skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Also TDP is an advertising figure but when you're talking about orders of magnitude it's a perfectly fine way to talk about parts as long as you stay consistent in TDP vs wall draw

This is completely incorrect. You cannot compare TDPs in any meaningful way except kinda within a single vendor's single generation. There's no standard definition for TDP, so it cannot be generally compared across brands.

And for most brands TDP doesn't have any useful meaning, further eliminating any value to be had from it.

> Wall draw to wall draw, my M1 Air draws under 30W and beats a 16" drawing over 100W

Are you sure? What workload(s)? How did you measure power draw? And 16" isn't a CPU/SoC, so what are you even comparing against? Your M1 Air sure as shit isn't beating the current 100w 16" after all. So I'm guessing you're comparing against a previous MBP 16" of some unknown variety, which one specifically in which configuration?

> TDP to TDP my M1 is 10W to a 16" closer to 100W.

Apple never shipped an Intel CPU with a 100w TDP in any MBP of any size. So not only is this comparison meaningless, you're not even using the right numbers. The i9-9980HK that I'm guessing you're referring to is a 45w TDP. But see above about you can't compare TDPs, they have no meaning.
It would be not a city. It would be somewhere rural. In fact, it is somewhere rural.

It's quiet, and there's just enough infrastructure to head down the road on bike or foot for some lunchtime exercise.

But, if you like the big city, or working from the woods, that's fine, too.
If you care about your idea being implemented and don't care about your idea being credited to you, the best way is to have someone steal your idea and run with it.

For smaller projects, you can make a kickstarter video and promote that, and wait until knock offs happen, then shutdown the kickstarter and refund the backers. For a large scale transport idea, that's unlikely to work. It can be hard to attract attention to big ideas, but some ways are works of fiction, appearing like a crackpot, building a giant model in the desert (might be the same as item 2), running a fairly successful upstart car company and tweeting anything that comes to mind, etc.
I'm turned off at the first sentence. Who gets chills over UI? Why the hyperbole? I feel like engineers with experience are going to want to sidestep the "hype" and talk about business. My humble opinion - strip away the hyperbolic job description and go with a more professional tone.
Sorry you have to go through this challenge.

I found the book Being Mortal by Atul Gawande to help put some things into perspective. I’m not suggesting things won’t work out but it can also be hard to accept what the evidence is realistically showing you when things are personal so it is good to be prepared; I think it’s a book worth reading by most everyone anyway.

As far as dealing with the every day I would recommend having a daily routine which is emotionally resetting such as meditation, exercise, and some hiking in nature sprinkled in (at least that’s what helped me).

If things don’t go well I would also suggest making sure you have and maintain social connections and seek out a therapist if needed; I did not do that and I would strongly recommend against it. Oh and do take time off even if you think working through it is initially the right move.

For context my experience wasn’t with a family member but none the less someone I was quite close with.

Hang in there.
One of the major purposes of K-12 school is to prepare kids for their future life. For the vast majority of people, life is nonstop grinding through things you don't like: Grinding a job you don't like so you can survive, grinding through traffic/commute, filling out forms, waiting in lines, paying bills. I'd almost argue the grit and persistence to keep grinding is the primary skill you need to be a baseline functional member of society and not end up broke or in prison. Even video games teach people to grind boring tasks for skill points and experience. For better or worse, it's ingrained in the fabric of society.
No.. but its built using Dart / Flutter so it may be possible to publish as a web version (though I think you'd run into issues with the database backend).
Counterpointing this: the pandemic is still a complicating factor in a lot of this. When people asked me during the peak of the pandemic, I couldn't justify asking for any of those because we were so strongly advised to eliminate all contact and isolate for the patient's compromised immune system. Even with vaccines and treatments now, and a better understanding of how COVID does and doesn't spread, that advice hasn't substantially changed.

Also, if you're someone reading this and considering it encouragement to say "if there is anything you need, just ask", please don't reach for that first.

Doing so puts more work on the caretaker to plan and manage work for you to do — the caretaker then has to take care of you, too, because your offer to help is also your attempt to be, or at least feel, useful in the face of something intangible where you're functionally helpless. Multiply that by 5, 10, 20, 50 depending on the size of the caretaker's social circle and just MANAGING the requests to come up with things to do to help is a full-time form of caretaking that pulls them away from taking care of the person who actually needs it.

If you truly do want to help, identify specific things, plan the work yourself, and offer that plan such that all that's needed is a yes/no answer, and take whatever the answer is guilt-free — and be prepared for it to be no, and to live your life content with that.

If the yard looks unkept, show up to take care of it, or tell them you have a quote for a landscaper and are willing to pay for it. Drop off packaged food, easy meals they can choose when to eat because schedules don't matter any more. Give them your number and tell them to contact you any time, no questions asked, for any reason, especially to just talk about any random bullshit. If the caretaker doesn't take advantage of any of that, don't dare put any pressure, even the gentlest amount, to change their mind.
I've seen a genius use of face analysis lately: nvidia new video codec for chat.

https://developer.nvidia.com/ai-video-compression

Basically it creates an AI model of your face, send that to the other party, and then when you move, it only sends key face points. The other party uses the AI model to create a virtual hi-res picture of you, thispersondoesnotexist style, except it looks perfectly like you. Then it uses the face points to move it the way you move.

The result: it consumes almost no bandwidth and you get the experience of a hi-res video call.

Of course, then I realized the trap: it's a perfect honey pot to get everyone to scan their face.

This is, IMO, what's going to happen with the VR. Big companies like Facebook/Meta are going to use the online avatar as a motivator to let them scan everything that can identify you. It will make the virtual you so realistic! Scan your face, your cat, your whole flat!

People will jump on that, with no thinking about the consequences what so ever. After all, they are crazy about the way services like snapchat can change your face on a video.

It's already game over. Like with Ken of the North star, we don't know it, but we are already owned.
Glad you like the idea. I don't have an iPhone, so an iOS app would be a little tricky. If it takes off, I may consider it, or maybe someone will volunteer to make one. Wanna do it?

The Android app currently works with Firebase, so no polling, and based on topics, no unique user ID either (no tracking), but the ntfy.sh API also supports polling so that'd also work.
I live in Leipzig.

The best thing is IMHO that we have the Grüner GÜrtel ("green belt") which is a pretty large area of real primeval forest right crossing through the town and suround the city core.

In future outer leipzig will be surrounded by seas (7 Seen gebiet) which emerged from old mining holes and are all connected with each other.
Those are not rules. Those are fantasies. As long as humans are implementing all this, struggles to control it are going to be a thing, and the very people most likely to abuse the situation will be the people who wrest control of it from others.

In some ways this isn't a new problem, though. The challenge here is defining a collective good and valuing it over individual power, and that might not be a wholly solveable problem but it's certainly a negotiation that takes place as long as there is not only one power that exists.

In that way, these rules (fantasies as they are) become valid. They're not laws as in 'gravity', they're laws as in 'enforceable and societally agreed upon'. I'm a bit puzzled how you enforce 'nobody controls the Metaverse' but it is quite a stake in the ground: you can sure tell when it's NOT being honored.
I think of astrology, like tarot, as a storytelling tool. For myself, an astrology or tarot reading gives a narrative which I can consider and possibly act upon. For flattering or welcome aspects of the reading, do I actually manifest the desirable characteristics? Could I be more like these aspects of the reading? For unflattering/unwelcome aspects, the opposite.

Of course, this works just as well with a randomly shuffled tarot deck, or with a random astrological reading (I don’t think that there is anything special about the astrological reading which corresponds to my date of birth).

I haven’t written fiction in a long time, but I also think it might be interesting to use such readings to develop fictional characters or plots.
Nice!

I have to admit making a naming app has been on my mind since we had our child. I learned I really love naming and name issues in general, and really got into the name and naming community more than I thought.

I think the reason I never got around to it was I didn't really know where to start, and wrestled with issues around open source versus private data, how to collect the data I needed to do what I wanted, and how to balance data retention against privacy issues. I think I was just thinking of bootstrapping from users but was never sure if that would work or if I could do it another way.
One more thing I think helps a lot is to try to have "life as usual" for your mother where possible, maybe organise events at home/hospital, have dinners, jokes. I did film watching, me cooking, reading books for my mum.
Oh the site is going slow but it did load.

>Another cross reference took me off to sequence A002822, labeled “Numbers m such that 6m−1, 6m+1 are twin primes"

Don't focus on 6m+/-1 alone and you'll get it. Let me explain

All prime numbers above 2 are in the form of 2m + 1. ie. They are odd. So we have a formula that rules out half of numbers from being possible prime.

Now we can do a similar thing and create a formula to rule out factors of 2 and 3. Factors of 2 and 3 repeat every 6 numbers (the multiple of 2 and 3). eg. 6m + 0, 6m + 2 or 6m + 4 is divisible by 2. 6m + 0 or 6m + 3 is divisible by 3.

So all prime numbers above 3 are in the form of 6m + 1 or 6m + 5. We can write the 6m + 5 as 6m - 1 if we want. Only 2 out of 6 numbers can be prime above 3 and the numbers either side of these will have either a factor of 2 or a factor of 6. (Btw never simplify the 'only 2 out of 6 numbers can be prime' as there are windows (twin primes for example) where there's more than 1 our of 3 numbers that are prime. It's only true that there's never more than 2 out of 6 sequential numbers prime above 6. If you come up with a prime number theory that sets a maximum of the frequency of primes you need to consider the window size rather than a straight fraction or you'll end up with errors).

Now we can do the same as above for 5. 30 is where factors of 2,3 and 5 align.
All prime numbers above 30 are in the form of 30m + 1, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29. The rest are factors or 2,3 or 5. Only 8 out of 30 numbers above 5 can possibly be prime. All those primes are surrounded by a factor of 6 and 2 (since 6m +1/-1 is a subset of this) or in the +1/+29 case surrounded by a factor of 2 and a factor of 30. For the twin prime case 1/3 of prime numbers are next to multiples of 2,3,5 and 2/3 are next to multiples of 2,3.

You could do the same with 2x3x5x7 = 210. And again come up with a formula for the maximum frequency of primes (48 out of 210 numbers above 7 can possible by prime) and also a formula for where primes can occur. In this case you'd see for the twin prime case 1/21 are next to 2x3x5x7, 6/21 next to 2x3x5, 14/21 next to 2x3.

And we can keep doing this again and again. Each time we'll see the frequency for primes decrease and we'll see a new possibility for an even more composite number next to a prime opening up.

Now we can see clearly that primes are always next to at least one composite number. As the numbers get larger and larger there's there's more possibility for the number next to a prime being more composite.
I remember a few years ago when theme customization was removed from most desktop environments. Dark theme was removed from Android, though it may have come back.
It won't happen, because the explicit arguments are just pretexts. After The Lancet/Wakefield and Jenny McCarthy (and other popular media figures), the word "vaccine" is now simply triggering of aggressive suspicion. That media panic combining with:

1) the 80s New Age/Self-Help/Healthy Living/Naturopathic flakes,

2) the suspicions of black people who are generally neglected and sometimes abused by the health care industry (over a very long term with sign-off from regulators),

3) and the religious fundamentalist divine punishment crowd (disease exists to punish weakness and evil), and

4) the factual observation that the healthcare industry in the US is hopelessly corrupt from top to bottom, and will not change no matter how strong the political will of the general population, or how organized it is,

...and all combinations thereof, means that this is going to be something that we have to deal with forever. It has nothing to do with whether the vaccine is new or experimental, it's that it's a vaccine. We still don't have universal vaccination for HPV, and that prevents cancer.

The media blames vaccine hesitancy on Republican hucksters, but that's just because they're centrist neolibs and that's what they're paid to do. Republican grifters take advantage of whatever's available; this week they actually became animal rights activists in order to attack Fauci:)

The anti-vax feeling is deeper than that; it's become hopelessly tangled into religion, identity, and anti-authoritarianism. It's not going away. Covid-19 was actually pretty mild when it comes down to it, when a real disease comes along, we're all dead.

I'm actually on a personal countdown until I hear the first argument that this safe, effective, experimental pill is a reason not to take the dangerous, pointless, experimental vaccine, and that big pharma wants you to take the vaccine instead of the pill because reasons.
I'm very happy with my old t440 bought for cheap on ebay, just replaced the screen with an IPS
I highly recommend this blog, same kind of information than on the link given today, but focused on T440
https://octoperf.com/blog/2018/11/07/thinkpad-t440p-buyers-g...
This is phenomenally good and speaks to my soul.

That said, I noticed that it's been posted to HN nearly 20 times over the past 7 years. I was hoping for some meaty comment threads, but it's never gotten more than 1 comment any time it's been posted.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
The real Jedi move
Is Facebook Bad for You? It Is for About 360M Users, per Company Surveys
lol, you can filter those out in the app if so desired (my filters currently only show names popular before the 1930s).
Just curious, how’s the trackpad compared to a recent MacBook Pro?

I’ve been using my Thinkpad T490 with Debian for 3 years and it’s fine. But then I tried the new MacBook Pro and that trackpad is very nice indeed. Feels a lot more precise. And the attention to smaller details and a consistent UI is nice to see too.

I’ve also been kind of peeved about several small things in Linux lately. Installing apps is not simple anymore. It started as apt-get and deb files. Now there’s flatpak and app images and electron which all have different install flows. Sometimes my Ethernet connection would, after resuming from sleep, drop to 100 Mbps until I reboot. Suspend doesn’t really work consistently. Tried installing Alfred (spotlight-like search / app launcher) and that seems to be flakey too. Mapped it to alt+ space but that doesn’t always enable it to come up.
9 months go by fast

For the father at least...

Congrats!
TRS-80 was my first computer and I've been looking for one for years. Anyone want to give me one so I can code on it?

Is the sculpting process destructive to the machine in question?
I guess I've never seen the problem with switching files. I have two tabs open and use cmd-shift-] and cmd-shift-[ to flip back and forth quickly. There's no friction at all. The benefits of keeping the concerns separate outweighs any benefits to only having one file open.
So... an article from six years ago, and then a few open job reqs.
I think my favorite story of code tests was where one interviewer presented the test, gave me 24 hours to complete it, and I was then supposed to be "graded" by second team member. The second guy obviously didn't understand the requirements of the coding test (despite presumably receiving the same written instructions I received), so rejected me outright. Which I guess kinda gets to my thinking on coding tests, where you often learn a lot about companies by the crappy "tests" they think have merit.

I interviewed hundreds of technical people in my career, across dev, test, and ops skill sets. I saw limited correlation between tests and aptitude. If you talk to someone about a project they've done, you know pretty quickly:

1) Can they communicate technical ideas?
2) Can I develop a rapport with this person and work together?
3) Do they understand what they built? Can they talk about tradeoffs they made? Did they learn anything from the experience?

A fizz buzz test isn't a terrible idea, but you also have to have an interviewer that understands how to administer it within the wider context of the interview. If the interviewer themselves doesn't understand it, they aren't qualified to actually administer it.
An ex of mine is as radical and as left as it’s possible to get, in that she self-identifies as a “revolutionary Marxist”. She goes on marches, she wants to defund the police, to ban the existence of billionaires, and the world to be a series of anarcho-communist collectives.

For all the flaws and wishful thinking that I can see in her politics, infantilising and disempowering those she goes on protest marches to help is not among them. She absolutely keeps quiet and listens to anyone having a bad time — proper active listening — even though when she does speak up for them her voice is exactly the stereotype of extreme volume and energy the rest of the world has for Americans in general.
Why do I feel like this will be the new mouthpiece for antivaxxers?
America Needs a New Scientific Revolution
Don't use apps you think shouldn't be apps? Making normative statements about something OP did for fun and shared with us is a bit odd.
This just seems like we’d be fixing a cultural issue with a band aid solution. The reason changing a name is difficult shouldn’t be the bureaucracy, but the fact that you exist in an interpersonal network of individuals indexed by name.

> I think adults should’ve able to choose their name without a big hassle

So my question for you would be: what hassle are you referring to? The cultural norm or the bureaucracy/paperwork?

In either case, what would a solution look like?
Setting the bar at Fisherian statistical significance is letting perfect be the enemy of good.

This seems like one of those occasions where improving your reliability by just a few percent (even if far from statistical significance) can massively reduce costs in the long run. (Maybe Kahneman even used interviewing as a concrete example of this in his latest book?)
Can you provide a citation for that "1 out of 52" statistic? I'm seeing

>In Pfizer's clinical trial for 5- to 11-year-olds, there were no cases of myocarditis, although the company acknowledged that the trials were not big enough to pick up such rare events.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/11/03/1051299...
It's controlled by representatives from big tech companies whose sole job became to tweak and perfect the spec

There was a working WebVR spec in 2015 shipped in two browsers. Big companies including Google jumped in and delayed the spec on the order of 4+ years in favor of "WebXR" with many "it'll be ready in just a few more months". When it was released, it was neutered with no tracked controller support, no haptics, no link traversal, and forced every site to migrate

At one point, we lobbied for link traversal, but despite having existing solutions it was pushed further and further back for improbable and benign security issues

More things kept getting added to the spec based on incorrect assumptions. 6DOF (Quest, Rift, Index) was clearly the future, but a lot of the focus was spent on Cardboard and 3DOF (Daydream)

Framework maintainers, VR developers, and users didn't have much control. As common with many other Web specs, things are done from an ivory tower, detached from developers, and just bogged down with a lot of bikeshedding and backpatting

That's just my take since I think it's relevant for HN and with the announcement of Meta. It's hard for Web to compete when someone at Meta can just snap their fingers and things will get done. Ironically, Meta has done the best job carrying WebVR with Oculus Browser.
I'm still seeing things that suggest they really did deploy this in 2010 though... were they press-releasing more than they were actually doing in 2010?

June 2011...

> “When you or a friend upload new photos, we use face recognition software . . . to match your new photos to other photos you’re tagged in,’’ Justin Mitchell, a Facebook engineer, said in a Facebook blog. “We group similar photos together and, whenever possible, suggest the name of the friend in the photos.’’

http://archive.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2011/...
Yeah these “rules of the metaverse” are a fever dream of somebody who cant see the way the cookie is crumbling.
Our future is looking more like a cyberpunk dystopia than libertarian wonderland.
You and me both, fusion is this thing that I wish I could drop everything and work on, because it would be world-changing, but at this point we see a new fusion reactor design/startup every other month and nothing viable so far.

In this environment it's hard not to see all of this as snake oil.
The opposite is true: ad companies will often not count all the legit impressions, until you start putting monitoring and call them out.

Ads are just a dirty business at this point.
Using Ed(1) as a Password Manager
Promoting diversity is more than just counting the blue people and then the orange people and making sure the numbers are the same. It also involves making an environment that's inviting to different groups of people. They want you play a role in that even – and perhaps especially – if you're part of the majority group.
Compilers.
A Town in Kenyan coast called Malindi. It literally has the beat beach in the world, at Watamu
DIY Doorbell face recognition with ZoneMinder
Embedded malware in RC (NPM package)
I tend to agree but this article doesn't address the blindspots that I think are relevant.
contact their head of hr/recruitment.
I love the honey pot approach. Put tons of valued hrefs on the page that are invisible (css) that the scrapper would find. Then just rate limit that ip address and randomize the data coming back. Profit.
xlib is not a toolkit.
And amenities like restaurants, grocery stores, orchestras....