skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What utter nonsense. Portland has an incredibly inhospitable climate (I mean I live in a lovely house and I find it overbearing). And yet we have more than enough people willing to tough it out in the torrential downpours.
The Neo-Colonial Internet
I always got a lot of pressure from certain well meaning SV business types to hire from bootcamps and always struggled to find folks - suppose it depends on the industry but "learn engineering fast" isn't really a thing that works.
I've never been wealthy enough to insure my belongings, so my experience with trying to make police reports for theft have not only felt like a waste of time, the officers I've filled with have directly told me I'm wasting my time (and implied I'm wasting theirs) whenever I have made a report.
I have faced this locking problem while trying to use packer for building out AMIs. It was a flaky process. I used to google it always and not figure out a solution and continue rerunning the builds for a long time.

But one of my colleagues figured out that it is probably because the apt-get is getting locked due to cloud-init and removed the flakiness by making packer wait[1] for cloud-init to complete before running the installation scripts that involved apt-get locking.

We too wished that there were more docs to help us, especially explaining how apt-get worked.

[1] https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/issues/2639#issuecomment...
Yes.

Though just like libraries in programming mean that you don't have to worry about how to implement a hash table when using Python's dicts, advances in math mean that you don't have to worry about infinities and infinitesimals when you are constructing a bridge using differential equations.

That's progress!
And it will probably devour a ridiculous amount of power and generate a thermos of heat to be marginally overall faster. It also won’t have a comparable GPU.

M1 Max still is the better experience and innovation.
I don't disagree, but I'm not in a social stratum where calling the police is likely to even get me that.
That's the thing most people don't get about Intel: nothing has really changed perf-wise since Haswell, which is older than that.

If your old Haswell / Skylake machines still work (and if you don't need Windows 11 which doesn't support them), there's zero technical reason to upgrade to something newer, at least on the desktop.

There's been some progress in terms of power efficiency on laptops, but even there 5+ year old chips are pretty much as good as it gets if you want to stick to Intel. Maybe 10-15% percent slower than the very latest stuff, you won't even notice it. That's why Apple is currently obliterating Intel and AMD - the latter milked their cash cow until it fell over.

And Apple knew that they didn't even need to work particularly hard on core perf - memory bandwidth improvements alone would have delivered the goods. That's another thing people don't get - the CPUs spend quite a bit of their time waiting for bytes to come in or go out. The latencies involved in that are upwards of 200 cycles, and any significant improvement in both the latency and the bandwidth has insane, immediately noticeable benefits for perf, particularly in "modern" languages with poor cache locality. Why Intel / AMD duopoly did so little to address this deficiency is inexplicable, but here we are.
"They seemingly can't run stuff like medicine manufacturing, heavy machinery engineering etc. "

Well, I now have a image of soviet russias state factories spitting out tank after tank ...

Governments can handle this. Also "government" can mean very different things, but I agree that on a general base, they are not able to handle a complex chain of supply. Or at least not as good as a distributed market of private entities.
Yeah the 12900HK beats the Max by 3%, even though the M1 Max is way more power efficient and likely utterly smoked it on GPU. After all it’s 8% faster than a mobile 3060.

The 3060 alone is a 60W TGP.

The M1 Max running Cinebench consumes 9W while the 11980HK (previous gen) consumes 45W. Perf/W Is about 3X higher for the M1 Max on CPU alone and I suspect factoring in graphics we’ve got a breakaway here.

Intel will catch up but not today.
Except it ignores the fact that it requires 5 times the power to barley edge out the M1 Max. It certainly isn't going to end the M1 love fest.
It drives me nuts that we have orders of magnitude more storage in our pockets now, yet many user experiences encourage streaming everything. Sure, unlimited plans ameliorate the costs of streaming, but why introduce all that complexity when you have unused storage sitting right there.
Seems like both were necessary. Palmer had an idea and made a prototype, Carmack came in and helped spearhead the execution into a business.

Isn't that a fairly standard way that startups get started?
I rented a Tesla on Turo a few years ago, it was a blast to drive.

It is so choice. If you have the means, I highly recommend renting one.
The argument I've seen is that Facebook is failing to attract young users, more than that it's losing older ones.

After a certain point, maintaining size means sustaining an onboarding pipeline. Tobacco and alcohol ran into this issue, espeically as they were busy killing off their longest a-term and most loyal customers. Facebook's not quite there.

Yet.
Another useful feature is some part of my environment (I've used it in Gnome 3 on both Fedora and Arch, but it doesn't work in RHEL; I'm honestly not sure what part of my stack is providing the feature) lets me pres Ctrl+Shift+U and enter arbitrary unicode. I've memorized the hexadecimal representation for a few common symbols and can enter them into basically any text field.
11.6.1 (the latest Big Sur) was out this morning, so you may have to check for updates again.
Everyone I know who works at Oracle seems to love it there. IME it's the people on the other end of the contract who tend to despise Oracle.
If some processes are running as root, there's no guarantee that they won't fork+daemonize and still be running when you login with your regular user. On Windows, it's become a habit for some apps to install their own "Update Service" as part of the regular app installation.
An AMD Ryzen 9 5950X cost $700 and is almost 2x faster than an m1 max in multi core.
I recall nearly 20 years ago my boss showing me his new airplane and touting about how it’s flight computer ran Windows NT.

There was no better way to guarantee that I (a network manager at the time), would ever be in that aircraft with its wheels off the ground.
Does that void the warranty? If it does, I'd hardly consider that a 'fix'...
Sorry, meant to post this one:

https://nypost.com/2021/10/06/sweden-suspends-moderna-vaccin...
The Show Styles, Style Inspector and Reveal Formatting panes all help with stuff like this. The last one should give a pretty clear hint to where the line is defined.
The new Alder Lake CPU from Intel for laptops is faster than M1 MAX:

https://wccftech.com/intel-alder-lake-mobility-cpu-benchmark...

So, nothing special about M1, especially if you consider that Adler Lake will use an older manufacturing process (7nm vs 5nm used by Apple).
you're not wrong, but to explain- i was cheekily referencing g k chesterton's discourses on charity as a paradoxical virtue:

> It is true that there is a thing crudely called charity, which means charity to the deserving poor; but charity to the deserving is not charity at all, but justice.

the usefulness of the distinction comes about if eg someone were to say, "that person doesn't _deserve_ charity", then they'd be making a judgment call, and therefore be acting in a way counter to the universal goodwill that charity is really about.

so like i said, a cheeky nitpick in this context, but i think an important one to keep in mind.

anyway, my comment was hidden because this account is hellbanned, so thanks for the charity lol
I'm inclined to agree; substance prohibition in any form (except perhaps for nuclear fuel and the like) has a long history of causing an incredibly wide range of societal problems.

But removing prohibition is a far cry from providing free heroin to addicts... I understand the argument about removing the black market, but after seeing San Francisco in person it's hard to agree that free drugs and paraphernalia makes things better overall.

If my friend became a heroin addict, out of care for him or her I would not provide them with heroin even if I could afford it. Why should I treat other fellow humans worse?

Why is it different when we're speaking at a societal level? Love for neighbors should increase, not invert, when the number of individuals concerned increases.
But it is a power struggle and always has been.

The very earliest advocates for free speech, most notably Milton, excluded established powers from its protections, notably the Catholic Church:

I mean not tolerated popery, and open superstition, which, as it extirpates all religions and civil supremacies, so itself should be extirpate, provided first that all charitable and compassionate means be used to win and regain the weak and the misled.

-- John Milton, Areopagitica, 1644.
When these chips hit the rackmount Mac Pro, the server competition will be very interesting. It's kind of a unique package for a server, which such a powerful GPU, but that has advantages for some compute types too of course.
Perhaps this is an American thing. I've never had someone look at or care about my (inactive) github account. It's not even on my resume, though if it was active I might put it on there.

Or, maybe I'm just doing it wrong.
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There’s a tomato plant that produces little purple tomatoes that don’t look that different from potato fruits. I knew someone who planted both one year and I still haven’t forgiven them for being so reckless.
> From the essay, it sounds like Jack was not possessed of any great "talent", or of any particular value as a "raw human resource". He was just a dude, probably easily replaceable from a HR perspective,

I've seen a lot of smart people fall to drugs. Sure, if they get in too deep too early, they won't have a degree when they die, but they could have had one.

And yes, as an HR person in a comparatively small company, this person is easily replaceable. On a country scale, however, you can't simply replace him - you need the numbers of highly educated smart people and you can't simply "hire" them back from another country. Look at the stereotype of the asian genius - disregarding the other factors, China simply has 3-5 times [0] the population, so they will statistically have 5 times the geniuses to start with. You can't compete when your best bets have a 5% chance to whither away due to drugs.

> If you want to know what kinds of sacrifices are required to win a war on opiates, Mao is the "best" recent example.

How so? I don't know what specifically you're pointing to, but given that other countries handle the situation better with less "sacrifices", I don't think they're necessary.

[0] Depending on US or EU perspective.
Look Around (Apple's version of Street View) is amazing.
Hasn’t been an issue for me in years now that supercharging is much faster but it’s still an inconvenience to stop for 20-30 minutes.
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Sure but I am part of that latter category.

The unwashed masses don't have to care and won't actually use the performance, I'm not that bothered whether they care or not, although it's worth saying that X86 is such a mess that hiding instructions at weird alignments is a valid obfuscation technique - i.e. it's not just aesthetics/performance.
Sadly, I had to install Adobe Acrobat reader last week to print a tiled PDF. The PDF itself was poster sized, but I needed to print it out on a normal 8.5x11” printer. Preview didn’t support doing that, but Reader did.
"Other" may be some local Time Machine snapshots, which are purgeable.

It may also be an APFS snapshot, which is _not_ purgeable (indeed macOS boots of signed snapshots now)
In the USA, Estate Tax is synonymous with Wealth Tax, and it is the commonly-understood usage.

That is simply not true.

- Estate Taxes are about taxing the transfer of assets upon someone’s death.

- Wealth taxes are about taxing the overall net wealth someone has at a given point in time. Gains have little to do with it; there could be ten billion dollars in cash under your mattress and you would still be subject to a hypothetical wealth tax.

In case you are not convinced, here are an overwhelming number of links using this definition:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_tax

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/w/wealth-tax.asp

https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2021/03/what-is-a-wealth-tax-and-s...

https://taxfoundation.org/wealth-tax/

https://berniesanders.com/issues/tax-extreme-wealth/
Little Soldiers – Inside the Chinese Education System (Jan 2020)
Yeah, some images look very fake, which is why I wrote that only some looked incredibly real.

The one you linked looks great to me. Some parts are more convincing than others, but in general I almost feel as if I could touch those trees. Although I admit I don't have a trained eye to see the rendering tricks used.
And it devours, what, 5X the power and generates far more heat and fan noise requiring a much thicker machine to house it? Also the integrated graphics will (going from Intel) be nowhere near as impressive as the M1 Max's graphics, so it's hardly competing on that front either.

Not really a victory there. Also, it hasn't even been released yet, so comparing hypothetical unreleased products isn't a good comparison to call released products you can actually buy "nothing special."
> (The authors declined to be interviewed until the paper is published in a peer-reviewed journal.)

Somehow I found this so encouraging. At a time when it seems even some scientists are just itching for a chance to get in front of the media with very preliminary studies, it is nice to see a team that seems to value actually getting the science right and getting others expert opinions before making a media blitz.
The flow is an ultra portable (think ultra light HMD that uses glasses arms to support itself on your head), phone controlled (Accelerometer and screen swiping) and phone driven (as in uses the phone video graphics) device which is a 3DOF headset primarily aimed at content consumption rather than games. Unfortunately at its price point, and lacking the controller and movement I'm use to with my headsets, it's a non starter for me.

It's an interesting idea at half its price, maybe.

Facebook gaining control of mass VR is basically why I feel pretty bearish about VR in general. If there's any company that can turn it into an anti consumer ad driven experience that experiments on you, its facebook.

Hopefully valve continues to put out competing hardware even if its niche for people willing to pay for a premium experience. The main issue right now is, as you say video card availability and prices.
I'm guessing they don't interpolate frames either, but maybe that would be a good time saving feature if you know the end compression format and you can just interpolate the frames at the render stage instead of re-encoding it again later.
The camera should be behind the screen. A cheap APS size 5Mpixel and a zoom lens are my ultimate setup. The sensor would have huge pixels that work in low light. With OLED this should be feasible, I guess. APS (or even full-size 24x36mm) would give small depth of field with little need for background blurr. A big bump on the back are the least of my worries.

The ultimate setup would be completed with

- 43” curved 4k or 8k, not panorama
- build in color calibration
- optional monitor hood
- HiFi speakers left & right, bass at the bottom
- build in directional microphone(s)
- lamps on all sides to lighten-up face at night
- (servo-) optical zoom out, e.g. for 2 attendees
- sensor(s) that detect color temperature pointing
behind the screen and adapts screen & lamps
accordingly
- able to share parts of the screen, eg half or quarter
- works with all OS-es: mac, linux & windows
- build-in bluetooth hub for keyboard, mouse & headset
- 3.5mm headset jack in multiple locations,
e.g. left, middle & right
- input for studio quality microphone
- support for attaching 2 or 3 computers
- USB-C Power Delivery up to 240Watt each simultaneous
- 10Gbit network switch to USB-C for each simultaneous
- switch all inputs & outputs in one-go,
without plug-and-play events at each switch
- able to swivel and adjust height
- mechanical switch to turn off camera & microphones
- lasts 20 years

I don’t expect this to be ever made, but I keep on dreaming :-)
It'll be infinitely easier to program than ladder logic, that's for sure
Even the “sweet” tomatoes have pretty close to the same pH, it’s just the sugars covering the tang, like soda or honey.

As a bitter taster it doesn’t matter how much sugar you put on the tomato it’s still too much. About the only thing IMO that you can put on a tomato to make it acceptable is a bacon cheeseburger.
From the perspective of someone less familiar with this kind of thing, this comparison would be easier to understand with a bit of an introductory explanation about what job we're trying to do or problem we're trying to solve, and the assumed context or constraints.
Aranging windows is not a "power user feature". It's a basic thing that all other desktop OSes have. If you think hotkeys are "power user" things then replace them with gestures. Mac has none.

They actually do have windows splits, it's just unfortunate that they force a workspace onto them.

If anything workspace is a power user feature. Many including myself rarely use it. I could not if I wanted to because it looks so stupid on an ultrawide monitor.

To me the fact that 2 basic things: window snap and window switch hot keys (dont tell me you can switch apps, then swicth windows, it's retarded), don't exist, and I need at least 2 other apps to make my computer bearable, is ridiculous.

It's luckly that the apps happen to be free no thanks to Apple.
As linked on that page, he is an artist as well: https://christopherhanusa.com/

I don't know how "technical" or "emotional" that is, but it's certainly art.
郭文贵谎言造成人道危机？
郭文贵最大的特点是什么？他可以自说自话，不用听取外界的任何信息，全靠自己臆想，始终认为自己臆想的就是绝对对的。蚂蚁最大的特点是什么？蚂蚁认为其他人说的什么都是错的，只有瘟龟臆想出的才是正确的，并且瘟龟说什么就是什么，根本不用大脑思考，蚂蚁脑袋就是装饰品，看起来像人的装饰品。在蚂蚁帮的意识里，郭文贵的谎言都是真实的
谎言人生的郭瘟龟最近再次借美军溃退阿富汗后造成的人道危机话题，口嗨称“花费数百万派运输机去拯救阿富汗人的行动”，如今半月已过，阿富汗人连根瘟龟的鸟毛都没看见，跟别提运输机了。其实，文贵去年借香港话题也撒过相同的谎言，直播中称“动用几亿美金解救上千人香港人”的谎言也是信口拈来，唯一被其“解救”的闫丽梦也是坐客机去的美国，还被文贵作为病毒谣言闹剧提线木偶，如今在看穿文贵丑陋嘴脸已与其切割成为“砸郭战将”。为了安抚早就被骗得一穷二白、体无完肤的“蚂蚁粉”，郭瘟龟更是化身海外华人的救世主，宣布要成立武装力量，美其名曰“为维护海外华人的利益”，其称要在世界各国成立合法的武装力量，为此还不惜拉上“黑水公司”的虎皮作大旗，瘟贵这是明目张胆的想把“惩贼先锋队”转化成“蚂蚁军团”吧，莫不是想打着建军的幌子，向所有海外华人收取“保护费”吧？能把雇佣两个退休保安吹成建立了安全保护体系的，也只有习惯于天方夜谭的瘟龟才能办到吧，显然瘟龟这次将收割韭菜的目标定在所有海外华人圈了，真是到死也要割波韭菜才能安心上路。
It has to be 3x faster to match M1's efficiency given the TDP is 30 vs 105.
M1 MAX is not a low-power CPU. It consumes the whole 30 WATTs (!!!) and has an active cooling system. H-series CPUs from Intel have a TPD of 35 - 45 WATTS and this is almost the same as M1 MAX. According to your calculation, Intel CPU should consume 150 WATTs which is completely wrong.
PAYWALLED BULLSHIT.

Not to mention another shitty title that doesn't say WTF it is.
Note that macOS versions beyond Mojave drop support for 32-bit binaries.
What does mysite.com resolve to? How does it proxy to my local machine? Ngrok?
The new LFP batteries are still a future thing here in the USA for Tesla.
Not really, because the first Xeon CPU he compares against is ten years old. That kind of system isn't worth the cost of shipping it somewhere. A current generation desktop i3 is likely faster in almost any workload.

It's not even interesting that the M1 is "slightly" beaten by a Mac Pro's Xeon, because nobody is doing raytracing on CPUs.

A Pascal nvidia GPU will render scenes in Blender faster than a current mid-tier AMD CPU, and it's two generations old.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=blender-...

It takes an RTX 3080 card (not even the fastest consumer Ampere card) 11 seconds to render a scene that the fastest Pascal card (1080) took 94 seconds. That's nearly an order of magnitude faster.

I saw an article comparing the M1 Max to a high end AMD card, but that's also meh. AMDs's GPUs don't perform anywhere near as well as Ampere and they use far more power, so they're an easy target to compare against. AMD fakes their benchmarks by overclocking the cards depending on temperature, and the benchmarks they run to tout performance figures are just shy of where the card starts to throttle back for thermals. An AMD GPU that has been running for an hour will perform substantially worse compared to an Ampere card.
Does Alder Lake require security mitigations?
I think we completely agree. Unless you have a clear job benefit (like studying CS) you should only go to college unless you're already rich and it doesn't matter.
Fairly accurate, though I love CSAs (and I suspect this is a loving parody by the author).

What I find especially funny is

> What the hell am I supposed to do with all these turnips?

Do people really not know what to do with turnips? Turnips are amazing- roast them, put them in soups, they're great. Now radishes, on the other hand, those are a mystery to me.
Thanks, but I still don't know what that's supposed to mean. Nor what I'm supposed to do about it.

I don't tolerate HN's disregard for users, namely their bullshit of letting us type out questions or answers and THEN whining that we're "posting too fast" and preventing us from submitting what we just spent time composing. That is disrespectful, ȧṡsḥole behavior that nobody needs to tolerate. They want to ban me for outing them as assholes? Then let them do it OUTRIGHT.

But doing some underhanded "shadow ban" is right in line with the rest of their weaselly, anti-user behavior.
My experience with standardized exit testing in California was just that all the relevant classes would temporarily pause teaching more advanced material to review the more basic material that was on the exams.

Perhaps the experience was more useful to those with more marginal academic retention, but inserting standardized tests doesn't inherently improve a student's education.
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Since the CDC is currently analyzing the vaccine trial data to provide emergency authorization for covid vaccines for kids (ages 5 - 12), it might be helpful if the HN community can provide scientific data and literature sources (and their summary) that they will be using to evaluate the vaccination for their own situation, these can include

1. Data of covid disease in kids and how it is different compared to adults / young adults (on deaths, hospitalization, long covid among others).

2. Data on efficacy of vaccines across time and strains.

3. Data on how vaccine trials conventionally proceed for kids and how the covid trials are different.

4. Data on how vaccines impact children's growth long term.

The goal of this post is to collect information on authoritative, peer reviewed scientific data and literature. This can help parents to make an informed personal decision based on their individual situation.
I heard the same from a friend. But my 2012 Air won’t get it. So I’m stuck on Catalina, as I can’t downgrade to Mojave.