skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The requirement of the vaccine passport in Scotland seems to me absurd as the vaccination rate in Scotland is apparently roughly 85% for those over 16, and over 91% in terms of the first dose of the vaccination:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-58548727

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N.B.
I have had two shots already and would do a booster shot as well if and when offered and considered medically sound.
If you're using the same software, you can assume there's no super high-level speedups like that happening on the M1, although it might specifically target speedups on common instructions used in these workloads.
There is a surprise white van visit scheduled to the house of anyone opening that on chrome ;)
FBI raids researcher who discovered private patient data on public server (2016)
> "I've come across a number of people over the years who think that modern airplanes, with all their technology and automation, can almost fly themselves. That's simply not true. Automation can lower the workload in some cases. But in other situations, using automation when it is not appropriate can increase one's workload. A pilot has to know how to use a level of automation that is appropriate... whether you're flying by hand or using technology to help, you're ultimately flying the airplane with your mind by developing and maintaining an accurate real-time mental model of your reality... how many different levels of technology do you want to place between your brain and the control surfaces?" -- Sully: My Search for What Really Matters (p. 188)

EDIT: remove unnecessary contextualization
Another thing I don’t like is managers sending you a notification for a meeting in 30 minutes, which throws your concentration out of the windows. Then finding out the reason of the meeting was because they have not read your status report. Or something that could have been answered in a couple of slack messages. And then it’s already 4pm and your work day ends at 5pm.
As a controls engineer in a past life, I like seeing projects like this. Johnson Controls, Honeywell, etc. have been eye gouging customers on proprietary hardware.

I've toyed with the idea of starting an open source building automation hardware company. There's quite a few open BAS software packages floating around now too.
It is very relevant: people keep bringing up the "x86 loses because it is clocked higher" (you did so yourself!) but the thing is, sure, clock that x86 down and then instead of matching in performance and losing heavily in perf/watt you lose heavily in performance and match in perf/watt.

The fact of the matter here is that Apple is getting much better IPC at a much better power-per-core, and that is the real architectural gap. You can slide around where on the scale that x86 falls, but there isn't enough gain from a full node shrink to close a factor-of-6 perf/watt gap and a 3x IPC gap.
You can do this with Inkscape also.
I did a lot of streaming on my Sony Ericsson K800i (2006). The local public broadcaster had a deal with the mobile operators to zero-rate their streams from data plans. Using 3G UMTS you actually got better reception inside buildings/basements/on trains etc than with FM radio which would fade in and out.
Internet of Snitches https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28158939
The FAQ in this post is great for understanding the issues here.
Starting replying then saw your comment. Just wanted to note you are spot on in my opinion. It will be hard to showcase parallel construction and I am not sure how some ngo of some sort can pursue this at court.

Honestly, my feeling is the moment judges and congress felt OK with actions even pondering such acts we had a fundamental democratic problem in our hands.

As they say if you put a cop car on someone's tail they are going to get a ticket.
> While you might have had a poor experience, the rest of the market may have been willing to wait in 15 minute lines for $10 bottles of water. If you disagree with PE, the easiest way to "stick it to them" is to vote with your wallet. Simply stop going to Sea World and you'll see PE change their tune pretty quickly.

Ironically this is exactly the sort of attitude that the parent is complaining about. You could never grow a business with this mindset, but you can coast and cannibalize one just fine. Nobody likes 15 min lines or $10 water bottles; they tolerate them because there are other experiences that are worthwhile along the way. You remove these experiences and you are basically just screwing people who are going off outdated information about the quality of the experience. Voting with dollars is fine but there is a big information asymmetry and a hysteresis effect of having a quality brand reputation (built over years of not trying to screw people). Any voting with dollars is years removed from the results.
Do you really struggle to see why that's scary?
Did you notice they released a new layout engine for Word sometime in the last ten years?

Did you turn on kerning?
Strange behavior with NaN and -ffast-math
Just checked. At least Booking has a "ev charging station" filter when searching for places to stay.
> Is there any way to grow nutritious food that isn't just transporting water everywhere?

Put goats in a field. Meat has 20x-100x the energy density of most veggies.
> We rotate one year tomatoes with one strand of alfalfa, which lasts 3-5 years and regenerates nitrogen into the soil.

So for a given plot you do tomatoes for one year every 4-6 years, do I understand correctly?

Does it matter so much what other crop you plant, in terms of reducing the fungus? Alfalfa is just a good choice for its nitrogen fixing? Could you leave it fallow for example? (just trying to get ideas for my garden)
The person clad in black spandex, with toilet paper rolls on their head that they unspooled to communicate.

I dunno what the heck about that did it, but maaaaan did that freak me out as a kid.
As someone else from the UK, at the start of the pandemic lockdown measures several cities tried to give every homeless person a bed. In every case, the majority ended up leaving the accommodation offered due to the rules around drugs, smoking, antisocial behaviour, whatever.

I'm not sure I agree with the above poster about their solutions to the problem, but "solving" homelessness, or addiction, is a lot harder than making some broad brush laws about decriminilisation.

My cousin is a heroin addict, 12 years running at this point. He's in Dundee, the smack capital of the UK and quite possibly western Europe. Methadone is the worst idea possible for him, because he swaps it with the cancer patients for diazepam and then makes himself a happy cocktail. He's from a genuinely loving, supportive family, but still breaks into their house to steal stuff to pawn for smack money.

The only thing that would probably "help" him is full decriminalisation, but that would not help his victims, or his family, or the already overstressed health service in general, because the whole point of these measures is an expectation that addicts will suddenly "see the error of their ways", rather than thinking "wahay, free smack".

And back to the original point, when you have people actively preferring the street to the fully serviced hotel rooms, then you've probably got a severe structural problem. At which point it's easy to understand the above point of view, especially if you have a home and a family in close proximity to the inevitable social disorder (and I've also lived in Portugal. It is far from the free drug liberal paradise that some imagine it as)
The information you're after to measure line heights, glyph sizes, em-height, etc. is generally in the 'head' [1] and 'OS/2' [2] tables of an OpenType font. Don't be afraid to parse these tables if you need to; it's not hard to do, even in JavaScript. (Of course, to have access to the tables in the first place you'll need to be using a webfont that you control.)

[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/he...

[2]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/os...
> I don't really know where to start on this. SKUs that target very different markets are necessarily going to have different performance and efficiency tradeoffs. And core which target different cycle times are going to be able to achieve different IPC. This clearly confuses the basis of performance and different freq/ipc design points.

see my response elsewhere, but these aren't unrelated problems: Apple has higher IPC at a lower power-per-core. You can slide around where on the scale x86 falls - maybe you can match perf/watt but then you're getting wiped by a factor of 3 on performance, and you can match on performance but then you're getting wiped by a factor of 6 on perf-watt. You can't do both at once.

There simply isn't enough transistor gain from a single node shrink there to clear that much of a gap, basically Apple is also seeing much better performance-per-transistor and that's a harder gap to close.

> I'm asking is there some continued effect by which people think ARM is going to continue to pull ahead. Is it going to remain < 5%, or is there some turning point where that will start to increase? I'm no expert on this,

where in the world are you getting that this is <5% gap?

again, 3990WX is an absolute best-case scenario here, that is putting a laptop Apple chip up against a HEDT-class (really, server-class) CPU with 6 times the silicon area and five times the TDP, and all it can do is match it. Mac Pro is the Apple competitor to those chips, and you'll see it slide back into the lead again.

and again, task energy as a measurement favors getting it done faster over pure perf/watt. It's still a 280W TDP / 350W PPT chip against a 60W laptop chip, and it has way more silicon, it's the best case scenario and all they can do is match the M1 in task energy.

That's actually still an extremely good outcome for the M1 and the 40-core Mac Pro is going to slide back over the top again.
Your head, being farther from the center point which you revolve around, is traveling faster than your head - causing, via relativity, time to pass slower for your head than your feet. The faster a thing moves relative to another, the slower time appears to pass for it.
The vast majority of developers will never even see assembly for x86 or ARM. Compiler developers and those need to hand optimize code may care but for everyone else it's a black box.
Woah is that why it feels like my MacBook is humming sometimes when I touch it? Wondered this for years.
Intel's Alder Lake benchmarks show that their new mobile processor is faster than the M1 Max. So, this domination doesn't seem to be a long term thing.
Can you please make your substantive points without fulminating and name-calling? That's in the site guidelines. I realize you're talking about an important life-and-death issue/incident and that this material is highly activating. But internet snark and putdowns don't help—they just degrade things further and evoke worse from others.

We could especially do without "the local painkiller addicted retirement community" saying and "their dementia ridden but still able to vote minds". That's a slur, and those are not welcome here, regardless of how wrong other people are or you feel they are.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
> technology hasn't evolved since then... everything is static.

Maybe read again, no one said that. If anything it used to be the norm to have clunky products that require a manual. Many products these days don't need manuals.

I mentioned Steve Jobs to say he was full of shit, I don't believe for a second that Apple did actually pursuit that philosophy, let alone that they should stay doing it
'A Scanner Darkly' ends with the most gutting personal note by Philip, which is extremely relevant to the article:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21587769

Relevant to your quote, Philip said: The two basic topics which fascinate me are “What is reality?” and “What constitutes the authentic human being?” Over the twenty-seven years in which I have published novels and stories I have investigated these two interrelated topics over and over again. I consider them important topics. What are we? What is it which surrounds us, that we call the not-me, or the empirical or phenomenal world? — from https://urbigenous.net/library/how_to_build.html
The questions then become --- can you trust the system on-device transcription to preserve privacy or can you justify the size of the datasets for transcription if you've got to include it/download it for secure offline use; and can you make it work reasonably well in the languages your users use. (bonus points if it can reasonably detect the spoken language which may not match the written language of the phone).
The same legislation would ban non-compete clauses. Good stuff.

I didn't see this coming. At this point, I'm waiting for Chairman Doug to redistribute farmland and announce a five-year plan...
You’ve correctly identified one reason Apple’s hardware is so effective: they have a hardware-accelerated standard library, something that requires cooperation between their software and silicon developers. The nearest comparison is if Dell released a line of servers that, when paired with Ubuntu LTS, provided a hardware-accelerated glibc. They could do this at any time, but it’s not easy; the capital cost is incredibly high and demand is incredibly low. Apple has managed to deliver, and now owns a niche last claimed by Amiga decades ago. The advantages of that niche are exactly as you describe them, but if it were as easy to profit from that niche as your dismissiveness implies, there wouldn’t have been a twenty year gap between Amiga and Apple Silicon.
Finally some objectivity to stop the M1 love fest
Windows most everywhere:

Hold ALT while typing the Extended ASCII number for a character on the numpad (not the row of numbers above the letters) results in that char.

For é: Hold Alt while typing 130 on numpad.

TIL, apparently this can be extended to unicode too.

https://superuser.com/questions/1024948/windows-10-alt-code-...
I think you are thinking about it wrong. A lender will happily lend $3B discounted slightly because the loan is secured by… $4B worth of Teslas thanks to that bulk purchase discount. Now, imagine if that lender is Tesla Financing Arm N.A.

It’s not a bet concerning whether or not Hertz has $3B cash on hand, it’s a bet if the lender thinks Hertz branding is good enough to pay the note. I would bet so.

Finally, there may well be a cross-collateralization with the Hertz family to make this deal pencil out.
Here's an example of what we're up against:-

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/25/spanx-chief-...

> The chief executive and founder of the shapewear company Spanx has surprised employees with two first-class plane tickets and $10,000 each.

The idea that massive carbon emissions are a good thing has to change. I don't think it's going to.
Unfortunately FB is gaining the market at the low end already. While not as high quality, you can even plug your Quest into a PC (assuming the PC is powerful enough to run VR) and run PC VR games. And with video cards so expensive, the only way VR is going mainstream any time soon is with lower end less expensive setups. Vive is about to release the Flow, which looks interesting, but from their product page I don't fully understand the niche it's looking to fill.
ACLUs values have definitely changed. They no longer support free speech. One thing that turned me off, was when one of their lawyers tried to cancel Sandmann. Sandmann was the kid, wrongfully accused of racism, simply because he stood his ground. And one of the ACLU lawyers publicly said the college shouldn't admit the kids... Because, well who knows.
> It's pride, not love. And a pride that is essentially about avoiding shame;

That has nothing to do with my rationale... I'm curious where you got that.

If I give heroin to an addict, the only shame involved to me would be the personal feeling of shame from having caused harm to another human...

So I think this response is a straw man that doesn't address my point.
The invisible elephant in the US opioid policy discussion is the lacuna between the policy and its implementation.

You have to find a human being to perform the work of enforcing the drug laws. The US has had drug addicts for a hundred years, and the attitude towards opioids hasn't changed very much, but the usage levels go up and down. There's a back-and-forth between "rehabilitation" and " incentivizing" that correlates poorly with the outcome.

What correlates better with opioid use? Recently, the epidemic clearly started with overprescription and then exploded with fentanyl:

https://www.cdc.gov/opioids/basics/epidemic.html

It's important to notice that prescription opioid overdoses don't go down until 2017. This problem started with prescriptions and it won't end until the problem is fixed. Pills should be replaced with patches wherever possible.

The other glaring issue is that the meteoric rise of fentanyl was not noticed until it got out of hand. This is a societal problem: drug messageboard users knew about the fentanyl crisis years before the regulators took any action.

The regulatory system, viz. the DEA, has been starved for talent for decades because nobody wants to work for them. The enforcement-for-profit model of the civil asset forfeiture era of policing has driven talented and motivated people away from law enforcement careers. The people who are left are not qualified or motivated for the task at hand. Enforcement should be more proactive than it was. It should focus on real dangers, not culture wars. Opioids and dopaminergic stimulants are the drugs of self-destruction; everything else is a distraction.

The most ironic thing to hear people chanting in an epidemic of poisonings brought on by illegally and irresponsibly manufactured high-potency addictive drugs is "abolish the police!". These people need the police. But nobody trusts the police.

One quote we were all forced to memorize in school was: "A house divided against itself cannot stand."
How dare you!! Only we're allowed to sell people's data!!
Your comment about automating autorotations got me interested, and it appears that one UAV company has done a tech demo for it, at least from my cursory search. From what I can tell though the design space would be extraordinarily difficult to fully automate. Management of rotor RPM requires finesse, functioning flight controls and also quick decision making about where and how you are going to land. Usually the automatic flight control system would require either enough battery power to power your servo actuators after an engine failure or a system designed to run in AC power which is generated by your rotor system (which of course means it’s depleting rotor RPM at a time when rotor RPM is what is most important to manage). I think you’d have to design a lot of the aircraft systems with automation in mind, so it really would have to be a new aircraft in many regards, and you’d be unlikely to be able to retrofit an older airframe to do it. I think there’s just too many trade offs to make the system worthwhile in the low margin business of crop spraying, tour rides, or electronic news gathering. Medevac, oil rig transportation or military applications could make use of an automatic autorotation system, but those aircraft also tend to be medium to heavy twin engine aircraft which negates a lot of the need to focus as much on autos when you are designing the overall system.
I use CouchDB. I love its multi-master replication capability, HTTP API and its ability to monitor for changes easily.
Ahh yes, thank you for being so generous to locate your power plants and waste treatment facilities out here and being so gracious to let us ride on your pipes and wires, while we generate the electricity you consume and clean the water you dirty. NIMBY right?

However, since my comment was about the need for automobiles in rural areas because the distances between services are not supportive of mass transit and reasonable walkable distances. Folks that live in urban areas seem to forget that the bulk of this earth doesn’t have the luxury of a bus stop or train station a block away from their home and place of employment.
They went from an org, defending free speech, even speech that people don't like.. to a dangerous organization.
If you don't have a young user base now, then in 10 years you might not have a user base at all.

Young people will eventually grow old, have jobs, etc. The cycle continues.
In respect to Sea World the more realistic strategy is either run at a minor loss until the real estate is profitable or squeeze dry ASAP and sell. Or the timeless play of load it with debt, payout themselves and declare bankruptcy.

Of course there are other PE businesses that are ran with only minor changes. I have a friend whose firm invests in dermatology offices and has created a network of small offices nation wide. From my understanding they really do try to keep the same staff on and mostly do back office changes but that’s his word so take it for what it is. I personally find large scale PE work pretty soulless but there are definitely firms that care about the companies they take over.
Mastodon, Pleroma, and Misskey (via plugin) all support RSS feeds.
IPv6 on AWS – Flat network connection between local computer lab and the cloud
Alfalfa is especially good for adding nitrogen, but clover can do the same for a home garden.

You are correct on the number of years between plantings, but really only 2-3 years off are needed to clear the fungus. Alfalfa just lasts longer.

As another comment mentions, some other common crops have the same disease risk, so avoid potatoes and eggplants too many consecutive years.

Fallowing it an option, but a little nitrogen for a home garden shouldn’t be too prohibitive. When you have a lot of acres it can be a meaningful cost saving measure but it’s not huge.
How are you emulating an IR remote on a raspi?

I dropped down to Rust and gave the thread max priority in Linux but still couldn't toggle the port fast enough (the remote outputs square waves where the signal for the same button varies by low hundred of microseconds. The frequency changed rapidly enough that I can't use the rpi's built-in pwm).

It seemed I'd need a dedicated board running something more embedded-y the rpi communicates with. Instead, I'm going to try to solder transistors to the capacitive buttons on the existing remote and re-use it's board. Unfortunately I can't get replacement remotes and I'm just learning how to solder, so I'm not confident in success.
no one said that speed is the end goal. I said if you don't need to collect feedback, there is no need to ship fast. Of course the outcome is that you have a product with ideas pulled out of your arse instead of responding to users' voices. Having said it could still be good
So, what is a good free speech organization that is worth donating to?
Can a Pi match the sort of real-time performance of something like a Controllogix PLC?
Yes-- they show a few percent victory in absolute performance while using nearly 5x the power, for a chip that's several months away.
Ah okay cool. Thank you for pointing this out.

Now would I use the adapter for react native or for cordova?

If react native, I've been writing with react js and have been under the impression that react native specific plugins aren't compatible with react js. Is that wrong?

If cordova, it's totally compatible with capacitor?

Sorry just want to make sure before jumping in
Chris Rufer may run a tight operation but I have nothing nice to say about him as a person, especially how he communicates with his growers. I’ll leave it at that.
I've found a laptop cooling pad works wonders, even without the fan on. Just letting ambient air reach the laptop bottom was enough passive cooling to keep the laptop fans off most of the time. But if the bottom of the laptop is touching any surface for extended periods of time, it got so hot that it couldn't even keep the battery charged without thermal throttling while the laptop was essentially idle.