skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The advantage of web applications is that you do not have to install and update them, that they are inherently sandboxed, and that they are not operating system depended. And even those are not universally good things - server down or no internet connection, no application, feature removed in new version, good luck trying to run an old version, and operating system dependencies give way to browser dependencies. And you have turned even the simplest application into a distribute one unless you put in the effort to make it work offline from the browser cache.

Everything else is worse because you are forced to use this single technology stack that the browser offers you. And people are trying to break free of those limitations, WebAssembly, WebUSB, or doing their own rendering into a canvas instead of having a DOM. One size fits all was, is, and will never be true. Are there certain applications that benefit from being web applications? Sure. But is this a panacea? Certainly not.

At some point you browser will just turn into another operating system running on top of your operating system. The success of the current situation is, I think, mostly due to the fact that the web browser was a universally adopted least common denominator for running arbitrary code. You could get all the benefits of web applications without the browser, you could have platform independent binaries, you could download them on demand, you could sandbox them. But you probably would have a hard time to invent those standards and get them universally adopted by all platforms and operating systems.
A problem with this from my point of view is that while hardware engineers did an incredible job increasing the processing power of our thinking rocks, us software devs did a tremendous job of squandering 90% of it away. Of course there also are market incentives for doing so (time to market, dev costs etc...).

Empirically it seems that software simply doesn't scale as well as hardware does. I feel like this overhead would make "smart dust" impractical.

Or I guess I could put it that way: one hand hand you could be impressed that a modern light bulb can run Doom, on the other you could be alarmed that you need a Doom-capable computer to run a modern light bulb.
And that time is two years after the next version comes out. That's how it's worked since Mountain Lion and High Sierra's time is up which is why it hasn't gotten any for 7 months while Mojave has received some.
Framework fanboys have been comparing writing JavaScript without their stupid framework to writing assembly since jQuery was a thing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27486041

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27450431

It doesn’t matter because such comparisons are bullshit posturing by people who are insecurely qualifying their ignorance of how their beloved tools work.
So currently, it's a couple days after police and intelligence agencies worldwide raided the owners of ANOM-using phones that were allegedly private and built to exclude common hardware/software that's used for tracking. I'm not saying the governments of the world were wrong to bring those people down. But do you really expect anyone to buy a phone - with any combination of hardware and software - and retain any expectation of privacy whatsoever? Am I paranoid to think that this sounds like a continuation of the ANOM project... selling a supposedly secure, home brew and private device to the gullible who desperately want a secure channel?

Here's a secure channel: Dump your phone. There's no personal security with a device like that if you live in a state that might use your affiliations against you.
10 randomly sampled adults, nevermind parents. My partner is an educated person who works on a computer all day and I think she would have a panic attack if I asked her to do something on a command prompt
If India is not declared a Hindu state, there is a good chance that it becomes an Islamic state.

Like Pakistan, one denomination will start killing another, it will become a hellhole, like much of west Asia.
To be more specific, the standard now is "whether the consumer is harmed" - which is notoriously hard to prove. It used to be "whether the competition is hampered" - which is much easier to prove, hence why anti-trust was much more aggressive back then. And why big biz gradually lobbied the new standard through.
Back in the day, like ten years ago or so it was very trendy for health gurus to promote high doses of fish oil supplementation (minimum 3g daily of combined EPA+DHA, ideally way more). You can still find posts from angry users in forums complaining about loss of libido, hypothyroidism and erectile dysfunction.

I would stay away from it, but it might be worth it for vegetarians, pregnant and lactating women. Or if you eat the average (crap) western diet.
Interesting! here is an actual image of a man, purportedly derived from dolphin ultrasound:
http://www.speakdolphin.com/news.cfm

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to have been any development since 2016, which is weird.
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No advice, just commiseration. Am going through a sciatic period (in my case it causes numbness down my leg, not pain). For decades I’d sit sort of weirdly with my right leg tucked under my left, it made my lower back feel better, but allegedly trained the sciatic nerve to move to just the wrong spot. Pilates helped mitigate it until Covid.

Everything I’ve read about mitigation involves various piriformis and IT band stretches and posture corrections, as well as hectoring about diabetes (which is both on target and misdirected in my case).
Depends on the hybrid model.

If it's "3 days every week at the office", then you need to live close by.

If it's "two days every month", you can just stay at a hotel for that time with the money you saved from commuting - maybe even bring the whole family =)
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Lucid take!

I am glad I do a mix of things. Some are great to WFH, others like hardware dev, R&D benefit from being around machines and often people too.
> The method that actually worked was to get a few boys with rifles up on the parapet and have them shoot down into the trenches, killing everyone they could. Faster, more efficient, and no silly buggers with grenades flying back and forth.

The American's brought shotguns ("trench guns") to do that work. It was seen by the Germans as violation of the law of war.

"On 19 September 1918, the German government issued a diplomatic protest against the American use of shotguns, alleging that the shotgun was prohibited by the law of war."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_Model_1897
This is a better URL: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16PFD1GtMI9Zgwu0jtPaKZJ75...
What about billions of dollars of capital that have interest in network not going down?

Doesn't it make it more like self custody if you are virtually guaranteed that network will stay alive?
Google will let enterprises store their Google Workspace encryption keys
You have to choose between stability and the latest/greatest. You cannot have both. Not even Apple users get both.
I'm not an IRC person, so I have no idea myself about any of these things, but I notice that this blog post links to an earlier post where the author speculates about what's driving these changes:

https://ariadne.space/2021/05/20/the-whole-freenode-kerfluff...
Check out some of the videos on Youtube of the Genera Symbolics Lisp Machine platform.
Hm, and I wanted to write "some are strict, some are not". So there is a way to stay in contact with your family, you don't have to join a trappist order!
Google Workspace and Google Chat are officially available to everybody
I'm not defending the choice. Just explaining the upside.

I'm pretty sure you can access slack through a browser tab if you want, so anybody who really hates electron has an easy out.
>Use the Chromebook for the 90% that I think I can use it for and use virtual machines in the Georgia Tech Computing Center.

Most universities also have some sort of high performance computing cluster available, so you're not limited to just a simple VM.
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No, because it's easily detectable from a distance.
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That is really cool and well done, thanks for sharing.

One question I have though, is the square piece supposed to rotate like that, i.e. shift up and down while rotating? I think this might be a bug.
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It's probably fibre channel if external, or SAS if internal.
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Do you know what the missing features are? I'm very interested, I'm rewriting code from ocl to vulkan.
It's a performance hog that provides little value.
Does it work with click?
shrug apparently overall prices increase no more than 0.4% when minimum wage goes up 10%.

Why would rent be different? Supply and demand would not be changed.
Magnesium isn't allowed because it is not detectable as, in fact, it's very detectable. Your analogy is flawed ... let it go.
it certainly touches the end user the moment they try to use the device for productivity and realize where the walls of the garden were established. But at that point maybe they're not a "user" anymore.
I'm the author of Stabel. AMA.
There's also a loud sound that plays on boot up. I removed write protection on mine just so I could boot it up after my partner fell asleep without having to leave the room.
Didn't Apple make it extremely difficult to boot Linux on modern Macbooks?
> Funding "rogue states" such as North Korea and Iran

Not a big fan of crypto, but this is one of the less convincing arguments against it—as the current situation where the US more or less gets to decide who are the rogue states, because of the global financial system’s dependency on the US dollar, doesn’t seem all that great.

For example, the US have ruled: “Saudi Arabia good, Iran bad” for a long time now. Since the signing of the nuclear treaty with Iran, the EU had been trying to normalise trade relations, but this has proven exceedingly complicated since the US pulled out, since most financial transactions at some point pass through a US based financial institution that are beholden to sanctions towards Iran.

I don’t think crypto is the ideal answer for this problem, I would prefer a financial system that can deal with multiple fiat currencies and has less reliance on the USD, but that won’t happen overnight.

cf https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-finance-idUSKBN29O1ZI
It doesn't seem perfectly reasonable to me. Using "totsufaren" instead of the correct spelling because the 't' sound is already in 'tot' destroys consistency with hinzufahren, auszufahren. And I'm not convinced that 'oi' and 'eu' represent the same sound in German, since 'eu' is a diphthong and always sounds long, whereas 'oi' is a short vowel followed by a glide: [oᶦ].
That one time, I decided to confront my fear of death directly. Every day, when I got up, I would try to visualise and confront my fear. I did the same thing waiting for the bus, and on the bus, and whenever I had a free moment at work... if I was not otherwise occupied I would try to confront Death, and know and conquer my fear. After about 3 months there was a shift in the currents of my thinking, and it became impossible for anyone to look me in the eye without seeing their own fear. Anybody at all who looked at me would begin to tremble and shake, and they'd get away from me as fast as they humanly could, and not come back for anything. A very powerful set of experiences. (Since then I have learnt that the undercurrent of thought, and even specific thoughts, are visible in the eye of every thinker, and that thoughts of Love can also become the centre of my life... now it's all much more comfortable.)
I remember reading about some circuit where they replaced an 555 timer whose job was to generate a PWM signal with a fully featured microcontroller, because it was cheaper that way.
> From the dugout, players and coaches shake their heads as they listen to pitchers’ deliveries

But their own pitchers are doing it too.
True, but that will likely cost your best hitter a fastball to the ribs.
The difference however is that formats like MP3 work on the principle of psycho-acoustics, which means they modify the original audio in a way that is meant to be indistinguishable by human hearing, but it could very well cause a difference in the spectrum in places where it matters for the analysis (it can add and remove frequencies).
These are mostly rehashed Soviet propaganda talking points. The Baltics cannot be compared to Central Asian republics, and Soviet occupation was greatly detrimental to the Baltic nations, not to mention unwanted. Much more economic wealth was taken by the Soviet Union than ever received. The Baltics were more than capable of building hospitals, schools, etc and had fine examples of all of these. Many atrocities were committed in the Baltic nations by the Soviet Union (as indeed many atrocities occurred in all parts of the Soviet Union) Indeed, today the 14th of June is the memorial day for the mass deportations from Latvia to the Soviet Union https://www.mfa.gov.lv/en/policy/society-integration/history...

The USSR was quite literally an evil empire which rightfully belongs in the trash bin of history
I believe his defense against this is having three locations around the world that all need sign off for a canary to be published.

So there is no „the government“.
The problem is that the extreme effort to optimise hardware pays off for everyone, the extreme effort to optimise "random software project" rarely does (unless random software project is a compiler/kernel of course).

So the RoI is just different.
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I disagree that it would be bad for the league to have them all suspended at the same time. Worse pitching = more hitting.

The MLB seriously needs more hitting.
I'm curious is that final price, with taxes and battery? New ones in Poland start (!) at almost 3x that, and used ones under 10k€ are only damaged and/or without battery.

At your price it may make sense as a "car to commute".
I think four extra arms would be better, with some sort of onboard AI to co-ordinate their movements. You'd need some sort of inhibitor chip to stop the AI in the arms taking over the mind of the wearer though.
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Yes standing exposed on top would expose you to fire from the support trenches.
>Instead I just focus on the technical issues on their task, sometimes I just do it for them, to humiliate them.

Well, that is one hell of a viscous cycle, isn't it?
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and is also the double edged-sword that permits bad actors to take over popular packages and inject malware and other nasties :(
I wish learning math would teach me how to play the piano...
Every Electron App teaches us a story, often stuff like "time to market" and "we cannot provide stable APIs" and "we don't pay your RAM" and "it is okay that it's slow and laggy".
Fair points; I'm trigger happy from progressives demanding people be fired for liking a tweet and am unwilling to let them weasel their way into stupid demands but those examples that surround actual legality are fair counters.
There's a few things going on with that screw AFAIK.

Before you go down the GalliumOS route you can choose between dual booting with a menu or booting straight into it. I went with the dual boot approach because I still wanted the ability to boot into ChromeOS in case something crazy happened with GalliumOS. In most cases this translates to turning on the Chromebook and hitting CTRL+L which boots you into GalliumOS, as opposed to hitting CTRL+D to boot into ChromeOS. It's a 2 second process to pick the OS to boot from and that's all you have to do.

But going back to the screw, it controls at least these 2 things:

1. sudo crossystem dev_boot_legacy=1 is a command that lets you boot something other than ChromeOS. This setting needs to be persisted somewhere. The screw lets it get written to your BIOS so it never gets lost. If you don't modify the screw it gets lost when your battery is 100% tapped out, but if that's the case all you have to do is drop into a terminal when you turn your Chromebook on and run the command again and you're good to go, nothing gets wiped. This only happens if the battery is fully fully drained.

2. If you decided not to dual boot you need to modify the screw to directly boot into GalliumOS.
For my computer graphics class, being able to break out my overclocked and watercooled 20-thread behemoth in an era where most processors had far fewer, definitely helped me procrastinate a bit longer, because my renders took a fraction of the expected time :)

The same machine’s GPUs helped me be the first to solve a password brute-force challenge in my computer security class (designed to teach us how to use password cracking tools), though that wasn’t for any credit, of course!

For my machine learning class, I was able to train models much more quickly than other students.

Generally speaking, being able to brute force certain things was just fun.

But yeah, I would agree that there is no practical benefit to a powerful machine in a CS education. These few instances are not worth the cost - buy or build a powerful rig because you want to, not because you think it’ll help. I felt immense pride at watching my system whir to life.
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Well, yes and no… as always!

The trick is that you probably don't need all, or even most, of that power to run the light. Sure the Zigbee protocol is _probably_ being done via software, and not a dedicated chip, but even then. The big thing is that this chip is most likely so cheap, especially in bulk, that it doesn't make sense to get the "cheaper" variant, even if that was still available. This is kind of supported by the "new" Trådfri having an updated chip, even though the Trådfri line never changed it's capabilities, it was probably cheaper to get the new more powerful chip and/or they could no longer get the old one with a five year supply guarantee.
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Also it is not illegal to speak Russian, how ridiculous. Please stop watching whatever garbage TV propaganda you are doing.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27396634 for a basic intro, but IIRC the main differences involved are (1) support for general pointers in OpenCL, whereas data indirection in compute shaders involves varying levels of messiness, and (2) OpenCL introduces support for some mathematical functions, that is not in Vulkan Compute. (However, note that OpenCL 3.0 has also made many features optional, so the basic featureset may be more comparable as a result.)
(Fumbled the URL, shoud be http://man.cat-v.org/unix_7th)
Thank you, jq is always driving me crazy. If I have to get used to lisp syntax to get away from it, then so be it :-)

Also.. the fzf --preview tip you had. Thank you, it's going to save so much time next time I need to iterate trough some jq/jql/sed/awk/grep...

And finally,
> It may seem dead, but it's not. It's just finished

Glad to see a tool which is "done". It's a bit sad that it's something you have to state nowadays to not be considered "dead project".
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I'll piggyback on your comment for a question: I only very recently started getting into the basic of GPGPU coding. I hate vendor lock in, so I started out with OpenCL. I had a good time, but I do understand that more and more of non-CUDA world (however small that may be) is moving away from OpenCL. What are they moving to? Where should one direct one's "compute learning energy" (if one already excludes CUDA or other proprietary solutions)?
I am trying to work out if you are being ironic in your reply or not.

I am a software engineer. My job is to solve problems, not to "write code". It just happens that most of the solutions will involve code. The less code that can be written to solve a problem the better. More code is a liability not an asset.
I pay for cod liver oil a price that divided by the content of omega-3 acids results in about EUR 0.10 per gram.

At your link, the price is GBP 17 per 24 g DHA, which results in about EUR 0.82 per gram of omega-3.

I have paid about the same price, i.e. 8 times higher than fish oil, for a similar algae oil.

So the price seems right. However the product from your link has a problem, it contains only DHA.

There are 2 omega-3 acids that are required by the human body, DHA and EPA. Fish oil contains both and also vitamin D.

The cultivated algae produce either DHA or EPA, not both. Some vendors mix oils from 2 algae cultures, to sell supplements with both DHA and EPA.

Others sell DHA and EPA separately, like in your link.

If you choose this DHA supplement, you must also search an EPA supplement, to take them both.

Otherwise you must search a supplement with both DHA and EPA. The prices are about the same so it is just a matter of convenience to choose separate or combined supplements.

Unfortunately, I have not seen any algae oil at a significantly different price, so the only cheaper solution is fish oil, at an 8-times lower price.
In my career, I have seen individuals all over the map if the x-axis is rebelliousness and the y-axis is value delivered.

There are high performing rebels and low performing do-rights and vice versa.

As someone with past experience in a highly regulated field (biopharma, food safety, etc.), the rule-followers are running the show and a rebel (as the article defines it) will be burned out if they aren't careful.

However, that industry is ripe for disruption. The rules and best practices that have emerged over the decades have weak link to regulatory or legal sources. I would frequently ask for justification how a particular policy connected to an audit finding or a law and these connections are usually weak or non-existent. Even moreover,
if the link could be established, it wasn't clear or documented why this decision taken was considered optimal for the organization, many times it was the fastest solution that made QA/QC happy.

As you can guess, the emergent systems are horribly inefficient yet difficult to change.

Highly-regulated industries are ripe with 'thats how we do it' inefficiencies that insiders have accepted as necessary for legal compliance but that could be disrupted by rebels that return to source material (legal statute, auditor interpretations) and reinvision the whole business model from the ground up.
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I can't say for oil and gas but I encountered the same thing in semiconductor manufacturing. CMP machines still use tape formats even if the file is now written to different media. The challenge during transition was in proving reliability and transition costs. Sometimes letting engineers deal with the hassle is cheaper than letting them fix it.
I think `git switch` is an attempt to resolve this
SMBC is starting to reach parity with XKCD… between the two of them there really _should_ be a comic for everything!
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