skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of my favorite essay is Adorno's "Free Time" in The Culture Industry [0]. When someone talks of work and rest as opposite, I always think of this quote:

>I have no hobby. Not that I am the kind of workaholic, who is incapable of doing anything with his time but applying himself industriously to the required task. But, as far as my activities beyond the bounds of my recognized profession are concerned, I take them all, without exception, very seriously.

Free Time and Rest are actually what makes us intelligent and creative. Work is experienced within its own constraint while free time let us explore and make fortunate mistakes.

[0]: http://xenopraxis.net/readings/adorno_freetime.pdf
Design Systems After Tailwind
I think they're expecting for it to easily be taken apart but a lot of things they mentioned would require special tools and risk damaging the parts. Honestly, though, that's part of engineering, you're going to break things to figure out what works and doesn't work.
Yep, specifically the offline rendering engine (they have a real time one too)
> Just when you’ve got it all working, one apt update and your GPU drivers start dumping core. And when you close the lid on your laptop it’s like playing Russian roulette. On the desktop it’s needy, brittle and like wading in sewage.

My spouse needed a new laptop, and I decided to get a laptop with coreboot/FOSS EC Firmware on it (A Purism L14). She also needed windows, and I was told that it should suport Windows through Coreboot. Since Purism wrote properly behaving UEFI and a properly behaving EC Firmware, Windows actually worked out of the box, and worked better on this laptop than I have seen for most vendors that actually support Windows. UEFI on it also behaves wonderfully. I see that and compare it to my current laptop where half the time, I cannot even boot into the UEFI menu (as it doesn't register my keybnoard presses) and have to rely on GRUB to get into the menu.

I say that to say, when you buy a laptop/motherboard whose firmware is slightly better than hot garbage, of course Linux will have issues with it! Most of the time Windows is barely better than Linux with half of these things since their Windows "drivers" are a hotpatched mess.
Uhm, yeah, I'd absolutely expect an official dealership to refuse to produce a key for a car you cannot prove ownership of, regardless of whether it was loaned to you, inherited, or if you found it in a ditch - no proof of ownership, no key.

If you are one of those edge cases, there are tonnes of unofficial garages which will happily make you a new key for money. The manufacturer - and by extension, they official dealerships - should never make keys for anyone but the legal owner.
But it is bullshit - it just says, "let us do the things that work well, and not do the things that do not work well". It's not wrong, but it doesn't need to be said, either. Of course he was trying to be ridiculous, but it sounds like every other corporate mission statement.
This is well known. Sometimes people breed the grandfather with the bitch or even the father. I think 'Pedigree certificates' has a lot to answer for in this regard. It doesn't encourage any kind of genetic diversity and people are actively discouraged and punished for trying to introduce new blood into lines. Another group to blame are 'puppy farms', people who breed merely to make money and take no responsibility for the genetic mess they make.

I have a family member that breeds dogs quite seriously - one of their goals is to reintroduce good health traits back into the (working) breeds and undo the awful effects of inbreeding. Sometimes this involves reading the breeders notes from over a hundred years ago and trying to reproduce the same result (it's not easy). Often it seems to be enough to introduce a few closely related healthy breeds and after three or so generations you can get back to something healthier and a good representative of that breed.

There are a few breeds that are in desperate need of serious dedication - namely short-nose breeds (i.e. Pugs, British Bulldogs, etc). Pugs are by far the worse I've encountered in terms of physical health defects, a significant number of Pug puppies are culled early on due to spine defects of breathing issues. Those that end up getting sold are almost guaranteed to end up with breathing issues.

One of the healthier dogs you can own tends to be a mid-sized Mutt (cross-breed). From annecdata, I've found that a Bulldog (typically strong working dogs, dumb but loyal) crossed with something smarter but mid-sized tends to yield good temperament, long-life dogs with average intelligence (which is a good thing [+]).

[+] Generally you want your dog to be smart enough to read your queues and work around you, but not so smart that it's getting bored or trying to figure out how to escape.
The title of this thread "Reasons to read the original works of great thinkers" does not match the article title. I thought it was going to be about study such as done at St. Johns College, where students read the original source "Great Books" rather than modern textbooks.[0] But that does not appear to be the actual subject of the article.

[0]https://www.sjc.edu/academic-programs/undergraduate
Yes, keel-stepped mast. I used to have a boat where I could remove the mast myself - but having a rig (that you wouldn't bring sailing with you) made it easier and less dangerous to the boat. I never did take the mast down on the water.

Most larger boats in the US do not have masts you can remove without some equipment. This is because the mast is 50-60' and really heavy. Even if it is deck-stepped, you're not going to be able to do that on the water easily.
Haha. I said the same thing to Tim Ferriss in 2010 when he talked about “hacking” meditation. He did not take that well.
No you can't push the red short pin through the grey piece, it's a 6538c [0,1] by the looks of it and those have a small wall in the middle to stop push through. They're meant to be used to connect two Technic axels and just sit on the two ends.

[0] https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?id=674...

[1] https://img.bricklink.com/ItemImage/EXTN/17834.png
Adam and Eve proves the “god” of the Old Testament is the demiurge
There's no 'brake-push-start' in Teslas, It's just 'on' when you enter the car. Set it in drive and off you go! I love it :)

And as a side note the key (phone) can be used without tesla's servers, it's just if you want to unlock remotely using the app or api that you're dependant on that
"flight search has huge infrastructure costs"

Could you please elaborate? What makes a flight search so expensive?
Isn't Onyx one of the more famous GPL violators? Maybe innovation is easier when you let others do the R&D and you just use it.
Not an user, but judging from comments, you're part of a small set that still repeats comments like this after 2.8.
Are there release notes? Blender usually does a really nice release notes page showing off the new features.
Microsoft really screwed up not taking advantage of its Skype acquisition and furthering the technology that Skype had a large and early lead at. In my opinion, MS Teams is in many ways comparably worse, not that Skype was ever a technological darling. Regardless, on my Mac laptop, Teams is incredibly slow, difficult to use, and has all sorts of challenges with screen share. Might be my setup, but I simply don't have those issues with other conferencing apps.
In - internal issue

Comp - computer/tech

Pet - sub-human, regarded as secondary if at all

Tence - (tense), as in past tense and you will be forgotten
Isn't that Lojack?
Genetically, they should all be able to interbreed, also with wolves and coyotes.

However, there are quite a few breeds that are known to have breeding and birthing problems. Some unable to properly mount each other and breed. Others with hips too small to properly birth and need close to 100% C-section delivery. I can imagine these problems could be exacerbated by attempts to breed with other larger breeds.
I have a VW with similar technology. Even on regular highways it's attempted to veer off onto an exit pretty consistently.
Well, all the yelling you and I would like to do isn't going to change the fact that the problem is with leadership.
> I had to look that up ... is that Euphoria?

It's Elixir (https://elixir-lang.org/), but wow, Euphoria looks pretty slick too! https://www.rapideuphoria.com/
Had us in the first half…
Yes. For cars, the risk is low, and there are mitigations such as insurance that can alleviate the pain.

What I'm thinking is that if a car's backdoor becomes a mental concept for the general public, it might help popularize the concept of how backdoors in general can be abused. Probably acceptable for a car but not for one's life information.

As of now, anytime backdoors to encryption are being "sold" by politicians, there's a messaging that goes along about how the backdoor is ultra-secure, similar to a military complex or a pile of gold in some fort. Of course it's not reality but it's the mental image many non-technical people have.

So once there are a few stories about famous people (or relatives) who got their car's system backdoored, it will help raise public awareness of how inappropriate it is for things more important than cars.

Maybe.

I hope…
It's sort of strange that everyone thinks that an aggressive eugenics program for animals is completely normal and morally acceptable (just because it's been going on for a long time).

In my opinion, purchasing a purebred pet is cringeworthy at best.
I still would rather us 3DS max over blender, it still feels like using GIMP after using Photoshop productively for years.
I've only done a little bit with Blender as a hobbyist, but Andrew's tutorials are what really made it fun for me and helped things start to "click". If you've never used Blender but wanted to check it out, these are the tutorials you should use.
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Reference/Release_Notes/3.0
Visidata is my favorite new CLI/TUI tools over the last few years. It makes it extremely easy to explore/modify structured data in the terminal.

This release adds a couple new loaders for odt and the lsv. LSV (or Line separated values) is based on a request for an "awk" like key/value loader.

In the 2.6 release, Visidata added menus which makes it much easier to find commands.

I think the best way to learn about what it can do is see Jeremy Singer-Vine's tutorial: VisiData in 60 Seconds:
https://jsvine.github.io/intro-to-visidata/the-big-picture/v...

Or the developer's YouTube videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxu7QdBkC7drrAGfYzatP...
I have absolutely no idea on how this all works, but assuming they're not replicating the current 'key' and forcing a new one - why not introduce a time delay on key changes? Like a reprogrammed key takes 3 hours before it works or something. No biggie if the car is on a mechanics forecourt, but what thief wants to wait 3 hours to drive away the car they've just screwdrivered into?
Condo Association Bans Owners from Parking EVs in the Garage
Modern Asynchronous JavaScript
I think 'zero user' is right, there just isn't any concept of users or permissions.

its really moving the classic OS resource sharing interface to the hypervisor. that's where the storage and network comes from. given that, what machinery do you need to run just one application? maybe a little filesystem, a tcp stack, interfaces to manipulate threads and kernel locks. that's what gets packaged up with your application into a bootable VM
Unfortunately, they've moved to electronic instructions for many of their kids sets that also include electronics. You have to use the iPad/Android app to assemble. For example, the playable Super Mario kits.

Now, as far as I've seen, this is limited to kits that are designed to use their apps for play. Those apps are really cool though, so I am willing to look at it benevolently (all the more complicated steps give you an optional assembly video for that step which makes it nicer for smaller kids).

The app for the Duplo train is really surprising. It lets you mirror your custom track setup in the app and then play games with it while controlling the train.
United for one. (I haven't actually used it but they say they do.) https://www.united.com/ual/en/us/fly/help/faq/mobile-bag-tra...
Yes. The pairing would probably be a male from a bigger breed and a bulldog bitch as the latter often can’t give birth without a C section. So, sans technology, I can imagine there are at least a few pairs where offspring wouldn’t happen.
>Now the kits seem more like models to be assembled and put on display and not touched rather than “a paint brush of blocks” where I can use my imagination.

This isn't true at all. You can still buy a box full of bricks. You can even go online and purchase single bricks if you have a specific build in mind. Even the model kits are still just a box full of bricks--Lego abhors creating unique blocks unless they can be used in other sets.

The reason a lot of adults gravitate toward the finished kits is the same reason adults stop picking up cool sticks outside: We just lose our imagination.
You can "clock" these as well. They have one more axis of symmetry than flatheads, but that just makes clocking easier.
> So your recommended sequence has 4 additions done in the adder/subtractor of the ALU, because all comparisons, including the compare-and-branch instructions, count as additions, from the point-of-view of the energy consumption and execution time.

For the signed overflow case, with compile-time unknown value added, if the processor doesn't do anything fancy to elide the recommended sequence (fusion or substitution of operation) only. Not for the other two cases, and not with fusion.
Major cause of the surge is that temperature have gotten too low for outdoor meetings/dining and keeping windows open. Same as last year.
The choice of Common Lisp is less flattering than one might hope because it was largely the result of familiarity (Carl de Marcken's doctoral thesis was in computational linguistics and he was most comfortable using Lisp). When I asked him (c. 2007) whether he would have chosen Common Lisp again, he said that he wouldn't have and that he would have chosen Java instead. I don't recall any mention of technical reasons during that exchange (maybe static analysis?), but I do vaguely recall hiring considerations.

(Also, while much of the "business logic" was written in Lisp, a good chunk of low-level stuff was written in C++.)
Sure, you can works something out but it would also mean that the company will need to maintain a system for unlocking cars for each country according to the local regulations.

Then they will need to deal with stuff like "Toyota unlocked the car of a Putin critic", "Audi refused to unlock the car of a pregnant woman who lost her keys during the emergency, the baby died. They previously unlocked the car of Joe Rogan's girlfriend".

You also will have issues where the legal owner and the regular user are different people(i.e. father and son, romantic partners etc). Someone passes or the relationship sours and now you have people begging the car company let them use the car they have been using for years.

You will also have governments demanding you disable the cars of people who have problems with the regime. In Philippines the government might demand lock down the cars of LGBT people, in USA they might lock down the cars of people with debt.

Who knows? It makes the manufacturer part of the running the car just the way Apple and Google are part of running your phone.
Now turn off your monitor! Do you see pure black, or maybe you see the reflection of your room and yourself? #000000 might not be pure black.
Blender 3.0 Release Notes
I disagree. The 2.8+ UI is well designed and way snappier than 3DS Max.
The AT-AT model that they are talking about here is a UCS (Ultimate Collector's Series) set. These are definitely intended for adult builders to assemble a model and put on display. They are more focused on detail and less focused on "playability" as with some other sets that have moving or reconfigurable elements.
This is what happens with long-awaited Linux distribution or web browser releases, as well: final binaries are uploaded, so they can propagate to the mirrors, and someone posts it “prematurely”.

(I don't mind, I like this kind of heads-up.)

Release notes will be there when the release is officially announced and linked from Blender's home page.
Yes, that's the deal breaker. If I can't type with the keyboard, or if I have to add some additional keyboard for mobility, it gets very cluncky.
“Amazon, eBay, Facebook Marketplace, OfferUp, Etsy — all of those are utilized by illicit online sellers, and they’re allowed to get away with it because the illicit sellers are allowed to operate with anonymity on the internet.”

These sites are enabling crime. Why do they not make sellers register with identification and ask for proof of item ownership or source information when selling?
> One of the women on our tour gasped when this was pointed out. “How,” she asked, “did they do this?”

They, uh.. paid attention to their work.
Is it you job to defend the CCP? I sure sense a theme here.
Jami's SIP integration is pretty good - I use it with voip.ms. They have an unfortunate relationship with Ubuntu, and only really take bug reports against snap or PPA builds. Does the job well enough though that I ditched my yealink.
In addition to the videoconferencing others have brought up, pretty much every Fortune 500 out there has extensive training requirements for their laptop-using employees - that content is a mix of video and slideshows. Those corps are the biggest purchasers of "work" laptops.

For the uninitiated, the training I'm referring to covers everything from sexual harassment to infosec to insider trading to "why you don't really need unions".
Art Basel Puts NFTs and Tech in Focus
DystopAI
Harlan Ellison described it in I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream.
What has changed since 2.8 in the UI? When I used 2.8 there were still a lot of pain points with the interface that kept me doing the heavy lifting in 3DS max. It was a cloth sim project and I was using blender to export the files into GLTF and even that was a bit frustrating.
Its a compromise between replayability and the feeling of achievement that you get from a long running campaign game.

I feel like those are on opposing ends of a spectrum: one the one end you have games like chess, go or even Magic the Gathering that are infinitely replayable but have little to no story.

On the other end you have story driven games (Gloomhaven or even Descent) that can be played only once because the second time through does not offer too much new content.

Somewhat tangential to that are roleplaying and wargame campaigns where new "content" is introduced constantly by the GM or, even better, as a consequence of player interactions.

I feel like there is still some niche for some kind of game that randomly/procedurally generates new content (maps, stats, scenarios) each week that players then print out and use for a session.

[/rambling ... it's time for the weekend]
French concern about Chinese Alibaba cloud for Paris 2024
Hmm yeah, he does sound much better than the current one. Thanks!
1 - Eye roll - It said if you own one. It's part of their features.
2 - Eye roll, less severe. It said if possible. If not, protect yourself better.
3 - lol these things have always made me laugh with their as-seen-on-tv style advertising.
4 - at least you're somewhat reasonable.
How do you both enable decentralize journalism and curve the spread of misinformation without measures like these?
We do need to have the key fob inside, at least for S/X. But one never notices this because it’s enough if you’ve got it inside your jacket or whatever.
I wish there was benchmarks for IDEs/editors, just like there are benchmarks for web frameworks (https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/ https://web-frameworks-benchmark.netlify.app/).

For instance, given some Java program/project:

1. Clock time from selecting "Run" in the IDE to first line written to stdout (to measure startup time)

2. Clock time from selecting "Debug" in the IDE to breakpoint hit and debugger able to inspect stack (with breakpoint on line N)

3. Total memory used with open project, with single editor window open.

4. Total memory used when breakpoint hit.

5. Clock time from selecting "Run tests" in the IDE to test results are displayed

6. Clock time from selecting "Debug tests" in the IDE to breakpoint hit and debugger able to inspect stack (with breakpoint on line N)
I’m not personally a big fan of “purebreds”, but breed was important to me because I had small children and needed an extremely predictable and fairly easily obtained behavior profile.

Specifically, I wanted a dope of a dog that was a living, breathing stuffed animal but with enough intelligence to be trained on the basics easily.

So I bred my goldendoodle with a bernedoodle and got exactly what I was looking for!

You do get more variation in the litters, which can be a double edged sword. For example, one of the pups ended up being shedding, where non-shedding was a desired and expected trait for me.

Overall, breeding and getting to help deliver and raise a litter was one of the most fun & rewarding activities my family has ever done, and when we get holiday cards every year from all the families that got a pup with those dogs featured, it is just the best feeling.
Whoa - crazy seeing you here. Hello from an old member of our old little Slack group.

<end of line>

@iakh is a legend!
They never clicked for me, unfortunately, although I should give them another try.

I highly recommend https://academy.cgboost.com/p/resources

Also free of charge, and a very good presenter (if you can excuse the German accent).

But most people like the Donut tutorial, that's true.
> Lego abhors creating unique blocks unless they can be used in other sets.

Its always my favorite thing to see how some of the semi-unique pieces get re-used. I put together Anakin's Podracer recently and part of the decorative elements on the engine part were the Lego LOTR Orc Swords!
That's not a natural monopoly
Found a reference[0]. I'm not gonna pretend that "thing I read by some random person on a forum" is an unimpeachable source, but it's where I heard it I think.

[0] https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/10/nvidia-beta-4952905-ro...
This is the first time someone at least make some sense of the whole M1 Max Chiplet theory / hypothesis. That there is an interconnect ready. Unlike all previous comments there people suggest they magically stack 2 - 4 SoC together.

The TSMC MCM interposer size is the same as 4x M1 Max Die Size. Should they choose that route at a potential of 500W+ TDP Design.

Still doesn't solve NUMA issue though. Along with GPU access. This is basically the same design as Zen 1. It was the whole reason why there is an IOD in the middle with Zen 2 and above. And I hope Apple has something clever to show the word why Zen 1 failed and they succeed.

On the GPU I am thinking something from PowerVR [1] if it works as advertise. I just wish we could get more information soon.

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/print/16155/imagination-announces-...
Are microgrids a key to grid resiliency?
Think of it like trying to receive morse code:

If the signal gets choppy and you miss some of it, how do you know what you missed?

`..--- -.... ----- -----` (2600) could come through as `..- -. —` (Uno). Uno is a valid word, so passes validation, but it’s the wrong message.

What Reed-Solomon allows us to do is pad the message with n% of error correcting ‘bits’. That way, if >100-n% of the message gets through, the whole message can be reconstructed from whatever bits that made it. And if not enough of the message made it, it immediately fails the validation check and so you know you must resend the message.

It’s so handy and so solid that it’s used almost everywhere. From optical discs to ECC ram to radio communications and a bunch more.