skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For programming, we'll still be using plain text (in a monospace font) for creating programs - relying on clumsy, cryptic syntax based on the limited characters available on a keyboard. In other words, the default preference of most developers for the past 50 years.

The simplicity of text is very appealing to developers. But arguably, it's modern IDEs that make dealing with plain text tolerable - without them, the simplicity of text would rapidly lose its shine.
whoops, you are right - thanks! I will resubmit
Does it matter? Most servers and phones run Linux. My damn Sony DSLR runs android. Desktops are dying Linux won.
Labels like that are quite frequently a sign that you're dealing with a counterfeit product or something that has been places where it shouldn't.
That's a really interesting part, and probably why the OCR works good enough for such case.

Not sure about legal implications of using it though:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/09/23/1008729/openai-i...

EDIT: it seems I have misunderstood the article - OP probably uses MS API to access GPT-3 anyway, so the point is moot.
GP is complaining Google's search quality is poor, not inquiring about Google's search API.
Thank you for the intellectually stimulating response
> This was not caught by Dell, or even the STH team at first, it was a YouTube commenter. If that is how we as an industry are catching the easy plain-to-see stuff, that should scare everyone about what may be hard to see.

And this is why the people shouting that "the direct cause of the log4j bug is our collective failure to give open source maintainers bags of money" are wrong. Don't get me wrong, you should give people bags of money if you want them to drop everything and go fix a critical bug after it's been discovered.

But our collective ability to discover bugs is abysmal.
Original tweet/thread: https://twitter.com/nickcammarata/status/1467359243431215106

It was QT'd by someone where I then saw a few replies suggesting this is a conscience (not "conscious", as I wrote earlier, oops): https://twitter.com/Scruffff/status/1467979777038438402
> What’s wrong with OSX on M1?

It’s not open-source and it’s not Linux.
Its very hard to read personally - you have to take a long view. It seems to me that some years are warm, some years are cold. The beaches I went to as a kid seem to be at the same height.

But this is really a question about the science. And we do know that they a/ don't have a perfect record, and b/ edit the historical record they have.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160322230859/http://blogs.tele...

"Attempts to disguise the inconvenient truth of the Medieval Warm Period (MWP):
……Phil and I have recently submitted a paper using about a dozen NH records that fit this category, and many of which are available nearly 2K back–I think that trying to adopt a timeframe of 2K, rather than the usual 1K, addresses a good earlier point that Peck made w/ regard to the memo, that it would be nice to try to “contain” the putative “MWP”, even if we don’t yet have a hemispheric mean reconstruction available that far back…."

(Fwiw, these sorts of articles are hard to find. All you can easily find online is confusing info, eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climatic_Research_Unit_email_c... is an exercise in obfuscation)
There are some extremely confusing instructions here (these are the only installation instructions linked anywhere from the main website):
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Libinput#Installation

Linux will NEVER be a mainstream desktop platform as long as end users have to answer questions like "am I 'under Wayland'?" or "what does 'under Wayland' mean?" or "why does the alternative to 'under Wayland' seem to be 'for Xorg' (whatever that is)?" or "how do I 'install the xf86-input-libinput package' and why does it have such a weird name?"
Android, iOS, Windows, and OS-X together account for 97% of consumer computing devices if this is to be believed https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/worldwide/202....

Android is the only "open source" out of the bunch, but most devices running it have plenty of closed source internals the devices' are useless without.

There's still no viable FOSS OS for mobile/tablets. Not that they don't exist, just that they don't have the featureset and development velocity of Android and iOS.
Nice! Thanks for the hard work everyone involved! I have nothing to complain, things just works for me so far, but great to see improvements in the pipe! :D
I used fastai quite a bit with PyTorch and ended up feeling the same way. Great for spinning up an effective model in a few lines, but really tough to make it do exactly what you want it to do.
Opinions not supported by empirical evidence are not opinions worth listening to.

"Experts" supported eugenics, antibacterial soap, breakfast cereal, the food pyramid, lobotomies, and all kinds of other things on the basis of popular "consensus"
have you looked at the https://frame.work/ laptop? dunno about palm detection but its centered like the macbook
Is it an extension doing it or low ram? Never happeneds to me on skylake thinkpad even with 8GB ram, just slow to open.
Never happened in 10 years. I recommend to try hardware designed for Linux and not "Windows certified". Ideally, with preinstalled Linux.
>As long as air quality remains ok where I live, I don’t really care about the climate warming, and I feel it is something put into motion long ago, that our stupid “carbon credits” won’t do a damn thing to stop.

>If it gets really bad, well, human agency is a marvelous thing.

Don't take this the wrong way, but this reads as you're happy to ignore the problem because 'f you, I got mine'. Does that summarize your position fairly or unfairly?

>The last thing we need is politicians with investments in “green” technology forcing us to use “green” technology. (Same goes for those with investments in fossil fuels, shouldn’t be forced to use those either)

Ahh, so much for that human agency that you were so pleased with a moment ago.
Zig Compiler Internals (2020)
Just to give a point of contrast to the mainly negative comments here: I've been using Tabby for the last three years (it used to be called Terminus) as my daily driver on Windows, mainly with WSL. Coming from terminal.app on OSX, I wanted a terminal with tabs, and at the time (2019) this was the best I could find. It's still a good choice, IMO, and Eugeny does a great job solo-maintaining it.
An oral history of Stack Overflow – told by its founding team [audio]
Opstrace has published a blog post: https://opstrace.com/blog/gitlab :)
As another data point, one of the worst things on osx for me is their window management, specially that full screen mode creates a new workspace. I switch workspaces with command + a number, and that breakes it.
> SQL is afaik unique in its belief that algebra involving nulls should yield nulls instead of boolean values.

Really? The basic operations of boolean algebra or AND, OR, and NOT.

In JavaScript, what is:

1. null && true

2. false || null

3. !null

Well, one of them produces a boolean result, but... Actually, JS has basically an infinite valued logic, because of its truthiness/falsiness dichotomy and the rules around how the “boolean” operators preserve truthy or falsy inputs; only ! of the core boolean operators always returns a boolean
which is why !! is equivalent to Boolean().
You’re holding it wrong, just use the thinkpoint.
No snark: I love OSX but as I get older I would like to support free as in beer and free as in speech computing devices.

I think there could be some real hope for Linux on a laptop, especially the M1, and being able to use all the Linux tools directly (looking at you, containers).
I would absolutely disagree! 20 years ago, Linux required some arcane incantations, but was sold in stores, and was somewhat useful. 10 years ago, Linux required patiently going through lots of forums to find out why sound didn't work, and tweaking some config files - though fewer than before. This year, Linux was featured on LTT as "Can we viably switch / use Linux for home use as regular geeks?"

You're right that "Good Enough" takes many forms, and it is a moving target. But whether it's closing the gap might just be a difference in which timescale one uses.
Windows Terminal is very good. Conemu is another option on windows, also native (not electron) and more featureful.

I use Cmder which is a bundling of conemu with clink (provides stuff like tab completion) and git but it's more bloated. Especially in large git directories, opening the terminal can take a few seconds.
It's actually the 8th:
https://www.openssl.org/news/vulnerabilities.html

But this really isn't that unusual for a library of that complexity and size. All of these vulns are pretty boring, none is likely to cause any bigger harm.
I certainly drove more during the pandemic (though this may have been because I stopped using Lyft due to safety concerns), but I never stopped appreciating living in a walkable neighborhood. Certainly openings were a bit spotty here and there, but having a small grocery nearby, as well as a few restaurants with outdoor seating, was a boon to our mental health while otherwise stuck at home most of the time. We got food delivered more than usual, to be sure, but that still felt like a supplement, not the main mode of eating.
Refusing to let workers leave after a tornado siren sounds like a great way to be sued into bankruptcy.
I’ve not tried it, but the framework laptop I’m told is fairly similar.
Capabilities and data can be inferred as well. If you know exactly what something is flying over, who launched it and when, you can make some reasonable assumptions.
Don't most covid deaths happen after you're no longer infectious? I thought a lot of that was from the cytokine storm.

But to the other commenter's point, if omicron DID get a more deadly variant that kills you after you've already infected other people due to presymptomatic spread, then why would that variant be likely to die out? It's already reproduced before killing the host
Can I use this to build an HN search where I can search for threads that discuss various topics, books or frameworks ?
Exactly what counts as an entry level security position? Manually analyzing alerts or something?
Facebook and Instagram combined filter billions of messages annually.

They receive 5 billion items of content daily.

The A transparency report for combined FB operations (no, they don't deserve the M-name) is here: https://transparency.fb.com/data/community-standards-enforce...

For 2021Q3, > 770 million spam items were filtered. Given 5 billion submitted items per day I'd suggest that this number is too low a fraction. In a roughly equivalent domain, email, upwards of 90% of all delivery attempts are spam and have been for years.

Which somewhat answers your question: insufficient resources devoted to task.

Spam is down markedly from 2019 (2.5 billion items/quarter), and it's also possible that other actions (account actions) are reducing total spam occurrence. Interactions such as this are difficult to assess.

Note also that FB don't indicate spam "prevalence", the firm's term for "items * views", that is, the number of times persons on the system were presented with spam messages. That would also be a very useful metric to see.
I believe all big frameworks have some work being done to make them compatible with AMD GPUs. Here is the relevant issue for JAX (support seem to be in alpha but viable): https://github.com/google/jax/issues/2012
Sadly, the most profitable use for the CO2 might be piping it to an aging oil field and using it for a [CO2 flood](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_flooding) to recover more oil. So even when you're doing good you're still doing bad. :\
On the flip side, having a title is a good way to know if you're being compensated appropriately. If you see someone 2 levels above you working on much less impactful projects then perhaps it's time to have a conversation with your manager about pay or time to start looking for new jobs.
> There's still no viable FOSS OS for mobile/tablets.

I am using my Pinephone with Mobian/Phosh as a daily driver now. It's a bit rough but getting good enough quickly.
GC research is a losing battle
anecdotal, but I went to a concert recently and was amazed/thrilled to see maybe five or ten isolated instances of someone pulling out their phone to take a few second clip for insta or snapchat or whatever

5-ish years ago it would be common to see 25-45% of the crowd with their phones up and out recording almost the entire show
That’s deflation — the value going up. Most people buy Bitcoin to hold Bitcoin, not to use it. And even some would-be entrepreneurs have, in the past, decided to just buy and hold Bitcoin instead of starting a company. The only person I know using it to positive effect is a freelance developer in XXXXXXX country in the midst of a civil war who uses it to work around bank freezes. And that’s great — escape from central control is its core value proposition and it’s working.
I assume constant imagery of most areas. We are probably all tracked in great detail but they would not want us to know that. I suspect they already can retrace the steps of any crime and follow it backwards. But they are not worried about crimes but probably are tracking certain people and don’t want them to wise up and deploy anti satellite tracking techniques. Spy vs spy.
Just by way of providing another data point: I was going down this exact same rabbit hole and my experience matches your description exactly.
Kitty is about as fast as Alacritty, has tabs, and friendlier devs

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/
By who? Wage workers? You’re dreaming.
I'll provide a rebuttal in a similar format to the original to serve as an example of why it is completely unhelpful and unreasonable.

One side violently took to the streets in multiples cities, destroying many small businesses, and causing significant civil unrest.

The other attempted to protect the citizens being attacked in those events and discourage further violence.

One may say that these events weren't strictly Dem vs Rep events, but current hostilities and ideas would suggest that each side was dominantly one or the other.
I mean from a user standpoint I don’t have any issues, I would use the M1 until Linux on there gtt set s stuff like GPU acceleration, at least OS X is free beer and the kernel is FOSS even though it’s BSD.
Nextdoor.com is great for this- the local wildlife threads on there are always so interesting. Turns out a lot of my neighbors are bird nerds and chances are yours might be hearing and maybe even have photos or webcam videos of the same owls.

There's a giant thread over a pair of Golden Eagles that nested in a tree behind our house and raised three chicks. I was feeding sparrows & nuthatches on my deck and it made me wonder if I was just setting up a nice little prey bait station for the eagles as I noticed them circling overhead one day while doing yoga.
This would be the opposite of a subsidy as it lowers the market price and will actually lower the profits of oil producers.
Last year we started writing letters to our children. It has been an effective way to talk about these issues with friends/family and focus our hopes and efforts for a good future.

https://ifup.org/letters/dear-zohra-arlan-2020
At my current company, where I've been for over ten years, I've always just made up a title to match my current focus/what seemed "fresh." My original external title that was made up to hire me didn't actually make a lot of sense and differed from the internal HR title anyway.

Ended up doing something similar in my original tech job as well. I'm not sure I've ever really used my official HR title and would probably have to look it up to be sure I'm remembering it correctly.
Separate Log4j DOS Vulnerability – CVE-2021-45046
Thanks! That looks really cool
Meh. It's only cheating if the manufacturer keeps it a secret, and they don't.

When a company is spending >$20k on a tape system, the people in charge of buying it will talk to the sales people, tell them the use case, and get a more accurate estimate.
Please, where do you work such that you are afforded adequate time to debug deep OS level issues? That it's acceptable to code to handle the 1-10^12 type error?

I want to work there too!
Community Standards Enforcement Report
The combined FB property (Facebook + Instagram) "community standards" (a/k/a "trust and safety" in industryterms) actions report.

At time of submission this links to the 2021Q3 report.

As a suggestion to FB: versioning these reports such that it's possible to link directly to a specific quarter would be greatly appreciated.

Among past submissions to HN is a link to the independent auditer's assessment of this report from about a year ago:

https://about.fb.com/news/2020/08/independent-audit-of-enfor...
Presumably the steady state will happen after the virus mutates into a less dangerous variant (as infecting more people will be evolutionarily advantageous for the virus), and eventually we all get it and build up antibodies, at which point its virulence further subsides.
Is your typical verbal description of a face you remember as sparse as the one I gave? Are their other things about the face you remember that you cannot put into words, or is everything you remember verbal?
Their kernel at least is and it’s Unix. From a user standpoint I don’t have any issues with it, it’s like if Linux could run photoshop natively and had good paid software and you can’t change the UI. It’s not ideal but it works for me.
Sorry for asking the same questions as I did above, but this is very interesting to me. When you work with equations in your head, you do not work with visual representations of your equations? What about electronic circuits (if you do that) and, say, the current flowing through them, do you trace that in an actual representation (one out of almost infinitely many possible), or something more abstract? If you remember things from a textbook, do you sometimes remember where on a page you've seen it (e.g. a table, a graph, a picture, or just text) and the general shape of it, or is that impossible as well?
This is fascinating to me and it never occurred to me before reading about it a long time ago.

My sport growing up was ski racing, and later, sportscar racing. In those sports it is critical to have a deep visualization of the course. For ski racing, you will see racers waiting around the starting gate for their start time with eyes closed lightly swaying their head and moving their hand in visualizing their ideal path down the course (we even sometimes crash in those simulation runs and shake our head and restart...)

In sportscar racing, an important drill is to drive the course in your head, making every shift, turn-in point, apex, and track out point, visualizing and feeling your attitude, balance, the forces, at every point on the track —— and do it under a stopwatch so you know you have a realistic timing of the track with your car. I could typically come within a second of the real times, and it was quite vivid, and for 'fuzzy' sections, I could go back and sharpen the visualization.

These seemed to me and my coaches as essential skills for the sport, and I never heard of anyone in either sport without that ability.

I want to know if people without that innate capability just get filtered out early, or if it is trainable. Does anyone have any data on that?
I've always found it somehow ironic that a human can correctly recognise printed characters even if parts of them are missing and the word is misspelt or in a language the human does not know at all, but computers have to resort to language models because an exact comparison of part of the image with other parts of the image (where the same letter is printed in the same font) for some reason is not feasible?
Good is good is timeless, same goes for other fields. For instance chopin will mesmerize any human like brain for eternity.

Anyway, I guess mainstream had to experiment with UX possibilities and will rediscover the value of simple (and pretty enough) nextstep like GUIs.
Given the timing, they were asked if the breach was related to log4j vulnerabilities. It's completely possible they just don't know yet how the hack occured, but they didn't answer the question to say "no, not log4j" so that's still on the table as a possibility. Whether or not it was log4j in this case, I'm going to guess that log4j will contribute to the rising tide of ransomware in the coming year.
As part of the FLOSS rooting crowd, I'd really like that to happen. But we have to face reality: on the desktop, after decades we're still fighting for 2% of the marketshare.

Not that progress hasn't happened. Quite on the contrary. Linux on the desktop experience nowadays is VASTLY superior to even 5 years ago. Of course, users from other camps will complain of features that have been lacking for many years (thumbnails in the file picker!) but alternatives aren't without their problems either: get a seasoned linux to try MacOS or Windows and you'll recognize weaknesses on the other approaches too.

For me, linux on the desktop has been ready for a long time. I don't care if the market share is still in the single digits if it is good enough for me. Since I like the freedom, privacy, security and (yes) ease of use of desktop linux and do not depend on non-multiplatform software and services, there's just no better OS for me. Not everybody has this choice though.

So, linux on the desktop not being popular is not a problem. If it continues popular enough not to be ignored by hardware vendors and service providers, everything else will continue to improve over time.
pre-modern Earth was in fact full of poisonous dust and gas in the atmosphere, for many millenia. Conditions hostile to life itself were present far longer than the recent conditions of a few hundred thousand years.

of course you can block the sun with gas and dust.. isn't that famously the cause of extinctions?
> But author is concerned about what this means for the state of supply chain verification.

This is a brown M&Ms problem: https://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-no-bro...

If they missed something as obvious as this, who knows what other problems are going on in supply chain security or total lack of QA.
It is a question though, the link isn't their site...
I try to stay at least reasonably well-informed of developments in the space, and the bottom line is two-fold:

1) There is no magic bullet technology just around the corner that will solve all our problems for either energy generation or carbon sequestration. Fusion is decades away from practicality, renewables will take decades to slowly scale up and replace fossil fuels, carbon sequestration at scale is expensive without a real economic output, and climate change is a global problem rather a country-specific one, which leads to #2

2) We have all the technology we need today. What we lack is the political, social, and economic willpower to make climate change a priority globally. A true carbon tax with proceeds going to renewables development & sequestration would solve a huge portion of the problem, as would removing subsidies for high-pollution activities. The fact that these things aren't even taken seriously at the congressional level tells you all you need to know.
Productivity? Literally the amount of stuff produced per unit population (or normalized for working time).

You do need a common measurement to be able to aggregate items together (a tractor and a sandwich, for example), and we generally use dollars for that, but I wouldn’t call that recursive.

You could also measure it in labor time, percentage of life people need to spend working, sea shells, or a variety of other measures depending on your aim.
Misspelled stickers is how you recognize Chinese clones/counterfeits.

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