skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yes, the laptop card has free firmware: https://wiki.debian.org/ath9k.

No, it hasn't. You're confusing driver and firmware, again. What it has, and what you are showing me, is a free driver.

The former is executed on the main processor of your computer, the second on the various chips of your card / device which can run various forms of code. The second can be loaded either from the main CPU (computer), or from some flash or some (P)ROM located on the board or directly inside the chips.
Wouldn't this backfire since having webgl disabled is an outlier, and you will be fingerprinted that way?
Honestly, I don't recall hearing many people relate stories verbally and even if they did, it'd still sound 'wrong' to me.
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Yes, if it would double the performance in many cassis, then the size would have a significant benefit.

Here we are taking about large binaries without apparent benefit and a drive to keep binaries as lean as possible.
If you have to preach something like a zealot it means it is not as good as you think it is.

Most people dont look up whether "something will work" on Windows or Mac.They just simply use the machines they buy.
I'd look into autocatalytic sets. From an origin-of-life perspective it's a compelling idea to me.
'Typically' meaning...? Jekyll? Gatsby?
Modern Windows is more secure by default than most GNU/Linux distributions.

The only Linux distribution that beats it is Android, with LinuxSE, seccomp, userspace drivers (Treble), hardned access to native code, one user per app and sandbox enabled by default.
If there's no supply, then simply don't offer the product. However, Alienware, a Dell property, doing as described in this article, is not surprising at all. Dell got in big trouble for their behind-the-scenes favoritism of Intel [0].

The offerings of Ryzen laptops tells a similar story, even before the supply shortages of late. They are only now escaping their shells, but large OEMs still give the best specs to Intel-powered laptops. Better offerings come from the smaller vendors.

[0] https://fortune.com/2007/02/15/suit-intel-paid-dell-up-to-1-...
I don't think so at all. I read the entire series, I waited for every new boom with baited breath.

But without spoiling anything- by the end it had clearly gone the way of the Battlestar Galactica remake. They had no idea where to take the story and by the end it was painfully obvious. At least Moore admitted that by the end he was as lost as we were.

Same with GRRM, or even Stephen Kimg and the Gunslinger series. I absolutely adore a good story but much prefer ones with a general outline finished before writing a series. Disjointed stories with years between each never seem as good to me by their conclusions.

Castlevania started out great but meandered to 'WTAF how could you make me hate a Castlevania adult cartoon?!' in typical Netflix fashion.

Take the opposite example of Cowboy Bebop, had a pretty clear arc as well as an ending, and was perfect for it.

But I guess everyone just wants to be The Simpsons and drag things on forever.
Ok, so you're doing it incorrectly then. That's fine, but it seems weird to give advise on the basis of information that you know is wrong.
I have an opinion but it's compiling. Check back in 10 minutes to read it.
And these days it goes all the way to Hauptbahnhof!
.. Covid19 designer drugs..

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Druggable pocket in the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24567458, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMaKFcpV5wg

https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-study-...

The linoleic acid-binding pocket in SARS-COV-2 will make an attractive target for possible designer drugs..

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hrsACE2 as well inhibits binding: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25008048 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMaKFcpV5wg

APN001 is a hrsACE2 designed by Apeiron Biologics to imitate the human enzyme ACE2.
hrsACE2 at tissue sites can effectively compete with the endogenous ACE2 and limits SARS-CoV-2 entrance into the host cells

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> Printers have been domestiprintered for half as long as scanners have been.
Having a list of shit you want the government to spend every spare penny on does not make you informed or particularly intelligent. That’s just a grown-up version of a Christmas wish-list.

The government randomly spending money in bits here in there is not productive.

>even jobs

The last thing you want is the government to add 10 million jobs for only 12 weeks during normal employment.

> infrastructure

Expanding infrastructure that isn’t needed is just more maintenance cost and a waste of money. You need concrete plans for infrastructure that isn’t just a maintenance burden.

> public transportation

Again, this needs actual plans and should provide value. You want HSR from Ely, NV to Portland, OR?

Vague hand-waving of “the government should just spend X billion on Y” is just a perfect way to promote boondoggles.
I wish wish wish I could move over to Linux but its font rendering situation is terrible [1] I've tried Manjaro and Ubuntu to no avail.

I have no idea what causes it or if people on Linux are not as sensitive to it or its a specific hardware setup which causes terrible fonts but once you read Windows fonts stuff looks so much better to me. Apparently its a hot debated topic but its so obvious to some it seems.

[1] https://pandasauce.org/post/linux-fonts/
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I've always considered macports/brews as last possible solution for problems on macos because you eventually end up with broken system. Luckily you can run most of the stuff on a remote linux with containers.
I love Linux based operating systems and I've used them pretty much exclusively for at least a decade now, and I agree with a lot of your post, but

>By cutting away abstraction,

I don't think I agree with this take. You haven't cut away abstraction, you've changed to a different kind of abstraction. Linux's 'everything is a file' abstraction is just that, an abstraction.

>Linux is arranged masterfully, and makes the Windows filesystem look like a joke in comparison

It's arranged more simply and straightforward, masterfully though, I dunno...

Every flavour of Linux uses a different layout for its root directories, stores configs in different places and generally is not consistent from distro to distro.

User configs are also scattered in random places at times. They could be in .config they could be in .local they could be in .$APP_NAME they could be in the app's directory, they could be in /usr/ somewhere. Maybe in a couple different places at once. Who knows? It's a mystery until you track it down.

Dependencies and libraries are a huge pain to deal with, especially when you start mixing and matching distro provided libraries with custom built ones.

I'm not trying to disagree with your post or anything. I love the way Linux lets you have control over your computer and doesn't try to stop you. But, it's definitely got some issues. I've only touched on a few related to your comment itself.
WinGet is more like a "software center" of "application store" compared to what I understood a "package manager" is. From my understanding, a package manager should take care of the installation process: (optionally) compile the source and test them, copy the files to the system and run optional scripts and hooks. Most importantly, a package manager records all files that are installed and knows which file belongs to which package. When uninstalling, a package manager should remove the files by itself and make sure the software is uninstalled safely and completely. What WinGet does is just download the MSI or whatever setup binary and run it. It is more like a software index and downloader rather than an actual package manager.
> There's a big psychometrics literature on conscientiousness. Start there

I've spent some time diving into the OCEAN model and its factor analysis. Do you have any recommendations for references, books or papers, that offer a good introduction to the subject assuming statistical fluency?
Closely related: Should an engineer be obligated to work on weapons projects? How about weaponized machine inference?

Individual practitioners within their field should have some level of autonomy, especially when it comes to ethics. I'm not willing to yank that away from someone just because their ethics disagree with mine. Same thing with consumers.

Some of the reasons for avoiding GMO foods are absolutely bonkers in my opinion, but I still believe in the right of consumers to make their own choices. How would the pharma landscape change if prescription drugs were obligated to carry a label that they were developed and tested with human fetal tissue or cell cultures?
Depends, I saw CA counties banning people from the beaches during the spread of an indoor airborne virus.
There are really two different things here: physical dependence (which can mean withdrawals on cessation), and psychological dependence (commonly referred to as "addiction").
Yeah of course there's a wealth of difference between Haussmann and Corbusier, 70 years will do that. But if someone had that it was Haussmann that dreamt of "cleaning and purging cities of disorder" with "calm and powerful architecture" I wouldn't've blinked.

>The goal of Haussman was [...] to modernize and get rid of the obviously impractical designs.

That, and make the city easier to pacify with military force. Also it wasn't so obviously impractical. There was a lot written at the time about how Haussmann was destroying Paris by tearing out her heart and splitting her up and so on and so forth.

Corbusier's central thesis was that the world had progressed but architecture had not, to the point where previous architecture was obsolete. With the nostalgic and excessive neoclassical style of the beaux-arts dominating the 19th C. it wouldn't've been hard to get that impression. From the tellingly titled "Towards a New Architecture": "Engineers have been busy with barrages, with bridges, with Atlantic liners, with mines, with railways. Architects have been asleep." He was not alone in that conception. He wasn't even the first of the modernists to articulate it. This desire to make a clean break with existing tradition (which you cast as the unique and defining sin of Corbusier) is more or less the foundation and the entire point of Modernism.

Here's two examples that spring to mind. Loos writing in 1910ish alleged with new industrial processes the waste encouraged by the fact that styles go out of style made ornament criminally wasteful, so he advocated for architecture free of ornament. Theo van Doesberg and the rest of De Stijl gang took it in another direction around 1917, attempting to distil everything into category or continuum. In art and architecture this meant right angles and straight lines only (because angles are binary duh, though sometimes 45-degrees was okay), only black, white and the primary colours allowed, and the inside and outside of the building, painting, etc. existed as a continuum (Mondrian was a member for a while)
I encountered the same trauma after building a react site and told myself surely there must be something more simple.

Check out parcel! Zero configuration required, just add a couple of commands to a package.json and you’re off.
It has? Who says it has? As far as I'm concerned, it hasn't.

These constant attempts to redefine the meanings of accepted and well-understood words are annoying as all hell. Stop trying to fuck up language all the time, damn kids. If you need a word for some specific meaning of your own, then make up your own damn word. (And now get off my lawn!)
> because americans value democracy and can say “we’re liberating them from their oppressive government”

Most democracies are in general against war for practical reasons, wars are a drain away from stuff at home that's important for them as people. US citizens may be "less likely" to want that but only because recent history has saturated them with the justification that the war is against regimes with "different values". It's an easy sell for people who are never to keen on going beyond that. So it would mostly be a matter of repackaging the justification. Some democracies can afford both the wars and the "moral repackaging" for their citizens.

But people also misunderstand democracy and what it means. The fact that the interests of the majority are respected might also mean that the minority is suffering a great deal. How well are black people's interests represented in the US?

One the other hand in democracy you are allowed to give a tiny endorsement to a person or party for a leadership position in the hope that they will represent your interest while others are buying "priority" over you for this representation with far more than a vote. You're not seeing this as less of a democracy so people are not judging political systems based on their actual implementation but rather by picking and choosing on particular values.

Russia is ostensibly a democracy, albeit one where the leadership is somewhat predetermined a very small minority. USA is a democracy albeit one where the leadership is somewhat representing the interests of a very small minority. I'm sure a war between these two is not seen as such a remote possibility in terms of people's preference.
Minus Zero tests autonomous three-wheeler in India, working on self-driving car
Ask HN: Simple CRUD app with free datastore?
HI HN
I want to build a simple CRUD application and deployed to Heroku, but I don't want to pay for the database cost upfront (SQL). Any suggestions where I can store the data for free for now?

EDIT: One way I thought of is to find a free SQL hosting site with limited storage, then constantly make a dump elsewhere. That way I can preserve my app without exceeding the capacity.
I almost always have 2 vertical side by side windows (meta+left and meta+right shortcuts), that's useful about wide high resolutions
“It’s going to go away”
In general The longer I can hold off eating the better I do during the day.
At least until I collapse.
If I have regular food I feel flushed and feverish. Often triggering migraines. Basically my ability to function is near zero.

Non trigger foods, ie. sweet potatoes allow me to avoid such problems.

As to well managed.
No, not really.
I was physically doing much better when taking proper meds, (plaqunial)

However side effects were to much.
His attack on Vlad was especially disingenuous given that he was SPACing a competitor (SoFi). Especially since he specifically targeted PFOF, which SoFi also engages in.
> worrying about how long an irreplaceable battery or SSD will last and no constant battle with some corporation over who controls my computer

You really need to understand that this is nothing but a strawman.

I'm a M1 Air user. I'm currently worrying about how I'm gonna express some business logic in my app, not about some imaginary "irreplaceable" battery or an SSD. If anything breaks in the first two years (which probably won't happen), I'll have the machine or the part replaced for free. If anything breaks after the second year, well, I can either have it repaired or just get a newer Mac with the total cost of ownership of the old one being firmly below $50/month, which is laughably low for a tool that puts food on the table. And that's in an ex eastern bloc country where the average monthly wage is around $1300 net.

> My desktop is in a quiet room where I do work stuff

Mine too, in my bedroom, where I have a desk with a 43" screen on it. With the laptop connected in clamshell mode. Or on the couch. Sometimes I go to the office. Sometimes I go to meetings. And a laptop allows me to use a single machine for all that, ain't that great?
They did:

https://opensea.io/assets/0x495f947276749ce646f68ac8c2484200...
Oh I wouldn't worry about that. Examples are good for learning and the main goal is just to steer in the right direction going forward.
Who's preaching? Doesn't get much easier than this https://certification.ubuntu.com/desktop
Minus Zero: A journey in building an Indian, affordable self-driving car
I see. That could be interpreted either way, but let's give henvic the benefit of the doubt and assume they were talking within the context of the above comment, i.e. Europe.

edit: Not that it makes the argument sound: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EF_English_Proficiency_Index
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What's the threat model there?
5G Vs. Starlink

Which will win?

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Or, more likely, does the future hold a coming broadband internet connectivity price war?

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And if so...

...who will be the "last IP address standing"?

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Paradoxically, that backfires. If we only let a small subset of users disable WebGL... well, having WebGL disabled _becomes_ the identifying characteristic.
I don't think you can judge something that is the first of it's kind for technical failures. The most genius part of btc is the halving cycles that draw an ever increasing amount of attention to the project and crypto in general.
Given an Android phone or tablet, you can get sticky NFC tags and make the device play the corresponding stream when it touches one.
Stick them to photos with the radio station logo, and you’ve got a record player / Toniebox.

The tablet never unlocks, so you don’t have to worry about UI quirks.
If you have comments for the Canadian government on this matter, an email is provided on this page: https://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/693.nsf/eng/00192.html

Apparently your comment may be made public, FYI.

I encourage everyone to make your voice heard, we’ve all had our interactions with pirated media. I learned graphic design after pirating my first copy of Photoshop, now Adobe has a customer for life. Think about how you can demonstrate the tangible (and intangible) value of piracy on the economy and society as a whole. The value is obvious for us, but clearly less obvious to lawmakers.

Also worth noting that the most effective piracy measures have come from market forces: competition with the actual process of piracy. Netflix has effectively eliminated the need for movie piracy and did so simply by providing a simpler option. They use industry developed DRM. Who needs government enforcement of IP?
"psychopaths handle large scale organizations better"

I would argue that this just proves how messed up are our large scale organisations
Bitcoin doesn't run on coal.
By the way, while we are discussing readability, important message to all hipsters: We boomers prefer high contrast, that is black text on white background.

Sites with grey text on grey background I usually skip.

Once Firefox was my web browser because it has a very easy setting for forcing exactly this (black on white).
I'm on phone and very very familiar with reddit (as in: I enjoy it a bit too much for my own good) . When I visited the link I got the following message:

> To view posts in r/InternetIsBeautiful you must continue in Reddit app or log in.

These are per-subreddit rules I assume. Other subreddits works fine on phone without logging on.

Edit: Here is some thread about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/epsv9m/apparent...

So it appears to be dependent on my location as well. Not my cup of "internet is beautiful".
Maps Show the Extremes of U.S. Population Density
The title of this article does not reflect what is presented.
> The conspiracy theorist in me suspects that Intel must be applying heavy-handed pressure to OEMs to keep them in line long enough for Intel to release a better architecture in a couple of years.

But what kind of pressure can Intel even apply? Intel CPUs are more expensive and have sub-par performance? Why would any OEM favor them?
try without either catch or finally makes no sense.

Omitting (not emitting) an argument to throw would make sense for rethrowing errors in a catch block (many languages already do this), so it may be a good idea.
The algorithm may be e.g. a DNN which is quite opaque, even if its inputs are revealed.
Minus the culturally specific terminology like 'angel', those motifs can be found in every mythology and every religion. There's nothing particularly Christian or Catholic about them, it's basically the Hero's Journey.
This is my experience interacting with mobile telcos as well.

Even to get some simple logs from a base station you need to either ask an Ericsson engineer or, worse, wait for the Telco employee with the relevant knowledge to find time to do it. Telco employees with such knowledge are very few compared to the amount of workload they have to do, so it is hard to get them to dedicate time to help you.
Curious how they went about with choosing these 44 countries. Ease of entry? Regulatory compliance? Market potential?

It basically looks like Nato, Japan, Brazil, India and Australia. Missing China, ex Soviet Union, Middle East, Latam (Brazil excluded) and all of Africa.

Are the remainder on the roadmap in the next 6 months? 12 months?
But what is inflammation?
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yeah this is a common pattern in runtime permissions modelling. it's a really cool trick and i hope it gets more awareness from cases like this
I believe the UK tried to do the same thing, but these blocks are easily circumvented. You can just go to unblockit.club (or whatever the name is at at the time) and access many of these sites.
Take a look at the methodology used by Ad Fontes Media (which this site uses as part of the "left vs right" scale). It's fairly scientifically rigorous, given an inherently subjective topic. My only critique would be that a larger team of analysts might be better.

https://www.adfontesmedia.com/how-ad-fontes-ranks-news-sourc...
Waymo has been offering a driverless Taxi service to the public since October 2020.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/10/waymo-finally-launches-...
Google Brain and NYU Guidelines Address ‘Broken’ NLU Benchmarking
Package management comes to Windoze?

2021 ... it only took 26 years.

lol who is masochistic enough to still use something like Windoze 20 years into the 21st century?
> Could you shed some light on how it further removes abstractions?

By not running hundreds of useless programs, I guess. If you launch htop inside OpenBSD, it'll fill half of your terminal, and the rest is empty.

The easiest way to try it is to install it on a virtual machine. You'll see that not much is needed to get to a point to launch firefox from an xterm.
Since carbon taxes primarily benefit local production...yes?
Emerging nations are too far away from the US to care about it as much as you think.

>That doesn't mean the costs of a carbon tax don't outweigh the benefits of having economic ties with the countries that have that tax.

The only reason the world is not at war is globalization and even that is coming to an end.
This is so funny! Jon-bot-jovi rocks!
Intel had(has?) a practice of giving OEMs a discount if they only sell Intel chips.
See my sibling comment. Intel has applied incentives to OEMs before to give them preferential treatment. Dell got caught, but it's likely it's happened with others based on the same pattern existing elsewhere.
> blundle

is this an intentional portmanteau of “bundle” and “blunder”?
Reminds me of this project, Vernacular Typography http://vernaculartypography.com/index.php/info/about/
Small nitpicking: In the fourth row that shows a muon with a cloud of virtual particles and a naked electron, I'd prefer that the electron had also a cloud of virtual particles.
>and Microsoft dominance (i.e. x86 dominance) is fading.

What?
Check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-8MP7g8XOE