skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is kind of a weird piece that really doesn't mean anything at all. I understand being in the "honeymoon phase" with a new piece of technology, but I don't feel like Cory is aware that he's doing that here. But there's some signs: He loved Thinkpads originally, but over the course of several years the company and the quality of the product went down the tubes. Now he's got a brand new laptop that he's only had for one month and is declaring it the best thing ever since sliced bread. But it's not really a fair comparison, a brand new niche product that hasn't been battled tested in any way versus a long-term established brand that he used for years. What will the Framework be like in many years? He offers extremely optimistic ideas, but obviously nothing concrete, because he just got the laptop.

I dunno, it just felt weird to me to be like "I loved this product I used for years, but it sucks now" and then say "I love this new product I've barely used!" without a hint of self-awareness that all the optimism and initial love for a product in the world won't keep it from turning into a pile of junk. How long until a "I went back to Thinkpads" article? A year, two, three?
Not OP, but:

If at all possible, I would want a hard guarantee that my photo ID and all derived information (e.g. my real name (as in the case of Roblox, they don't care about your identity, just your age)) would be completely deleted as soon as possible, as well as a description of exactly when that would be (e.g. "we have to contact your federal government to verify the authenticity of this ID, and then ensure that they know that we've verified your user account, and then we'll delete everything immediately - this typically take 4-8 business days, and we'll email you when the process is completed").

Regardless of the above, I would require that no personal information linked to my ID would be used for any purpose (analytics, marketing, ads, or sale/transfer to a third party) except identity verification.
So we move further towards what IE used to be, a single dominant browser engine that gets to decide the future of the whole web.
Imagine sitting by a window, and having it blow up in you face.
> It will be available globally in over 180 countries on both mobile and desktop for anyone 13 years of age or older with a government-issued ID or passport.

That's a quick ticket to getting a lot of 13-16 year old forbidden (by parents) from playing your game IMO.
Detecting illegal numbers wasn't enough for them, now they want to detect illegal feelings too.
There are truly unsavory elements that will intrude on a virtual environment for children. Roblox corp knows exactly what they're dealing with due to their existing support requests- and they can imagine the implications of adding a spacial voice feature into that mix.

I trust they're not going overboard here.
In the US, how many 13 year olds have id cards? It seems like by the time they have a drivers license they might not be into roblox anymore.
I don't think anything has changed, but COPPA isn't the only regulation with age requirements. GDPR also includes age requirement (https://gdpr-info.eu/art-8-gdpr/).

From a quick read of the article, I think this is intentionally going beyond the requirements. They obviously feel that this will build a safer and more trustworthy environment at the expense of other issues, including a loss of users who don't want to provide identity.
yes, I love mine too. However, after a very dark december mine stopped (and I was very confused by it ;)). Had to put it on the window sill for a few days for it to work again.

My personal advice for anyone looking would be the following triumvirate: solar ("eco-drive"), sapphire glass (never mineral glass!), radio controlled. It just works - you don't have to do anything ever again (except maybe if you have a december like me...).
It blows my mind that news papers will report things told to them by the CIA as fact after all we know from the past decades.

"CIA claims officer suffering from Havana Syndrome" makes sense as a headline.
To me the M1 one is the differentiator not even because of its performance, but because of what it allows the laptop to be: Absolute silence with 20 hour battery life. To have it also be screamingly fast is very nice to have though.
You should be comparing it to the MacBook M1 Air which is $899. Battery life & smoothness/performance they achieved with M1 is phenomenal. Golden handcuffs.
since i'm being downvoted for this?? here's a link describing it??

https://www.notateslaapp.com/news/565/tesla-rolling-out-driv...
I didn't have an ID until I started driving at 15. I wonder how many of the Roblox player base even has a government ID. Will children beg their parents to go to the DMW so they can get verified on Roblox?
A good video about it is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rkTgPt3M4k
Have a look at how many http queries it is sending. It's like they are sending a unique query for every word used in each page. This is horrendous.
No, that appears to be a myth.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41533-021-00223-1

> To date, there is no strong evidence (i.e., evidence based on causal research) that smokers are protected against SARS-CoV-2 infection. Moreover, there is growing evidence that smokers have worse outcomes after contracting the virus than non-smokers.
It was a joke. I was gonna write "used used laptop" since the poster used a used laptop. I thought doubly used would be slightly less confusing.
It's a shame that Linux doesn't have APIs as comprehensive as Windows VSS. One of the several features is something called Volume Shadow Copy Service which lets you take backups of block devices which are in use. It's kind of similar to this but more supported and I think it also interacts with user processes like databases, quiescing them so you can take a consistent snapshot.

[Also if you are playing with custom block devices in Linux -- mounted or otherwise but not /dev/sda -- https://gitlab.com/nbdkit/nbdkit https://libguestfs.org/nbdkit.1.html One filter we have which is kind of similar to blktrace is called the nbdkit-stats-filter https://libguestfs.org/nbdkit-stats-filter.1.html]
On average tech workers are paid more in London because the rent prices are crippling.
What seems really sketchy to me is the third party together with a lot of the language in the press release - Roblox does not store raw ID document nor the selfie data.
What speed, cost, data caps do you get from your current provider? I'd be surprised if any of the conventional (GEOSAT) offerings could beat it.

The only satellite ISP worth considering, IMHO, is Starlink. But you'll have to be patient. The wait could be months.
I'd add a fourth: having no idea or model how the past relates to future/what are predictors of success or failure in the data
This was my first thought as well, I'd love to see an ortholinear keyboard, and ideally one I could config with QMK. Not sure how likely or easy either would be though.
Cheesers are not looked on well in gaming either. Just doing cheap moves over and over will net you a few easy wins but quickly get you to a level where everyone knows how to counter cheese.

Scrubs aren't people who don't do cheap moves, scrubs are those who refuse to learn how to beat cheap moves and try to get others to stop doing them. In fact scrubs often do cheap moves and will get angry at you if you perform the counter to his cheap move, calling your counter cheap and instead wanting you to fall for his cheap move. That isn't fun for anyone.
Is it the purpose of the .NET foundation to "reflect society", or to make and maintain good software?

Skin color is as poor a metric for diversity of viewpoint as it is for ability to create or maintain software. Or write documentation. or communicate with users. or any of the other things this outfit might actually do, assuming they intend to continue doing anything.
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It could have been with the study wasn't conducted with the measures to prevent attention drop activated.
He does and you should too.
450 B-29s were lost in the pacific theatre (Only 300 of which to enemy action). They were credited for shooting down 714 fighters, with 456 probably destroyed, and 770 damaged.

Given their heavy defensive armaments, I would not describe that as a 'sitting duck'. As Japan lost the ability to actually put planes in the air, B-29 guns started getting stripped out, because they were no longer necessary.

Yes, they were big targets, but they were also flying quickly, at high altitudes. A fighter only carries so much ammunition, can quickly expend it, and has poor accuracy when shooting at a distant, fast-moving target. Due to the fuel shortages, available fighter loiter time was very low, so it doesn't get more than one, maybe two chances in a sortie to even take a shot at a B-29. And even if some of its shots hit, it's still quite likely that the bomber will make it back home.
My thoughts exactly. I cursed those arrow keys every day for the 12 months my employer forced me to use a mac. Never did get used to it.
Ah sorry I forgot I meant the City of London - not London the City
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Performance of the M1 is indeed impressive, and I don't mean to imply that these CPUs all perform relatively the same. But I have a 2019 Intel MacBook Pro with an i5, and it does everything I need a laptop to do: take notes, browse the web, and do some light programming and gaming (e.g. Minecraft at 60 FPS). It also runs x86 programs directly rather than through an emulation layer (though this will become less and less of a problem as time goes on).
It's a shot at the "just rewrite it in Rust" meme, not at Rust or the Rust community.
I cobbled together something similar using a couple of javascript libraries. It is a really simple web-app that you can open on any phone, and it uses the phone camera to scan the barcode. It saves the results to a Google Sheets (what I wanted). The code is public, mostly because I couldn't bring myself to clean it up. If you are interested, I could make it public. I wrote about it at https://nikhilism.com/post/2021/tracking-books-i-read-using-...
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> The cohort ended this past Sunday and folks lost an average of 7-8LBs over the last 3 months. Our top performers had up to 9% weight loss!

And I bet that in 3 months they'll show an 18% weight gain. You diet/exercise people are all a bunch of fucking con artists preying on people desperate to look like the people they see on magazine covers.

You think your program worked after one cohort of 20 people? You should be ashamed of yourselves.
I did think it odd that he was talking about the durability of a product that he'd barely unwrapped. But his other points seem cogent, and are orthogonal to how long he's used any of the products.
> However, historically, and in many cities outside of north America, this is not the case

Uhhhhh I think this is also what hkarthik was saying with his first paragraph.

> I think European and Asian cities have done a much better job at this.

.... Either way it sounds like we all agree, urban family life in US is subpar to our economic counterparts.
That's not my experience. I was a heavy smoker for over 15 years (around 2 packs a day); then I quit. It was hard. Extremely hard. In fact I stayed in bed for 2 weeks because I didn't dare stand up and go into the world, and I couldn't think of anything else.

But after the withdrawal symptoms receded, that was that. It was over. I can't even remember what it was that I liked about it.

Of course that's just me, and experiences differ. But quitting smoking is its own reward, and I don't mean physically or health-wise. You're free! You don't need to spend time thinking about where the nearest tobacco shop is and if you have enough change to buy more cigarettes to get through the night.

I would argue that if you need to reward yourself every year for quitting, you didn't actually quit. You stopped putting cigarettes in your mouth, but you're still a "smoker".
For the jetsetting 13 year old, a passport. It's not exactly rare, but it's also not common either.
Except when the program is actually written in C, then better hold the Algorithms and Data Structures book and dust it off, or Intel/AMD/ARM/... manuals.
Wayne Green (byte's publisher) was an interesting character overall. Not surprising that he would value the cover art as much as he did
Oh yes, smoking is very bad and only very bad people do it and they will die and you will live forever if you don't smoke. Is it a happy story now?

Please don't accuse me of "thinking" anything I didn't say.

In the meantime, there are clinical trials going on now for the use of nicotine to prevent COVID:
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04583410
Yeah, it happens often.
The book "Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams -- Explorations in massively parallel microworlds" [0] describes StarLogo, which was a massively parallel version of Logo. In it you could create, say, 1000 turtles in the center of the screen, and the puzzle was, when you told them all "forward 100", what shape would it draw? The answer was a circle, since they all start with a random heading.

This was initially implemented on a Connection Machine. Very interesting book, highly recommended.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Turtles-Termites-Traffic-Jams-Explora...
And if you want to enforce it at runtime you already can!

class Final(type):
def __new__(cls, name, bases, dct):
if any(isinstance(base, Final) for base in bases):
raise TypeError("No!")
return type.__new__(cls, name, bases, dct)

class NoSubclasses(metaclass=Final):
pass

class WillThrow(NoSubclasses):
pass
UKite here, active in the London fintech scene. Everything I say is based purely on my perception of the situation.

Anecdotally, I see more people in this sector moving to places such as Canada, Australia and New Zealand than to the USA. I think there is a perception here that while salaries might be higher in the USA, there are hidden costs both financially and socially (such as health insurance payments, getting to grips with the American "way of life" etc). The American "way of life" in particular is not seen as "glamorous" (again anecdotally) and I think most view it as a bit of a step down, while the other countries I mentioned are viewed as a step up.

Afaik, there are more UK citizens living in Australia than all the rest of Europe combined.
It's techies that advice their non-techie friends and family though.
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According to Roblox's S-1 filing, they want to move their customer base up from the current average age of 13. Age verification is for older users, so they can be less restricted. Roblox has a large outsourced "moderation" operation, and is working on an AI system that can bring down the ban hammer in 100ms after saying a bad word.

Tencent already does this in China. Tencent owns 49% of Roblox. So the technology is available.
MIT finds water is wet.
Why is offline mode such an important feature for a social network? Is bad cellular coverage still an issue?
I'm talking about the unfairness, not safety. The article doesn't say that some drivers are allowed to do it while others aren't but still presents the whole thing as unfair.
>Isn't that the definition of rotation, the "exchanging one dimension for another"?

Maybe? I think it allows solutions not typically considered to be rotations, like the special relativity example.
This sounds like the ultimate hacker laptop.
Cities are also a nightmare if you want to get into a lot of hobbies. For example I like building and modifying cars, and you can forget about renting a private garage at a reasonable price in most large cities. The same goes for woodworking, machining, most motorsports, boating, RC airplanes and drones, etc.
The US is big enough and rich enough that that alone would make a major dent. "I Rob Banks Because That’s Where the Money Is" (https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/02/10/where-money-is/ for investigation) When there is no money in it they won't do it.

Even if that doesn't work, the US alone will ensure that a lot more effort is put into prevention. If you can't pay a ransom anymore, then after a few high profile major losses companies will take security and backups more seriously which will make it even harder to attack anything - this will then be rolled out to the rest of the world because once you make good tools you may as well.
Better transport links you have two on the mainline stations next door and Euston is a 10 min walk.

Soho is cool but not many large modern office blocks.
yeah, although sibling commenters are complaining about the type of adverts seen on today's platforms being different; namely that byte and computer shopper had ads that were 'useful' or 'interesting' by some definition, compared to youtube or facebook.

i think this often reflects more on the viewer, and the type of content they access, than on the platform. depending on the videos i watch, along with some judicious approval or disapproval via the thumbs up/down buttons presented and skipping boring or irrelevant ads and vice-versa, i now am presented with much more appropriate and interesting or informative adverts for products and services i wouldn't have known existed and so on.

there's a lot to be said for targeted advertising, whether through specific platforms or media (such as only advertising in byte magazine and therefore reaching a specific audience of tech-literates) or via big data style ad platforms such as adsense on youtube.
That's an example of the "fits". Lots of data, replicated across the world, but plainly it suggests something unacceptable so it is not evidence.
This is what I need. Not what Apple offers. MacBook arrow keys are unusable.
I know you're not :) I try to be explicit that I'm only talking about my own experience here. I try not to write about my experiences with Go because it was a very long time ago at this point, and I find it a bit distasteful to talk about for various reasons, but we apparently have quite different experiences.

Maybe it depends on other factors too. But in practice, I basically never think about memory management. I write code. The compiler sometimes complains. When it does, 99.9% of the time I go "oh yeah" and then fix it. It's not a significant part of my experience when writing code. It does not slow me down, and the 0.1% of the time when it does, it's made up for it in some other part of the process.

I wish there was a good way to actually test these sorts of things.
The argument was whether firing a critical employee made sense if they're critical.

An ATC being fired doesn't ground flights any more than an ATC on strike grounds flights.

"Stop getting a paycheck" is just a euphemism for "the employee/union has already burned their leverage and gets fired".
My goal is to utterly destroy Facebook. Let's see Facebook decide how to reach that goal.
If you want to visit 100 countries and don't, then part of you is unfulfilled. Otherwise you didn't really want to do that. And go ahead and visit them...you traveling to 100 countries won't stop the climate crisis one iota, and would actually probably help it by spreading your money around the world where people can put it to better use.
Once an addict, always an addict. I haven't smoked since 2007, but I'm humble enough to know how easy it would be to pick it up again. In fact, if I lived in Poland again, I very well might have. But in the US being a non-smoker has never been easier.
Yeah, and perhaps someone who knows rust well could argue some things are easier to do right in rust. For example, in the second bullet, pass readers could be more of the norm in libraries since rust in a systems programming language. Third bullet to similar point.

I'm not saying rust is better or they made the wrong choice, sounds like C++ would let users easily make the same "wrong" choices, just interesting to carry the thoughts through a bit further.
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There were some studies that observed a low prevalence of current smokers hospitalized for Covid, compared to smoking rates in the population, and hypothesized that nicotine might be having a beneficial effect. On the other hand, it obviously stands to reason that having stronger lungs would be better for outcomes of a respiratory disease. I'm pretty sure there's been no definitive research findings one way or the other.
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I've seen a few posts around saying vapes are about to be banned here in Australia. Have no idea if its true or not.
Pringles Cheddar Cheese has been missing from the shelves for like 3 days. Scary times.
I bought one of these: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07QXMNF1X/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

One USB-C connection powers my laptop, connects to my monitor, as well as my wireless mouse and keyboard.
This jives very well with my experience. I like writing Rust, but I do so well aware that I could write the same thing in Go and still have quite a lot of time left-over for debugging issues.

I can also get user feedback sooner and thus pivot my implementation more quickly, which is a more subtle angle that is so rarely broached in these kinds of conversations.

The places where I think the gap between Go and Rust is the smallest (due to Rust's type system) are things like compilers where you have a lot of algebraic data types to model--Rust's enums + pattern matching are great here.
Unfortunately it seems like "hard guarantee" for most things in tech is almost laughable, and if there is a chance data can be gathered, probably not even worth dreaming about
They haven't updated their Send To Kindle tool or Send By Email flow in years so those are still format locked for whatever reason to mostly only supporting mobi, despite that mobi hasn't been the current format published by the store in years and the current format is epub-based and the Kindles support epub just fine now (hence why a bunch of people saying you can just rename an epub file to something like png or txt and the Send tools work just fine with that because they are that dumb).
I would wager that their close proximity to King's Cross station is to bring in talent from Cambridge, which is only 45 minutes away.
I'll come out and say what's on many practicioners' minds:

It could very well be that generations of academics have been WRONG about the relationship between the number of parameters (or complexity) of a model and its ability to generalize to new, previously unseen data, particularly when the data is drawn from many naturally occurring distributions -- as opposed to, say, distributions randomly chosen from the space of all possible distributions, as assumed by many theoretical frameworks (e.g., No Free Lunch theorem). It could be that generations of students have been taught The Wrong Thing™.

In many cases we must increase, not decrease, model complexity to improve generalization!
> COPPA imposes certain requirements on operators of websites or online services directed to children under 13 years of age, and on operators of other websites or online services that have actual knowledge that they are collecting personal information online from a child under 13 years of age.

I didn't read the whole thing. I plan to one day though because I want to see what the rules are, but, to me, that summary sounds like the only reason you need to do it is if you want to collect personal information for children that are 13-17 year old.

Here's a wild idea... How about not collecting the personal information of children?
So, taking in mind that goats (and deer) are everywhere, why we still have wildfires?

They do really think that ants and other insects process less flammable material than goats do?
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