skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You’d be tempted to throw a good number of shots away, but more often you didn’t, because film was expensive and tossing out photographs seemed like a vain and frivolous thing to do.

At some point, I suppose cloud storage gets cheap enough (or outpaces file sizes…) that you end up keeping the bad digital photos because it’s not worth the effort to delete them
Is Hubris targeted at BMCs? Or is something different?
If the ad is an image and it’s been fetched from the server then it’s reasonable to assume it’s been viewed no?
I can lay a spike strip across 8 lanes of highway traffic whenever I want. It's not like it takes self-driving cars to allow people to be assholes and break the law. It's why we have laws.
Appreciating the utility of DNS based Load-balancing
Another example of "extensive unassailable and striking evidence": A death rate comparison between Romania, Bulgaria (low vax rate: 30.5% & 20%) and other EU countries (high vax rate >65%) [1].

The evidence looks "striking", but when you start to cherry pick other EU countries, the evidence becomes ambiguous [2]. Germany's vax rate is 66.2%. Poland's 52.3%. Slovakia's 42%. Yet, they all share a similar death rate.

Does that mean that there's no difference between 42% and 66.2%? Or does it mean that it's pointless to compare death rates between countries with different demographics, health care, etc..?

[1] https://twitter.com/BallouxFrancois/status/14524639992164597...

[2] https://imgur.com/a/tFC0wzV
Oh absolutely, they're great. My last MacBook Pro was around $2500 or $3000, if I remember correctly, and it was a very good price for what you got.

Don't think that I'm being overly negative here. These look like outstanding computers that are worth a premium price. My question here is about how much of a premium and I'm not trying to give an opinion with a question - I really don't know the answer :)
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Look beyond the politics to see the real power of what Haugen has done: she’s provided conclusive evidence that these people knew their products were bad for kids.

Some of you will say “okay but there’s also a large percentage on the other side!” — alright, so, you think it’s cool to play roulette with peoples’ kids’ mental health? “Some of you will be anorexic and secretly suicidal, but a bunch of you will be happy, and all of you fit the target demo we need for our ad clients, so... into the cauldron, all of you!” Don’t you realize how depraved the whole thing is?

I don’t have to convince the crowd here of this, because the data this woman leaked showed us something remarkable: while the supposedly-smart people who work in this industry don’t think the way Facebook makes kids feel is important, guess who cares? The kids! And they’re abandoning the company, or avoiding it like that kid in their class who tried to get them to try meth!

The game is up, and Facebook is culturally incapable of figuring out what to do about it. The leaked memos are straight-up comic book idiot-villain material.

This truly is the beginning of the end for Facebook. I was there at the beginning, at a time very few were paying attention to the fact that this was the beginning of something big. Now we are all here at the end, and very few are paying attention to the fact that this is the end of something big.
> If you’ve ever profiled a React app – even in production mode – you know there is a non-negligible performance impact to every component that renders.

Maybe it's just me, but I've used React for ~5 years and I've never needed to profile an app, since the performance out of the box has always been good enough.
I believe it was meant to be ironic comment, pointing at systemd
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> why you feel that your specific opinion is obvious enough to be held by random strangers on the internet is also beyond me

Not feeling that at all. I understand that whether it's worth an effort or not, is a subjective matter, and sure I use the pronoun "I" to speak for myself only.

The reason I got into argument is the logical problem with the argument, that the scale or impracticality makes it art, whereas small scale would not.
Nice, we’ve got $100k! I wonder what we’re going to spend our $88k on? Maybe we should use our $112k to hire somebody to work on the compiler full time? Would $85k be enough for them?
>> adequate business context, a decent design spec, and letting them figure it out.

I wish more PM's thought like you.
Slight correction.
Soviet Academy of Sciences is not an educational institution, nor it is limited to those who were born in Moscow.

A lot of university students in Moscow, Kyiv, St. Petersburg or any bigger Soviet city weren't actually born there. If you were from another city the university will give you dorm room if you pass the entry exams.

In case of Pajitnov luck is more about getting a job at Academy of Sciences, but probably it has something to do with his talents.
Close to no https://isapplesiliconready.com/for/developer
there are some CLIs to read hacker news in the terminal, if that's enough :)
I use Restyaboard to plan and organize my personal life and work projects. It comes with an intuitive, drag-and-drop interface that makes it easy for teams to plan and track projects. Another great feature is Offline sync - use without internet.
I wouldn't consider Twitter to be an unbiased third party given their past performance and the CEO's public stance on these topics.
I'm a "senior" engineer with 15 years experience in the industry. My first role, I took when I was 20 and I'm now 35. I recently moved from the US to the EU to try something new and different.

First thing's first, why don't you think you'll learn some new skills in the next 10 years? Do you not _want_ to do so?

10 years is an ETERNITY in the tech industry. Things will absolutely grow and change, and you'll need to as well.
3.5 pounds is "as portable as stone henge"? If you prioritize lightness you can maybe shave about a pound off that--and for travel I sort of wish Apple would still make a sub-13" model. But that's squarely in the weight range of laptops in general.

It is expensive. I give you that. And for many people it's probably overkill.
But then how did they reach mass adoption in the first place? It’s not like they were a Swiss Army knife and before and stripped features once they got big.
Did they finally get Docker working on the M1 chips?
Dumb question: Why is it seemingly so hard to just run a development environment on an Android smartphone? Why does Google try so hard to keep it from being used as a general computing device?

It's like there's a nuclear energy plant in my pocket and I'm only allowed to power a string of christmas lights. Maybe if we could use them like general computers, whole swaths of the tech economy would collapse, the way the energy sector would collapse if we all had personal nuke engines.
I've switched from photos to taking short clip type videos just to pull in some of the sounds and ambiance. It just helps me reconnect to the experience later.
My experiences with raspberry pis has been exclusively and extremely negative.

The first one I owned had some kind of electrical fault that bricked and destroyed my TV.

The second one I owned had a fault where a few of the capacitors on the back fell off upon me plugging it in for the first time.

The third one I tried had a fault where it would spontaneously shut down if I had any USB devices plugged into it for any reason at all (in this case it was a mouse and a flash drive).

The fourth one I owned had the same problem, and the way I fixed it was desoldering its onboard wifi receiver running it at an absurd underclock and overvolting the USB2 input with my bench power supply.

With that said, let me talk about their hardware.

The USB-C implementation on the raspberry pi 4 violates the USB spec. When this was brought up to the engineers over there, they completely memory holed the problem, saying it works on USB2 chargers through an adapter. I call bullshit because during normal use it will draw more than 12.5 watts (which exceeds power limits on USB2 cables).

I have never seen the micro HDMI port on anything made before 2013 so the adapters required to make it work with modern TVs may as well be proprietary ones sold by RPi.

The camera input connector is encrypted for some reason, so if you wanted to use a camera through there it has to be one of raspberry pi's.

Despite them claiming it's opensource, it really isn't. The only thing that they have made opensource is the schematics which are largely useless for integrating into your own designs. The main processor onboard (and a handful of other ICs) isn't even commercially available. They claim it is, but that's only if you order it in minimum quantities of a few hundred thousand or something.

So in order to use the RPi4's most basic features, you need a proprietary charger, a proprietary camera, and a proprietary video output dongle. These things are more locked down than most laptops.

And that's just the problems with the RPi4. That has absolutely nothing to do with the litany of problems the past versions have had, which I don't feel like listing here. One of the issues that comes to mind is that the RPi 3 had a problem where it would spontaneously shut down if the lights in the room flickered wrong.

Worst of all, because these clowns have mindshare it means that other more well-behaved SBCs will never get any form of community tech support or large enough marketshare to make any notable change.
I mean, yeah. You're not going to be running anything 32-bit, and you can't use OpenGL or Vulkan, which already rules out a decent handful of workflows (including but not limited to my own). On top of that, there's legendary Docker issues that plague pretty much anything running MacOS, and there still isn't a competitive, complete package manager. eGPUs are almost completely off the table, and if they do work you won't be allowed to run an Nvidia card, you can't use CUDA, and OpenCL is fully depreciated.

So yeah, there's still quite a few holdouts on the MacOS and ARM side of things. Unless you're confident that your workflow functions perfectly on ARM, you should probably stick with a nice x86 machine for the foreseeable future. Apple will definitely improve on this model, so if you are dead-set on buying one I probably wouldn't spring for the first-gen anyways. Just my two cents though.
> without some form of translation or emulation

IIRC that's why Rosetta2 exists. The question is more whether there are issues despite that
Fair enough! It doesn't really bother me either way, since I don't really make use of the GPU on my laptop. Curious to try out Tensorflow on one of the new machines, though.
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I don't have a PhD in physics and found this article pretty easy to follow - it's an accessible pop sci translation of a paper [1] that DOES require a PhD or at least a serious interest in physics to follow.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.12238.pdf
Are companies willing to hire folks from India by sponsorsing H1B?
Wanted to know if there are companies willing to hire folks from India by sponsoring h1b visa. Also where can I find such companies who are willing to do so? I have 2 years of expirience in software development.
In my experience, documentation is the first thing to go when the workload increases. There are always tasks that get labelled as "important, but not urgent" that get pushed out; and documentation that is already known to everyone immediately involved is easy to push out beyond the product release date. Of course, by then other priorities are moved up, and documentation never recovers.

The only way I've seen documentation get the priority it needs is if management mandates it as part of the release package on which developers' performance evaluations are based.
I think that the following paragraph cuts to the heart of an important question linking GR to QM:

“Take the case where a massive object is put into a superposition of two possible locations at the same time. General relativity says that any object with mass should bend the fabric of space-time. But what if that object is in a superposition? Is the geometry of space-time also in a superposition?”

I don’t have a PhD in anything let alone physics, but it seems to me that answering the above question could potentially lead to a reformulation of GR in a way that gracefully incorporates quantum mechanics, which is worth getting excited about.

But yes, you’re correct that the nuance is lost on me. Still, there seem to be plenty of people who find it interesting.
> Tesla don't provide shop manuals or training to 'unauthorised' mechanics.

They are basically big tech on wheels doing big tech things.
nice project! curious how the rust ownership model works in a monolithic kernel context. are the lifetimes of kernel structures associated with a process "owned" by the process itself somehow?
I don't think this is a "both sides" issue or biased media coverage (& note I specifically said Canada and USA because I am making observations about both countries and they have extremely different media profiles).

I'm not talking about general low-level politicization (although I still think the right generally wins here). I'm talking about expressly restricting the kinds of topics scientists are allowed to speak about with media, the conclusions of the research being altered by political appointees, etc. Please feel free to present counter examples.

The Canadian right wing was specifically trying to help the Albertan government which is heavily dependent on oil (but in general the right seems to hogtie themselves to the oil and gas industry generally).

Contemporary news reports:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/jul/09/canada-s...

https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/monitor/harpe...

https://www.straight.com/news/385761/canadian-war-science-lo...

News reports after the fact (note that the National Post is the equivalent of Fox News in Canada):

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/canadian-scien...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/second-opinion-scientists-muz...

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadian-scientists-wer...

The Bush administration doing the same thing:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rewriting-the-science/

Here's the follow-up government report acknowledging it happened:
https://archive.md/SJk1v

That it absolved NASA leadership and the administration itself is questionable (kind of a "we investigated ourselves and found that we didn't do anything wrong" kind of thing). The oversight powers of IGs in the US are laughable so I generally trust their conclusions less (right or left). If you fill the public affairs office full of your lackeys and let them run amok, then you can claim ignorance and the investigator can't really conclude you directly directed any action.
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Nope, you can configure it, at least on Teslas. There's a slider you can adjust to tell the car how much it should charge to, so that with daily driving you usually charge to 80%, but if you're going on a roadtrip and want 100% - you can do 100%.
I turned off the "touch-up" checkbox on my video conferencing software.

I don't want to be meeting anybody in person and have them think - this dude looks terrible. Let's just set that expectation from the beginning.
Interesting. It makes a bad system worse to try to make it better.
Last year I decommissioned a Pi 2 that had been running nonstop pretty much since it came out, with the same SD card. I used it as a camera/motion detector for my garage, so it isn’t like it had the perfect environment. I also have a pi 3 that runs nonstop collecting data from a couple usb peripherals. I have a pi zero W running as a print server for the last 2-3 years, and a pi 4 with multiple services and docker containers for the last 1.5-2 years. I have never experienced an SD or pi failure. I only buy the power supplies recommended by the pi foundation. I also gracefully shut down vs. yanking power (but I do not have these on UPS, so they do occasionally experience power outages)
Sources / references would be handy here.
There was an article about when do startup brings in their first "product manager". Before bringing in "product people", the founders are the product people. I see it as the inflection point when the founder start delegating the product making to others. This is when the organization started scaling.

Doing one thing good is a thing in the past. Venture capital has pushed basically all start-ups into 100-feature shops
If only Hertz wasn't the worst of the car rental companies. My latest, and last horror story with them was that because they couldn't correlate my identity to that of the corporate credit card I was using, they were "unable to rent" to me.

I asked about refunding my pre-paid rental then, and started finding an Uber to Enterprise.

"Oh, sorry sir. Prepaid rentals are non-refundable."

Right, so you take my payment, and then decline to rent to me, and then refuse to refund me? They did, eventually.
Except for that $19 billion exit. Companies don't need to be turning a profit anymore -- they just need to prove they can scale, and someone else will figure out how to monetize it after a buyout. Hell, you don't even need to be a startup aiming for a buyout anymore to get away with being financially incompetent. Reddit is about to file their IPO at a valuation of $10 billion, even though they've been losing money for nearly two decades and are noticeably (and unsuccessfully) scrambling to find any presentable evidence that they're not complete buffoons.
I actually find more value in the current year's port setup but everybody's needs are different so some will gain, some will lose. I just found the statement in the article to be untrue.

I've never used 4 USB-C/TB ports at the same time, even when charging. I have used the same port for charging and HDMI via a dongle though. I also like the SD card slot, even though I mostly use micro-SDs. Depending on how much an SD protrudes on the side, keeping an adapter in permanently might solve for that though.
The Mac pro chip will also likely use the next generation of core architecture as well.
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It would be funny to place fake data behind the removable bars for tech savvy people to find.

Tech savvy people, but also journalists

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/10/missouri-gov-cal...
This comment is entirely misguided. I recommend at least reading Wikipedia before commenting. [0]

Cybernetics has little to do with computing. It's just a subset of control theory applied to non-technical areas. In particular, politics - which of course was considered by Stalin/the party as an attack on their authority. So they declared cybernetics as bourgeois pseudoscience, after Wiener's book got popular.

Communist party's condemnation of cybernetics, which lasted whopping 4-5 years in 50s, got absolutely nothing to do with either computers, computer science, electronics, or control theory as an engineering discipline. In fact it had zero effect on anything, it was simply a moral panic in the media. Nobody "emigrated to California" (how on Earth?..) as a result of that propaganda stunt, in particular because they couldn't. Actually, USSR developed their native computers in that period and after that. It was long before they decided to copy IBM.

I have no idea why cybernetics in USSR became such a meme.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics_in_the_Soviet_Unio...
I don't think these efficiencies are just from the node advantage. The fact is that Apple chips follow mobile designs and are highly integrated SoCs where Apple can optimize every aspect of the system in exchange for losing flexibility (no mixing and matching of components).

In contrast to mobile processors, x86 processors live in a world where flexibility is demanded. I need to be able to pick how much RAM I want, which WIFI modem, which graphics, and so on (where I is a combination of the consumer and laptop manufacturer). Sure, laptop processors have gotten more integrated lately, but it's not to the same degree. Competition from Apple might pressure Intel and AMD to integrate much more and sacrifice this flexibility in order to squeeze out better power efficiencies.
That's a lot of work for a joke
I can fit a 16" MBP in my backpack. Your mileage may vary.
It's an incredibly common one. Somehow, despite Peopleware being almost 35 years old, and pg's Maker Schedule, Manager's Schedule essay being twelve years old, we haven't learned anything and still have this incongruity that will not be reconciled in a direction which leads towards more productivity.

At times it feels like managers like to schedule meetings in such a way as to make it impossible to get any engineering work done on the clock. I particularly hate the the 10:00 AM, 2:30 PM meeting stack for it's ability to slice the day into chunks that are difficult to use productively for deeper work.
> I’ve had extreme trouble to find workloads that would stress the GPU sufficiently to take advantage of the available bandwidth.

Would love to see how well the GPU runs a memory-bound Proof-of-Work like Cuckatoo Cycle [1].

[1] https://github.com/tromp/cuckoo
Does it likewise amuse you when Europeans freak out if they are not allowed to smoke or if there is no designated smoking area in the vicinity?
Tesla’s Model 3 is first electric vehicle to top monthly sales charts in Europe
How could you not have a hot path? You're saying that you've measured actual usage and discovered that each thing happens to be called exactly the same number of times? That strikes me as extraordinarily improbable.
The Brothers Karamazov is probably the only book I never finished reading. I since have never tried to read anything from Dostoyevsky and was wondering whether reading his book in Slovak language (my native language which is relatively close to Russian and as such should provide a better translation) would help me (I bought english print at airport). It eases my mind a bit knowing it is difficult also in the language the book was written in.
That's a totally different question. A larger company such as Microsoft could have easily grabbed the market first, but they didn't.
They are impressive machines, but you can’t run Windows on it … yet, which is a big deal for many. Very few games are optimized for it, which is a primary use case for most average users to require horsepower like this.

Hopefully, these drawbacks will change if enough people buy these M1 machines, but there is no guarantee.
Hands-on with 100 new changes and features in Android 12 [video]
Docker works mostly fine. ARM images are pretty common, and for those that don't have it, it runs a QEMU emulated x86 machine.

I have hit issues with it but they're rare enough that I don't care.
Docker has been working for months.
That's what https://www.reddit.com/r/ShittyEarthPorn/ etc. are for!
Isn't this going a bit too far?

A product manager or something similar made a mistake and i see a week of blaming.
In a way, the West caught up with Asia. I remember the days when the constant group photos at Asian business functions--and the Japanese tourists clicking photos of every thing and everyone--seemed pretty weird.
I cannot help but disagree. Fear is great and essential. Fear raises our pulse and hones our mental focus with great precision. Fear is perhaps among the most developed reaction in animal neurophysiology.

Fear is good. Panic is bad. The distinction is the difference in cause and response. It takes a mature mind to appreciate the difference. The human mind is not fully developed to account for this until the prefrontal cortex gains power over the limbic, which for most people is age 22-24. Even then it takes great practice and experience to properly transform a fear response into something supremely beneficial.
Yes. https://docs.docker.com/desktop/mac/apple-silicon/
“How do we democratize access to electric vehicles? That’s a very important part of our strategy,” Mark Fields, who joined Hertz as interim chief executive officer earlier this month, said in an interview. “Tesla is the only manufacturer that can produce EVs at scale.”