skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With Linux, worth following (or funding!) this work (HN passim):
https://bill.harding.blog/2021/06/06/linux-touchpad-like-mac...
Bit confused by this part of the article:

> PRO-REWRITE: Rust has manual memory management, so we would avoid the problem of having to wrestle with a garbage collector because we would just deallocate unused memory ourselves, or more carefully be able to engineer the response to increased load.

> ANTI-REWRITE: Rust has manual memory management, which means that whenever we’re writing code we’ll have to take the time to manage memory ourselves.

Isn't part of the point of Rust that you don't manage memory yourself, and rather that the compiler is smart enough to manage it for you?
Ah, I learned something today! Well then I think that cryptocurrency exchanges should probably have to do the same thing (and it's possible that some of the more reputable ones like Gemini and Coinbase already do).
Eh. They don’t have a big incentive to, right?

It’s a risk, and I believe the batch attestation was controversial as a result. But the use cases are compelling.
I had a driver run a stop sign while making a left turn, then when he saw me, he stopped and stared straight ahead leaving his car blocking the road. Threshold braking brought me to a stop roughly two feet from his car. If I had not been covering the brake I (and my wife who was a passenger) would have been injured, very probably badly injured.
As a developer or consumer?
I wanted to buy a new laptop last year and was shocked:

1/ A lot of them (most?) had 8Go of RAM. 16Go is rare and 32Go even more. What year is it?!

2/ Most have soldiered RAM without an additional slot.
It depends. It really doesn’t take that much data to train a pretty stunning (if simple) RNN character-level “language model” that beats any n-gram. Or on mnist. ANNs really are a useful tool for a vast class of problems, many of which can be solved with comparatively little data.

Maybe your point stands, and it’s just that some domains need less data, just saying.
> The US doesn't have the moral high ground either.

> The US started killed so many innocent people in the Middle East to get their hands on the oil.

Thanks for writing your comment, i was thinking of writing something similar.

> I find it amusing when an American judges the UAE.

yeah i don't understand how Americans gloss over the myriad of contradictions, and just the overall violence, of US foreign policy

i'd like to leave this important video here for anyone who hasn't yet seen it: The CIA is a Terrorist Organization // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2khAmMTAjI
From his latest video where he disclosed / explained his philosphy in investing into Framework.

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSxbc1IN9Gg
At school, we used a Logo implementation that had a shape editor that you could jump into with a keyboard combination. You could edit 32×32(?) pixel images, and it came pre-populated with the default turtle, some animation phases of a stick figure, a house, heads, etc. IIRC, SHAPE <n> changed the turtle image to the given shape, and you could control 8-ish independent turtles. It ran on MS-DOS systems. Does anyone know which one it might be?
I thought the power advantage mostly came from the total bus being half as wide (32-bit LPDDR4X versus 64-bit DDR4).

Do you have a reference for why it can’t be put on a removable module?
...while creating several others.
this was always the promise of the beige towers of the 90s: upgradability! repairability! in practice, it seemed that all components were moving fast enough that upgrades maybe extended the life of something by a year or two at best, but ultimately all standards were constantly moving (buses, ram, cpu sockets/chipsets, storage, cases and even psus). compatibility between parts was often a crapshoot, reliability suffered because they weren't burn in tested together and at the end of the day, any major upgrade involved having to replace 90% of the components anyhow. the fully integrated systems seemed to have longer operational lifetimes, to be honest.

that said, maybe things are moving slower now, but it seems like a bit of a fetishization of a past that wasn't that great to begin with.

the focus on reducing waste is good, but honestly what is more modular here than your average laptop with memory and storage doors?
What a great summary.

Having lived in many countries and born in India, I have actually come to respect these outlaws. Now, that does not mean you gotta love all criminals but without the healthy disrespect for authorities and skepticism of government agencies no society can actually improve. Nearly all women's rights and civil rights movements had government agencies as their greatest opponents.

I think the government has learned the lesson post MLK, Rosa Parks incident. The cost of pull of a Rosa Parks like stunt is very very high today. Not only you go to jail pretty quickly in a violent manner, your mugshots appears everywhere on internet, you might lose your job, rental property and low credit score. more importantly your neighbor and friends will hate you for being a criminal without even bothering what crime you did.

A classic case is of people who left water for illegal border crossers. It was illegal and yet a great gesture, the right thing to do. But if you have felony against your name, you life is permanently ruined. As a job interviewer you might actually hold such action in high regard but the resume is not going to reach your desk.
I regularly get accused on Reddit of pushing misinformation and conspiracy theories for saying things that on Hacker News warrant merely a nod or a shrug.

Reddit's group-think has become more extreme in recent years, along with its tribalism and gate-keeping.

You can make a list of about a dozen Reddit-acceptable thoughts for any given subreddit, and anything outside that list is labeled the propaganda of the Enemy.

Poor overworked mods have to go around reprimanding or banning me for commenting perspectives that weren't explicitly on the allow list.
I agree AWS should tag all resources with their names already for them to show up in the Cost Explorer. However, we already tag by cost center or teams to identify costs. It's required as a policy and baked in most of our automations. It's also a best practice recommended by even most basic tutorials. If you have a TAM, they would tell you to do this as well when your finance team or person is asking about why these bills are large.

Also, even if they are untagged, it's not like we need to tag them by hand, AWS Resource Tagging API works nice enough, and not every resource is costly that we need to tag them by resource-level.

I support what you are doing however there are too many companies working CUR data in S3 and none of them is good enough and neccessarily faster or more useful than Cost Explorer. Just wanted to understand what you can add on top of it, apart from automatic tagging? part.
The minimum bar is a theoretical idea. The reality is yet more audits and auditors and internal regulatory staff to produce more documentation that "proves" compliance. It's a huge weight, not lightly welcomed.
Work gave me a dell XPS last year. I had it for a Week and gave it back because when I turned it on. The fans spin full throttle. And the laptop still throttled itself. So I use my X1E for work. The nipple is as good but it’s flat for the thin profile.

I upgraded all 3 laptops with more or better ram, wifi, and ssds. And currently ordering a Traditional Chinese keyboard for the L5P for the wifey. But I took AMD for the legions.
The input lag is most probably due to page refresh on e-ink, and not hardware power.
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"I want to ___, but I won't because ____"

You can fill in the blanks with anything and still have a fulfilled life.

I want to be a billion, but I won't because I'm poor.

I want to travel to 100 countries, but I won't because climate change and lack of time.

I want to eat steak every night, but I won't because climate change and impact to my health.

These compromises don't make me unable to have a fulfilling life.
What prompted me to lookup Rockbox again after all these years was exactly the (fortunately unfounded) fear that I'd lost my Sansa Clip recently. I use it any time I'm mountain biking or road biking, and it got misplaced. And I couldn't tell from some quick browsing on Amazon which, if any, available standalone mp3 players have Ogg Vorbis support. And this is important to me because years ago when I ripped a substantial portion of my CD collection, I ripped them to Ogg Vorbis format. So I got to thinking that I could possibly buy a player which does not have Ogg support out of the box, and get it by replacing the firmware.

As it turns out, I finally found my old (and treasured) Sansa Clip in my Camelbak bag, where I left it last time I went riding. Very relieved to find it and not have to jump through a bunch of hoops to replace it. Still, it's good to know that Rockbox is out there and still being updated.
If three people with an agenda can't force their political beliefs upon half of an unwilling population, maybe that's actually a good thing?

Reddit certainly has a strong authoritarian / fascist streak. Good riddance to reddit.
I see a new hit piece on bitcoin every single day. Stop it. Bitcoin isn't going away and greedy people have missed their chance to hop on the train.

This is just literal sour grapes http://read.gov/aesop/005.html
>e.g. By this theory, android would become more popular than iphone.

Well Android already is more popular than iphone worldwide.
I know people who still crave cigarettes 20 years after quitting, so an annual award doesn't seem too odd to me. Don't smoke, kids.
Bravo, I wish I could be this cavalier about a grave security issue.
> However, libraries typically have a very small number of "copies" of ebooks available to loan, which means there can be quite a queue. Add to this that there is literally no incentive for the person who checked it out to "return" it when finished, which means ebooks are always kept out for their maximum borrowing time. As a result, it can be months before a popular book is available to borrow.

My public library network has reduced the number of holds & checkouts of ebooks since the onset of the pandemic - 3, down from 10. I personally return audiobooks & ebooks immediately once I'm done since it frees up my slots. My holds get delivered semi-chaotically, so I checkout requested books as soon as I can. So holding on to digital books I don't need anymore comes with a tangible downside for me. If I had 10 digital slots I might never deliberately return books either.
> threat model is government secret services

Realistically, if your threat model is government secret services, and you're using unmodified consumer grade electronics, then you're in 'danger' no matter what. You can't effectively mitigate a threat at the state level using resources produced under the watchful eye of the same state. All they have to do is ask the producer to swap out the device they gave you with a device that comes compromised out of the box. And that's assuming the tech is perfect. Most likely they just hire someone to defeat the countermeasures. However many resources Apple has, I assure you even the most janky state has more.
Hmmm. Well, I stand corrected. It was an impractical, propaganda-based attack... but that was a true attack from a carrier.

But with 15 of the 16 bombers being destroyed and the remaining 1 captured in the mission, it does show that the Doolittle Raid was very impractical outside of the propaganda purpose. (Proving to the American people that it was possible, though impractical, to strike Japan probably was a huge win for morale, and possibly well worth the destruction of all those bombers).
I wonder if government secret services are purchasing retail MacBooks
We would like to run other things (probably concourse or argo), but this decision was made way further up to justify picking GitHub as provider. There might also be a Microsoft volume discount involved.

If we hard reject actions, we’ll probably end up with the prior status quo: Jenkins.
In Denmark, the government does not decide wages in the private sector. The conflict was between McDonalds, a private business, and the labor unions.
I really really want this laptop but my work has become increasingly GPU dependent. Hopefully they release a model with a lightweight GPU.
> Should I be insulating my house to save energy even if I lived in a warm country? See, this sound ridiculous

I'll bite - it doesn't sound ridiculous because it is highly likely that there is going to be power hungry air conditioning equipment in use. I think it's an example of an unfortunate phenomenon where if you deviate from the accepted cargo cult practices you run the risk of missing some detail and making things worse, at which point you get the blame, but conversely you don't get the credit for doing things better than average. In fact it's likely there is a peanut gallery just waiting for you to make a mistake so they can punish you for being a renegade.
The laptop being modular, can another company sell a keyboard for it or would that infringe a trademark / void the warranty?
55 Wh is a pretty good size for the form factor. looks like it's suffering from a comparison against competitors with lower resolution screens.
DD disappears when doing Bayesian model averaging: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2002.08791.pdf
It seems DD is a phenomenon specific to point estimates.

>overfitting problem is really in terms of model flexibility versus data complexity, and not necessarily in terms of number of parameters per se versus sample size

Yep, well put.
Our lexicon definitely needs a term for this. If there isn’t a concise term for the concept I fear people will struggle to convey the meaning behind what they’re noticing.

It feels deceptive and underhanded. I can give all sorts of synonyms but without a term for it, I fear labeling it, and therefore trying to counter it, won’t be effective.

I’m seeing these kinds of rationalizations all the time these days. Especially in the news.
My company still has machines we made in 1950 that customers use in their business. They buy replacement parts from us. While we would love if each of those customers spent half a million dollars every few years to replace those old machines, we can't force them to do that. We can make some money from replacement parts though, so long as we are willing to set out sights low enough. Things that old are mostly mechanical so it is easy for someone to learn how to support them, and it saves the customers a lot of money. In the end we are proud that things we made 70 years ago are still being used in the real world for their original purpose.

You should learn the same: take pride in the fact that things you wrote years ago are still useful. Part of that means write good code so that it is easy to fix any newly discovered hack, without having to update everything else to the latest.
No. Distorting things into disingenuous nonsense helps nothing.

You wrote the original message that it's easy to know if nodes' users are decent people. I'm saying it's not easy, with an example.
That fact that we have to even make this argument is sad. This should be super obvious. Demands to hold police accountable for their actions as absolutely nothing to do with how evil George Floyd might have been.
> A sapper, also called pioneer or combat engineer, is a combatant or soldier who performs a variety of military engineering duties, such as breaching fortifications https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapper
Because MacBooks can't be easily fixed by end-users or upgradeable.
Also, Swedish Army insignia for the artillery: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/Truppsla...
> My take on this is that most US firms have outsourced first tier tech support to non-native English speakers who have fairly useless scripts they have to run through.

I would believe this, but I have first hand experience working front and back in a Harbor Freight. I'm sure the percentage is lower, but the amount of people who are perfectly willing you be absolutely god awful to you in person to your face is ASTOUNDING. Not to mention it was a discount tool store, so GOD HELP YOU if you were a woman.
In what scenario would the proliferation of misinformation result in you being outright unable to communicate with me? The internet is already flooded with spam, but AFAIK that has never had an adverse affect on our ability to directly communicate with one another.
There is something called the golden ticket theory (maybe mentioned in the paper, I’m on my phone), that says indeed that the large models are effectively ensembles of massive random models, and the top levels of the network pick the one or two that randomly happen to work.

Maybe true but even then only part of the story, kernels in CNN genuinely seem to learn features like edges and textures.
Drone strikes - but where ???.
I feel that this is one of those common misconceptions about Rust. Rust's memory management is nothing like C or non-modern C++'s with malloc/free or new/delete. Rust uses modern-C++'s RAII model, typically, to allocate memory. The compiler is smart enough to know when to call drop() (which is essentially free/delete, but with the possibility of additional behavior). You can also call drop() yourself.

What I think people _should_ focus on with Rust versus Go (et al) is that Rust allows you to choose where you _place_ memory. You can choose the stack or the heap. The placement can matter in hot regions of code. Additionally, Rust is pretty in-your-face when it comes to concurrency and sharing memory across thread/task boundaries.
In what use case is non-ephemeral IT infrastructure necessary?
From the smokers in my life, it's apparent to me people generally need a fairly concrete reason or goal to successfully quit.

Otherwise it's always Sure, I'll quit - tomorrow

Willpower is a muscle. It fatigues. So simply willing your way out of an addiction is not effective for many people.
> "We recognize that the vast majority of activity that's happening in the virtual currencies is legitimate activity," Deputy Treasury Secretary Adeyemo told reporters during a briefing.

Welp, there goes most of HN’s arguments against cryptocurrency.

Just a matter of time before the EPA says the environmental impact argument is misinformation in favor of remarkably sustainable use of the energy.
It was from the WAN show.
https://youtu.be/B7f3DTDsocA?t=339
There are two answers to this.
First, empirically we see that the more parameters we add the better the model performs ==> Weights continue to contribute (and aren't dead) .

Second, there is a very popular paper called "The lottery ticket hypothesis" [1] that in any network you can find subnetworks that work just as well. e.g. The parameters are redundant.
This was written in 2018, which is a long time ago in big NN world, so I'm not sure how it holds up to current insanity sized models.

[1]https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03635
Maybe I need some convincing here. How is the "modular port" concept any different than a universal port with dongles (i.e., how Macs have been since 2016). To me the fact that the port attachments are recessed is little more than a gimmick. Especially as all of my devices have transitioned to USB-C anyway, dongles/"modular ports" feel more like a stopgap measure than one requiring a permanent form factor change.
Forward head, rounded shoulders.
Mandela Effect
They should look at it as a business opportunity. Sell the usernames to crypto pump and dumpers, Nigerian princes, tax agency scammers, and Alex Jones.
"Dell Chromebook 13"

I think there are enough Laptops that don't suck. And Ubuntu should basically run on most laptops. Fingerprint reader? I don't care.

For the older ones, how about a DELL XPS 13? Or Thinkpad? lenovo carbon x1?

You can get a decent latop for 200-800 USD.
I love the DELLS XPS 13/14. But sometimes I get greedy and wish I had 16GB instead of 8GB.
> You can buy additional Top Up Miles that can be rolled over to the following year at renewal.

Is this car insurance or a gacha game?
To be very clear, to me the NSA or UAE NESA are one in the same. I wasn't pointing out one side being better than the other. He went from one, to another. NO government has any moral high ground, or character in my book. A state is a state. A state seeks to control and manipulate it's populace and others for it's own means. Period. And any government employee doing something as "just a job" for a state which infringes on any rights of a citizen is in the same book to me. For example, an IRS worker isn't any better than an NSA. One is spying on your finances and stealing your money, the other is surveiliing in the name of whatever hot-button lie of the month/year is up next. CSAM today!
Kudos to them. I envisionned that years ago but never got anywhere close.
> But our profile wasn’t ever showing us 500GB of live data, just a little bit more than 200MB in the worst cases. This suggested to me that we’d done all we could with live objects.

Is this a typo? Weren't seeing 500 MB of live data, just a little more than 200MB in the worst case?

EDIT: Btw, I read the entire article. It was fascinating, thank you!
It seems to be a wordpress site, so you can geht the archive for a month like this https://www.zerotier.com/2021/06/
That said, there is no blog post from June and there also was no release arouns that time: https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne/releases
Time to shut Bitcoin down.
Especially since the average person will side with the police office the majority of the time. The fact that they're arguing over it instead is an improvement.
There are legit security reasons you’d want this. Giving the owner of the equipment the ability to manage this would have been the appropriate solution.
See the recent nurses strike in Denmark. I think they are legal forbidden from striking...

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/danish-government-inter...
It's almost a universal for people who live around the ruins of an older society to attribute that society's downfall to some kind of sin.

The Navajos have a Soddom and Ghomorra tradition about the Anasazi.

THe Welsh had such traditions about the downfall of Roman Britain.

The Greeks accused the Minoans of hubris (hence the legend of Atlantis.)

The Jews accused themselves of sin again, and again, and again, every time an outside force came to their borders. Both exiles are attributed to corruption and sin.
Those little square modules are just USB-C ports, I believe, so jamming an RTL-SDR dongle inside a 3D-printed case shouldn't be a monumental task.
The balloon in the artwork I had made for my undefined behavior blog post[1] was an homage to that cover.

[1]: https://raphlinus.github.io/programming/rust/2018/08/17/unde...
Not OP but I would want ... not MacOS ;)
Annoys the crap out of me that Apple tries to claim how "environmentally friendly" they are and yet the biggest problem is they make all their computers be disposable and extremely difficult to repair. They've gone out of their way to do this by soldering in memory and SSD, gluing batteries in, etc. Shame on them.
I guess my point about DRM is more that the books I want to read are generally only available in DRMed formats. But maybe that's not true? I don't use an Amazon e-reader, for what it's worth.
Imagine being able to mouse literally while you type.

That's the Trackpoint, and it makes up for everything else about it.
I tend to think in terms of competitive markets vs. natural monopolies when it comes to private vs. public ownership and management.

So, for property, well, is all the property owned by one entity? If there's one bank that owns all the farmland, that's not a competitive market for farmland.

Water is like electricity is like fiber optic routes, however, and those should be public utilities - but the equipment they need to build and maintain those systems should be provided by the private sector, in a competitive bidding manner.