for SolarWinds hacks and the poisoning of an opposition leader" was too 32 characters too long to fit.
So you buy a machine but can only use it by means of a web-based software?

Big no there. Or big "caveat emptor".
>Isn’t the image selector an OS component that shows me all my photos without the app seeing them (that is, the app isn’t rendering them)?
> If this isn’t the case - why isn’t it? Is there no iOS system level image picker that runs isolated from the app? Or is there, but apps aren’t using it?

Yes, you're exactly right.

There is a native OS switcher that does exactly what you say. But, there's nothing stopping an App developer from writing their own. Here, they'd just basically be fetching all photos it has access to (i.e., only certain images) and display those there.

I haven't installed or used Fb messenger for years, but it sounds right up their alley to create their own image picker. You can shove a bunch of telemetry into your own image picker, but you can't into the native OS one.
To give you some impressions: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6766792...
You just deal with all the library and dependency stuff inside the Docker container instead :)
Like the unions didn't already destroy America's auto industry. Now they want to do the same to the tech industry. Supervisors can't talk directly with union workers, they have to go through unions first. Who on earth think this is a good idea? It kills productivity and I'm not even talking about the foreseeable protests down the road. Unions don't work in tech business where you need to break rules and move fast. It kills the big corporations in a few years and subsequently kills the entire job market that it was meant to protect. Ask the residents in Detroit. Now they have no jobs, or jobs with half of the pay before. Happy now?
For context, the main characters in that book are kinda immortal.
A great book btw
While it has way more bells and whistles than swarm, check out nomad if you haven't :)
>It's hilarious because it's so vague

It's not hilarious, it's the modus operandi to keep things vague so that they can hide behind apologists when called out. Like hiding behind decentralization to minimize the implicitly organized behavior of antifa. It's disingenuous and subversive. Then again I suppose subversion is the point...
Wiretapping by a private person should not happen.
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> I've never really thought about it before, but it would be pretty easy for a three-letter agency to set up an online advertising company for this purpose.

There's no need to set one up when you can break into many/all the existing advertising companies; remember "SSL added and removed here :^)" written on an NSA slide, referring to Google's clear-text internal data-center traffic? Also, the NSA spent a fuck-ton of money on compute to factor enough primes to trivially break 20-40%[1] of SSL traffic of the day...in real time.

1. This was about 6 years ago, I can't remember exact percentage, but it was definitely at least 20%, IIRC, the attack was on the key-exchange step
Insurance and liability would be a concern for me. I guess if you don't have anyone over and have few possessions it doesn't matter.
Is there a good reason why we shouldn't sanction China like we do Russia, NK, and Iran? There's plenty of money to be made in those countries too.