skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't need to write boilerplate code and watch for syntax errors, if you use a programming language that does not encourage boilerplate or have a lot of syntax.

When I start a new C# project, first 40 minutes I am mindlessly writing a scaffolding of classes, data structures and helper functions that I will need from the beginning.

When I start a new Clojure project, I don't need all that, so I just stare at my blinking cursor thinking about what the program will actually do.
I work in water management in the Netherlands.

It used to be that water levels were registered by someone manually noting the level at a gauge, writing it down, and bicycli g to the next. He'd visit all of them in a region in a day.

Now they're of course automated sensors. They are cheaper, there are more of them, they are more accurate, immediate available online, and with 5-minute resolution. Clearly better.

But the person doing the rounds each day would also see the whole system each day, notice vandalism, know local conditions on growth of pest water plants by heart, et cetera. Now there is nobody with such detailed first hand knowledge of the system. The informal part of the job is lost, and the loss can't easily be quantified as some amount of money either. It didn't even exist on the org chart, but it still feels like it was essential.

So we replace human work with different automated processes, and yes we ignore the true nature of the work.
There are still some community forums that have withstood commercialization and that are run by passionate enthusiasts. I'm mostly active in German forums and I can think of sites like mikrocontroller.net (micro-electronics related discussions), kaffee-netz.de (coffee, espresso related discussions) and aquariumforum.de (aquarium-related discussions). I'd imagine there are tons of such forums in other areas and in the US as well.
Framework is only available in the US now, and no AMD option. Despite all their past shenanigans, I got a Lenovo as they have solid Linux support. Erased Windows from it right away.
Rejecting accepted definitions in discourse and propaganda has proven intellectually and politically dangerous in the past, even when the redefinition is made honestly and explicitly. Devastating when made dishonestly and opaquely.

It raises a red flag…why didn’t an author just define a new term for the concept instead of distorting an old term? Why the required effort for a reader to make the translation from accepted definition to the author’s “special language”? This is prose, not poetry. Redefining accepted terminology is the intellectual equivalent of cultural appropriation and, at best, leads to confusion and empty bickering over terminology. Just sounds sloppy to me…imagine doing that in a STEM discipline, you’d be laughed out of the room.

Could be a useful strategy in cult psychology, though, I grant you that.
I recently moved to a new city and signed up with a medium-sized regional ISP. I was disappointed when I set up my router and saw I didn’t have an IPv6 address. I searched the web for “${MY_ISP} IPv6” and found their FAQ page with the following entry (paraphrased):

> Q: Does $ISP support IPv6?
> A: Yes! $ISP supports IPv6. For instructions on configuring your router….

I spent an hour trying and failing to get it working. Frustrated that I’d just invested so much time and not wanting it to be a total waste, I called customer service and, as you can imagine, I had an extremely difficult time trying to convince anyone that I didn’t need to turn my router off and on again.

Over the span of a few weeks, I tried calling twice and using their live chat once to ask about IPv6. At this point it was a matter of principle, if their website said they supported it I was going to hold them to it. Each time I communicated with them, I got a different answer as to why IPv6 wasn’t working: one person told me they do support it but not in my area, another person told me they don’t support it at all, and the third person told me that they did “offer” it but did not “support” it. Each time I read them the FAQ page entry which explicitly said they do support it with no conditions. By their responses, it was obvious that they thought I was a weirdo, but I just really wanted them to give me the IPv6 that they’d promised.

After all of this failed, I tried one last thing: I submitted a complaint with the FCC about misleading advertising. Before you call me a Karen, I wasn’t trying to get anyone in trouble or to get special treatment or whatever. I just wanted them to provide the services they promised. I specifically mentioned that I had nothing but positive experiences with the staff that I’d interacted with and that my issue was just a technical/marketing one. Well, whaddya know, I got a lovely email within 6 hours thanking me for bringing the issue to their attention, saying that they had identified a configuration issue in my local area, and that they had scheduled maintenance for the next day to fix it. And within 24 hours I (and presumably hundreds of my neighbors) had working IPv6!

Was it worth the time and effort? For IPv6, no. But for the satisfaction of getting a corporation to follow through with their word? Also, no. But for the ability to write this comment? Well, no. And I suspect this is how just about everyone who has ever spent more than an hour banging their head against a wall trying to get IPv6 working has felt in the end. Like, wow, I can now look at literally the same exact cat pictures as I did before but now I have access to 79 octillion times as many addresses, yay?

That’s my best guess as to why we’re still in the dark ages of 2^32 internet addresses.

Side note, their FAQ page has been changed to say “IPv6 is supported in most areas”. I’m at least proud to know I’m the reason for a few more weasel words on a corporate marketing website. Success.
I can't understand you at all. Maybe my English parser is buggy.
Diffractor.jl – Next Generation Automatic Differentiation
I mostly..don't. For one liners, I keep them in a git controlled org-mode file. But for everything else it's all over the place.
I wasn't aware of terraformer[1] - anyone have any experience with it?

[1] https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/terraformer
> Most notably, the predictive power of various theories has been demonstrated in the various social media and advertising algorithms that target different categories of people.

Can you be more specific? I’m not sure what the field of psychology has to do with algorithms that predict relevance and engagement based on their own data on clicks and other user actions.
You're staring at one right now :-)
I tried to address your claims but only got through a few before seeing they were either cherrypicked or outright scientifially wrong.

> Yes I'm patronizing because you have a problem with reading.

You're patronizing because you arrogantly think it's impossible that you're wrong.

1> Influenza not COVID 19 (different, no aerosol transmission )

Are you saying Influenza doesn't have aerosol transmission?

2>Faceplam: The authors were in the nature article I posted

I don't know what you mean by this. I didn't see the authors in the first article you posted.

> This was discussed. https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-paper-

Good counterpoint. And interesting. However, community compliance is a huge part of mask effectivness, no?

> 3. The authors say themselves that most people wear not wearing the masks ... "his trial was unable to provide conclusive evidence ... most likely due to poor adherence to protocol.

Community compliance is a huge part of mask effectivness at the community level, no?

>Says what I claim: "The evidence regarding the effectiveness of medical face masks for the prevention of COVID-19 in the community is compatible with a small to moderate protective effect"

Quit cherry picking, the next sentence after the one you posted:

"""Most, but not all, studies show a favourable effect for medical face masks for protecting against COVID-19.
However, this effect was not statistically significant in several studies, and the quality of the evidence was
assessed as low in several studies, so the results should be interpreted with caution."""

> Kary Mullis did not make the test for COVID-19 ...
PCR tests are all the same test just with a different amplified region of DNA.
Drosten may have posted the region of DNA but Kary Mullis invented the test.

Are you familiar with how PCR tests work?

Mask effectiveness is not conclusive.

I really hope you get some help with your ego and obsessive tendencies and amphetamine abuse. Good Luck to you as well.
You can always represent this with a widget and a little form.

But from my experience, people who quit and say “I don’t understand” in front of the login screen of Windows, have no problems setting up an OnlyFans account with 3 levels of verification and linked with a bank account.
In the 90s, I disliked Microsoft with the passion and irrationality you can only really drum up with teenagers. (I continued to somewhat dislike them, even through the mild good guys years, and feel somewhat vindicated by where Windows 10/11 has been going).

I think I must have been one of the last hold outs for Netscape, but around 2000 even I could not justify using it anymore. (It was also a dark period for the Linux Desktop since until Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox came around a good chunk of the internet was not usable there). In the end it was a terrible browser, and IE was clearly on a different planet in terms of just working better.

I feel these days I'm expected to make the same choice with Chromium based browsers vs Firefox, though the difference this time around is that I feel Firefox is genuinely a better product (for my needs).
In this case I still think there is an engineering problem too: A bad actor only needs to get a bunch of CSAM pictures in your iCloud library to get you into big trouble.

This is not very hard to do. For example, WhatsApp has the "Save pictures to camera roll" option, on by default.
In some industries, people crunch, and everyone knows. It is very much considered to be a part of the job, and people that don't have their heads in sand are aware during hiring. Apple compensates very well but certainly knows how to push their engineers. The reward is to remain on a very rich boat during a fast-rising tide. Highly compensated software developers that have never had to crunch in their careers are lucky. And academics go through their own gauntlets...
Their entire graphics setup on the X1 and P1 laptops is atrocious, and I've definitely bitched about it here before. Basically, you can't turn off GPU without loosing the external HDMI, so you need to leave it on if you use an external monitor. But that eats battery. And you can't easily turn the GPU on/off whenever you "go mobile" - it requires an Xorg restart. There's some software crap you can do (Bumblebee? Primus?) that works on some distros but it's a total pain in the ass on others. There isn't a clear consensus on which to use either, and I haven't found a single sane set of instructions for it anyway. Avoid avoid avoid.
Watching this movie called Cast away to the moon and found out about this today.

They are known as Japan’s “lost generation” or “invisible youth”.

No longer able to face society, they have locked themselves in their bedrooms and refuse to exist in the outside world.
Maybe never, if ZeroVer is the new hotness...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28154187
The world owes you a debt of gratitude. I've often thought about siccing the FTC on companies, but you pulled it off. How long did it take between your report and the company responding?
Luke Harding is exactly the kind of overton window journalist the deep state loves. He touts all the same poorly evidenced claims relating to the last 4 years of Russia-gate narrative in a sloppy fashion in a not so subtle attempt to push his newest book, Shadow State, which does the same I assume.

Between his false wikileaks claims, his questionable Snowden book, his unquestioning buy-in on the Litvenko propaganda, and his unskeptical attachment to the Steele dossier, he has lost credibility in spades among those looking for a journalist that tells hard truths.

“This is old-style espionage,” said David Clark, a former special adviser to the late foreign secretary Robin Cook. “You find a human source who is willing to be persuaded to do this for money from an intelligence service.

“We have become very used to the idea that everything is done in the virtual world of hack and leak. This feels like a bit of a throwback.”

I don't know how any purporting to be a serious journalist on the topic can even think to put this kind of an exerpt in an article. This is just normal espionage, the same way we all do it. I think the take away is just that... Harding isn't a serious journalist, and you'd be better off looking elsewhere for your analysis. (if it's even his analysis in the first place!)

The Guardian sure has gone downhill since Snowden... it's such a shame.
Phone plans are so expensive for what it is providing. The phone itself doesn't need internet from what I see.

I get the idea, but having a super sharp camera under my fingertips any given moment makes me feel happy. I don't use social media, but I love checking my stock/crypto portfolio often.

Why reinvent old Nokia and sell for $299?
So fund Sierra Nevada instead. Boeing has screwed the pooch.
Worth highlighting from the article insofar as this will actually get a lot of real-world use:

> yescrypt is the default password hashing scheme on recent ALT Linux, Debian 11, and Kali Linux 2021.1+. It is also supported in Fedora 29+ (and is recommended for new passwords in Fedora CoreOS) and in Ubuntu 20.04+.

I would not at all be surprised if future Ubuntu versions follow Debian 11 in making this the default, although I don't know their actual plans, since I don't see why Canonical would want to bother maintaining this particular delta from Debian.
This article makes it sound like psychology is built around simplistic correlations and misleading statistical conclusions from poor experiment practices and poor understanding of rigorous statistics. The author called this “complexity” but what she describes is simply a field that has an inability to identify all the lurking variables and an inability to deal with causality from a huge set of factors. However fields like statistics and artificial intelligence already can deal with this, but the author - a psychology professor - doesn’t recognize that. It makes me think that the field of psychology - as a body of knowledge but also as a collection of practitioners who represent it - simply lack the necessary skill sets and rigor to be actual experts in psychology.
"field matures" is the operative phrase. Flash jumped in a void that was left by a pretty nonfunctional html experience. But it was proprietary, presumably was an energy hog, insecure, and was essentially a stand-alone experience that didn't play nicely with the browser. Reactive UI components are based on web standards, and it is VERY hard to imagine web standards (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in particular) being replaced by anything in the near future. They are the "C" of the web for better or worse.

And yes I know WebAssembly is supposed to loosen JavaScript's hold on the web, but as far as I can see that has not happened yet even though every browser now supports it. I am not exactly sure why that is.
Had E14 gen2. Was very happy except screen. Colors are wrong and not visible when in bright environment. Sold it and got an M1. For compile, programming etc. tasks its 2-3x faster.
Not hipster enough.
AFAIK, mobile Zen 3 is behind M1 in single-core workloads but wins in (most) multi-core tasks if you're using the top core count models (5800, 5900).
Yup, no one should trust them given their reputation of installing spyware + being Chinese owned.

I thing Dell is amongst the top choices nowadays with regards to Linux laptops.

P.s. I miss the old Thinkpads (the IBM era)
Thanks; I missed that link.

The statement about DPI is wrong though: DPI is ineffective without government-mandated root CAs.
Well that is the point, I have the Apple Music subscription which includes iTunes Match. So that is, how my music all got into Apple Music in the first place. But later on, it deleted some tracks I cannot add back. At least for years now, I am looking for a way how to do it.
The problems only started, after I subscribed to Apple Music.
Thanks for linking (I remember reading this on here a few years ago, but couldn't remember enough to Google for it). It seems the author's claims of 2.5 to 5 seem to match a lot of the current benchmarks out there for GCC vs SBCL, so that seems to have remained consistent over time. I'm not sure if they'd be in better shape if they had stuck to an approach such as Macsyma or not. Perhaps a lot of effort could have been avoided, perhaps not.
> how do you know that the new process is equivalent to the old in every way we care about?

How could you possibly ever know or prove anything like that?
Sure, but it might change how motivated you are to address threats that don't meet your everyday minima. Nobody worries about being eaten by a bear in manhattan because it's not very likely - you're much more likely to get hit by a car, or eaten by your neighbor even. So you see people preparing against those threats, and not devoting any time to the bears-in-manhattan threat vector. This seems rational to me.
Taliban enter Kabul as Afghan government on brink of collapse
Isn't it the way Intel designed their reference motherboard?
You mean thankfully SpaceX sued NASA for the right to compete and won.
I wouldn't use the preinstalled OS anyway, no matter if it's Linux or not. The good thing about them offering Linux is that they must ensure hardware compatibility (though I don't recall it having been a problem with Thinkpads) and be ready to give some support, and I also would expect the machine to cost a bit less for using a free OS.
Perhaps this is correct, but it’s correct in the way painting will never be automated. Instead, we invented the camera.

I do expect that our abstractions will be sufficient enough that end users can express what they want in a way that doesn’t require deep knowledge…like building in a video game.
> In university (which I paid for myself through internships + loans)

So you got a loan that your family backed and you were able to work as an intern in various places. You also went to a prestigious university. You were a privileged 1% and after entering YC you are part of the 0.1%. This would not have happened if you had been born in Namibia.

My complaint is that by using the leverage of the 0.1% you try to convince the 99,9% that: if you work, think and play hard you can achive your dreams. This is no longer the case. Maybe it was like that 10 or 15 or 35 years ago. Today the wealth difference and inequality is abysmal because of the network effects. So basically you don't need to be good or bad business, you just leverage your network and keep going.

PS: I'm also a 1%
>Is there any evidence that this sort of thing is widespread

Yes, there's quite a lot. For example, check the WHO on influenza in the US between 2016 and 2021.

https://apps.who.int/flumart/Default?ReportNo=7

https://i.imgur.com/TXmc53y.png

What happened to 2020? Where'd all those deaths go? But I'm not playing this game again.

>there's no evidence of that

>there's no evidence of that being widespread

>there's no evidence that it had a material effect on the outcome despite being widespread

At some point you stop trusting the media that's lying to you or you simply accept everything they broadcast as unquestionable truth. I know which camp I'm in.
It's a chicken and egg problem - websites, etc don't want to enable IPv6 because clients have broken IPv6 implementations and that causes delays and issues, and clients have broken IPv6 implementations because the internet providers don't care to fix it because nobody uses it.

(Many computers THINK they have IPv6 connectivity when they do NOT and so if they see an AAAA record and try to connect to it, it can cause a delay while that fails. Most browsers are better at this now (they will try to connect to both and show whichever answers faster), but not all network things are browsers.)
You could easily generate stupid statements on demand. Just post a video on Youtube on a related theme, and scrape the comments.
For local development I used to use Vagrant, but now I use Docker almost exclusively, primarily because of how fast it starts and stops containers. Also I find the config format easier to work with.

I still use Vagrant in those rare instances when Docker is not viable. Sometimes I really do need full OS instance, or need to run something other than Linux, or I just want normal bridged network interfaces.
It was really fast like I said, under 6 hours until I got a response. I submitted it to the fcc in the morning and had the email by the afternoon, and had IPv6 by the next day at 10am. Goes to show what you can accomplish if you go up the chain, I could have probably called their tech support every day for the next 5 years and gotten nowhere.
Do we do much beyond pattern recognition?
A text analysis on data from 212 companies across 17 sectors over 11 years
For $600-700 you can get a backup laptop.
US Birth-to-Death Ratio Nearing One
I've 3 ThinkPads and never really dealt with Lenovo.

The reason why Linux users love ThinkPads is because they're mostly supported OOB by the kernel (not by Lenovo themselves). This wasn't true of most other laptops for quite a few years.

I bought my T61 in 2008, and the ThinkPad recommendation was old then. Things change with time. I believe most laptops these days are rather standardized, so linux support is ubiquitous.

My point being, it's not really Lenovo supporting Linux but the linux kernel drivers that for a number of years supported ThinkPad OOB where all(?) other brands required a lot of fiddling.

(And you probably just need to install thinkfan if you have full speed fans. Check out the ThinkWiki for your models.)
With AGI looming at the horizon, any long term predictions are baseless. The event horizon is somewhere at +20 years.
No, a normal light switch on the wall is all you need.
PineBook is fine the way it is, but the keyboard is abysmal, that's the only thing that made me switch from it as daily driver to my old Frankenpad.
Just to clarify, this was just once, for about a day.
Since I can't edit my comments, here is the link to the video explaining how it evaluates. It really picks up at 21 minutes in, but the first 20 minutes is also kinda important.

https://youtu.be/H-rnezxOCA8
You probably can't expect WhatsApp on any niche platform, ever. It's proprietary and already stopped support for Windows Phone and old Android versions, both of which were at that point gigantic bestsellers compared to such a project.
You can also not prove that a human would consider that change the same way another human would.

An AI doesn't have to be better than a focused human with lots of experience, great education, at peak health, with a good night of sleep and no distractions. It just has to be better than the average human to be useful, and that's a very, very different scenario.
Oh no, I had only ever used their web interface. Thank you for the heads up. I personally refuse to install anything electron or nodejs on my systems, so I guess I won't be using the desktop bitwarden client anytime soon.

Are there any good bitwarden alternatives? (shared env pass managers)