skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly?

I have about 5,000 books. I just sat down with a spreadsheet and entered the particulars for every one like any librarian in existence over the last 2000 years would do. I did this over a few months with 1-8 hours of effort in a burst.

A lot of things still have no quick and automated solution.

When I'm doing accounting and financial analysis, it's still primarily a numbers grind of data entry, cross checking and analysis.
It works fine. It has 6 5.25 bays, and 2 3.5 ones. It is steel and heavy, but it never moves.
My sister works in the NLP arm of ML and analogized it to the Clever Hans effect.
What's being discussed here is not real "quit smoking" campaigns but "get addicted to our shiny new thing" campaigns disguised as such. The anti vape campaigns and reporting in recent years has been heavily influenced by Philip-Morris and their iqos strategy, which is to get people to switch to non- combusted tobacco sticks instead of alternative methods of delivery.

Vapes have turned out more or less ok, with a negligible impact on health and lung capacity. Chronic nicotine has its own impact, certain flavorings are problematic, but it's orders of magnitude better than smoking. There's no indication that iqos is any better, but it's certainly far more expensive.

IQOS by Philip Morris is the latest cynical plot to get people hooked and extract endless streams of cash. Vape is cheaper, iqos far more expensive.

It's an interesting bellwether for news organizations. If they run anti-vape, PM has their hooks in.
It’s not super helpful for aiding concentration. I tried it for a few months this year in my 30s, thinking it’d help with my ADHD. Never been a smoker. It didn’t help. Also any time I had it on me I’d find myself absentmindedly puffing on it. If you really are into nootropics just be real and get an Adderall prescription.
In years past you had to bring up the MBP but now the Macbook Air tips the scales.

I got my 16 GB Macbook Air for $1000 at Microcenter. For development purposes it's the same as a Pro, except it doesn't have a fan (and has never throttled) and doesn't have a touch bar (which is great)

The MBA is an insane value with the advent of the M1, a complete turnaround from the old days.

Also it has a trick up it's sleeve when it comes to this:

> the complete lack of repairability. As a reminder, your Mac's battery will die at some point, and your Mac will become useless.

First off, Apple will replace the battery in a MBA for $129 (vs $200 for the MBP), so a little alarmist...

But more importantly the new Air uses stretch-release adhesive (think command strips) and doesn't require removing the logic board for battery replacements. The MBP didn't inherent this improvement.

It's no Framework but it makes it the value proposition that much sweeter...
What's with the odd URL?
It's not easy for people to pick up that confidence to be honest. I know people who would be freightened to share the road with such heavy traffic. Even when I lane split I hold my breath, because in gridlocked traffic drivers typically muscle over between lanes without looking and rarely signalling, prime opportunity for you to hit an unexpected broadside. Not to mention the risk of being doored going past streetparked cars, people have like died from that.

When I bike in town now I have to navigate around these heavy trafficked sections, favoring roundabout residential roads that usually take me longer than the direct path on stroads (bad in traffic for above, bad when they are clear since people go 60mph if no one is ahead of them).

It's just not pleasant riding out on these congested streets or open stroads after you've had a number of close calls. I used to do it a lot but I've lost my appetite for that unfortunately, and my city is not building bike lanes at any decent pace in my neighborhood which is depressing. I support transit and bikes but at this point I'm taking a car out for everything because its three times as fast as the bus, and I'm not worrying about getting my head smashed by someone texting in a G wagon like on my bike.
Compared to SF/NY salaries are low. Compared to Chicago/Denver/Houston UK tech salaries are probably similar. Traditionally the big banks in the city paid very highly but since the financial collapse pay has stagnated.

A low level of respect follows the money. London has a lot of traders, big company execs, politicians, lawyers, accountants etc they all pay more than IT.
These covers are fantastic - sort of like Magritte meets 1980s Silicon Valley.

Robert Tinney is an amazing artist whose work deserves recognition.
Always ride your own ride.

Let the other guys arrive at the scene of the accident first.

You, me, a couple of other middle aged guys all hanging back on our sports tourers, while the crotch rockets are off antagonising the cage dwellers.

We'll all arrive in time for coffee, no sweat.
...when they are allowed to do strikes in other industries, which is the extortion part.
I don't think I'd be comfortable with this either, certainly not to play some game. On the other hand, the bizarre problems maintainers of online communities have to deal with are just wild and worth keeping in mind as context:

https://www.wired.com/story/roblox-online-games-irl-fascism-...
I use caps lock, apart from being safe it also gives a bit of feedback in the form of the light going on/off even before the conplete wakeup.
To be fair, it's not part of their login flow, it's part of their verification flow. It's a one-time thing, not an every-login thing.

I also see no problem with this. What could they realistically use this information for that would be nefarious? It doesn't actually store the ID in any real sense, as they explain in the link, and I see no reason for them to lie about that.

It's real easy to scream, "But My Privacy!!!", and probably a decent amount more difficult to come up with an actual and practical risk there.

Honestly, if your threat model includes "video game companies that lie about age verification systems", I don't think you're taking your security very seriously.
I still think that AI development should be embodied, and am willing to entertain the possibility that you don't need simulation at scale to train it (e.g. some clever unsupervised learning algorithm).

Evaluating a system that can do millions of things is simply impossible in reality, and that alone necessitates some kind of software-based evaluation metric. I agree that there is a ways to go - but I think trying to make simulation more like reality is a safer bet than having a low ceiling on iteration speed in real.
...other than to publish voluntary standards. Which could of course have been statutory standards. Like governments are constituted to do.
I'm sorry for this project. such an early rewrite will probably be the end of the project. i hope i'm wrong.
Yes, not everyone even has cellular data.
Joe Rogan, Parody of the Open Mind
Backends aren’t just npm packages you throw away with each new project or iteration. Rails has an amazing ecosystem around it and tons of competent developers that can write maintainable code and others that can maintain it. Same with Django. You might be surprised that PHP is still extremely popular.
https://archive.ph/OAibx
My typical approach to such unfalsifiable anecdotes is to counter them with an equally unfalsifiable anecdote, such as:

"Ah yes, I remember the person who argued this. It was a right wing nationalist who went on to kill several people, right?"
I gave an old workstation to my mom and a spare T440p to my brother, now the x201 and T460s occupy my tinker station and bedroom respectively. Oh, and there's also a T420 that my other brother uses as a media server, but that's not really mine anymore :p
The question would be how does that balance against "productive" years, where they're paying taxes, their work increases the GDP etc.
It's very much a confusing process. If C-styled memory management is skydiving and Python is parachuting, Rust can feel a bit like bungee-jumping. It's neither working for or against you, but it will behave in a specific way that you have to learn to work around. Your reward for getting better at that system is less mental hassle overall, but it's definitely a strange feeling, particularly if you're already comfortable with traditional memory management.
They have like 500 tweets just in the past day. I don't use Twitter, but doesn't that completely drown out your feed? How do you follow someone who's posting every few minutes?
If all people want to do is play with clients and servers, why all the noise about text and how awful the Web is?
Its when parties not directly involved are marshalled to coerce a party, that it gets sticky. Those strikes in related industries are simply extortion. We have mobs in the US that operate like that. "Do what we want, or somebody could get hurt"
I "gave up smoking" by not giving up.

I just deferred the decision to have one cigarette.

When the urge came up, I put it off five minutes.

And crucially, the rules allowed me to have one if I really wanted.

At first there was lots of deferring and then deciding to have one.

Eventually I just deferred the decision five minutes then five minutes more and on and on forever.

The reasoning is that your subconscious mind does not like "giving up" anything. "Giving up" implies you are losing something you value for nothing in return.

When you defer the decision to indulge your addiction, you are not fighting against your subconscious - remember the rule is you are allowed to have the thing you crave.

So in effect I never gave up smoking, I'm just a smoker who deferred the decision and never decided to do it.

I "stopped smoking" about 20 years ago. I'm still a smoker but just haven't had one for a long time.

"Giving up smoking" is very hard. Deferring one cigarette for five minutes is easy.

Off topic also, I highly recommend the podcast "The Vaping Fix". It's closely related to Silicon Valley and is compelling binge listening.

https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-vaping-fix/id15628...
Judging by reviews, the Framework loses 10% of CPU+GPU performance versus reference designs. That could be due to their memory subsystem or thermal design, or both. Ars Technica said the battery life was "mediocre" but I would have gone with "terrible". Compared to the Dell XPS 13 the Framework has only 60% the life.
Haha. Yeah. And if they start verifying identity and locking accounts that can't prove the identity info provided at signup, that's going to be a lot of locked accounts.

I think they're overestimating the importance of a gaming account.
The Linux Distributions of 1993
Where do you see negativity?
I've been using it professionally for over a decade, and can highly recommend it. Very mature, polished, fully featured, reasonably performant, well documented and a pleasure to use. A real productivity boost. It's the most widely used web application framework in the python world, which happens to be my preferred programming language.
>there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism

This part of the article seemed like a non-sequitur.

I smoke two or three packs of cigarettes a year. It doesn't seem like it's an unhealthy thing to do, and I enjoy it.
If you read the post, it’s because they’d made the decision not to use any third party dependencies in JS due to perceived problems with quality and correctness, and they found Rust crates to not suffer as much from these problems. So their productivity mostly stems from not having to rewrite their dependencies anymore, not so much just the switch to Rust itself but the whole ecosystem.
I especially liked one of the qualifiers where one of the pro team did a pacifist strategy where they actively avoided killing any enemy heroes and pushed to win the game in 20 min
I'm not surprised. In physics/engineering related model fitting, there is a double-edged risk of over-parametrization as well as under-parameterization. The former is almost always non-physical - it fits but the parameters are meaningless as predictor, conclusions or tying to ANYTHING physical as a design strategy. The latter fits only certain corners of the data space and if you don't know which ones, you can get yourself in to trouble that way as well.

The former can be worse than the latter in terms of meaningful use for engineering.
That is a possible configuration [1]. You can choose None for operating system and save 139$.

[1] https://frame.work/products/laptop-diy-edition/configuration...
Make an extra $5000 to pay $3000 in dues and $3000 in taxes you oppose that those dues lobbied for.

You could also drive an hour to save 3¢/gallon on gas.
unfiltered may be safer because smokers do not inhale as deep
"denying the science"

and yet ppl still smoke in spite of warnings and knowing the risks ...
No! Really?

LOL. Of course they are!
Yet another library that uses GPL 3 and not LGPL 3. Why?
Is Starlink available in your area? Their satellites are in a much lower orbit (not GEO) and so the latency is much lower. It is supposed to be around $100 per month with a $500 up-front cost for the terminal.
io.Reader() and io.Writer() are used everywhere in Go, it's really a standard practice.

https://tour.golang.org/methods/21
If I were writing a movie script, and said this was in reaction to a disease that had a 0.2% mortality rate (or 0.02% after vaccination), everyone who read it would laugh at the ridiculousness.
Interesting. Tom's Guide says pretty much the exact opposite, with the XPS coming in at roughly 78% the battery life of the Framework.

> In our battery test, which sets the laptop’s screen brightness to 150 nits and tasks it with endlessly browsing the web via Wi-Fi, the Framework lasted 10 hours and 17 minutes. That’s better than the Dell XPS 13 (7:59)

https://www.tomsguide.com/reviews/framework-laptop-review-th...

Maybe the XPS 13 configuration was different? Or maybe the tests were different in nature? Ars used PCMark 10, which is a standard benchmark that Dell could have specifically optimized for.

The Ars review does have this to say later on:

> The Framework also manages surprisingly high battery life under Ubuntu—in our semi-scientific video playback test, Framework runs neck and neck with the outstanding Acer Swift 3 at just over five hours, with everything else (including the XPS 13, which in this case is hampered by a 4k touchscreen display) trailing well behind.
Beyond that these complaints are exaggerated for most people using most common browsers, what on Earth is "inclusive" about Gemini?
And it's probably a good investment since cash is cheap right now and cities like NYC are depressed thanks to COVID-19.

I hate cities but have to think that they're good investments. Global warming will likely change the economics of suburbs and people are having a lot less kids, making cities less unattractive.
Does anyone know if Apple is even capable of replacing the battery, or if they replace the entire top case assembly, on 2016+ MacBook Pro models? Apparently the Air's battery is indeed replaceable (...by Apple) but I'm not sure the Pro's is, which is incredibly wasteful, if true.
The downvotes don't prove that you're right. I downvoted you, not for saying that places are being censored, but for claiming that 90% of the people here supported the censorship. I don't think we do.

You could be downvoted for two reasons: Either for claiming that we're pro-censorship when we're not, or for pointing out that we're pro-censorship when we are. My money is on the first reason.
The Inverse
This is why a Comma.ai style system putting a camera facing the driver to make sure they are paying attention and awake is essential. Even ignoring self-driving a big number of accidents happen when people fall asleep at the wheel.

I’m not sure whats stopping them. It can be done locally to avoid privacy concerns.

It also has better UX than the weird wheel touch sensors on some vehicles where you have to be touching the wheel at all times when activated (I haven’t decided if that make sense as a requirement, leaning towards no).
Can you help me understand what you mean by a viable cloud?

As for what I would expect Google to do if I were a Google employee, I would not want them doing business in countries with a history of abuses. We can try to parse what abuse means, but I think we could come up with a reasonable definition.

I find it hard to believe that refusing to do business in Russia could be of strategic consequence, especially given the moral consequences. I am willing to be convinced however.
I guess i have to explain that applying torque to the wheel is less safe than adjusting your volume. My tip is a safety tip, your joke doesn't really apply?
I always carry it with me but usually they have some sort of screen casting tech around already.
I do make it clear from the planning stages that they need to provide either one of 3 video inputs to their selected system (HDMI/DP/Screen casting) or they need to provide the computer that I can use to remote into my 13"(this is what they usually choose if they have older screens or projectors).
I thought they didn’t do that? Has this changed for MacBooks recently?
i do see e-bikers doing 20-25mph (up to ~40km/h) occasionally, and a determined pedal biker can reach those speeds as well. "terrifying" seems a little hyperbolic though. certainly you're likely to get hurt if you crash a bike at those speeds, but that's why safety gear exists, and why we need protected bike lanes to segregate speeds/vehicles. crashing a car at high speed is similarly terrifying, yet we drive cars at high speed orders of magnitude more often.

but that's also why we need double-wide lanes, so that faster micro-vehicles have space too. city streets should support a full gradient of travel speeds/vehicles, from walking to car, the normalization of which should reduce the incidence of people blindly entering bike lanes (just as we don't have people jumping in front of cars all the time).
Check out the DIY Edition; it allows you to do exactly this but you have to install the storage, WiFi adapter and RAM yourself.
Also I'd be very concerned about who developed it and why, and what the EULA truly is.

If everything is decentralized, there are no records if you get threatened, extorted, or harassed on a platform, and harmful content isn't saved anywhere notable.

At then end of the day, no platform can guarantee security but they all do cost money to develop and operate and nothing comes truly for free... this we all know... There is some motive for the platform being developed, which is unclear at this point to me.

I'd rather deal conservatively and cautiously with non P2P platforms at this point just to be fully honest.
Its like watching Jurassic park. There is no happy ending.
Almost certainly any barcode scanner would work. A barcode scanner is essentially a keyboard emulator. It types in the value it scans into whatever field the cursor is in. You can also program them using a set of special barcodes you can download. A nice feature is to make it hit 'enter' after scanning to activate a feature or 'tab' to jump to the next field!
I don't know the implementation details - but I wouldn't be surprised if it kept a full-screen-size already-scaled/tiled/centered image somewhere in memory

Back when win95 and co were being made, decoding an image was a lot of work for the hardware, I suspect they'll try to make restoring the background (e.g. dragging a window around and changing what's occluded) to be the simplest bitblt they can.
Absolutely agree. If I ever had to go back to a "docking station" which I'm sure many on here have used in the past I'd be ripping out my hair.

A single multi-port dongle with Hdmi, extension USB-C and USB-A makes it so that I connect 1 thing to my laptop at my desk. And you don't have to press the whole laptop on some weird device that can scrape that back of your laptop.

If more people had experienced docking stations of 10 years ago they would also be excited for these dongles.
I'd like to commend you for publishing your working code. This is a great help for somebody wishing to replicate your excellent work.
The neat part is that you do not have to be part of the source of information in order to politicize the source of information.
like maybe changing a key in some hashmap
It's obvious no? For double descent:
the network with a billion parameters is so large that it learns to simulate a neural network itself which first uses the test data set to train itself and then produces the final overfitted values??
I dug out my Casio MD-502 recently. It is now my daily timepiece — half diver, half vintage, 100% field watch. Get one. That is all.
> 300 kg of cargo at 25 km/h is very close to the momentum of a moped riding at 50 km/h, which is something I definitely don't want to share a bike path with.

Why does the mass or momentum of a particular vehicle driver combination matter in terms of sharing a particular resource? Drivers of motor vehicles like cars share the road with other motor vehicles that are significantly more massive, yet no one says that they shouldn't have to share the road with those heavier vehicles because of their mass and/or momentum.
I always miss match and options (I could go either way on results, which tend to devolve into a shouting match between my modules with the type system badly refereeing). But my general experience is, I switch from writing in Rust to Go, and I immediately notice how much more quickly I'm getting code into the editor. It's pretty hard to miss the difference.
While you may not have to directly call malloc and free in Rust, the memory management still feels very manual compared to a language with GC. When I want to pass an object around I have to decide whether to pass a &_, a Box<_>, Rc<_>, or Rc<RefCell<_>>, or a &Rc<RefCell<_>>, etc. And then there are lifetime parameters, and having to constantly be aware of relative lifetimes of objects. Those are all manual decisions related to memory management that you have to constantly make in Rust that you wouldn't need to think about in Go or Python or Java.

Similarly, idiomatic modern C++ rarely needs new and delete calls, but I'd still say it has manual memory management.

I suppose it's reasonable to talk about degrees of manual-ness, and say that memory management in Rust or modern C++ is less manual than C, but more manual than Go/Python/Java.
Use some official eID. They are pretty pervasive across the world and typically it’s just one system per country to intract with like Freja in Norway, BankID in Sweden and so on.

That leaves the bad methods for countries that doesn’t have a good official or de facto standard eID system. But maybe that will create public pressure to adopt one.
This is where it goes wrong. Everyone thinks their particular favourite port is a 'pro' essential, and we end up with Homer-cars with a thousand ports. Just use USB-C. Almost everything can go through USB-C.
I can vouch that nobody sees the word "almost".
That's a lot of extra steps to just having the damn ports.
Time magazine's 2006 Person of the Year is “you”
It's out-of-band signaling which eliminates the ambiguity between searching for "author=" and searching for an author. It's still probably bad user experience. I'm not sure if it's justifiable, given how GitHub code search mostly ignores punctuation (whuch I hate too), whereas GitLab seems more literal.
I love the modular laptop concept, but not for ports. For those who don’t want them hanging, these are perfectly color matched, made of the same kind of aluminum as the Air, and sit flush. I prefer it to having extra bulk to the base laptop.

https://www.amazon.com/Purgo-Adapter-MacBook-Thunderbolt-Rea...
Simple and Effective Ways to Avoid Too Many Ifs with TypeScript
Breaking the cycle of shame about mental struggles in athletics
That's just the trolley problem, as other commenters have said. This whole debate is, which is a shame, because it means we're unlikely to convince each other.
The whole post is about how Rust turned out not to be the answer to exactly this problem.