skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They didn't want to live like that. It's one of the things Jared Diamond argues in Collapse: sure, they could have survived longer in Greenland if they adopted more of the customs of the Inuit, but this went against everything they considered important and valuable in life. They wouldn't be themselves any more if they did (and for all we know, a few of them may have been assimilated into the native population and stopped being Norse in any sense recognizable to us).

Not least of all, Leif Eriksson was a Christian, a Catholic in modern terms. It's reasonable to assume most of his followers were, too. He had gained the epithet "the lucky" due to his habit of coming across and rescuing castaways at sea. To the Norse, luck was evidence the cosmos was on your side, and one of the most important attributes a leader offered to potential followers was a share in this cosmic luck. This probably helped Leif the missionary securing a lot of conversions!

But the heart of Christianity at the time was in Rome. They were already profoundly cut off from the mystical fellowship of believers, the communion. How much worse wouldn't it be for their sense of self if they were not only to go off in an impossibly distant land, but to live as the savages there?
Classic CEO error. Stick to your values and principles and never apologies to the mob.
I use four suits of 13 weeks/cards, tied to local climate. Winter goes up from A of clubs to K, spring goes down from K of spades to A. A kind of a agricultural calendar.

You know when to plant things in the garden, when the peaks of trimming and gardening work are in the year, and when the heatwaves will be over with. It's very nice.
I wonder how conscious the choice of “goggle” was because of its visual similarity to google. They could have called these “lens” or “vistas” or “scenes” or “filters” or so many other terms, but they chose the one that was ironically most like google (one of the main sources of problems as addressed in the paper).

Do the authors wistfully hope for a future in 20 years where we refer to “goggling” for things and “goggle it”? And “remember when” we used to google things? So MySpace.
Is "vertis" who you are? There's more to a human, than a name.
We gotta start somewhere and improve on the go :)
What Swiss startup founders can learn from Silicon Valley, Sweden and Israel
If they double their sales every year, then it will come down to just 7 years!
https://calmatters.org/commentary/my-turn/2021/05/will-calif...

It looks like we are going for blackouts here in California.
You don't provide any links to your sources or any attribution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights

That's what is making it plagiarism. "It's too hard to do so many articles" is not an excuse. A lot of people have put a lot of work into those wikipedia articles, too. All they've asked in return is for people like you to link back to the article when you use their work.
I have always found that amusing. What a god complex that guy has. But hey if it works it works.
Ask HN: How do you maintain your glasses?
Statistically over 60% people worldwide wear glasses ... stereo-typically this number is probably higher on HN.

So with that in mind let me tap into the collective hive mind of HN and ask:

* How do you maintain your glasses?
* How do you clean them?
* How long do they last before you need new ones?
I wonder what the breakthrough will be is it hardware or software. Seems like we can make as powerful of a computer as we want/try but what makes sentience. Does a fly or gnat have sentience?
Would that make "monadial" the right word for monadic values?!
I once thought about using JSON arrays for filepaths so all possible strings would be valid filenames.
These Are the Slowest-Looking Fast Cars
We’re unable to fix mistakes that gone too widespread. HN strips emoji, afaik. Here is the unicorn: .
Low-end ARM chips are everywhere as generic microcontrollers in things you probably only barely think about as having electronic components at all. The next vacuum cleaner I buy will probably have an ARM in it.
I pray that a more complicated solution is not needed, but when I was living abroad I would always encounter issues with sites where they thought "since the IP is from x, or since the browser is requesting lang y, then we should think that this American passport holder is a Spanish citizen and thus we can make assumptions about him."

The ultimate source of this issue is that we are taking names and official IDs too seriously, but I doubt that problem will go away for "serious business". Funnily enough though, it already has for things like restaurant table reservations where all info provided is quite literally just a string for a human to do something with. No need to validate if the user's phone country code matches the country in which they are reserving a table...
I admire and share this goal!

However, if you translated the Wiz examples to Suave, would they be any more difficult to read?

I think the biggest issue is Suave’s docs etc.
There are plenty of companies with low hiring bar.
I used to use paper towels and teeshirts to "clean" mine. I now try very very hard to only use microfibre cleaning cloth.

I find the coatings last longer and I get less scratches.
End-to-End Distributed Tracing with Serverless360 Bam
I bought the T460p last year. It replaced a 2009 Macbook pro with spinning rust. That machine was fine too, but it stopped getting updates years ago so I had to replace it. I hope that Linux will support the T460p for longer.
Apple M1: setting up PyData libraries with arm-64 native conda
how-to guide for setting up conda on M1 machines so arm-64 native PyData libraries are automatically installed
I'm sure that you didn't mean to be rude, but you came off that way. That's fine, I also have a hard time articulating a balance between tone and content.

That's why I tend to preface comments that may be perceived as rude with a statement that it is not my intention.
Serious question:

What specifically made you switch from gecko to chromium in the Brave browser? I know compatibly with modern web apps is frequently cited as the reason but using FF as my daily driver I never run into any issues.

Was it easier to develop BAT integration and the custom ad/tracking blockers?
Yup. I, too, call BS on that. I do own a precision laptop with a 8 core xeon and this thing is heavy, noisy and can't work on battery for more than 2hrs under normal workload.
Good to know — I was worried I might have stuck my foot in my mouth when I looked at your profile and saw your profession.
He's a walking poster-child for Dunning-Kruger effect.

"I wrote javascript, so I am very smart and can evaluate scientific papers on epidemiology."

I was reading through his twitter feed and dug in a bit into one of the tweets where he claimed that a particular paper proved that the covid vaccine weakens the immune system and makes people susceptible to covid.

His source was a grad student in mechanical engineering.
The Norse mostly settled Greenland because they had to, not because it was such a great place to be. It was a frontier, settled by desperate people. Leif's father, the chieftain Eric the Red, had moved there because he had been banished from Iceland over a murder.

And of course the Greenland colony wasn't really sustainable, which is why it died out when a couple of hard turns came their way (climate change and getting cut off from trade for a few years).
He only had 12 kids.

The rate he went through groupies I would expect 100+
I could believe an application DB fora service architecture wouldn't be some hulking great data warehouse monstrosity capturing the entire business. Those tables could be TB large.

But some aren't real e.g the Twitter one is just someone's project attempting to model how Twitter works which in no way means it's correct.
>Yeah but you didn't choose them because they used if/else clauses instead of switch statements.

No, but I will make choices based on systems that crash or have features that fail to work which is surprisingly common.

As an example Windows XP was so insecure that it opened the door for Apple. Microsoft had to stop adding features and rewrite substantial portions of it for SP2.
>> a woman from Africa compared African and western mariages.

Africa is a big place. That sounds more like west or south Africa. For instance, the north-east (Egypt and the Mediterranean countries) have a much more middle eastern view of the institution. And even within southern Africa, there is great disparity between rich an poor. Much of the economic certainty professed falls away with African people from more wealthy backgrounds. It is likely overinclusive so call these "African" views of marriage, rather they are the views of some particular African economic and social groups. Other groups have other ideas, some of them much more similar to western notions.
Contract manufacturing won't have anywhere near as fat a margin as their CPU lineup has had the last decade though. That'd be a hard thing to sell to the shareholders.
Mozilla is more of a progressive activist organization and fat paycheck for Mitchell Baker than it is a software development organization these days. Do not expect Mozilla to prioritize maintaining Firefox or helping its user base get off Google.
Hope this doesn't sound inflammatory but have you tried other HDMI cables?
> how did you come to believe in this theory?

Eliza bot?
For most purposes, electricity is almost a rounding error in datacenter asset management concerns. Server compute is expensive. It is all about performance. ARM is just starting to get competitive in that ballpark. So we will see.

All of these ARM server chips are going to be very low on the pecking order for TSMC fab time, so they won't have the edge that Apple had by buying up the first slot on the latest manufacturing node. Even being a process node ahead, M1 only just squeaks by with comparable single threaded performance to Zen 3 cores, so ARM still has some catching up to do in the performance realm.
Of course, that's the whole point: Don't give others weapons they may use against you and your interests.

Now, this is usually, like in this case, nicely wrapped up for the public.
You're intentionally misrepresenting the facts here. They closed playgrounds - they did nothing to target single mothers specifically. And the removal was made based on vaccination position, which was announced well in advance.

I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with you, however my experience is that people who intentionally misrepresent a scenario usually don't go down well in time either.
Radiant aims to replace diesel generators with small nuclear reactors
Classic innovator's dilemma. They're retreating up-market.
Former land surveyor here. I worked for about 10 years in the industry before I became a software developer. It's a fascinating career choice for the technically-minded who don't want to be chained to a desk, though there is a minor percentage of desk work involved for field staff.

It's a career that has its challenges, particularly economically. Back when I was doing it, two to three man crews (but usually two-man) were typical. Now, with the advent of robotic total stations, low-cost GPS receivers, and laser imaging, one-man crews are more and more common. Also, similar to software engineering, there's a tendency for the viable career path to lead to management and office work if you become a licensed PLS. So in the same way it is difficult for a programmer/developer to keep working on producing code in his or her late career, it's similarly difficult for staff surveyors who got into the industry because they love field work to stay there.

As long as you understand these tradeoffs, surveying can be very rewarding work.
This is an insanely nightmarish precedent. We need to take computer systems less seriously. In a human-interface world, these issues are avoided thanks to simple human intuition.
It sounds like you need to get your laptop fixed?
Lockdowns have nothing to do with corona. They're entirely a political decision completely unrelated.
The Ocean Cleanup Project – System 002 Test Results Presentation
I once did it, encoded UTF-8 text in a legacy text because the system interface didn't support unicode, and decoded on the other end. Used • prefix as a marker of encoded string... now that I think about it, it could be just old good BOM. MIME standard also has extensive experience in packing arbitrary data in 7-bit clean text.
Copyleft won't help you there either if the license issuer is also the producer of the physical chip: Licenses are regulating what third parties can do with the source, they don't restrict the issuer.
Greater than 99% ! That is how Chechens voted couple weeks ago for their beloved President Ramzan Kadyrov. Such numbers always look impressive.

(note: i was taught climate change back in middle school in the mid 80ties in USSR, and only coming to US i discovered to my big surprise that there are still people who thinks the other way - notable though that those people are mostly well under influence of the forces/people standing to lose much from public acceptance of climate change. This is how Russia prepares for the climate change for example https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/russiaa...)
This is the rub. Nobody ever wants to discuss this part of it, they just want to focus on the "deniers" because they want an imaginary enemy to blame their failures on.

"Deniers" aren't standing in the way of this. Even in the countries with the highest levels of deniers, they are under 20% of the population. America it's about 13%, and the people who want to do more to combat climate change is 60-70%.

Far far less popular agenda gets shoved through all the time by politicians, it's never stopped them before. But somehow in this one instance, when politicians attempt to deal with what they call the greatest problem ever to face humanity, the arch-enemy "dumb redneck unemployed coal miner" has used their vast network of power and influence to put a stop to it. They couldn't stop their Robert E Lee statues from being torn down by unruly mobs, but they'll go toe to toe with the Bilderberg Group? Get real.

It's just so hilariously stupid I can't understand why people don't see through it. Utter rubbish. The failure rests 100% on the shoulders of the politicians, corporations, and international groups who have been claiming they will do something about it while clearly never having any intention to solve the problem.

And while we are on the subject of popular opinion, a huge amount of damage has been done by hypocrite politicians and elites. I don't care if the private jets they use to fly around the world and their huge electricity-guzzling mansions "don't emit much in the scheme of things", what people hate more than anything else is hypocrisy and unfairness. Particularly when the commoners are admonished if they claim their contribution or their country's contribution is insignificant in the scheme of things, because "everyone has to sacrifice because we're all in it together". I bet that 13% would be 5% and the 30% would be 10% if it wasn't for the entitled, wasteful, hypocritical and hateful behavior and rhetoric from these people -- our "betters" -- who have proclaimed themselves to be in charge of solving this problem.

And what we should be discussing is not stuck on the idiotic yes/no whether it's a problem and whether we should do something about it. That is done. The popular mandate for this has existed almost globally but certainly throughout the west for 20 years or more. What we should be talking about is having a real debate and ask difficult questions about the proposed solutions that are not well explained to the public.

We should ask why countries with high emissions intensity of production are getting concessions. That's an incentive to increase emissions of production. We should ask why talk about per-capita concessions have so much weight, when that is a good incentive for countries to increase populations and reduce living standards for their people.
I think it's to have that "research paper" effect.
I agree with what you are saying. In one of the teams that I work with we have a developer who was a truck driver for a couple of years and then decided to learn to code. He is one of the best developers I have ever worked with, he spent so much time learning on his own, studying and the passion and drive that he has is inspiring. Even now, after 15 years in the field he is always there and improving himself. In the same time we also had someone with proper formal education, and he was one of the least talented and most arrogant developers that I met until then. So it can go both ways, of course.

In the same time, I think now people just take this profession for granted. I don't like being X, I heard that being a developer pays well, so I will become one in 3 to 6 months. I wouldn't be able to be a tax consultant in one of the big 4 for example, just by reading about taxes on Udemy.
Malaria vaccines are more effective than covid vaccines. Malaria kills a lot more people than covid. Why do you buy sushi instead of malaria vaccines? Relative to the problem I wouldn't consider that a sacrifice. Doesn't matter, I'm still going to buy sushi.

I get where you're coming from but people are just selfish with money, it is how it is.
This article makes a great case for why parapsychology is worthwhile. A researcher follows common practices and comes up with an absurd result. In figuring out how that happened researchers discover problems with the entire field. That's utility for parapsychology I've never imagined.
You may have mistaken last year's M1 (the one in the video, available passively cooled in the MacBook Air) with the new M1 Pro and M1 Max (the ones being compared to the more powerful counterparts).
By way of comparison, China has administered at least 2,232,088,000 doses of COVID vaccines so far

https://graphics.reuters.com/world-coronavirus-tracker-and-m...
So 60% have some kind of investment income.
If you enjoy this topic, Ray Mears has a really good episode on Philip Turnor, who was a famous surveyor working for Hudson Bay Company and who is credited for creating maps of a large chunk of Canadian wilderness.
Unfortunately, it's 2:45am, and I have a meeting tomorrow. But I'll try to set aside some time for a detailed reply.

The cliff's notes are: the first time I was able to train GPT 1.5B on gwern's poetry, I was super proud of myself, because it was extremely hard to get 1.5B to train back in those days. So we let it train as long as possible, and the loss kept dropping lower and lower. So we'd periodically dump samples -- surely we'd get better poetry, right?

No. Eventually the model degenerated into broken-sounding English. Because our training data was 50MB, so it quickly forgot how to speak English at all -- the prior knowledge got wiped out, and was replaced by that 50MB dataset.

The term for this is "overfitting," and it's remarkably easy to run into it in practice. The cure is to have more data. But how do you gather more than 50MB of poetry? That's a lot of poetry. So what do you do when you want to train a poetry model?

The answer is to train a general model on a massive dataset (https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.00027), and then to fine-tune it on a smaller dataset (like 50MB of poetry). But during that fine tuning step, you'd better watch out, because everything you thought you knew about ML is wrong: You need to have a gentle downwards-sloping loss curve -- steep curve is terrible, since it means you're destroying the old knowledge without giving it a broad view of the new knowledge. And you need to stop before hitting loss < 2.1, otherwise you'll be overfitting and the model will suck.

I suspect that hundreds of great ML models were overlooked for these reasons. There are hundreds of thousands of people messing around with ML models for fun. Lots of them try to train those models on small datasets, because small datasets are all you have when you start out. So they google how to do it, hear "Low loss is good," train overnight, dump samples, and then end up going "Oh well, the model seems to suck, but the loss is low, so I guess I didn't do it properly." They probably did train it properly, but they weren't continuously dumping samples, so they didn't notice they needed to stop before the model turned into word salad. (Or art salad if it's a GAN.)

I would say that from a fundamental theoretical point of view, "you always want the lowest loss" is only true when you have an infinite amount of data in a target domain. But in practice, you probably have a few gigabytes if you're lucky. Even imagenet is only 1,000 different image classes, which means it's possible for a model to memorize those 1,000 classes and overfit, rather than achieving a general "understanding" of different kinds of objects.

I got all of these details wrong when I first started out, so it was really eye-opening to see that it's a terrible idea to rely on common knowledge in ML. Common knowledge is an excellent starting point, but you quickly learn to think for yourself, or you just end up imitating what the big players are doing while wondering why none of your models seem to be working.

(... I guess I wrote a detailed reply after all. Ah well, sleep is optional as long as you choose to ignore the effects of sleep deprivation. That's how that works.)
Wasn’t the non-subsidy margin only like 5% less?
Given that the kernel still identifies as 3.0.101, my guess is that they just backported some features from 4.x and applied them to the ancient kernel ;-) I am not so sure that qualifies as a 4.1 in terms of Android support.

I think the discussion about which devices live longer is simple to answer: Apple (iPhone) and Google (Nexus/Pixel) do probably the best job of supporting their devices for a while from a manufacturers point of view (in comparison to Samsung, Xiaomi, LG, Huawei, Sony, etc.). However, if you want to spend some time and flash alternative ROMs yourself you are better off with Android due to the large modder community, but it also depends a bit on the device you bought.

My biggest issue on the other hand, is that if the manufacturers would also open source the drivers, they could be included in the Linux kernel and we would not have this discussions, because one could simply use an up-to-date kernel as you can with every PC.
Such cargo-cult statements never work in absolutes.

Saying that "monorepos are only good for large scale" is pure bullshit, and something that only someone very inexperienced would say.

I'm in a very small company (less than 10 devs) but we still use a monorepo, because we have a set of common libraries for all our products, and having a monorepo helps us update those libraries without breaking anything. On the other hand, some very large companies have tried and have failed.

Monorepos are just a tool. The implementation and the context matters more than anything else.
PS3 Emulator Will Now Boot Every Game Ever Released on the Console
I'm willing to forgive him that one donation to a cause I personally strongly disagree with, because I think he's already suffered enough for it, and I don't think it's worth "canceling" someone's contribution to tech over their personal views.

I don't know much about his stance on Corona policies, but I also think it's not worth "canceling" someone over that, especially given how quickly the consensus seems to change on those things, and how much damage they have done to people's mental and physical health.

My stance on bringing up an individual's personal shit in the context of an article which doesn't even mention their name, as you have done, is strongly negative.
I do find this response humourous from Americans. What's the plan, fighting off the most well equipped military in history with a few AR15s and shotguns? How do the American people having guns stop tyranny?