skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, Easter to a large extent. Easter used to be a bigger deal than Christmas. But the commercialization of Christmas has caused it to overshadow Easter. Now Easter is all about rabbits and ducks and eggs and candy and baskets and that green fake grass and pastel colors and etc. It is even farther removed from celebrating the atonement of Christ than Christmas is of celebrating his birth. Even for Christians. I asked a friend why he thought that was and his response is Christmas has a baby, animals, angels singing, shepherds, stars, and all sorts of cute child friendly stuff. Easter has blood coming from every pore, false trials, mocking and scourging, crucifixion, etc. Not exactly cute and child friendly. All the Easter secular stuff (candy and cute animals) could be seen as an attempt to make Easter palatable and fun like Christmas.
How'd the the "'B' player" get a job in the first place? Does an "'A' player" have a half life at which they degrade to "'B' player?" Is the letterness of any basket of skills and traits context dependent so that an "'A' player" used car salesperson is a "'C' player" philosopher but the "'A player" philosopher recognize that person as a fellow "'A' player" but can't understand their lack of wisdom-love?
> And I don't know how much more entitlement we can possibly have as profession on this continent, where we find $50-$66USD per hour of optional, interesting and challenging, comfortable and remote work, a perceived insult worthy of HackerNews front page.

This comment is just so ridiculous I don't know where to start.

Let's start with entitlement, not once did I say things like the author or software engineers in general are "entitled" to anything. My words are about reality, reality is, $20,000 is not enough money to get me to do any work for longer than a month because I can walk down the street and get a job that pays me more after a 5 hour interview.

Let's talk about having the "privilege" to do interesting work remotely. Aka, the privilege to donate your time to someone else's business. I can do interesting work on my own thank you very much, I don't need $20,000 from some company for the privilege to do interesting work, I can open my laptop and do it and I own the result in the end.

If making a lot of money causes you to feel guilt sort your issues out.
Until haptic touchpads become available outside of MacBooks, touchpads are always going to suck under Windows and Linux. Gestures aren’t the main thing preventing me from enjoying the touchpad on my Dell — it’s plenty big and it supports four finger gestures under Windows. The problem is that the entire thing shifts down a couple millimeters when I click and my finger ends up dragging slightly, which moves my click off what I’m clicking on.

I don’t understand how Apple has had a monopoly on this for half a decade. Lenovo had a thinkpad come out last year with a haptic touchpad but I haven’t seen anything further. Is it patents?
> Individual-level voluntary action has the benefits of being more flexible and less tyrannical.

It also doesn't work, while serving as a political shield to protect industrial-scale polluters. But it allows you to deliver with hauteur, so it passes generally without comment and things continue to get worse.
None of them "invented" the thing that made them rich, but that thing didn't become a worldwide sensation until they did it!

Smartphones were built by Nokia and Microsoft in the 2000s. Computers were thing way before MS, but still it needed Bill Gates' genius to make them ubiquitous. EVs were along for 100+ years...Modern EVs were just ridiculous: ugly and small, nobody wanted to buy them. Musk made the EVs sexy and desirable, and mainstream now.

There were many many people with money and connections, yet only some changed the world and became billionaires in the process, don't you think that deserves the recognition? I personally don't like either of the people I talked about, but you must give credit where credit is due.
“We are like animals in a zoo. We are caging ourselves. In our technologi (cont)
I have had terrible luck with suspend/hibernation on all of the laptops I have used Linux on, so I just resort to shutting down and starting up... I have SSDs so it is not that big of a deal, but still. I cannot wait for the day I can simply close my laptop lid and have the battery not drain ~12% an hour.
It depends on the cause of the logjam. For example, you are blaming it here on them "having a hard time finding workers." That is a cost increase not a capacity decrease. Labor is simply more expensive. Costs increasing shouldn't lead to an outsized increase in both prices and profits as it is a voluntary decrease in production because they don't want to pay higher costs. With more competition, there would likely be someone who would accept that increased cost and lower margins as a way to increase market share.

If the cause of the logjam is truly a capacity issue like shortages at suppliers, the market reaction you are expecting would happen upstream. It would be the suppliers that are increasing prices and seeing record profits.
So far, I'm shopping locally as much as possible. Eliminating trips > 10 miles by car and using metro/bus/bike instead. I'm trying to eliminate one time use packaging where possible and reusing things rather than throwing them away. These are small steps and gradual changes. The main question I keep asking myself is, what would the world be like if 6 billion other people made the same choices.
I think the article and this comment misses the point.

As far as "just use the right optical tricks and you can be Vermeer" -- sure, this is bullshit.

As far as showing that an optical method was a real possibility for how Vermeer created his work-- sure! A layman using the tricks was able to get very close, but lacked the artistry himself to put in Vermeer's unique magic in: this establishes that the optical techniques were a plausible way for the works to be created.
That seems reasonable, although the argument for AWS is usually that it can scale much more easily. If your primary use case is something like EC2, that's probably a non issue when choosing DO unless you have very specific needs for your instances.
This gh repo makes it pretty easy to create similar tech by first embedding any images you have using the released "CLIP" model from Open AI and then creating a Faiss index over these embeds for quick retrieval/decode. You can then do text->image, and image->image semantic search.

https://github.com/rom1504/clip-retrieval
I'll make the same point I make every time this topic comes up: there are Chromebooks with great touchpad experiences, and that's been the case for a long, long time. This is not a "Linux" or "open source" problem; this is a problem of ignorance and/or insufficient interest on the part traditional (i.e. non-ChromeOS) distros and their users. It's nuts that this was and continues to be a high-profile, multi-year effort spawning discussions that end up framing the whole thing as elusive—rather than, you know, a solved problem that is pretty much not even worth mentioning but for the long tradition of poor execution.
I decided to check Brazil really quickly and there's a very steep drop off once summer hit. I don't even need to bother with the UK.
I have a preference for Flax, you basically get Pytorch but streamlined thanks to the Jax foundation.
You should perhaps read the studies you've linked a bit closer? When mentioned (as several of them are explicitly about masks in non-healthcare settings) - they all advocate for universal masking in healthcare settings specifically to limit the spread of Covid...

> Although more research on universal masking in heath settings is needed, it is the expert opinion of the majority (79%) of WHO COVID-19 IPC GDG members that universal masking is advisable in geographic settings where there is known or suspected community or cluster transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

> 1. In areas of known or suspected community or cluster SARS-CoV-2 transmission, universal masking should be advised in all health facilities (see Table 1).

> All health workers, including community health workers and caregivers, should wear a medical mask at all times, for any activity (care of COVID-19 or nonCOVID-19 patients) and in any common area (e.g., cafeteria, staff rooms).

> Other staff, visitors, outpatients and service providers should also wear a mask (medical or non-medical) at all times
Well, you don't have to update the softwre/MBUX in order to continue to do it.

>Description of the Safety Risk: In this case, several functions and applications (e.g. TV, digital owner's manual) would not be disabled while driving, as intended. This would allow
vehicle occupants to activate those functions while the vehicle is driving. If an occupant were to actively select the function or application while the vehicle is driving, then driver distraction might result which could increase the risk of a crash.
Does Ubuntu sleep/wake easily with a lid close (maintaining runtime state), and avoid weird battery drain issues?

To me, that's the killer feature of macOS. I am usually connected w/ a mouse and keyboard, the touchpad is great on the go, but nothing really substitutes the ability to turn it off and on again without thinking twice.
Redundancy is only one way to increase reliability. For example, having redundant elements can allow you to use cheaper components and meet the same level of reliability as a single, more expensive component but at the cost of mass (or vice versa). Most often, there are reliability requirements that are defined at a very high level, and a reliability engineer helps determine the right tradeoffs to meet those requirements. In addition, some of the points of failure don't lend themselves well to redundancy, like release mechanisms.

For certain risks, like human-rated spaceflight, they may just have requirements like "no single-point failures", which means redundancy is a must.
On a more positive note, looks pretty beautiful and the settings sync feature is welcome.

I wouldn't use it for the reasons stated in other comments (quite happy with iTerm), but it's a cool endeavor and reminds me of Hyper.sh.
That does sound like a nightmare.
Hydrogen today is coming mostly as a by product of extraction & refining fossil fuels.

https://www.energy.gov/eere/fuelcells/hydrogen-resources
Here's what I'm looking for:

Solid linux laptop with a macbook style centered keyboard and touch pad. (system76 has offset touchpad / keyboard and it drives me insane)

Near perfect palm detection on the track pad like a macbook.

Does anyone have a recommendation? I've not tried any newer lenovo lappies nor have I tried linux on a Razer laptop which looks very similar to a macbook.

Maybe just wait for linux to run on M1?
> (HPE did not care enough to investigate)

That is a useful signal to avoid HPE.
Reality exists somewhere in the middle where we work together on rational mitigation strategies.
We need fusion yesterday
By your definition of full employment, the US has never had "full" employment.
I'm not entirely sure what the fear is. The AST2600 the sticker seems to have been pasted to is a pretty complicated IC with (and this is the important part) user-upgradeable flash to begin with.

So, you want to do a supply-chain attack? Simply reflash the genuine modules. No need to spend more. On the other hand: you want to save a few bucks? Possibly do a knock-off chip, but you're definitely not going to bother with the firmware. Too expensive!

This is definitely a case of "trying to save a few bucks". Both Dell and HPE are in a race to the bottom, and the sticker being indicative of anything significant beyond that is... unlikely...
They all have poor palm detection, too, IME
I interned in IT on Space Systems and looking back I'm basically amazed we ever put 'software' in space.

There were some organizational attempts to control for such issues, but there were no real solutions other than a bunch of guidelines.

Some of the code written for the space station was done in long, sleepless 'power-coding' binges. I thought that was 'cool' now I think it's 'insane'.

I do remember learning a bit about Ada, but it's been so long, and it's probably out of the range for most things today.

Even Rust is a bridge to far for most projects, I really wish there were ways to 'back off' from Rusts ultra-hard principled approach because I think what most projects need is '65% Rust', not '100%' which is the only current option.
We have a lot of California towhees in the ridge behind my house and they make a cute singular loud "Theet!" chirp that is distinctive and cheerful. For the first year of living here before I figured out what they were actually called, I just nicknamed them "The Theet Birds." They're fun to watch, they hop back and forth to dig up dirt for bugs with their feet and run all over the place making little trails through the bush.
How to become a web developer in 2022, with coach Gandalf
If a dictionary satisfies your definition of a language model, yes, with predictably poor results[1]. If I understand correctly, Google Books approach[2] represented a major improvement in accuracy of automated OCR (and this is for printed text!), but I would venture to say that implementing a language model like this would be far beyond the scope of a 'tiny project'.

[1] https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/docs/Limits_on_the_Applicati...

[2] https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/docs/Improving_Book_OCR_by_A...
Interesting that it's different for sound, taste and smell! Do you have an internal narrative?

I think I can kind of imagine what it's like not to be able to picture images in my head but I always have a very hard time imagining what people without internal narrative feel like (as I assume it must be to imagine what it's like to have one when you don't)
The article takes a while to get to the point, so here it is:

1. Article author discovers "American MegaTrAnds" sticker on a chip in high-end switches.

2. Author fears supply chain tampering.

3. Author contacts American Megatrends (AMI). Hijinks ensue. AMI eventually confirms that it's a typo.

4. Therefore, there is no supply chain tampering.

5. But author is concerned about what this means for the state of supply chain verification.
it’s a good idea to assume server will fail (power supply, hard drive, network card) because we you use 3k of them they do.

But it’s a not a good excuse to be wasteful! which is why I like that Rust and Go are getting more popular
You mean FOSS, not flossing, right?

There are many people who love open source and yet applaud when proprietary solutions move things forward – good for them.

There is place for everyone with good intentions, we can all make life interesting, no need for war tinted atmosphere.
I had a coworker who worked on the haptic trackpad for 4 years before he left Apple and they shipped it a year after that (so at least 6 years or so of R&D), I'm sure there are dozens of patents around the technology and probably a high barrier for entry for other companies.

He griped that they didn't even send him the 12" MacBook it initially shipped in and that the R&D for it was ring fenced from the Mac hardware teams so both were working in isolation until the product was developed with the tech.
Well, for many stickers, they have to be ordered from original vendor / AMI. I guess this is not the case here.

Turns out it is coming from AMI, but AMI Taiwan.

>AMI Taiwan needed to get license stickers for the local market. Instead of using the “American Megatrends” MegaRAC PM sticker template, it decided to make its own that had the misspelling.
I think so, but assuming that is the case... what's to stop a shady chipmaker from printing properly-spelled "American Megatrends" stickers? More generally... are there any actual protections offered by genuine stickers?

The article makes this out to be a major supply chain security issue, and that only makes sense if branding stickers are actually reliable for validation purposes. But that seems... nonsensical? Wouldn't stickers be very easy to forge?

But, I don't work in supply chains. Anyone with better expertise in this area able to chime in?

I will admit I skimmed the article, because it is long and overly-detailed for my level of interest, and because it lacks summary sections.
I think it's more of "all of the above". Anything and everything that creates engagement will be published and spread out.
What’s wrong with OSX on M1? It works great for all CLI stuff.
Economic prosperity?! They had massive famines. Tens of millions died.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1932–1933
Do Europeans not cook all that much? I imagine most suburban US families cook most of their meals, both for cost reasons and because taking children to a restaurant is viewed as a chore here.

Even without kids, my partner and I try to cook often. We have a decent-sized kitchen by urban US standards (it would probably be considered on the small side if we lived in the suburbs), but could still stand to have more counter space for food prep (and cabinet space for storage). Agree that 2 ovens is a bit much, but a huge island can be incredibly useful.
was it a premade deck, or did you build it yourself? I've used Anki for school, would be interesting to try for wildlife.
Everything you shared is partisan opinion pieces and some are currently named in lawsuits.

Every single news outlet by necessity clips news stories. Thus far, project veritas appears better than most, but I agree not perfect. I don’t think anything linked here provides more support to your claims. Particularly as several are currently involved in defamation lawsuits and are almost entirely opinion.

Literally, the argument here is the opinion of those being investigated by project veritas is that project veritas fake lol
Ah, yes. I always give a little internal eye roll when a vendor highlights their placement in a magic quadrant.
I didn't even read the whole website nor have read the comments and I just know this is written in Electron.
I agree. Trust has a very limited place when dealing with data, and I don't think you can extend the benefit of the doubt to sources that are not consistently reliable.

Though in this case, it looks like the U.N. is aggregating self-reported country-level emissions data, so I guess the situation is a little different.
I insist! Keep in mind permanence of the data (static vs dynamic QR codes). A QR code can store about 3kb worth of data (or ~4300 alphanumeric characters).

https://superuser.com/questions/1420058/how-does-a-dynamic-q...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11065415/how-much-data-i...
I had multiple thoughts -

1. If one is going to counterfeit the chip, counterfeiting the sticker wouldn't give you any pause - so it's probably just an error, however counterfeiters wouldn't have the review process that would catch typos.

2. Maybe it is a sneaky warranty workaround like a bank calls itself Banq on paperwork - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banq_(term)

So in the end, there's no real way for the end-user to know what's what and I agree with the author that the typo deserves an answer.
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Julia has XLA.jl [0] which interoperate with their deep-learning stack and Elixir has NX [1] which is higher level (basically JAX but in Elixir). I would love to see someone do something like that in Rust...

[0]: https://github.com/FluxML/XLA.jl

[1]: https://github.com/elixir-nx/nx/tree/main/nx
You can’t do 4:4:4 chroma with displayport 1.4. Not enough bandwidth. As a result, fonts look pretty bad. Next gen displayport should be able to do it but no cards support it yet afaik.
Tossing out a second +1 for pop!

I've not used it in about a year now and I do miss it. They were adding support for a tiling WM mode and it wasn't bad (needed some work).

I was using it on System76 hardware and had zero issues with the OS and S76 replaced my keyboard when it went bad.
Universal menu is built into KDE and can be added to GNOME with minimal hassle (though the devs might try to shank you for it). Dynamic workspaces are also a pretty bog-standard feature for desktop environments, so if that's all that MacOS means to you then it might be worth taking another look.
I think the employer will definitely be sued and have to payout.
> I think they still do a good job at today cause the mission is still similar, but the mechanics of getting people to read things which aren't articles is difficult.

I think Axios fits what you're describing much better. Vox is a boilerplate left-biased blog[1], with their only unique quality being a sneering insistence that they're just "explaining". They're like the Economist, but without the self-awareness or quality.

Axios, on the other hand, is much better at the just-the-facts style of reporting, to the extent this is possible. They even use a non-traditional article format, making heavy use of bullet points and standardized paragraph headers like "Why it matters".

[1] Not to treat them as the final word, but Allsides has their bias marked as Left, not even Center-Left. They have Axios as Center. https://www.allsides.com/news-source/vox-news-media-bias
You mean the prosperity of China, which is about one-third the prosperity of, say, South Korea, which started out in about the same place? Ah! I regret that it only seems impressive because the nation is very large.

Oh! But perhaps you mean those heady years of growth during the Great Leap Forward itself, where the nation became so prosperous that ~45 million people starved to death.
As the originally-posted-link suggests, Keras is a great way to start in ML (this is how I started, with the book Deep Learning with Python by François Chollet, the creator of Keras). And after one is comfortable with the concepts and the general flow of things, and if one needs to do more advanced stuff (as you say), then move on to something like PyTorch (I love that they mention PyTorch Lightning in the article).
I actually just now bought their subscription with the particular idea to use it with my reMarkable.

Then I only now realised I don’t actually want my notes public, I hope there is some form of access control built into this! :D
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/floss-and-foss.en.html
My workplace uses LastPass as the "blessed" password manager that's recommended by the security team.

It's a nightmare. I've given up on it entirely and would never trust it again, after encountering this flow several times a month:

1. Log in to LastPass

2. Respond to 2-factor auth prompt

3. LastPass says "you need to change your password"

4. Type in a new password

5. LastPass says "okay, password changed, log in again"

6. Log in to LastPass again, with new password.

7. LastPass says "incorrect username or password."

8. Log in to LastPass again with old password.

9. Respond to 2-factor auth prompt again

10. LastPass says "you need to change your password"

11. Type in the same new password again

12. LastPass says "you cannot reuse the same password"

13. Type in a different new password

14. LastPass says "okay, password changed, log in again"

15. Log in to LastPass again, with new new password.

16. LastPass says "incorrect username or password."

17. Log into LastPass with old password.

18. LastPass says "incorrect username or password."

19. Log in to LastPass with old new password

20. Respond to 2-factor auth prompt.

21. Repeat this loop from step 10 an unspecified number of times, only each time LastPass picks a random one of the possible passwords in play to be the "current" password.

22. Eventually, after an unspecified number of loops, LastPass no longer asks me to change my password again. I now have to keep track of which of the N possible new passwords is the one it kept.

I just use a KeePass vault at this point -- it's free, and it actually works, both of which are more than I can say for LastPass.